Endorsement meeting shows peril for Taxpayers League
A Frederick County and City Taxpayers League mass meeting endorsing four state and local candidates drew only 24 attendees from a claimed 3,000 membership. Critics call the effort futile, fault-finding, and a liability to those endorsed, with many members staying away and the group facing hostility from officials and workers. The piece lists the endorsed candidates for county commissioner, House of Delegates, and state senate.
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Frederick County
Frederick City
Taxpayers League
General Assembly
Board of Education
News-Post
League
Charles E. Collins
Donald L. Lewis
Lawrence A. Dorsey
House of Delegates
Ray H Smath
Julien PP. Delphey
Richard J. Hudson
Senate
Charles H Smelser
Edward P. Thomas Jr
PTA Apathy Sparks Debate On Westminster High Enrollment Fails
The Westminster High School PTA with over 1000 students faced widespread apathy as only 179 of 2000 eligible parents responded to questionnaires about continuing the PTA. Carl C. Twigg Jr. praised the group’s resilience and suggested expanding to a Parent-Teacher-Student Association to involve students more directly. The piece contrasts with larger Thomas Johnson High School participation and emphasizes preserving home school links.
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Carroll County
Parent-Teacher Association of Westminster High School
PTA
Westminster High School
Parent-Teacher Association
Thomas Johnson High School
Westminster
Westminster Pta
Carl C. Twigg Jr
Letters To The Editor On Charter Government Debate
Reader notes from Frederick News-Post letters criticizing Charter Government as wasteful and centralizing power in Montgomery County. Authors Grace and Charles Keeney argue taxpayers deserve no Charter government and fear loss of local legislative control. Several humorous quips follow about politics and civic life.
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Shatte
Frederick
Adherreds
Escar
Common Cause: Gardner Launches Citizen Lobby For Reform
John W. Gardner, former HEW secretary and Urban Coalition chair, unveils Common Cause a civic force aiming to reorder national priorities. He argues for a broad, nonpartisan movement addressing poverty race housing education health and justice while critics say top-down reform is impractical and that public interests are private interests in disguise.
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John W. Gardner
Urban Coalition
Common Cause
New York Times
Gardner
Congress
Administration of Justice
J Reid Hambrick
George Washington University
Hambrick
Quiz Style History and Facts Roundup
A compact quiz column covers awards and colors. It notes George M. Cohan receiving a 1941 Congressional Medal of Honor for his World War II song Over There and identifies primary colors as red yellow and blue. It mentions the president would name the secretary of state if resigning, John Glenn the astronaut honored on Interstate 70, and sailing terms running and reaching.
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George M. Cohan
Big Republican mass meeting slated at State Armory
From the News Post items dated October 21 1920 report a major Republican rally to be chaired by State Senator Dr Charles F Goodell with speakers including Gov Calvin Coolidge Frank Lowden Frank T Morrow and Job Hedges.
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State Armory
Charles F. Goodell
Calvin Coolidge
Frank O. Lowden
Ilinois
Frank T. Morrow
Kentucky
Job Hedges
New York
Quebec Terror Tests Rule of Law
A humor columnist surveys Quebec separatism and FLQ terrorism, contrasting French Canadian pride with minority grievances. He notes the paradox of a thriving Quebec within Canada, the difficulty of explaining terrorist acts, and warns that resisting FLQ ransom may cost more lives. The piece cites E Adamson Hoebel on law as a social tool and frames Canada’s crisis as a test of government under law.
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Paris
Quebec
Plains of Abraham
Middle East
FLQ
Front For the Liberation of Quebec
PFLP
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Canada
France
Separation Party
The
Parti Quebecois
University of Minnesota
E. Adamson Hoebel
UPI Editors and Publishers
Williamsburg
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Lewis W. Walt
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Funk & Waegnalis
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Nixon
Henry Ford II
Phyllis George
Penn Central Railroad
William H. Moore
Valers of
Farederick
Grace E. Keeney
Charles L. Keeney
Frederek
By Phil Pastoret
Gwendolyn
Mars
United States
Secretary of State
Ohio
John Glenn
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Schrey
Maryland Association of Workers For the Blind
Route 40
New Market
William A. Mutchner
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Liberty Town
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Bearys World
NEA
Broads’ Liberation Movement
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