Cedar Rapids Truant Officer Bailey Shapes Modern Attendance
ADELINE TAYLOR profiles A S Bailey, Cedar Rapids attendance checker and social welfare official. For 39 years he coordinates census work, transfers, tuition, work permits, and information requests, turning truancy into welfare outreach. Through home visits and data checks he ensures students are enrolled and families receive aid when needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Sawyers
Readin
Ritin
Rithmetic
Angel of Mercy
Cedar Rapids
Cheshire
England
A. S. Bailey
Board of Education
Bureau of Information
Mr. Bailey
Murals Proposed for Cedar Rapids Chamber Exhibit
Grant Wood proposed a WPA mural project in 1934 with Nancy Finnigan designing 32 of 42 panels. The Little Gallery will display the finished drawings for three weeks from 2:30 to 5:30 daily, hoping funds for completion emerge.
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Public Works of Art
Cedar Rapids
Little
Chamber of Commerce
Finnigan
Perverse human nature tests in contract bridge play
North-South vulnerable. a dealer story shows a player choosing to concede a minor trick to secure the rest. East takes a diamond, but declarer ruffs low, establishes diamonds with one ruff, discards hearts, and later wins the final five tricks by a solid diamond and heart setup.
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West
North
Declarer
East
South
Beranek Wins Harvard Scholarship While At Cornell
Leo Beranek of Cedar Rapids a Cornell College senior majoring in mathematics and physics earned a Gordon McKay scholarship to Harvard University graduate engineering. He will start in September after Cornell summer studies. Beranek will study vacuum tubes under Dr E L Chaffee, a noted physics researcher. He previously ran a Mount Vernon radio shop 1928 to spring, worked at Collins Cedar Rapids, and is active in amateur radio. Also noted is renewal of fellowships for Marjorie and Lester Coleman of Mount Vernon both Cornell graduates 1935.
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Mount Vernon
Leo Beranek
Cedar Rapids
Cornell College
Gordon McKay
Harvard University Graduate School of Engineering
Cornell
Beranek
E. L. Chaffee
Collins
Edwin Beranek
Marjorie
Lester Coleman
Jessie Coleman
Coleman
New York School of Social Work
Charity Organization Society
Lester
New York University
New Poetry and Essays Featured at Public Library
The public library adds several new books including In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell and Air Storming by Hendrik Van Loon. Personal Pleasures by Rose Macaulay and Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys by F P Adams join Theory of Flight by Muriel Rukeyser, plus anthologies New Yorker Book of Verse and Iowa Poets and selections by Robert Nathan.
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Bertrand Russell
Hendrik van Loon
van Loon
Rose Macaulay
Samuel] Pepys
F. P. Adams
Pepys
City of
New York
Muriel Rukeyser
New York City
Vassar
Columbia
Roosevelt School of the Air
New Yorker Book of
New Yorker
Dorothy Parker
Ogden Nash
Babette Deutsch
Joseph Auslander
Clarence Day
Robert Nathan
Atlantic Monthly
Saturday Review of Literature
Iowa
Jay G. Sigmund
Henry Harrison
Shade for dogs runway planned by Cleveland league head
Henry L. Leffingwell, head of the Animal Protective League, plans a kennel runway lined with maple trees to provide comforts and conveniences for the dogs.
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Cleveland
Henry L. Leffingwell
Animal Protective League
League
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A. I. Bailey
Adeline Taylor
Bureau of Information and Investigation
Hollywood
P. S
Johnny Jones
Sammy Smith
Mickey Dupont
Fort Madison
Bobby
Jimmy
Bailey
Bever Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Vernon Heights
Memorial Drive
Mount Vernon Avenue
Ers
Johnny
Art News of the Little Gallery
Josephine Culbertson
Harvard
Public
Fender & Body Works
5Th Ave
7Mee National Bank
Seliis Grove
W. F. Main
Stewart E. Straub
Straub
Chas. C. Walter
Jefferson Oy. Mo
Jefferson City
Ray Robinson
Perryville
W. F. . Main
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
United States
Columbia National Bank Capital
Kansas City
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank Birdsg
Mr. Main
E. H. Ziegel
Sidney M. Cooke
Sedalia Bank and Trust Company
Capital
Sedalia
Missouri
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank
K. M. LaFlesh
LaFlesh
W. BR. Courtney
Cashier
Houston
Texas
Eee
Y. BR. Tiehes
Jows
Port Arthur
Vey
Vickers
Dite
L. W. Cormaker
THE
First National Bank
Binghamton, N
F. Main
Gear Rapids
Ishoe Co
Palmer
Wachington Street
the Dale State Bank
Dale
Indiana
Gedard Rapids, Iowa
Ake Betta Tower
W. C. Elliott
A. J. Wedeking
W. F. Maingesert Rapids
Towa
Mack’s
Republic
Ting
Urs Srate McNeel, Jr
B. A. Schoomer
Agure
Siver
Fort Worth
City
H. J. Andrews
Cedar_Rapids, Iowa
Continental National Bank
Hemphill Street
W. F. Main Company
New Specialty Company
Standard Manufacturing Company
Appleton Novelty Company
Rector T. Mason
Thompson Chevrolet Company
H. A. Kroencke
TRE Capital National Bank
Sacramento
Cetorals
Lows
Mest
Peen
Holmes
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