Butte Businessmen Seek Reasons for Fire Insurance Denials
The Butte City Council investigates why insurance firms deny or cancel fire coverage for local properties amid 1969 fire rates and suspicions. Council urges insurers to provide clear reasons and advance cancellation notices, while Mayor Shea questions geographic blanket denials and advocates state level guidance.
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Butte
Silver Bow
Walkerville
Jimmy Shea
Bert Mehrens
Shea
State Insurance Board
American attitude troubles visitors
British observers warn that American self doubt threatens global leadership as the U S turns inward amid Vietnam costs. They call for re creation of confidence through honest reckoning, admitting moral failure, and clear leadership to restore world role.
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London
United States
Atlantic
Peter Wiles
London University
Chatham House Journal
Wiles
U.S
Vietnam
Pentagon
Nguyen van Thieu
Saigon
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Nixon's housing policy moves from talk to action
Washington analysis argues Nixon's suburban housing plan mixes rhetoric with real change. HUD Secretary Romney drives a dispersal strategy using federal leverage to push low income housing into suburbs, while the White House publicizes opposition to forced integration.
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Kevin P. Phillips
Washington
Nixon
South
Middle America
White House
HUD
George Romney
National Journal
Sherman Unger
Romney
John Ehrlichman
Camp David
Unger
Mitchell
Blackjack
Administration Examines union political spending
Victor Riesel reports the Justice Department probes whether labor unions such as ILGWU used voluntary dollars for national campaigns. The case centers on 1968 70 spendings, a grand jury subpoena, and a pending Supreme Court ruling on a St Louis Pipefitters Local 562 case. The issue tests First and Fifth Amendment rights against claims that union funds were not truly voluntary.
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Victor Riesel
New York
Homburg
Justice Dept
John Mitchell
Supreme Court
St. Louis
Ladies Garment Workers Union
ILGWU
Afl-Cio
Lou Stulberg
ILG
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
New York State
Abraham Lincoln
Whitney North Seymour Jr
U.S
Southern
Edward Finch Cox
Harry Hopkins
Eleanor Roosevelt
Louis Brandeis
Benjamin Cardozo
Franklin Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Seventh Ave
Ladies Garment Workers
Paul Hall
Seafarers’ International Union
Hall
House
Gerald Ford
Everett Dirksen
Spad — Seafarers
Liberal Party
Nelson Rockefeller
David Dubinsky
An Baer Jr
New Jersey
Rank and File
Return of the mail train in southern Montana
Senator Mike Mansfield and Senator Frank Church plan a bill to give passenger trains priority in mail handling. They cite slow rural mail service and aim to speed deliveries, while southern Montana postal officials warn thrice weekly service limits daily mail.
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Mike Mansfield
Montana
Butte
Mansfield
Frank Church
Idaho
Washington
Amtrak
Postal Service
Butte Montana Standard Staff and Affiliation
The Montana Standard is published seven mornings a week by D. R. Campbell Jr. as publisher with Robert W. Jones as business manager Bert Gaskill as business staff and Jeffrey B. Gibson as editor and editorial page editor. It serves Silver Bow County and the city of Butte.
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
Silver Bow County
Butte
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Anthony Lewis
New York Times
Kevin Phillips
Union
D.R. Campbell Jr
Robert W. Jones
Bert Gaskill
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