President Roosevelts bid stalls on Roberts appointment
The Roberts judicial nomination fails 72 to 9 as senators Glass and Byrd oppose. The piece argues the move was a White House retaliation against Virginia senators and questions the President's judgment amid strained New Deal goals and senate courtesy.
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Senate
Roberts
WPA Q
Roosevelt
Senator Glass
Glass
Byrd
Virginia
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Why so many people don't understand the farm problem
An urban reader struggles to grasp land size and shapes. The article explains converting acres to square feet and estimating tract dimensions, noting difficulty recalling how to extract square roots from memory and suggesting reference works for math basics.
Enigmatic tract sizes spark an arithmetic detour
A city reader debates land area using encyclopedias and algebra, tracing roots via the Binomial Theorem and logarithms. He estimates an acre count, calculating that twenty acres could stretch to 300 by 3,000 feet, a block ten by three hundred, revealing irregular parcel shapes.
Diet lessons by feeding rats in Utah school
In Bountiful Utah schoolchildren fed state college supplied rats meals from lunches to study diet effects. One rat with meat vegetables and coffee but no milk died along with others on sweets or low calories, prompting debate on animal testing versus schooling. The piece also pokes fun at Goebbels prize for jokes and questions wartime aviation trends and Sino-Japanese war updates.
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Bountiful
Utah
State Agricultural College
Associated Press
Park Hill
Hollywood
Quotes on politics and society from public figures
A compilation of remarks from Dr Thaddeus Bolton, David Gibson, Colonel Batista, Nathan Straus, Tony Galento, Benaj min Gaylord Hauser, Dorothy Lamour, Dr W Y Elliott, Hugo E Varga, Tom Amie, Mrs Oswald Firow, Hjalmer Schacht, Assemblyman Reaux, and Governor Bricker. The quotes touch on primitivism, mortality, independence, home, fighting, garlic, Hollywood, misrule, captivity, European progress, Africa, the New Plan, 1933 banking policy, and national focus.
Iowa Highlights on National Defense Bill and Public Works
Washington reports on the emergency national defense bill with Republican support and a three year plane procurement plan. It notes Iowa figures in public works lists, Linn County totals, and Senator Clyde Herring’s wage hour bill for small telephone exchanges.
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Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Iowa
Public Works Administration
Senate
James Mead
New York
PWA
Jacobsen
Howard A. Gray
Congress
Marion
Lisbon
Coggon
Jones County
Scott
Dubuque
Jackson
Clinton
Clyde Herring
Herring
Temperature plunges to 24 below zero and city notes
Mercury drops to 24 below zero on Feb 9 as a cold wave sweeps the Aw region. Lack of steam heat in Greene's opera house led to the cancellation of Mistakes Will Happen on Feb 8. Postmaster-elect W R Boyd appoints Fred H Cornish as deputy postmaster. Thermometer ordinance proposed to require standard weather registers in public places. Dr E A Kegley elected president of the Western Poultry Fanciers association. Social club formed by city stenographers with G Healey as president and Miss L Blanche Groves as secretary. Emil Kostomlatsky attends national league assembly in Providence R I. Mrs W R Ashford injured in a mixed-train wreck near Estherville Feb 9. Jubilee at Unitarian church Feb 5 wipes out debt via Mrs Mary L Pingrey gift. room named in her honor. Local markets listed. Bert Major killed in a head-on freight collision at Ely Feb 12. engineer filthy minor injuries.
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Opera House
Grand old houses in New York area face demolition and decline
The writer recalls vacant mansions in the New York suburbs, banks owning them after 1933 foreclosures, high taxes and maintenance, and a push by realty men and banks to tear down unrentable estates. He cites the Paterno castle wrecking and notes timbers in family farms outlasting neglect.
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California
New York
Frank
Becks
WPA
Paterno Castle
Hudson
Dr. Paterno
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L. Blanche Groves
Wheelmen's Convention
Emil Kostomlatsky
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Universalist Church
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C. D. van Vechten
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Ely
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