Dewey charges Roosevelt with nine billion dollar error
New York AP report says District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey contends Roosevelt overstated debt reductions and claims the total debt increased by about 9 billion dollars from 1932 to 1939. He cites official figures showing state and local debts fell while federal debt surged.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Dewey
Division of
Agricultural-Industrial Relations
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Influenced By Isms Cults From Mary Manners
Elen is impressed by new isms and cult lingo while living a sheltered life. She may face disillusionment as she learns many promoters are fake. Dear Miss Manners: a steady boy abandons her for another girl. Answer: ask what is wrong to avoid losing a long friendship.
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Elen
Helen
Miss Manners
Diz
Why Was I Left Out Of A School Party
A reader wonders why peers excluded them from a large school party. The answer says the oversight was likely unintentional as parties grow larger and many are overlooked. Suggest staying calm and friendly, acting natural, and assuming no slight was meant when you see the group.
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Miss Manners
Vanderbilt Estate Sought By Cultist Reverts To Government
President Roosevelt announced that the 250 acre Vanderbilt estate at Newport was to be turned over to the government this spring. The property was sought by Father Divine for a heaven and was negotiated last August by the Negro cult leader. Mrs. James Van Alen of Newport is the owner transferring the property.
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JE Park
N. Y
Ick W. Vanderbilt
Father Divine
President Roosevelt
Washington
Roosevelt
James van Alen
Newport
Father and Daughter Recover After Twin Surgeries
Clement Bevins and his daughter Eileen 11 were brought to Mercy hospital near Van Horne for an appendectomy. After Eileen's operation the same surgeon diagnosed Pete's appendix and performed a second surgery in the same room an hour later. Eileen expects to leave first.
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Clement
Pete" Bevins
van Horne
Eileen
Mercy Hospital
Mr. Bevins
Pete
Pattern 4386 Available in Standard Women Sizes
Pattern 4386 comes in women's sizes 34 to 50. Size 36 uses 312 yards of ruffling. Send Fifteen Cents to Pattern Department Cedar Rapids Gazette 243 West Seventeenth Street New York NY. Additional Ten Cents adds the latest Pattern Book.
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Pattern Department
Cedar Rapids Gazette
West Seventeenth Street
New York
N. Y
Largest GM shareholder creates family trust with stock
Charles Stewart Mott, vice-president and GM’s largest single stockholder, transferred shares worth over 5 million dollars to a trust for his wife and two children. A securities commission report on Tuesday highlighted the gift as among the era’s largest. He stillowned stock valued at over 23 million dollars.
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Washington
Charles Stewart Mott
General Motors Corporation
Securities Commission
Motors
Former common law wife delays but cannot stop Lewisohn wedding
In Baltimore a last minute intervention by Thelma Bowman Spear threatened bigamy charges against novelist Ludwig Lewisohn. The delay lasted four hours as legal counsel debated Maryland common law recognition. The couple ultimately wed Edna Manley after a renewed agreement to proceed.
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Baltimore
Ludwig Lewisohn
Edna Manley
Rochester
N. Y
Thelma Bowman Spear
Jimmy
Miss Spear
Burlington
Edward Israel
Har Sinai
Miss Manley
Agape
Reno
Turkey
Bernard Sandler
New York
Maryland
Sandler
Man Injured After Falling Into Ice Hole on Street Corner
E. B. Sanford, 65, of 516 Fifteenth Street SE, fell into a two foot ice hole at Seventh Avenue and Fifteenth Street SE after alighting from a bus near midnight. He suffered a left kneecap injury and was taken by ambulance to Mercy Hospital in fairly good condition. Dick Staves reported the incident to the city street department and ambulance services.
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Fifteenth Street SE
E. B. Sanford
Mr. Sanford
Dick Staves
Fourteenth Street
Mercy Hospital
Officers Reelected By Czech Natl Alliance Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids chapter of the Czech National Alliance reelected all officers at the annual meeting held Monday at the Z C B J hall. John V Rompotl was named president and Frank Kanak treasurer among others. Election of the district council followed.
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Cedar Rapids
Czech National Alliance
Z. C. B. J. Hall
John V. Rompotl
A. L. Killian
T. B. Hlubucek
Thomas Suchomel
M. L. Hromadka
Henry Schor
Frank Kanak
Russia's Heavy Aircraft Labeled Obsolete by Ministry
London reports an air ministry communique stating nearly 2000 Russia heavy bomber and reconnaissance planes are obsolete and 1000 fighters limited to low performance. The Finland raids informed experts that Soviet air forces are weaker than other European powers and unlikely to sustain initial efforts long.
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London
Air Ministry
Russia
Finland
Rusia
Great Britain
Browder Runs Poor Third For Congress Edelstein Is Elected
In New York 14th district special election winner is M Michael Edelstein, a Tammany Democrat backed by Roosevelt. Louis Lefkowitz, a Republican, placed second. Earl Browder, jailed former communist leader, finished third and could not vote. Meantime Lefkowitz was denied ballot due to non-resident status.
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Earl Browder
Congress
M. Michael Edelstein
Roosevelt
Louis Lefkowitz
Thomas E. Dewey
Edelstein
Lefkowitz
Browder
William I. Sirovich
American Communist Party
Yonkers
N. Y
John J. Bennett, Jr
How Family of 5 Can Eat Well On 12 A Week
The menus for a family of five two adults and three children outline daily meals costing about $12 weekly. Each day’s plan aims to balance calories protein minerals and vitamins to sustain energy and tissue health.
Food List And Evening Radio Schedule Fragments
A long mixed list covers recipes quantities for stewed raisins lentil soup watercress sandwiches ambrosia and various meals with notes on milk coffee and beef dishes. The text also jumbles in a dense stream of radio programming across many stations with show names times and artists.
Conscience to Ease Dana’s Wife Clothes Burden
It quotes a speaker describing Dan buying his wife fine clothes to ease his conscience and Ma’s wish that her own conscience could be eased. The line hints at underlying guilt and social expectations within a family context.
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Dan
Bazaar Plans Delayed to March by Czech Women Group
Fine reports were presented by the Bees ladies' auxiliary of the Czech National Alliance regarding preparations for the national bazaar set for November, with the event now postponed until March.
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Vcelky
Bees) Ladies’ Auxiliary
Czech National Alliance
Cab Driver Wins Baby On First Ride For Wife
Pittsburgh AP report: veteran cabbie Herb Flanigan who has rushed women to hospitals for 12 years finally gets a baby girl on his first trip with his own wife. The delivery occurred at home after a drive to the hospital was no longer needed.
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Pittsburgh
Herb Flanigan
Fearless Clerk Deters Robber With One Word
In Chicago a 19-year-old dry cleaner clerk, Elizabeth Hubert, confronted a robber who demanded cash. She coolly said Listen, lady, causing the thief to flee without violence. The incident occurred Tuesday night and no one was harmed.
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Chicago
Elizabeth Hubert
Phooey
Elizabeth
Youth Confesses Slaying Employer's Husband in Bellefontaine
An 18 year old employee, Donald Slater, confessed to killing Fred Jenkins 56 with a hammer as he slept at the Jenkins home. Slater said he moved the body to a distant gully where it was found after the slaying at the Bellevue restaurant owner's residence. Prosecutor J Ewing Smith said Mrs Jenkins and her two children aged 18 and 14 will be questioned.
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Bellefontaine, O
J. Ewing Smith
Donald Slater
Fred Jenkins
Smith
Slater
Additio
Ends Her Own Life On Eve Of Marriage
Funeral services were held for Ferne Ellen Gray, 19, at Crosby, Minnesota, after she shot herself with a 32 caliber bullet wound to the skull. She died in a hospital two hours later, shortly after her fiancé applied for a marriage license.
Captain Billy Fawcett Dies in Hollywood
Cap Wilfred Hamilton Fawcett a wealthy publisher of motion picture romance and technical Angst magazines dies of a heart attack in Hollywood. He was associated with Billy's Whiz Bang and other publications.
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Hollywood
INS
Wilfred Hamilton Fawcett
Iain Billy
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