Debs Nominated for President While Prison Inmate
In 1920 Eugene V. Debs was nominated by the Socialist party for president while serving a 10 year espionage act sentence in Atlanta. He received the news in the warden’s office and, in prison uniform, greeted the committee with a kiss, delivering a cautious acceptance speech. The Pecos tale links Debs to a local galvanizing figure named King who distributed the Appeal to Reason in Pecos, provoking local clash with American Legion members and a public fountain “baptism” incident that underscored 1920s patriotic tensions.
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Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party
Debs
Federal
Atlanta
U.S
Pecos
Girard
Kansas
International Workers of the World
IWW
King
Pecos Enterprise
Mexico
Enterprise
Eugene Debs
McWhorton
American Legion
Legion
Macy Haygood
U.S. Army
Second and
Oak
Editorials Educating for success
An educator proposes a two stage system moving reading writing and arithmetic to the junior high level. In Rohwer’s plan elementary years provide background for later success, while intermediate school handles formal instruction. He argues current schooling inequities impair most students and could be solved by restructuring education through the junior high model.
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William D. Rohner Jr
University of California, Berkeley
Rohwer
Bottom Drawer Helps Top Drawer Executives
AP analysis shows high earners neglect planning and records. Blanchard creates a bottom drawer file system to capture executives papers, enabling a clear view of evolving finances. The piece notes gaps in estate planning, updated wills, budgeting, and tax awareness among even top executives.
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Continental Illinois National Bank
David Blanchard
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Blanchard
Today in History highlights through the years
This AP history blurb lists key events by date, including Washington’s 1789 inauguration in New York and the 1798 creation of the Navy Department. It also notes the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, 1812 Louisiana statehood, the 1900 Casey Jones wreck, 1915 DC Panama Canal wireless link, 1945 Soviet flag over Reichstag, Dominican intervention ten years ago, Cambodia troop actions five years ago, and Nixon’s 1970s troop orders. Birthday notes cover Queen Juliana and conductor Robert Shaw with a Thought for today about love like a mushroom.
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George Washington
United States
Federal Hall
New York
U.S. Navy Department
Louisiana Purchase
France
Louisiana
Union
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Vaughan
Miss
District of Columbia
Panama Canal Zone
Moscow
Reichstag
Berlin
U.S
Dominican Republic
Washington
Richard Nixon
Cambodia
William Simon
Senate
Treasury
George Shultz
Juliana
The
Netherlands
Robert Shaw
Barbs By Phil Pastoret
A humor piece notes readers should let others speak up, cautions against certainty, and mocks reaction to health warnings. It jokes that in town a sick day is odd unless at the goat club where doctors gather.
Sen Lloyd Bentsen on holding the budget deficit in a recovery
Senator Lloyd Bentsen urges keeping federal spending in check while supporting the 1975 tax cut. He warns a $100 billion deficit risks inflation and recession, cites unemployment costs to the treasury, and backs the Senate Budget Committee in setting a spending ceiling for fiscal 1976 to balance growth and stability.
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Congress
U.S. Treasury
Senate
House
Dominoes and the domino theory in Cold War view
U S Senator John Tower discusses the so called discredited domino theory. He recalls Eisenhowers 1954 analogy about a row of dominoes and how a Communist victory in Indochina could trigger wider Southeast Asian losses. He argues the theory remains relevant to today.
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Eisenhower
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Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Europe
Indochina
Burma
Thailand
Indonesia
North Vietnam
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
South Vietnam
Malaysia
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John Cunniff
First National City Bank
U.S. Trust Co
Arms Group
Aetna Life & Casualty
Wells Fargo
O’ferrall Pauly
Texas Press Association
Phil Pastoret
Sen
Lloyd Bentsen
Ower
Texas
John Tower
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