Mother Studies Law Thompson photo and family ambitions
Mrs. Davis, a seamstress in Chicago, studied law and says education benefits social status. She Details varied skills from sewing to baking and nursing supply work, and notes two years as a linotype operator for the Omaha Guide. Since 1925 she has lived in Cedar Rapids with daughters Shirley Ann Catherine Dorothy and Opal, aiming for good education.
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Chicago
YWCA
Industial
Omaha
Council Bluffs
Shirley Ann
Catherine
Dorothy
Opal
Wheeler Opposes Court Expansion Proposal
The report details U S Senator Wheeler denouncing the proposed expansion of the Supreme Court as a dangerous stopgap and a step toward a dictatorship. He argues Congress can regulate labor and interstate commerce and notes objections from other officials and potential compromises.
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Supreme Court
United States
Congress of the
Wheeler
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Union strategy and steel clash marked in US labor scene
Victor Reuther hailed martial rule in an Ohio town as a union victory while criticizing police actions. In Detroit John L. Lewis emerged from illness to outline CIO plans to press steel and coal giants for union recognition and to target U S Steel amid AFL leadership tensions.
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Detroit
John L. Lewis
Generalissimo
General Motors
Committee On
America
Lewis
CIO
William Green
American Federation of Labor
U. S. Steel Corporation
Rioting Flint Union Seekers Returned by State Police
Forty seven auto loads of Flint Michigan union men and sympathizers were escorted by Indiana state police toward the Michigan line after rioting at two General Motors plants in Anderson. Rain and sleet drenched the group as officers arrested and released them at the state line.
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Anderson
Ind
Flint
Mich
General Motors
Michigan Line
Shank Leaves Omaha Hospital Believed Blinded For Life
Rudolph E. Shank a 45 year old railway mail clerk from Cedar Rapids Iowa left the Omaha hospital Saturday night after partial recovery from a bullet wound to the head doctors said the wound severed both optic nerves leaving him permanently blind. He told police he fired the shot in a hotel room on February 2 in an attempt to end his despondency over ill health.
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Omaha
Rudolph E. Shank
Seventeenth Street
Cedar Rapids
Shank
Empire oil workers settle 44 day sit down strike
In Seminole Oklahoma 140 workers at eight Empire gasoline plants ended a 44 day sit down strike. The company granted an average wage increase of ten percent.
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Seminole, Okla
Empire Company
Linn County Bar Association Opposes Court Packing Plan
The Linn County Bar Association adopts a resolution urging Congress to preserve an independent judiciary and oppose packing the Supreme Court. The document, introduced by Elmer A Johnson, condemns political influence on the court and calls for copies to representatives and senators.
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Congress
Linn County
Supreme Court
America
Supreme Court of the United States
Stewart Holmes
Abe W. Bass
Elmer A. Johnson
Don Barnes
Iowa State Bar Association
Legisla
Tive
Supreme Court of Iowa
Linn County Bar Association
Committee On Integration
Roy B. McConlogue
G. K. Thompson
W. W. Crissman
George R
Record wine boom boosts Sandusky vintners sales
Sandusky reports a revival of wine drinking and greater appreciation for fine wines driving record sales as vintners see stronger business across the region.
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Sandusky, O
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