False and Misleading Ads From the Federal Government
The piece argues federal advertising sometimes misleads foreigners, citing the Travel Service and a $98 weekly travel claim. It notes omissions about costs like lodging and meals, suggesting government honesty parallels private sector scandals and urging skepticism of federal moral guidance.
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Federal Trade Commission
Uncle Sam
United States Travel Service
U.S
Europe
Grand Canyon
Riviera
Washington
Tax reform push favoring Herlong Baker plan gains momentum
President Kennedy backs bipartisan Herlong Baker income tax reform to cut rates for five years, targeting an eventual top rate of 47 percent and a 25 percent across the board reduction. The plan proposes new depreciation rules and capital gains treatment to spur growth and reduce unemployment.
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Kennedy
Herlong-Baker
House
Ways and Means
Congress
America
Socialism on the wane in 1962 Western politics
A Washington Socialist meeting underscores the party's fading influence. Debs and Thomas once led, but 1962 shows the party as a curiosity with small presidential votes and waning Western European support for socialist doctrine. The debate over socialism as a label persists amid rising welfare nostalgia.
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U.S. Socialist Party
Washington
Eugene Debs
Norman Thomas
India
Socialist Plat
United States
Roosevelt
America
Western
Europe
Press agents and the Miami city myth explained
A longtime columnist recounts battles with press agents who shape stories about Miami and Miami Beach. He relays heated responses from Harold Gardner and Lew Price, notes hotel occupancy claims, and admits his earlier Miami portrait was wrong after firsthand inspections.
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P.A
Marblehead
Miami
Miami Beach
Harold Gardner
Fontainebleau
Gardner
Ben Novack
Wbaster
Bob Neal
Key Biscayne
Lew Price
Fountainebleau
Price
Jim
Flagler Street
Dade County
Hank Meyer
National Airlines
Diplomat Hotel
Tom Ferris
General Development Corporation
Port St. Lucie
Self Assumed Status and the Hidden Walls of Prejudice
A reflective piece argues prejudice among status seekers shapes social access in hotels clubs housing and rentals. It contrasts fair business conduct with covert exclusion, cites experiences in the US and abroad, and notes writers Epstein and Forster examining American prejudice and social hierarchies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Japan
Gen. MacArthur
Benjamin R. Epstein
Arnold Forster
Lees
Obolenskys
Coens
Ore Lee
Einstein
Frits Kreisler
Bernard Gimbel
Cooperative
S Cove
New York
Epstein-Forster
Soapy Williams Aims to woo Sekou Toure with aid
Wallace Williams pushes more than 7 million in aid to Guinea's Sekou Toure to lure him from the Soviet camp, funding two schools, radio gear, and expert help while noting Guinea's neutralist stance. Vietnam and Czech and Soviet influence expand in Guinea.
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Guinea
Eisenhower
Toure
Nikita Khrushchev
Kremlin
Williams
State Department
Sekou
Moussa Diakite
National Bank
White House
Diakite
Kennedy
North Vietnam
Radio
Hanoi
Africa
Soviet Union
Ing
Paris
Workers Union of Black Africa
Marz
All Africa
Gerard de Lilleville
Profits Power Jobs Says Meany’s Challenge Misses Core Economic Truth
The AFL CIO president George Meany is challenged to explain how higher profits create more jobs in a free enterprise system. The piece argues profits fund capital, growth, and employment, noting a profit squeeze reduces investment, tax revenue, and job opportunities while sales rise and profits fall.
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Afl-Cio
George Meany
White House
Meany
Mr. Meany
The
Research Institute of America
Europe
Japan
No Strings at Broadway Gigs and Historic Alley Open House
Broadway's No Strings with Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley wowed a Wednesday crowd. A Village Macdougall Alley open house tour for Greenwich House Camp Scholarship Fund highlighted early 1800s stables once owned by Rhinelanders Vanderbilt and Gould families with notable tenants and artists.
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Broadway
Richard Rodgers
Rodgers
Victor Herbert
Old Landow's
Diahann Carroll
Richard Kiley
Maine
Down East
Harlem
Camp Scholarship Fund
Greenwich House
Macdougall
Vanderbilts
Goulds
Dillons
Stuarts
Daniel Chester French
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Whitney Museum
No. 10
James Earle Fraser
Jo Davidson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard, Barbara, Joan and
Constance Bennett
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Debs
Thomas
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jim Bishop
George E. Sokolsky
Ray Rucker
East Texas State College
Rucker
Barry Goldwater
G.t. Murder
Old New York
Macdougall Alley
Vita Sackville
West
Hugh Walpole
Vita Sackville-West
Edith Sitwell
Miss Sackville-West
House of Knole
Edward VII
Harold Nicolson
Sissinghurst Castle
Kent
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