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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1931
Page
2
A Kansas City Star reflection on the transition from one year to another. It compares the old year to a rose stem shedding memories of joy and sorrow, while the new year offers a fresh bud of promise, peace, and opportunity. It urges personal effort to nurture growth month by month.
A New Year’s Morning reminiscence recalls a quiet custom of open house with hot fruit punch and coffee, inviting neighbors to share toasts and greetings. A suburban couple proposes reviving the tradition with Swedish cookies, cigars, and a daytime gathering to celebrate New Year.
A brief exchange features a fortune teller predicting happiness in the new year followed by a sharp reply implying departure or absence. The quip reflects a humorous clash over fate and presence in seasonal banter.
The piece notes that amid heavy discourse about the new year the essential truth remains that the past cannot be changed and the future approaches quickly with its own momentum.
The article argues that few people change without motive power and uses a salesman’s apple as a turning point to illustrate how small actions can tip balance. It links New Year resolutions to self improvement and urges leveraging public libraries and local facilities to pursue mental moral and physical growth starting on New Year’s Day.
A playful note from He and She marks a commitment to wedding plans this year. The couple expresses humor about domestic life and romance as they discuss tying the knot.
Republican members from Pennsylvania led a heated critique of President Hoover over the moratorium on intergovernmental debris and the refunding commission. McFadden attacked Hoover as aligned with German bankers, while colleagues challenged impeachment threats and debated party strategy at the Capitol.
Senator Reed denounces bankers propaganda and opposes revival of the war debt commission. He says further cancellations should fit Europe’s ability to pay and criticizes excessive generosity. Senators McKellar and Johnson echo opposition to a one year moratorium as Mills and Stimson press for ratification.
Speaker Garner and Senator Robinson report the Democratic Joint Policy Committee has ruled the Hoover moratorium not within party consideration and should be left to members views. The panel pushes to cut government spending but diverges on tariff and tax revision details. The first Senate bill, by Senator Hale, seeks navy buildup to Sudan treaty limits. Committee chairs chosen. fight over president pro tempore persists as Senator Moses of New Hampshire is opposed by progressives.
VER in Basel reports the Young plan advisory committee led by Alfredo Seneduce abandoned full abolition of German reparations, urged by Collin and others, influenced by Walter W. Stewart against debt scaling. The panel will report findings to the major powers, with final action likely at late January conference. A subcommittee submitted a secret report on German holdings abroad and foreign stakes, noting practical limits on full disclosure and larger than listed assets.
Chiang Kai-shek and key ministers resign as a coalition forms in Canton to govern China. Sun Fo and Eugene Chen lead the anti Chiang faction. Lin Sen heads the new government as Japan tensions rise in Manchuria and Chunghow.
In a tense political moment Chancellor Bruening holds power with Socialist support while promising price reductions. Nazis, Communists, and Hitlerites threaten opposition as authorities probe a fascist plot against the republic. Hitler issues a bold letter defying Bruening and demanding liberty for the fascists.
report of King Carol and Prince Nicholas reconciliation with Nicholas agreeing to a legal separation from wife Jana Peleti while retaining royal titles and military commands. Nicholas and Jana to be companions as Carol and Magda Lupegcu are named elsewhere.
English press notes that Burma delegates withdrew from the round table conference after objecting to British plans. The delegates protested that no constitution or self governing dominion status was offered and returned to London with instructions from their priests to seek full immediate responsible government.
U.S. District Judge James A. Wilkerson has not announced a run for governor. Hoover reportedly urged him to pursue the state’s top post, but the judge may prefer remaining on the bench or moving to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in the West.
The piece traces Saint Valentine across early church history and legends from France Italy Spain and South Africa. It notes Roman and bishoply influences in the third century and links to the Lupercal festival. It mentions early Valentine messages in English language dating to 141 and Chaucer and Shakespeare.
The piece recalls Alice Longfellow as an intelligent, lively, globe trotting woman praised by her father. It notes she attended Newnham College Cambridge becoming the first American woman at a foreign college and helped found Radcliffe’s Harvard Annex in 1879. Her father described her as bright and gay from infancy.
The early Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway completed the Woodhead tunnel project begun in spring 1539. The first pass through occurred December 2, 145, marking a milestone for what is now the Great Central division of the London and North Eastern Railway.
The article notes the world forest area near 50 million acres, about 22 percent of foreland excluding polar regions. It adds the productive forest area is likely 7.5 hundred million acres, roughly 16 percent of the land area.
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