Relief figures reveal who benefits from poverty in America
An analysis of FERA relief data shows 18.3 million people on relief in September 1934, mostly urban poor and rural sharecroppers. Unskilled urban workers are overrepresented, while professional and clerical workers are underrepresented in relief. The piece argues relief sustains poverty, limits recovery, and questions tax implications of government ownership of assets like railroads.
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C. Hartley Grattan
Scribner's Magazine
Mr. Grattan
FERA
Colorado
Moffat
Colorado State Tax Commission
Uncle Sam
Economic leadership must tackle mass social security now
Dr. Frank argues insecurity threatens both government and business and demands mass security policy. He warns against leaving social security to politics and urges leaders to craft a practical economics of plenty to avoid statism and reduced national vitality.
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Dr. Frank
Glenn Frank
White Sulphur Springs
United States
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Osborne Formula Heist Drives London Mystery Forward
Jerry Mordant and Nicholas Trench pursue a stolen formula linked to Molly O'Brien after the murdered John Osborne. They meet Sir William Avon to uncover clues while sinister rivals seek the formula, and Nick fights to clear his name as tensions rise in London.
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Jerry Mordant
Nicholas Trench
Molly O'Brien
John Osborne
Molly
Nicholas
Osborne
Jerry Just
Nick
Health Talk on Delinquent Children and Social Factors
The article discusses delinquent youths, noting groups that resist school norms and show emotional instability. It compares delinquent and non-delinquent children, finding similar living standards overall, but links delinquency more to fathers with unskilled labor and lower education, with equal class proportions overall.
Lincoln Teapot Found Near Lincoln Homestead Site
A small silver teapot believed to have belonged to Nancy Hanks Lincoln is in the possession of Otis Alvey who found it near the Lincoln City homestead site. It bears the initials N H L.
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Lincoln
Huntingburg
Ind
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Otis Alvey
Lincoln Homestead
Lincoln City
N. H
Porter's Rise Sparks Gold Coast American Folklore
New York reports Cole Porter's swift rise from Peru Indiana to global fame as a musical lyricist and social darling. The piece notes his Yale background, Paris move, brisk writing pace, and wealth. It contrasts Porter with Cagney Raft archetypes and discusses Broadway gatekeepers, hotel insolvency, and Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room as emblematic of 1934 high society.
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New York
Cole Porter
Horatio Alger
Gold Coast
Peter Arno
Peru
Indiana
Yale
Paris
Porter
Rockefeller Center
McNaught Syndicate
Bedtime Stories: Buster Bear Grumbles in Winter
Buster Bear frets over hunger and cold as long winter lingers. He grumbles about scarce food while Reddy Fox and Mrs Reddy observe, noting the difficulty of storing fat and the need to sleep to endure the season. The tale frames a bear’s prewinter woes and neighboring animal commentary.
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Buster Bear
Buster
Bobby Coon
Green Forest
Growler
Reddy Fox
Reddy
T. W. Burgess
Woman 66 Drowns Self Near Kirbyville
Mrs. Jennie Adams of Dallas, 66, laid out her clothing glasses and dentures on Nichols Creek bank two miles east of Kirbyville and died by her own hand. Justice of the Peace Rollins ruled death by own action after the body was recovered beneath a bridge near her daughter Mrs. Wesley Huffman’s home. In Sweden telephone operators say in the wink of an eye.
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Kirbyville
Jennie Adams
Dallas
Nichols Creek
Here
Justice of the Peace
P. FE. Rollins
Adams
Wesley Huffman
School Days The Little Brayo School House
In memory of St Ursula and 11 000 virgin martyrs the Virgin Islands were named. Friar Tuck served as chaplain and steward to Robin Hood. In architecture the three orders of Greek columns are Ionic Doric and Corinthian.
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Virgin Islands
St. Ursula
Cologne
Friar Tuck
Robin Hood
Word Builder and Truckman Sinews Card
Puzzle text fragment describes a word builder game with a new letter added to the previous one. It references a steamer cresting a trough and passengers safely landing. It also presents an answer hint about a truckman who cannot commit a sin against his boy and the sinews bearing witness to strength in lifting wines and heavy boxes.
Bushland To Name Wheat Pact Heads
Bushland wheat farmers will meet at 7 30 o clock Wednesday night at the Bushland school to elect officers in the wheat acreage reduction program. In Highland Park the Friday night meeting at the Highland Park School will include a general program but no elections are planned.
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Bushland
Highland Park
P. C. Bennett
Potter County
Russian Leader Puzzle Word List Q&A
A cryptic style crossword clue set lists horizontal and vertical entries with numbered hints and partial phrases. It includes references to persons in government and assorted terms like deity, secrecy, observe, and various linguistic fragments.
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Morris Pishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
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Hell's Kitchen
Jimmy Cagney
George Raft
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Leo Newman
Rialto
Booth
Charles Dillingham
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Well Street
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