Legislative Autopsy On State Legislature Squeeze
A local autopsy of legislative actions reveals a political squeeze that ignored majority wishes. Key issues include the Light Industry Council amendment, county planning, welfare lien law, and the lot clearing law with party influence speculated in council appointments. The delay risks harming the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarasota County
Light Industry Council
Tallahassee
House
Ed Price Jr
Senate
Chamber of Commerce
Industry Council
The Truth About the American Economic System pamphlet review
George C. Lodge’s pamphlet The Truth About the American Economic System is praised as a clear, objective defense of American capitalism. The review argues monopoly capitalism is not the U S model and that the American economic system delivers ever widening wealth and democracy through free competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Lodge
Lodge
Remembered Love and Lost Hope in Moonlit Night
A poem recalls a dream of lasting love and a kiss under moonlight, and the speaker hopes the beloved forgives the past. The text shifts to a critique of American economic structure, praising corporate distribution of wealth, worker rights, and democracy as the unique source of freedom sustaining the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Metcalfe
Bruce Challenged as Holland Quashes Questionable Slander
Rep Don Bruce faced rebuke from Rep Elmer J. Holland when Bruce sought to cite statements about United Electrical Workers leader Fitzgerald and union links. Holland ruled the material out of order and expunged Bruce's records, while UE’s Communist ties and prior CIO expulsion were cited by others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton Lewis JR
Washington
Pennsylvania
Elmer J. Holland
Pittsburgh
Holland
Albert J. Fitzgerald
United Electrical Workers
Russ Nixon
Fitzgerald
Elmer Holland
Bruce
UnAmerican Activities Committee
Francis Walter
HUAC
J. Walter Yeagley
Eisenhower
CIO
House Committee On Education and Labor
Holland Group
Matles
Empspak
Nixon
Tragedy in Montgomery highlights duty and Dixie
columnist William White condemns Alabama mob violence in Montgomery. He argues Governor Patterson and local officials failed to curb the unrest and damaged the state’s reputation. The piece laments how a small group of extremists distorts the South’s image and power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Dixie
Montgomery
South
Confederacy
Freedom Riders
New York
John Patterson
Biddle Presents Credentials in Madrid Parade to Franco
Tony Drexel Biddle accompanied by a grand Madrid procession to the Royal Palace for credentials to Francisco Franco. The eight mile, 18th century coach tour tested endurance, with baronial protocol and a nephew in the U.S. delegation noting family ties as Franco received the papers.
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Anthony Drexel Biddle
Old Royal Palace
Francisco Franco
Kennedy
Biddle
JFK
Pennsylvania Avenue
Tony Biddle
Madrid
Castellana
Royal Palace
Franco
Spain
Baron de Las Torres
U.S
Angier Biddle
Baron Torres
Escolta de Jefe de Estado
Torres
Morocco
History as guide not a prison in church column
In this May 28 1961 Rector John Ellis Large reflects on learning from history. He argues that past practices such as segregation and pew rentals were products of their time, not standards for today, urging readers to relate the past to the present and seek a better future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Heavenly Rest
Henry Ford
George Washington
Henry the Eighth
Prince Charming
Lot
John Ellis
Dooley matriarch and Kaufman mourned in Broadway loss
Agnes Dooley, mother of Tom Dooley the famed doctor author and Medico founder, recalls her son’s rise from boy to public figure as Broadway mourns George S Kaufman. Dooley’s life inspired a Redbook feature and a forthcoming biography. The industry loses a comedic sharp wit in Kaufman and a medical icon in Dooley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Dooley
Medico
Agnes Dooley
Peggy
Peggy Dooley
Tom
Ife
St. Louis
Doctor Dooley
President Kennedy
Omar Bradley
New York
Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation
Redbook Magazine
Earle Manzelman
Thomas A
Indochina
Laos
Malcolm
Albert Schweitzer
Dooley
Broadway
George S. Kaufman
George Kaufman
Dulcy
Marc Connelly
Edna Ferber
Ring Lardner
Moss Hart
Alexander Woollcott
New York Times
Drama
America
Retirement planning through cash purchases 1958–61
A reader describes a plan to retire on a fixed income by buying major durable items in advance. From 1958 to 1961 they purchased furniture and appliances, a new car, home repairs, and a sensible wardrobe to cover at least ten years of retirement, using cash and the husband’s salary.
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J.B.C. A
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George FE. Sokolsky
United States
Karl Marx
HOPE
George Lodge
Don Bruce
Indianapolis
New Jersey
Charles Joelson
Victor Decavitch
Samuel DiMaria
Dorothy Finn Swan
William A. Wallace
Internal Security
William 8. White
Heart of Dixie
George Dixon
Belgium
Ambassador Biddle
Paul Hightower
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