Western Tax Council calls for federal income tax limit
The Western Tax Council reports average earners pay 34.4 percent of income in taxes amid rising relief and urges a constitutional amendment to cap federal income tax rates. Frank E. Packard notes state legislatures seek action and plans to push for ratification in 1956.
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Chicago
Western Tax Council
Council
Frank E. Packard
Packard
Congress
Washington
GOP Quits Wooing Unions Seeks Vote of Individual
The 1956 GOP likely will stop courting union leaders and target individual workers directly. A Senate Republican Policy Committee pamphlet and President Eisenhower’s Labor Day speech suggest a new approach favoring the wage earner over union bosses. The planned pitch highlights prosperity under Eisenhower, wage growth, and broader social programs as proof of party achievements.
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Washington
Nana
GOP
Senate Republican Policy Committee
High Command
Eisenhower
Organized Labor
Democratic Party
Afl-Cio
labor-Democratic Alliance
Senate Policy Committee
Routine All Cadets Keep Busy at Air Academy
At the new Air Force Academy in Denver 296 cadets start the day at 5 50 a m with reveille rung by an IBM clock. Breakfast lasts an hour with cadets seated in braces under an air officer and requests phrased in air lingo. Classes run 8 a m to 3 p m with mandatory study periods. Freshmen study seven subjects English mathematics history philosophy geography chemistry and graphic. Recreation begins at 3 p m followed by football tryouts and intramural sports. Cadets are addressed as mister and a concluding note teases a continued report.
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Denver
New Air Force Academy
A.T.O
Air Force
Revelle
Globe Trotter Loses Rambling Lothario in London Court
A rambling clergyman named Robert Parkin Peters faced a London court as police recounted a global romance and financial missteps. The 37 year old, once ordained in 1942, faced charges for buying and reselling a car on installments and obtaining an engagement ring under false pretenses. The Scotland Yard report traced his marriages and engagements across England, Ceylon, and Ohio before his arrest.
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London
INS
Robert Parkin Peters
Scotland Yard
Peters
Colombo
Ceylon
Columbus
St. Paul’s
Sixteen States Adopt Atom Field Laws
Chicago AP report states sixteen states passed laws recognizing atomic energy hazards and require employer measures to protect the public and workers. Eleven states classify radiation health damage as occupational disease under workers compensation. Connecticut amended public health law to incarcerate individuals containing radioactive material. Connecticut Maine and New Hampshire adopt a coordinating model statute for atomic activity regulation.
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Commerce Clearing House
CCH
Connecticut
Maine
New Hampshire
New England
New Orleans Jazz Faces Boom Or Decline Debate
The article surveys optimism and doubt about New Orleans jazz vitality. Figures like George Blanchin praise present vitality while George Lewis and Myra Menville warn of decline as younger players and changing tastes erode classic sounds once tied to the city.
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New Orleans
George Blanchin
George Lewis
Lewis
Bourbon Street
Myra Menville
Jazz Club
Communists launch nationwide drive to save party and please Khrushchev
Chicago leader Claude Lightfoot outlined a broad campaign to unite workers farmers and professionals into a pressure group. The effort targets admission of Red China to the United Nations a disarmed Germany and a ban on nuclear weapons while pressing the Supreme Court to strike down McCarran Smith and Communist Control Acts. The government says the acts and the Internal Security Division aim to curb Communist activity and imprison leaders with hundreds indicted or convicted.
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New York
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Moscow
Kremlin
Communist Party
Red
Claude Lightfoot
Chicago
National Party
New York City
China
United Nations
Germany
U.S. Supreme Court
McCarran
Smith
US Justice Department
Herbert Brawnel
Justice Department
High Court
Supreme Court
Lightfoot
Junius Scales
North Carolina
Atlantic Defense Organization
Soviet Union
Pearson
NATO
Krushchev
Bulganin
Pearson Finds Real Red Boss Is Khrushchev
Canadian External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson and Gerald Clark visited the Soviet Union and discussed NATO with Nikita Khrushchev. The premier asserted control, shaping Soviet foreign policy while Bulganin’s status appeared subordinate. Molotov’s power waned as censors monitor references to his removal.
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Pearson
Khrushchev
Gerald Clark
Russia
Canada
Lester B. Pearson
Soviet Union
Mr. Clark
Singapore
Montreal Star
Nikita Krushchev
Communist Party
Krushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Vyacheslav Molotov
Dmitri Chuvakhin
Molotov
Kommunist
Moscow
Presidium
Pakistan
Post Office Opens Underground Cave Office at Meramec Caverns
In Stanton Missouri the government opened an underground post office inside Meramec Caverns, a 100,000,000 year old cave once used by Jesse James. The facility targets heavy year round tourist traffic and represents a novel federal outlet.
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Meramec Caverns
Jesse James
Retired Mailman Hunts For Civil War Monitor
Raynor T. McMullen, a retired Dundee, Michigan mail carrier, funds a Monitor Historical Society and aims to raise and salvage the Civil War ironclad Monitor sunk off Cape Hatteras on December 31, 1862. He cites naval and congressional support despite Navy opposition and disputes the location reported by Robert Marx, hoping to display the ship in a museum to educate children about the battle with the Merrimac.
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Dundee
Mich
Monitor
Merrimac
Raynor T. McMullen
Monitor Historical Society
Cape Hatteras
U. S. Navy
McMullen
Robert F. Marx
Marx
South
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Erwin R. Heald
Douglas Aircraft Company
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Society of Automotive
Engi
Neers
Los Angeles
Heald
Air Academy
Globe Trotter
Scotland Yard Nets
Lothario
Allen R. Dodd, JR
England, Ceylon
Ohio
By Stanley Meisler
Kid Howard
Fear Party
Martin Arundel
Refuses Review
Caucasus
Crimea
Yalta
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Stanton
Uncle Sam
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