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This article presents news including foreign trade bill that was discussed during United States President John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address, other factors discussed in Kennedy's address, which reflects his 1961 pattern of relations with the U.S. Congress, and several hundred journalists in Los Angeles, California, who lost their newspaper jobs when two downtown papers went out of business.

This article offers world news briefs for the week of May 15, 1965. Particular focus is given to U.S. foreign policy concerning Vietnam, China, and the Dominican Republic. The article also addresses the social needs of California as the need for employment and expanded state services arises. Further topics of discussion in the article include a new business program for youth by the organization Junior Achievement and a strike involving workers at the "Baltimore Sun" newspaper.

Reports developments related to world history. Discussions of the security program of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Assessment of the criminal-syndicalism law of California; Refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to take jurisdiction of the case of Tom Mooney.

Reports political developments in California as of June 1958. Victory of the fledgling Democratic Council of Clubs in the primaries; Escalation of the campaign costs in the state; Assessment of the nonpartisan tradition and the transience of Californians.

Focuses on the position of the New Party in California. Discussion of a Democratic candidate's political campaign in California; Comments on unemployment in the American movie industry; Determination of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles to put an end to the second-class citizenship; Comments on the reason for the prosperity of California agriculture.

The article presents news briefs for the week of June 28, 1969. Particular attention is given to the domestic and foreign policies of the U.S. Article topics include political, social, and economic segregation in the U.S., the House Ways and Means Committee's acceptance of U.S. president Richard Nixon's tardy tax package, the reappointment of California Mayor Sam Yorty, Everett McKinley Dirksen's Newspaper Preservation Act, as well as legislation on cigarette advertising.

Discusses the operational power and lack of constitutional authority of the University of California-Berkeley, as of March 1968. Analysis of the Study Commission on University Governance report, The Culture of the University, regarding politics in the Berkeley campus; Developments in the radical student movements of the university; Recommendation for students and faculty to directly challenge the exclusive prerogative of the administration to determine policies relating to the Vietnam war and the draft.

Presents information on various political developments in several countries. Favor done by the U.S. Congress to the demands of the California propagandists for inclusion of the anti-Japanese provision in the immigration bill; Law passed by California to forbid land ownership or lease to immigrants from Japan; Role of the U.S. in modifying the Japanese policy of exploitation and domination in China; Failure of the U.S. immigration bill to place any restriction upon the Mexican influx; Obligation of Germany to pay fifty-two percent of the war reparations payment to France; Suggestion that even if the railway, industrial profits and revenues yield the sum for the reparation payment a situation will be created which is favorable to the intrusion of foreign interests into German industry.

Focuses on the criminal syndicalism (CS) in the U.S. Report that more than half of the U.S. states adopted an almost uniform statute, which created the new crime of criminal syndicalism and was directed mainly against the Industrial Workers of the World; Definition and provisions of the CS as given in the California Statute; Reference to the trial of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California; Report that on July 16, 1923, the Attorney General applied to the Superior Court in Sacramento County, California, for an injunction against the Industrial Workers of the World, and various specified committees, officers, and members of the organization; Report that the Sacramento injunction combines two significant legal tendencies of recent years, governmental suppression of radical discussion and organizations, and governmental use of the injunction instead of criminal prosecutions to maintain law and order; Information on the advantages and disadvantages of the injunction; Charges made in the California case against the IWW that the IWW exists to teach CS, and is attempting thereby to fan flames of discontent among all laboring men and women and all employees in the state; View that instead of these get-peace-quick methods, people should tighten up the machinery of criminal justice to punish violent acts with all the swiftness and sureness of which the jury system is capable.

This article offers world news briefs for the week of November 20, 1950. The results of the California state elections of that year, including the defeat of Democratic Senator and House Representative, Cecil White, are discussed. The results of the New York state elections of that year, including the re-election of Senator Herbert Lehman, are discussed. The negotiations between telephone companies and telephone workers to raise workers' wages are discussed.

This article focuses on reasons behind the withdrawal of his name by Senator William F. Knowland of California from the candidacy for reelection to the U.S. Senate in 1958. Those whose speculations follow the classical style highlight the antagonism between Knowland and senator Richard M. Nixon that flared at the 1952 Republican convention, when Knowland held firm for Earl Warren as the presidential candidate, and Nixon tried to undermine the California delegation's commitment in favor of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The classical pose shows Nixon's rapid rise as an affront to Knowland, whose seniority is compounded of a family tradition of active Republicanism in California.

Focuses on the under-utilization of labor in the U.S. Forecast on food riots and famine in the fertile state of California; Information on the War Manpower Commission that has just received a long memorial from the grocery clerks of San Francisco; Proposal for a universal labor draft capitalizing on the hysteria being worked up by the holy show; Report on the Austin-Wadsworth national-service bill under which the burden of administration would be placed in the hands of the local draft boards; Amendments to the bill, which would protect both volunteers and draftees against having to join any labor organization.

Reports global political and government events. Success of the Benito Mussolini's government in Italy; Appointment of George F. Ewald as magistrate in the U.S.; Result of the hearing of the Mooney-Billings case in California.

Focuses on the undocumented and denied story on the use of President Richard Nixon's campaign funds to purchase property in the U.S. Estimation of the federal spending for renovations; Lack of possibility for impeachment; Contention of the details of internal White House Communication; Comments on the time spent by Nixon in California; Report that Nixon could enjoy the privacy and grandeur of an estate totaling 29.9 acres.

This article offers world news briefs for the week of April 4, 1964. Issues that France and the United States brought up at a United Nations trade and development conference in Geneva, Switzerland, are presented. The Independent Petroleum Association of America was angered by what they felt was a defamatory drawing in the U.S. Income Tax Guide of that year. California homemaker Mary Shultz was accidentally shot by policemen who were pursuing a fleeing suspect.

Highlights issues related to racism on the West Coast. Information on the West Coast's campaign to prevent the release of any persons of Japanese ancestry from relocation centers for the duration of the Second World War; Protests made by the American legion in Portland, Oregon when local citizens sought to provide some volunteer care for a Japanese cemetery; Attitude of the newspapers in California towards a riot at Tule Lake; Deflection of hatred of Japan against evacuees by a section of the West Coast press; Situation of the military in the Pacific.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing various articles published in previous issues. Reason for the failure of progressive party in the U.S.; Argument pertaining to the courage of third-party in the U.S.; Discussion of the Japanese problem in California; Opposition to Anti-Alien Legislation by various people in California; "Radio Politics," previously published in the issue of March 19; Controversy about certain college books.

This article offers world news briefs for the week of October 23, 1950. Schools in Texas decided to shorten their hours to allow children to work while still adhering to the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act. California residents voted on "Proposition 10," an amendment that will dictate the terms of public housing and urban development throughout the state and possibly the U.S. The re-launching of the political publication "The Freeman" is discussed.

Focuses on scenes in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Report that Hollywood is more than a part of show business. Views of the author that the general level of aimless ragging, gossip and pointed story-telling is higher than it is in life generally; Discussions on the sets in Hollywood; Idea of several producers on stories and movie-making; View that human nature works out the same way in Hollywood that it works out anywhere else, but it works out under a peculiar pressure; View that Hollywood as a society is just about completely made up of success and failure.

Highlights the financial activities in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, concerning those who are associated with the U.S. motion picture industry based there. Importance of show business in the U.S.; View Hollywood as a part of show business grown immense above all others and precedents; Creativity of directors and writers in the making of a motion picture; Reference to Budd Schulberg's story about What Makes Sammy Glick.

Presents letters to the editor referencing topics and articles discussed in previous issues. Information on an agricultural method used for water content of the soil and better productivity by using a farm tool, disc harrow; Comment on the article "Genius: Its Cause and Care," by Bruce Bliven that was published in the March 17, 1941 issue related to intelligence and genius; Views of a reader on intelligence quotient with reference to the article by Bliven; Views of Mary B. Gilson on a comment on her book "What's Past Is Prologue"; Comment on the article "The Central Valley Project," by Walter E. Packard related to land taxation in the United States that was previously published in the March 24, 1941 issue; Letter from England discussing social and economic condition; Information on book burning in Los Angeles, California.

Presents information on the Associated Farmers which is a big-business group in California supported by railroads, public-utility companies and allied institutions and the success of New Deal; Reference of the Associated Farmers as an extreme Red-baiting group; Appraisal of its general outlook and policies by the American Nazi group; Promotion of a nationwide organization of American vigilantes by the Association; Description of the aims of the Association; Demand for repeal of the National Labor Relations Act; Investigation of the state of civil liberties on the West Coast and the Associated Farmers by months the United States Senate Civil Liberties Committee, headed by Senator Robert La Follette; Information regarding the trial of New Deal in the coming elections.

Describes the political condition in California as of April 1966. Candidacy of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's chief of protocol Lloyd Hand for lieutenant governor; List of California gubernatorial candidates; Ouster of Simon Casady as head of the volunteer California Democratic Council; Issues concerning the gubernatorial race in the state.

Speculates on the action that labor-unions in San Francisco, California will take against the Taft-Hartley Legislation's approval in the U.S. Congress. Effect of the law on the area; Political influence of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the region; Declarations made by the CIO leaders to fight against the law; Plans of the San Francisco section of the American Federation of Labor to deal with the matter; Attitude of other economic classes towards the bill; Reaction of labor veterans against the law.

Presents information on mob violence in three widely separated places in the United States. Description of the lynching of a Negro accused of rape with all the customary attendant circumstances of frenzied sadism in Missouri; Information that in California two men accused of the brutal murder of a kidnapped victim were tortured and lynched in the heretofore reasonably law abiding town of San Jose; Condemnation of the act of lynching of Negroes by California Governor James Rolph; View that the resort to violence in the U.S. is a symbol of unhealthy inward tensions resulting from the deep sickness of the civilization.

Focuses on the effectiveness of the election campaign for Richard M. Nixon, the U.S. Vice President, in California region. Prospects of claim of Herbert Klein, aide to Nixon, regarding approach of Nixon's campaign in the region; Names of politicians organizing and leading the campaign of Nixon in various regions in the U.S.; Effect of scattering of Republican Congressmen in California on Nixon's political campaign.

Focuses on the new West Coast War Manpower program in the U.S. for overcoming manpower shortages. Provision of the Program which gives the government almost complete control over production and hiring practices in both war and civilian industries; Provision that all hiring in the five areas covered, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, must be through the United States Employment Service, or approved through War Manpower Commission (WMC) channels; Contention that there is almost no sign that there will be any new approach to the operational side of manpower mobilization; Provision for the establishment of two committees to deal with the production and the hiring practices of the employers in the region; Information that the manpower situation is still acute in steel, aircraft, textiles and mining, among other industries.

Focuses on suggestions by Amos W.W. Woodcock, federal prohibition commissioner, regarding family life in the U.S. Claims that family life would once more possess an integrative principle, something it seems to have lost during the rise of American industry; Fear of young women regarding marriage; Report that the grape growers of California would reach new heights of prosperity.

Presents information on the request by California state commander of the American Legion, Harry Foster, to the Glendale Post to discipline the 12 Legionnaires convicted of breaking up a meeting of the La Crescenta Democratic Club. Objection that by wearing their Legion caps on the sortie, the raiders were guilty of misuse of insignia.

Reports that the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities wound up a 10-day investigation of Communist activities in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Contempt of the Congress by film composer, Hans Eisler's brother, Gerhardt Eisler; Testimony by Robert Taylor, a film luminary that he had been forced by an agent of the government to play a role in the film "Song of Russia," despite the fact he refused to do so on the grounds that it was Communist propaganda; Revelation that Victor Kravchenko, former Red Army officer, had received mysterious telephone threats to blow up the Beverly Hills residence where he is a house guest.

Focuses on the overlook of criticism by Hollywood filmmakers, which are generally thrown at them for being communists. Accusation by Mathew Woll, vice president of American Federation of Labor, on Hollywood for contriving with Moscow; Comments of Emmet Lavery, president of the Screen Writers' Guild, on Hollywood criticism; Opinion that Hollywood is dropping its bored tolerance of witch-hunts and is ceasing to find solace.

Mentions about correspondence received from various cities of the U.S. Query regarding the lack of coverage with reference to upcoming special elections in California on the Retirement Life Payment Act; Protest against the proponed celebrations of the Thanksgiving Day; Clarification regarding the definition of "controversial public issue"; Information on a recent conference of the Cooperative League of the United States.