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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1935
Page
15
With the Gazette’s editorial writer away, selections from partner papers appear in the column. The reprinted commentaries provide local readers with varied perspectives on current events and public matters.
The National Association of Mutual Savings Banks reports deposits rose by 112 million dollars in the first half of 1935, totaling 9.87 billion. Depositors reached 13,896,605 as banks show confidence despite ongoing relief needs and high unemployment.
amid stormy sessions the House Ways and Means panel moves the tax-the-wealth plan toward full committee. Democrats defend high spending while Republicans resist, arguing it would burden the economy and force a swift path to new revenue as Roosevelt presses for funding. The debate centers on inheritance and personal income levies, gift taxes, and broader federal financing.
The excerpt lists countless pleasant and unpleasant life facets from physical pain to kindness, ignorance to eloquent words. It reflects on balance between joys and troubles shaping human perception and learning profitability in life.
The Detroit News notes rising pressure over new taxes, including heavy sales taxes on autos and tires, arguing for consent to defer the final disposition of the bill. The tax fight has just begun.
The article surveys insurgent Republicans Borah of Idaho Norris of Nebraska and Johnson of California. It details Borah's opposition to six major New Deal measures and Norris's filing record. It notes Langford support and 1934 election dynamics, including La Follette and Cutting, their votes on gold clause, tariff acts, and the Pate man bonus bill, with editorial notes.
A chaotic montage describes immigrant fruit vendors in New York city, showing Tony's ascent from dawn to late night street trading and varying fates of other colorful figures. It contrasts hardship with glamour, noting relentless work and shifting fortunes among diverse personalities.
A fragment recalls a masculine boarding house on West 57th Street and a lively 1890s New York scene. The piece notes exiles and authors who once stayed there, including Cobb and Lyon, as well as a photo man soliciting passersby near Murray Hill hotel, hinting at a brash era of tabloids and camera yards.
Leonard Paula, who set Western conference sprint records as a Grinnell undergraduate, is named assistant coach at Washington High. Also noted is Jimmy Valentine achieving his eighteenth win for the league-leading Bunnies with a 1-0 shutout of Waterloo. Plans for a new Coe women's field house are reportedly near completion this week. A flame projector is described as a new warfare innovation.
A clipping notes Poor Pa by Claude Callan. It mentions Elizbeths husband and a quirk of his. The piece also lists local social and campus activities including a Burlington talk, a weekend camping trip, and a hayrack party. It cites a narcotics usage estimate from the Public Health Service.
An Allied action update cites German assaults on British positions via London dispatches. At Cedar Lake today an Iowa Railway and Light Company power house electrician named Charles Bartacek saved an unidentified boy from drowning.
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