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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1932
Page
6
An editorial argues for a centralized Iowa state police to manage farm holiday picketing. It says reliance on sheriffs risks broader conflict, costly missteps, and state-wide harm, urging a statewide view to prevent militia involvement and protect residents.
After Iowa backs immediate cash payment for veterans, Hanford Mac Nider reports the national Legion likely to follow at its Portland Oregon convention. The Gazette notes 28 states with 364 of 1415 votes already support immediate payment, including New York's 92 votes, signaling strong national momentum.
The article notes Atlee Pomerene defending the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for its $1.32 billion in loans to 5,483 institutions, 70 percent of which went to towns with populations under 5,000. It argues critics misstate facts and cites Minnesota’s Martin County bank as an example of access to relief funds.
Dr. Charles B. Davenport, president of the Third International Congress of Eugenics, argues that without widespread eugenic reforms in the next century, Western civilization faces slow decay seen in ancient civilizations.
A civic tract argues that Allied wartime loans shifted burden to U S citizens through bonds and taxes. It claims Germany and European buyers funded payments via American banks and questions debt cancellation shifting purchasing power to foreigners, ending with a moral about insurance and repayment.
The diary recounts a day of errands in New York starting with a visit to John Ringling of the circus, a money exchange with George Rockwell, a sunny pause in Central Park, and a luncheon at Pierre Cartier's for writer Pierre Lyautry. It notes social encounters with Edith Harriman and Genevieve Cooper, a cinema outing, and reading a sensational tale. The narrator reflects on modern folly and compares politics to a rigid old order.
A collage of wry quips about politics and society. The piece riffs on pensions for veterans widows, national security, and honesty in crime, then shifts to a vivid classroom scene with a dusty brownstone and a memory of Peter ribald cartoons, ending with a tale of beer yeast aromas from old kegs.
The piece paints a hazy 1932 scene with saloon aromas, Cincinnati packets, and a young audience curious about hidden bankers, plus quirky notes on entertainment figures like Max Gordon, Mayor Walker, Sam Marx, and Polly Moran. It captures nightlife imagery and celebrity odds in a nostalgic, magazine style.
Dr John B Carnett argues most right lower quadrant pain labeled chronic appendicitis is abdominal wall neuralgia. non operative relief is preferred. He warns many acute appendicitis cases are neuralgic and should not rush to surgery. He cautions against intercostal neuralgia mimicking gall bladder and colitis, urging broad medical training over single pathies.
The article notes that at the 1931 Detroit convention a majority of delegates likely favored cash bonuses for veterans but were talked out by leaders and President Hoover who traveled there to urge patriotism. It predicts little chance such outreach would work now and suggests opposition from non veterans and dissenting veterans will block bonus legislation in the next Congress.
A reader asks if hot water alone cleans without soap and about hereditary syphilis risk in a son married to a young woman. Dr Brady notes soap eases cleaning and hot water alone is weaker. He explains hereditary syphilis is not inevitable but can manifest in infancy. if no signs by age one the child may be free of infection.
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