What’s in a Hundred Days for Carter and FDR
The piece contrasts FDR’s first hundred days with Carter’s current window, noting Roosevelt launched sweeping reforms supported by a large congressional majority while Carter faces a hostile, energetic Congress on energy, economy, and defense. It argues Carter’s chance hinges on extraordinary leadership amid a late election cycle and likely limited results before the vote.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Earl Carter
Carter
Roosevelt
Congress
Johnson
Nixon
Capitol Hill
Walter Mondale
White House
Cuba
Fdr
Inventories rise show bases loaded economy in trouble
AP analysis notes a 1.9 percent July jump in unsold goods to about 414 billion dollars, signaling an economy piling up inventories without corresponding sales. Economists including Greenspan warn continued accumulation risks a downturn, as producers cut back and layoffs follow.
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John Cunniff
New York
Commerce Department
William Cox
Today in history highlights sept 19 1979
On September 19 1979 historical notes mark Garfield death in 1881 the first Saratoga battle in 1777 Versailles fell to Prussian forces in 1870 Hauptmann arrest in 1934 Peron ousted in 1955 microphones found in Moscow embassy in 1964 Carl Gustaf crowned in 1973 Nixon draft cuts noted ten years ago and Sadat peace talks a year ago birthdays include Harold Brown Powell Lewis Harris.
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Associated Press
James Garfield
Baltimore
Saratoga
New York
Versailles
Bruno Hauptmann
Charles Lindbergh
Juan Peron
Argentina
Army
Navy
U.S
Moscow
Sweden
Carl Gustaf
Lewis Powell
Rosemary Harris
Victor Hugo
Population growth slows in socialist nations by 2000
The Conference Board notes that socialist countries including Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and China, home to about a third of humanity, are projected to grow by 34 percent from 1975 to 2000, down from 50 percent in 1950 to 1975. Family size there is constrained by women’s work outside the home and housing shortages.
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Conference Board
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
China
Maryland couple uses annual divorce to protest tax rules
David and Angela Boyter divorce and remarry each January to reflect the tax status as of December 31, arguing that joint returns penalize working couples compared with cohabiting singles. The IRS calls their actions a tax sham and says it will act to end the scheme.
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Maryland
Internal Revenue Service
David
Angela Boyter
Boyters
Washington Post
IRS
Commentary on divorce taxes and inequities in tax policy
The piece argues that tax breaks favor married couples and wage earners, while single filers and cohabitants face penalties. It notes 1969 revisions aimed at singles amid rising two income households and cohabitation, predicting ongoing inequities and future quick fixes. It recalls Wilbur Mills’ universal tax system idea and questions common sense in policy.
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IRS
Congress
Wilbur Mills
Mills
Carter picks Daschbach to head Maritime Commission
Jimmy Carter elevates Richard Daschbach from Senate staff to lead the Federal Maritime Commission. The columnist alleges Daschbach uses Capitol Hill habits inside the agency, pressuring advisers, seeking personal power, and engaging with carrier interests, while approving unusual license actions and courting controversy.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
Jimmy Carter
Senate Commerce Committee
Richard Daschbach
Federal Maritime Commission
Daschbach
New Orleans
Commission
Maritime Agency
Tinhorn
Banana Republic
Maritime Commission
Federal Commission
Regulatory Commission
Margaret Pepe
Commerce Committee
Emanuel Rouvelas
Manny
Dashback
U.S. Cruise Lines
Seatrain Lines Inc
Rouvelas
Peter Grant
Pacific Australia Direct Line
Farrell Lines
Farrell
Agriculture
Bob Berland
Department
Egies
San Rae Area
C and M Meat Packing Co
National Meat Packers Inc
Swift, Spencer, Armour
Iowa Beef
Tufts President Awards Honorary Degrees in France
Jean Mayer president of Tufts University awarded honorary degrees to five individuals at the inauguration of the Tufts University Center for European Studies in Talleires France. Recipients included Dr Charles Merieux a pharmaceutical researcher who helped set up an underground blood bank in World War II for the French resistance Colette Flesch mayor of Luxembourg and Henry Leir industrialist. The center lies in a ninth century priory restored over two decades by Donald MacJannet a Tufts graduate who donated the building to the university.
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Medford
Mass
Jean Mayer
Tufts University
Tufts University Center For
Talleires
France
Charles Merieux
Colette Flesch
Luxembourg
Henry Leir
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