Literacy Gains Highlight CCC Education Program
The Civilian Conservation Corps reports 40 000 recruits improved reading and writing skills. Of those initially illiterate, 92 percent attend classes regularly, emphasizing education as essential to citizenship and national service beyond forest work. National program, not a partisan issue, the CCC shows effective rehabilitation through learning.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Howard W. Oxley
CCC
Ilside
Mrs Charles Whitman resigns from Women’s Republican Club
Mrs Charles Whitman wife of the former New York Governor resigns from the Women’s Republican Club of New York City and announces support for President Roosevelt. She cites a change of beliefs after studying campaign literature and rejects speaking against the Administration while affirming belief in Roosevelt’s policies.
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Charles 8. Whitman
New York State
Women's Republican Club
New York City
Roosevelt
Whitman
Democratic
New York
Women’s Republican Club
How Wars Start and the French Labor Movement
The piece argues that French striking workers support Madrid Loyalists, risking a general war if intervention occurs. It warns that Blum's government faces a test from prowar sympathizers and that European conflict could escalate. It concludes that peace depends on the restraint of the people.
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France
Madrid
Blum
United States
New Views on Race Challenging Supremacy Claims
Sir Cyril Pax argues differences among people arise from history and culture, not heredity, while anthropologist H J Fivere critiques studying races as units and condemns Nordic supremacy, noting German physiques vary. The piece suggests scientific consensus could upend modern political concepts of race.
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Cyril Pax
National Museum of Wales
Pepes
H. J. Fivere
Prof Fivere
Germany
Behind the Scenes In Washington in a National Campaign
The piece contrasts President Roosevelt and Governor Landon as they shape campaign tactics in a turbulent phase. Roosevelt sticks to nonpolitical framing while Landon expands itineraries and embraces a vigorous schedule, signaling divergent approaches during the impending election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
UMP
Landon
Geore
World With a Fence a Novel by Mar The World
Carol and Blake grapple with love and restraint as they face an impossible future. He promises to wait and be near, while Carol struggles with fear, duty, and the pull of potential marriages to others as spring approaches. Cornelia scorns sentiment and the office atmosphere remains tense with unspoken longing.
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Cornelia
Miss Torrance
Porter Murray
Porter
Blake
Tfis
Force
Laura
Return of the Fearful Lover in Marian Sims Passage
A tense scene unfolds in a woman's apartment as she confronts the man she fears and still desires. He urges her to act bravely, insisting she must turn from past pain and find strength. She agrees, seeking a future where ecstasy may elude them but vengeance lingers.
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Blake
Marian Sims
Goethe as Poet and Dramatist Behind Faust Stamp
An overview of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a leading poet and dramatist, noting his early genius, multilingual ability, and prolific output. It highlights Faust as his greatest work and its musical adaptations by Gounod and Berlioz, with a stamped portrait issued by Germany in 1826.
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Europe
America
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germany
Goethe
Gounod
Berlioz
NEA Service
German Maneuvers Nearing End at Bad Nauheim
At Bad Nauheim 70 000 troops completed the largest maneuvers since WWI in a war game atmosphere. The exercise tested endurance with day and night drills and scarce meals, while Hessian villagers treat it as a grand show offering coffee and cakes as troops march through villages.
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
Legislative Action Sought in Dam Work
Upper Colorado River Authority plans to push action at the special legislative session to extend provisions for a 6 million flood control dam in Coke County. Penrose Metcalfe of San Angelo says he will ask Governor Allred to permit the Legislature to consider the subject.
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Austin
Upper
Colorado River
Coke County
Penrose Metcalfe
San Angelo
Allred
Whimsy and Woes of High Society in 1934 Rome
A column by O. O. McIntyre catalogs fashionable socialites and stage figures in New York, noting wit, dress, and then shifts to vivid scenes of city life. It blends celebrity musings with colorful impressions of Spaniards, street characters, and the era’s culinary curiosities through a lively, period voice.
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O. O. McIntyre
New York
William Rhinelander Stewart
Jay O’brien
Bainbridge Colby
Meredith Nicholson
Bob Burns
George S. Kaufman
Truly Shattuck
Wesley W. Stout
Saturday Evening Post
Clay Morgan
Billy Gaxton
Vincent Lopez
Jay Thorpe
Morris Gest
Arthur Hopkins
Raphael Cherub
Bert Wheeler
ZaSu Pitts
Jack Lait
Ralph Forbes
Fascist Hostages Slated to Die in Bilbao
Four thousand Fascist hostages huddled aboard ships and in prisons in Bilbao Spain faced likely death as International Red Cross efforts to save them failed. Three hostage ships near the aviation field and munitions plant risk bombardment by fascist gunners if an imminent land sea and air attack proceeds. Dr Marcel Junod of the Red Cross pleaded for their lives without success.
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Bilbao
Spain
Sain Jean de Luz
France
International Red Cross
Emilio Mola
Marcel Junod
International Red Cross Organization
Geneva
Screen Performer Horizontal 1.4 Who is the man in the picture
Puzzle text lists clues for a word fill of horizontal and vertical entries about a screen performer and related terms. The grid appears to mix clues for names, objects, and actions with multiple undefined breaks and partial words.
The Double Surprise In Health News
A comic tale contrasts a rooster and Unc Billy Possum over a tail end mistaken for a worm. The piece blends Dr. Morris Fishbein health guidance on athletic injuries with a humorous animal fable and notes on contusions sprains and first aid.
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Brown
Billy Possum
Unc
Billy
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