Costly Congress Record Glorifies Morse Amid Viet Nam Debate
The piece criticizes Senator Wayne Morse for verbose Congressional Record entries praising his Vietnam stance. It notes 194 pages filled with letters and self praise, costing taxpayers over $20,000, and contrasts it with potential humanitarian uses of the funds, urging negotiated settlement and practical diplomacy.
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Oregon
Wayne Morse
Viet Nam Peries
Congressional
Mors
Congress
United States
Congressional Record
Morse
U.S
Viet Nam
Warsaw
Poland
John Gronguski
Gronovski
Washington
Saigon
Federal Budget Tops $100 Billion in Revenue and Spending
The 1960s fiscal year closed June 30 shows U.S. receipts and outlays exceeding $100 billion for the first time in the operating budget. Revenues rose about $25 billion over five years due to growth, but Great Society and Vietnam costs outpaced tax gains. Deficit seen around $2-$3 billion, with receipts near $103-$104 billion and expenditures about $106 billion.
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United States
Great Society
Vietnam
Governors Stand Behind Johnson as Congress Deltas War
Democratic governors privately rebuke fellow Democrats who desert Johnson over the Vietnam war while noting his rising poll numbers. They say veterans and freshmen alike should rally behind the President, resisting pressure from Congress and recognizing the broader party stakes in national policy and future programs.
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Johnson
Congress
California
Hanoi
Haiphong
Viet Nam
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Dreams Change
The piece recalls the old American dream of becoming a millionaire and the status it conferred. It notes the shift in perception from hard work and thrift as the path to wealth to a modern view that views joining the millionaire class as less daunting or valuable. It mentions Alonza Q Grubb as an example of the era.
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New York
Horatio Alger
Alonza Q Grubb
Millonaire
The One Million Dollar Millionaire Then and Now
Hal Boyle notes a shift from gilded wealth to modern financial reality. A man with one million dollars once lived lavishly with yachts and chauffeurs, but today such a sum yields only modest income after taxes. The piece jokes that debt judged social standing more than assets, as many seek larger fortunes to gain status.
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America
Hencb
Fifty Years Ago Items From The News Post Files
Fifty years ago in The News-Post items note Col Millard F Waltz of New Market Frederick County as the top ranking local officer on the Mexican border near Brigadier General Punsian. Frederick Elks plan to attend the National convention in Baltimore. The Brunswick Socialist Party supports a water bond and nominates Johan D Crummitt for mayor John W Riley James A Appleby and John R Virts for council seats.
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Millard F. Waltz
New Market
Frederick County
United States Army
Frederick Punsian
Frederick Elks
of the Order
Baltimore
Socialist Party OF Brunswick
Johan D. Crummitt
John W. Riley
James A. Appleby
John R. Virts
Heavy rains relieve long summer drought in county
A weather front brought heavy storms over northern parts of the county Monday and Monday night, washing out a barn near Taylorsville and yielding up to one and three quarters inches of rain at Unionville. Southern areas had lighter showers with Brunswick Point of Rocks Urbana Monrovia and Mr Airy receiving only light sprinkles. Brunswick volunteer fire company president and town councilman Stanley T Virts filed for mayor of Brunswick in the August 6 election, the only candidate so far. Mayor E E Bowers Sr., serving his second two year term, will not seek re election, making a change of leadership expected.
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Taylorsville
Unionville
Brunswick
Point of Rocks
Urbana
Monrovia
Mr. Airy
Stanley T. Virts
Brunswick Volunteer Fire Company
Virts
E. E. Bowers Sr
Noted clash over Ten Commandments and social morals
Joe Eisenhauer surveys a debate between two lawyers on reversing moral decline. One backs a broad return to the Ten Commandments, the other doubts any commandment can be dropped without harming rights or freedoms. The piece surveys prejudice, church attendance, and Dr. Gordon Allport's research on religion and bias, arguing genuine religion may curb prejudice more than atheism.
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Tye
Tody
Harvard
Vassar
Gordon W. Allport
Allport
Edmund Burke
Allpot
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