School board rejects Cochise name for new high school
A Texas historian challenges Cochise as a school name citing alleged crimes and broken promises. The article notes Saguaro and Shakespeare as alternative possibilities, highlighting Shakespeare’s 400th birth anniversary as a tempting match.
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Shakespeare
Cochise
Texas
Barbara Tyler
Fort Worth
Miss Tyler
Saguaro
Shakespeare High
Bard
Powerful Mike Kirwin Shows Pork Barrel Power in House
Sixty four House members praised Ohio’s Mike Kirwin highlighting his control over appropriations and the Democratic Campaign Committee. The display demonstrated the seniority driven pork barrel system and one autocratic congressman’s ability to sway colleagues.
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Ohio
Mike Kirwin
House of Representatives
Kirwin
Appropriations
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Carl Albert
Evening Thoughts on Labor and Society
A collection of proverbs and reflections on labor, capital, and virtue. Quotation snippets attribute sayings to Sophocles, Daniel Webster, Voltaire, and Christian Boewe, contrasting labor with capital and linking work to moral and social improvement.
Eisenhower Sought to Intervene in California Primary
A Republican leader pressed Milton Eisenhower to intervene with his brother Dwight D. Eisenhower against Barry Goldwater in the California presidential primary. Rockefeller allies push neutrality messages while some urge Eisenhower to break neutrality. others warn against entangling the general in intra-party fights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Milton Eisenhower
Baltimore
Eisenhower
Johns Hopkins University
Barry Goldwater
California
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Milton
Rockefeller
Goldwater
Nelson Rockefeller
Gen
Sen
Thomas Kuchel
Lewis Firestone
Gen. Eisenhower
Palm Desert
Calif
Treasury
George Humphrey
Humphrey
Uroc
Ee Eisenhower
Reagan
Lie Detection Becomes Big Business Across U S Government
WASHINGTON The House Government Operations Committee examined the rapid spread of lie detectors in government and industry. The government spends 412 million dollars on screening and enforcement while private use grows especially in defense. Critics called its scientific basis into question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Childs
House
Government Operations Committee
American Academy of Polygraph Examiners
The
Academy For Scientific Interrogation
National Board of Polygraph Examiners
Tee
John Moss
Calif
Henry Reuss
Wis
Moss
Joseph F. Kubis
Cyrus Vance
Army
Army Military Police School
Fort Gordon
Saigon
South
Viet Nam
Pentagon
Whisky and Independence Shape Appalachian Tradition
Ralph McGill surveys Appalachia where independence poverty and whisky shape life. Most modern moonshine runs through syndicates funding equipment and distribution, with raids on suburban stills becoming common. Settlers from German Irish and English roots brought whisky making from Ireland and Britain, sharing pot still methods.
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Washington - Appalachia
Cumberlands
Blue Ridges
Alleghenies
Smokies
North Ireland
Ireland
Appalachian Moonshine History and Tax Conflicts
The article traces Appalachian moonshine origins from sour mash methods in Britain to U.S. tax conflicts. It notes early lax excise duties, Washington sending troops to quell revolts, Jefferson repealing taxes, and Civil War era tax shifts. It contrasts illegal moonshine with cheaper illicit blends today and laments vanished Appalachian romance.
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New Republic
Alexander Orion
Jefferson
Congress
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Georgia
Washington
Fr Coughlin Head Of Shrine In Michigan Still Silent
In Detroit area Fr Charles Coughlin remains head of the Shrine of the Little Flower at Royal Oak Michigan, still quiet about his earlier controversy. The 72 year old priest who once attracted a national following and published Social Justice says prejudice is passe.
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Fr. Coughlin
Shrine
Michigan
New York
Detroit
Charles Coughlin
Roosevelt
Social Justice
White House
Coughlin
Shrine of the Little Flower
Royal Oak
Mich
JFK
LBJ
Michael J. Killackey
the Waldorf
William Butler Yeats
Clover Club
Yeats
Dublin
HH. Beerhohn Tree
W. J. Loche
Cancer Society Thanks Readers for Editorial Support
A Mailbag note thanks readers for kind words about the American Cancer Society and its efforts to fund research. It highlights progress from curing one in five to one in three, supports April residential crusades for warning signs, and notes over a million Americans cured.
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American Cancer Society
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William Mason
Ity
Albert
Id Boland
Boland
Cape Cod Nationa Seashore
John McFall
America
Sophocles
Daniel Webster
Voltaire
Christian Bovee
Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Phiere
Marquis Childs
U.S
Olympus
Interlands
State College
Ralph McGill
McGill
Appalachians
Bobby Burns
Appalachia
Bob Considine
Cardinal Mooney
West Point
Douglas MacArthur
New York Armory
Penn Station
Woodrow Wilson
D. D. Eisenhower
Abilene
Kays
Earl Robert Kelton
Athol, Mass
Ken Whitcomb
Fering
MacArthur
Cadet Corps
Kelton
Albert Stevens Crockett
Overseas Press Club of America
Cancer Society
Old Waldorf Astoria
Bert
James Gordon Bennett
Seville Row
Waldorf
Killackey
Philadelphia
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