Generous Gilded Views and Mussolini’s Camps
A critique blends social commentary and satire on furs marketed as humane and on wealth philanthropy. It notes F C Cobb scouts destroying caterpillar eggs, praises Lawrenceville School gifts by Edward Harkness, and contrasts American wealth with distrust of elites. It ends by mocking sensational crime headlines and referencing Mussolini’s camps for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Cobb
Allaire
N. J
Monmouth
Ocean Counties
Wheat shortage, tariffs, and New Deal policy critique
The article argues the 1930s US wheat crop is shorter due to reduced acreage and drought, predicting imports from Canada with a 42 cent tariff. It links scarce supply to higher prices, critiques New Deal crop controls, and calls for an independent administration court to unify regulations and curb bureaucratic overreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Canada
Drouth
American Bar Association
New Plan
New Deal Administration
NRA
AAA
Congress
Roosevelt
Uncommon Sense on a Hot Day and Civic Life
A narrator on a hot day describes a makeshift pipe geyser cooling neighborhood children who revel in the spray while sparrows join in. The scene contrasts playful relief with the ongoing work of adults in the nearby city as life continues and a fire risk looms elsewhere.
Beckoned by Service and Weather’s Harsh Comforts
By John Blake 8. Wythe ties to help others. I, with nothing to do, found a typewriter and should forget discomfort. Stop breathing hard and making trips to the refrigerator for ice. Rain or snow, cold or hot, one is easier in mind if the discomforts are forgotten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Times
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin
Wythe
Firestone
Firestone Auto Sly and Service
Grape Nuts Ad Promotes Dizzy Dean Winners Prizes
An advertisement in another column invites boys and girls to read about joining the Dizzy Dean Winners program and winning valuable free prizes offered by the Grape Nuts campaign.
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Brisbane
Maj. C. van der Byl
Wappenham
Towcester
Los Angeles
Mojave
Edward S. Harkness
New York
Lawrenceville School For
Harkness
Lawrenceville
Exeter Academy
Yale
Harvard
Mussolii
Europe
Chicago
Ing
King Features Syndicate, Inc
WNU
Western Newspaper Union
John Blake
Bell Syndicate
WIN Service
Caticura
Maldén
Mass
Guy
ADIOS
WEAF
Irestone
Roa
T. Co
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