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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1939
Page
4
The essay extols corn on the cob as summer’s peak delight, praising golden varieties and lavish butter while condemning those who spoil the ritual with knives or dainty feeding. It laments misers, barbarians, and restraint, branding them unworthy of midsummer feasting.
The Christian Science Monitor argues that birds outpace planes in maneuvering and wind instincts, noting birds possess preexisting features akin to aircraft includes flaps and retractable gear, can adjust wing area and incidence in flight, and ride tailwinds during migration.
The piece notes Mexican resentment as emigrants encounter higher U.S. living standards, return home discontent, and inspire unrest. It adds that such contrasts prompted immigration quotas and tariffs to protect American opportunities from inflows perceived as excessive.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that lands and goods produced under wage scales far lower than those in the United States threaten American fortifiers and suggests that those with an international mindset should weigh this reality. It argues that discontent abroad should not paint America as entirely flawed.
The Franco regime imposes a government famine era budget for every family, requires farms to report meals and expenditures, and designates the Falange as the sole party with closed rolls for five years except honored veterans. The Milwaukee Journal calls this fascism triumphant in Spain.
A rambling column blends cheeky letters and aphorisms on charm, sympathy, and self interest. It lampoons vanity and politics while offering a folksy paternal note from Dad urging interest in others to avoid bore and sorrow. It ends with a stray grammar correction prompt.
Walter Winchell on Broadway notes music credit debates. mentions Ravel and Strauss, and Meyers Davis. Also reports American Women’s Association on W 57th now accepts gents during the fair. Mentions Bobbie Sullivan’s ambitions, George Fox in Saratoga, and anger over boot black boy arrests tied to Henry Brainerd.
An excerpted column titled LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND presents a dialogue on media manipulation by dictators, a note on a nickname origin, and reflections from Albert Edward Wiggam about morality, policing, and social differences. The piece cites quotes about small towns, hick towns, and public attitudes toward authority.
The text notes that rice is an indispensable material in Japan. It describes beds woven from straw, horseshoes tied with rice straw, and rural houses thatched with rice straw.
Washington AP reports the agriculture department predicts higher livestock marketings for the rest of this year and early 1940. The bureau of agricultural economics cites larger hog and grain fed cattle outputs due to the big corn crop, ensuring more beef, pork, ham, and lamb for the public.
The bureau notes carryover corn from last year and drought in the northeast and western ranges will lift marketing. Hog cattle sheep and lambs will be marketed in larger numbers while hogs cattle sheep and other livestock on farms at year start likely rise. Prices paid to farmers for live stock fell recently with Chicago butcher hogs near 7.10 dollars per hundredweight and lambs dropping from 10.20 to 8.80, cattle prices also easing.
Atlantic City, N J AP Efforts by the AFL to resolve a union jurisdiction dispute among actors unions collapsed as President William Green announced negotiations would halt until the AFL national convention in Cincinnati. The Associated Actors and Artistes of America 4 A sought to force IATSE to revoke a charter and proposed reclaiming the AFL led by Sophie Tucker. Green called the latest mediation attempts final after 4 A representatives reportedly walked out, heading to New York as talks ended.
Keith Larson aged 24 of 209 Fifth Street SW was hit at 8:25 p.m. Friday on First Avenue near Fifth Street W. He suffered head lacerations and was treated at St. Luke's hospital by ambulance. Driver H. H. Delahooke, 26 of 1622 Hinkley Avenue NW, said Larson did not see the car. Larson recovered after treatment.
The piece argues that Roosevelt’s New Deal forced firms to align with or against government policy. Some white-listed manufacturers benefited from contracts and union ties, while two prominent rivals resisted and found success by expanding outside the regime. The article predicts eroding influence if current trends continue.
A speech about how history may judge President Roosevelt and the New Deal. The speaker argues that business leaders and the press know private options he weighed and that criticism from those quarters often influenced changes or drops of proposals. Critics and insiders shaped policy by alerting to potential effects.
A fragmented listing shows radio stations WGN KFJB WOC WHO WMT WSUI and others with scattered programs from 6 00 to 11 30 including Serenades News Sports Dinners Dances and orchestral performances. The garbled text references assorted hosts musicians and events such as Red Skelton Heidelberg and Williams orchestras with interspersed time slots and unspecified dates.
Municipal Judge C Edwin Moore in Des Moines dismissed charges against 93 of 108 people arrested in the Silver Dollar night club raid on August 6. He said the state failed to prove the defendants resided at a disorderly place or were present during the raid.
The poem reflects the speaker's personal identification with a home team. The narrator feels happiness with every victory and sadness with every loss, despite claiming no real change in life beyond the team’s fortunes. The sense of unity with players persists across seasons.
When the $19,600 agency suit against Richard Arlen was called for trial Friday it was dropped. The contract allegedly based on a five year agreement Arlen entered into with Sam Jaffe Inc remains part of Hollywood litigation context.
Purple martins migrate to Brazil for winter then return to northern habitats on a nearly identical date annually, signaling a stable pattern in their seasonal movement.
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