Rail Battle Echoes Great Northern-Harriman Clash
A heated bid for control of the Baltimore and Ohio prompts ICC probes into trading volume as C and O and Alleghany pursue merger aims. The piece recalls the Hill Harriman duel over Burlington and Northern Pacific, noting empire-building and market turmoil in 1901.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
B&o
Alleghany Corporation
Central
C&o
ICC
Dickering
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
New York Stock Exchange
Pennsylvania Railroad
East
Jerome Hill
Edward H. Harriman
Northwest
Hill
J. PP. Morgan
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Chicago, Burlington
Quincy Railroad
Chicago
St. Louis
Central States
Upper South
Harriman
Cb&o
Union Pacific Group
Burlington
Hill-Harriman
Northern Pacific Board
Great
Kennedy’s live TV press conferences shape public view and power
Bruce Biossat argues that Kennedy’s August live TV press conference marks a new direct channel of communication between White House and people. It boosts public engagement, public understanding, and Kennedy’s leverage over Congress, while heightening his national image and political advantage in 1964.
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Kennedy
Muc
White House
Congress
Progress Alliance to Aid Latin Americans Seen
Washington dispatch notes a plan titled Alliance for Progress aimed at guiding Latin American development after the Good Neighbor Policy. A Harvard meeting of business leaders and scholars produced a report urging outside capital, non bankable loans, land and tax reform, price stabilization, export expansion, wholesale disarmament, and stronger US diplomatic representation to back a social and economic revolution in Latin America.
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Washington
NEA
Alliance For Progress
Kennedy
F.D. R
Latin America
Harvard
Foreign Policy Clogping House of Washington
Europe
United States
Foreign Policy Clearing House
J. Wilner Sanderson
Ford Motor International
Merck
Antoine T. Knoppers
Johns Manville
Dudley Colton
United Fruit
Robert Mitchell
Lincoln Gordon
Harevard
Graduate School of Business
Hans Morgenthau
Political Science
Walt W. Rostow
MIT Center For International Studies
Brazil
U.S
Raleigh Register Subscription Rates and Delivery Terms
Published by Beckley Newspapers Corporation the Raleigh Register lists mail and home delivery subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, including annual and semiannual options, tax additions, and carrier distributor terms. It notes independent contractor status of carriers and disclaims responsibility for advance payments.
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Prince St
Beckley
W. Va
Hinton
West Virginia
Barbs by Hal Cochran on pay days and town bragging
A light column notes Hal Cochran quips about marital bowling and bridge enthusiasm on payday as well as the tendency of people to praise their hometown only after leaving it. The jokes touch on honesty, parental concern when a child flunks, and pride in one’s origins.
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William B. Dale
Stanford Research Institute
Kennedy
Gordon
Rostow
Commerce
Luther Hodges
Chester Bowles
Hal Cochran
Hubby
Myron
Chicago
Scientist praise and political critique cited in quotes
SO THEY SAY Instead of denouncing eggheads scientists should be looked up to for their intellectual achievements. Dr Glenn T Seaborg new head of Atomic Energy Commission. The federal courts move against Southern thought and culture with tyranny. Gov Ernest Vandiver Georgia. James J Wadsworth former U N ambassador says the Russian government intends to live up to any nuclear tests or disarmament agreements.
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Atomic Energy Commission
Ernest Vandiver
Georgia
James J. Wadsworth
U.N
Canada Faces magazine competition from American issues
Canada weighs how to shield its periodical press from U.S. mass magazines and advertising. The royal commission heard Time and Reader's Digest argue for Canadian editions while critics note cultural influence and high costs for Canada’s smaller magazines. The tax on Canadian ads in American magazines remains contested as a possible tool to energize national press and preserve culture.
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Canada
United States
Time
Reader’s Digest
Royal Commission
Commission
Grattan O'Leary
Ottawa Journal
Henry Luce
O'Leary
Royal Commission On Publications
Luce
John Diefenbaker
Castro
Cuba
Diefenbaker
Canad
Comets Heads and Independence in Sixties Q A Facts
Question and answer items cover comet head composition as gas and solid particles, independence of seventeen nations in 1960, a white tigress gift to Washington Zoo from Ina, Greeks naming planets, Tennessee Williams real name Thomas Lanier Williams, and the first midnight High Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral Paris.
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Cathedral of Notre Dame
Paris
Tinned Retired Teachers' Talents Are Valuable To Others
Mrs. Charles D Barnes, 78, volunteers to teach English to foreign-born patients at a city hospital to help them become American citizens. She uses language cards, reads to patients, and also handles clinic tasks, weighing patients and answering phones. She began volunteering 15 years ago and finds fulfillment in staying useful.
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Charles D. Barnes
Earl Wilson Star Pulls A Muscle Showing Off Award
New York gossip column describes Susan Strasberg injury after lifting a heavy Best Actress award for Kapo and mentions Montgomery Clift fad, Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, Bardot and Ava Gardner sightings, Red Buttons report from Arusha, and other entertainment notes from Hollywood to Rome.
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New York
Bulletin
Susan Strasberg
Lee
Paula Strasberg
Marilyn Monroe
Mar del Plata
Susan
Kapo
Hollywood
Rome
Italy
Frank Sinatra
Pavillon
Ethel Merman
Basin St
Peggy Lee
Jimmy van Heusen
Julie Newmar
Bardot
Sacha Distel
Palladium
Debra Dixon
Ava Gardner
Prayer for Today Inspires Humble Leadership in Florida
A retired Methodist editor Lyndon B Phifer of Tallahassee, Florida poses a prayer calling leaders to humility and accountability to God. The closing Amen reflects a faith-based plea for moral guidance in public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Lyndon B, Phifer
Tallahassee, Fla
Record January criminal court disposals and convictions rise
The January term set a record for cases disposed and convictions secured with 41 convictions, four felonies, 36 decisions without argument, and five acquittals among 38 noticed. Washington announces post office changes in Raleigh county: L D Sweeney replaces T E Moye at Ghent, William M Reif replaces C S Morse at Glen Morgan, Herschel V Stephenson replaces W A Garrett at Raleigh.
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Criminal Court
Raleigh County
Washington
L. D. Sweeney
Ghent
T. E. Moye
William M. Reif
Glen
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Joe E. Lewis
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