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One of the few instances when Cole wavers from purely descriptive history is in his discussion of Lindbergh and the Jews. In September, 1941 at an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Lindbergh declared that the Roosevelt Administration, were seeking to push America into the War. He said that...
ON POLLUTION CONTROL. It's just disaster. In our own plants, the estimated bill for air-and water-pollution control equipment is $64 million this year. It's $107 million in 1976 and $164 million in 1977. In a sense that's all nonproductive money. We don...
In the past, heroin was concentrated in the nation's largest cities. Now arrests, evidence of addiction and heroin-related crime are showing up more often in smaller cities. As examples, DuPont mentioned rising addiction in Des Moines, Eugene, Ore., and Jackson, Miss.
Those lines, which recently appeared in more than 150 U.S. newspapers, might have been written by any contemporary columnist last week, except perhaps for the dated, folksy tone. In fact, they were composed by the late Will Rogers 41 years ago. Since early March, Rogers' wry, apt commentaries on...
On paper, at least, the airline sounded like the arrogant, politically potent Pan Am of yesteryear. Pan Am haughtily refers to its desired subsidy as a "national interest payment." But does it have a case for subsidy by any name? Should taxpayers in, say, Tulsa, Des Moines and Wichita (who...