TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages Closed Club Bert Powers is one of hose you love to hate for us role in killing some of he daily newspapers in New ‘ork City. But a new book, Vho Controls the...
...He’s down there fighting to give us decent government, using some of his own money to do it,” said Dutch to his friends...
...The retail price of anti-freeze has tripled between 1973 and 1974...
...He sought to discharge this responsibility by making cash gifts at Christmas time to those whose services and sacrifices were greatest...
...Peers’ career...
...from The Politics of Honor by Kenneth S. Davis...
...Tidbits and Outrages Closed Club Bert Powers is one of hose you love to hate for us role in killing some of he daily newspapers in New ‘ork City...
...Warner found that neither the Iustice Department nor the Federal Trade Commission nor the Department of Transportation had conducted a study...
...When ombined with a one-year dvance, this means that here is a very stiff entry ee, and double this sum for wo major wire services...
...He was passed over for promotion and remained deputy commander until his retirement nine ponths later...
...A subscriber ias to put down a one-year dvance and sign a five-year ontract...
...Worst of all, the Council on Wage and Price Stability hadn’t investigated the matter, either...
...In the large ities, this involves a very ubstantial annual cost for Jst one wire service...
...He used, too, some thousands that remained in his personal campaign treasury (as a result of post-election fund raising) after all his campaign debts had been paid...
...But most importantly he used a fund of ten thousand or so which had been made up, on their own initiative, by Dutch Smith and others of his well-to-do Chicago friends...
...Interestingly enough, both AP and UP1 are owned by newspapers...
...In nearly every case the man he wanted could accept appointment only at a considerable financial sacrifice-and he felt himself to be partially responsible, in a personal way, for the sacrifices these others made...
...We have an obligation to help him out...
...The cases against 12 others were dismissed...
...But a new book, Vho Controls the Mass ledia, by Martin Seiden, xplains that it isn’t just ainters’ unions and stingy dvertisers who make it learly impossible for a lajor daily to get started hese days: An important factor imiting the entry of new lailies in the major cities is he relatively high fee reiuired by the major wire ervices...
...He assigned his associate, Frank Warner, to search the bureaucracy for an answer...
...That report, part of which recently was declassified and part of which remains secret, found that “both wittingly and unwittingly,” high-level officers sought to cover up the Mylai massacre of March, 1968, in which 175 to 400 Vietnamese noncombatants were slain by soldiers of the America1 Division...
...Neither happened...
...Can’t Buy Me Love Those liberals who are outraged by Nelson Rockefeller’s gifts to people working in his administration may be amused to see how noble the piactice was made to sound when committed by one of their heroes, Adlai Stevenson: To fill his top appointive offices with first-rate men, therefore, required of Stevenson a great persuasive talent and administrative ingenuity...
...The price of the mice, however, is based ot on subscriber circulaion, which for a newcomer fould be low, but on the ize of the market in which le operates...
...But some people have theorized that the Mylai report damaged Gen...
...Only 16 were charged, four went to trial, and three were acquitted...
...In his report he named 30 individuals who by “omission or commission” allegedly shared culpability for the cover-up...
...Honesty Is Its Own Reward Leroy Aarons of The Washington Post provides another illustration of our passion for rewarding those who tell the truth about our organizations: In late 1969 and early 1970, under orders from Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman William C. Westmoreland, Peers compiled a massive secret report on the slaughter at Mylai, based on the sworn testimony of 401 persons and covering 20,000 pages of transcripts and documents...
...Bewildered consumers were writing Ralph Nader for an explanation...
...In October, 1971, he was transferred to Korea, fully expecting to become a four-star general and commander of all American forces there...
...For this he used his own money in part...
...Frozen Government Soaring anti-freeze prices demonstrate the way our government keeps right on top of emerging problems...
Vol. 6 • January 1975 • No. 11
