News Behind the News By Pau Mallon
Washington gloom over Roosevelt budget as RFC funding falls short. Dewey advisers descend on DC while British excuses for Nordic battles echo in strategy debates. Hull trade bill survives with Knutson’s help, amid purgees’ votes and western-state considerations. A war official’s sign underscores universal armament neutrality.
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Hull
Senate
Roosevelt
Bird
George
Tydings
Smith
Poland
Finland
Denmark
Norway
Edgar A Guest The Poet of the People
A humorous reflection on golf training by Edgar A Guest. The speaker laments needing lessons from a golf pro who teaches by the hour and never stops giving guidance, yet the student still cannot improve. The piece playfully contrasts the professor's certainty with the speaker's persistent struggle.
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Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Young Men Bureau To Attend Junior Chamber Sessions
Fifteen members of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce young men bureau will attend the Iowa state convention of junior chambers in Mason City on Friday and Saturday. Attendees include Erwin Wasta president Russell Knapp vice president Ervin F Stepanek state vice president Bob Roberts local secretary Nate Worcester Vernon Stevens Howard Lee Les Edmunds Don Niels Charles Kacer Howard Rowley Leon Dra-
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Young Men's Bureau
The
Cedar Rapids
Bureau to Sponsor Mickey Rooney Film at Paramount
Through Hal Sheridan the bureau will sponsor four day showing of Young Tom Edison starring Mickey Rooney at the Paramount theater beginning April 26. Byron Anderson and Fred Woolrich supervise advance ticket sales. A portion of proceeds will go to a new bureau project.
Council Pays Nichols Firm $2000 For Incinerator Plant
Complying with a district court order the council approved a $2000 payment to Nichols Engineering and Research Corporation from a percentage retained after the municipal incinerator plant construction. The retained funds cover post completion claims filed against the project.
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Nichols Engineering and Research Corporation
Council
City Claims Paid To Contractors And Attorneys
City records show payments totaling $2,458,611 to 7 W Darragh and $350 to Haegg Roofing, with $116.90 to Cedar Rapids Sheet Metal for Nichols Company claims. Attorneys paid include $187.50 to B T Perrine and $445 to B D Silliman for litigation. A portion remains retained for ongoing court and attorney fees.
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Ready
Darragh
Haegg Roofing Company
Cedar Rapids Sheet Metal Company
Nichols Company
Stark Construction Company
B. T Perrine
D Silliman
Chicken Pox Tops City Diseases in Last Year Report
City health data shows 313 chicken pox cases in the last year with 666 total deaths. Measles 233 cases. mumps 45. whooping cough 47. scarlet fever 43. small pox and typhoid fever 4 each. diphtheria 1.
Albany Premiere With 24 Dogs In Formal Attire
Albany residents witnessed the grand premiere as 24 dogs in evening dress sat in front row seats for a motion picture. State officials, mayors, stars, and New York reporters joined the event, brought by Paramount Pictures to judge the film, then viewed the dogs both in person and on screen.
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Albany
New York
Paramount Pictures
City hosts premiere amid tornado recovery and civic events
A day of local history included a world premiere, a parade, the Georgia Florida league baseball season opener, a barbecue, and the arrest of a suspected pickpocket. Earlier disaster remembered, a February tornado killed 19 and caused about 3 million in damages.
Trusteeship sale notice in Kaufman will case Cedar Rapids
Merchants National Bank as trustee seeks court order to sell two parcels in Kingston now West Cedar Rapids Iowa Lot Four and Lot Five Black Eleven at prices 2600 and 2700 dollars with monthly payments. hearing set April 23 1940 at 9:00 AM in the Cedar Rapids Court House with notices to parties by publication and mail.
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Merchants National Bank
Cedar Rands
Iowa
A. S. Kaufman
Kingston
West
Cedar Rapids
Lows
Jowa
Linn
United States
Court House
Linn County
Marshall Field Co Bandits Sentenced in Chicago
Walter Hugh and Howard Sallows received one to 20 years in state prison after admitting the $17,400 February 19 robbery of the Marshall Field loop store. Sallows, a money guard, aided in the crime. Hugh, a WPA painter, aided by disarming the guard. The theft netted $15,000 recovered by police. Hugh named Sallows as his accomplice.
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Marshall Field Co
Chicago
Walter Hugh
Howard Sallows
Marshall Field and Company
Loop
Sallows
Hugh
Saliows
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Prio
Oslo
Scandinavia
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Craemer’s
Happy
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of C. Sessions
Clyde Lewis
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A.S. Kaufman
Ry Gen. Fo Miller
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10Th St. SE
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