Time To Get Down To Cases on Cedar Rapids Schools
The Cedar Rapids school system faces crowded facilities as Superintendent Parker cites rising birth rates and enrollment. Projections show kindergarten growth and more pupils due to new families and annexations. A proposed expansion plan, possibly up to 10 million dollars over 20 years, is needed to meet future demand.
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Cedar Rapids
Parker
Board of Education
Packer
Dean Packer
Cedar Raunds
Ristine calls for reform of Iowa mental hospitals
Dr. L P Ristine, superintendent at Mount Pleasant, criticizes Iowa mental hospitals in Des Moines speech. He cites lack of proper care, personnel, and equipment, and says 30 percent of patients are left in a helpless state. He urges direct reporting to the legislature and a renewed rehabilitation and research program.
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L. P. Ristine
American Legion Auxiliary
Des Moines
Ristine
State Hospital
Mount Pleasant
Cherokee
Clarinda
Independence
Board of Control
Fred Cooper
Iowa Training School For
Iowa
Lyons Den Corusesndence Highlights From the Era
Leonard Lyons recounts vintage notes and letters from famous figures. Pershing’s aide Maj George C Marshall drafted a signed reply to Ferdinand Kuhn as a high school project. Kaufman notes tales of talent scouts courting waitresses. Churchill muses on Liberal decline. Eliot Ellison photographs Congo royalty with a 350-person entourage. Chandler and Selznick stir entertainment politics. Flynn discusses Democratic operations. Lie returns from Latin America as UN affairs unfold.
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Corgesegndence
Ferdinand Kuhn
Kuhn
Gen
Pershing
Maj
George C. Marshall
George S. Kaufman
Metro
Fox
Schrafft’s
Warner's
Childs
Kaufman
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Liberal Party
Churchill
Happy Chandler
O'Dwyer
David Q. Selznick
Viking Press
Ed Flynn
National Democratic Committee
Roosevelt
Flynn
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Digest Highlights From Metropolitan Newspapers
State department prepared daily digest with extracts from New York Times and other papers. Front pages note Gen Marshall’s appointment as secretary of state, plus editorials from Leesburg Lynchburg and Norfolk. Theater report covers Piscator group at New School for Social Research and a speech by Mrs Gromyko.
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State Department
N. Y. Times
N.Y. Post
The
Washington Post
Herald Tribune
Chicago Daily News
Detroit Free Press
Los Angeles News
Gen. Marshall
Leesburg
Lynchburg
Norfolk
Piscator Drama Group
New School For Social Research
Bogodin
White Sea Canal
Andrei Gromyko
Diary-minded officials and wit in a wartime jab
A columnist riffs on government figures like Morgenthau and Ickes keeping diaries while in service. The piece jokes about diary habits, spade a spade language, and suggests replying in kind by keeping diaries of critics. It frames diaries as a humorous weapon in political life.
Proletarian Minds Teach Our Children Says Sokolski
George E. Sokolski argues the teacher problem has two sides, low pay and eroding non monetary rewards. He warns teachers are increasingly seen as a tax burden and questions if the profession attracts capable, committed individuals.
Best Dressed Men on Screen Named Power and Menjou
Tyrone Power and Adolphe Menjou are voted the best dressed men on the screen. We take it that each of these gentlemen has a genuine white shirt.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tyrone Power
Adolphe Menjou
Marshall Starts Fast at State Department in Early Days
Secretary of State Marshall pushes reform agendas with undersecretary Acheson in charge, backs Braden on Argentina Nazi purge, focuses on civilian control, limits top staff, and seeks early talks with Stalin. He recalls U.S. troops in China, signals eight daily top officials, and plans new quarters near the White House as he presses for a lasting peace with Russia.
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Ashington
Gen. Marshall
State Department
Marshall
Dean Acheson
Joe Panuch
Panuch
Byrnes
Department
White House
John Dingell
Michigan
New York
War Department
Taber
Russia ignores US lend lease notes on ships to USSR
Marquis Childs reports the United States sent three polite notes to Moscow about ships received under lend lease. Russia reportedly ignored these communications. About 125 merchant ships were transferred, 26 returned, leaving around 95 still in operation under the Soviet flag, including 48 dry cargo ships with 36 Liberty ships.
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State Department
Moscow
Russia
United States
Marshall
Soviet Union
Ussr
Japan
Pacific
Vladivostok
Europe
Great Britain
Emory Land
United States War Shipping Administration
Lord Leathers
British Shipping Pool
Britain
Granville Conway
Land
War Shipping Administration
Truman
LST
Liberal Amendment Push Faces Court and Congress Clash
A liberal wave returns to America with proposals to limit presidential tenure to two terms and set 10 year term limits for federal justices, allowing the people to amend the Constitution. Rep. Lawrence H. Smith argues the plan curbs court packing and restores citizen oversight, contrasting with past attempts to enlarge the court.
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Ashington
America
Republican Congress
Congress
Lawrence
Senate
Roosevelt
Calcium lime uses and health notes from Dr Brady
Dr Brady explains calcium oxide production from limestone and its uses in plaster and cement. He lists calcium roles in bone, nerve, heart, and blood clotting, notes the need for vitamin D, and cautions on anemia and tuberculosis in teens.
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Belgian Congo
Kasal
Congo Forest
Nym Bone Mabinshe
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Goethe
Bernard Baruch
Baruch
Bugs” Baer
Diary
Morgenthau
Ickes
George Clark
Rza
George £. Sokolsky
Sorolsky
New York City
Drew Pearson
Washington
Novikov
Lord
Chiang Kai-shek
U. S
Stalin
Germany
Dardanelles
G.O.P
John Taber
Harold Knutson
Minnesota
Marquis Childs
By David Lawrence
Lawrence H. Smith
R-Wis
House
Supreme Court
Smith
Abraham Lincoln
Court
Nel
Joint Budget Compulttee
Knutson
Wm. Brady
Sherman
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