Fire safety and recalls in Cedar Rapids and state politics
Cedar Rapids nursing homes meet many fire safety standards but risks remain with old frame buildings and bedridden patients. Sprinkler systems are urged amid cost and broader health concerns. The Recall Bill debate shows politics overshadowing residents’ rights to recall city officials in commission-governed cities.
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Cedar Rapids
Fire Department
Jacob Grimstead
Fort Dodge
Burlington
Keokuk
Des Moines
Senate
Polk County
Too Much Expert Help Says Edith Roosevelt Essay
A column by Edith Kermit Roosevelt argues that reliance on experts across life from home decor to child rearing undermines common sense. It cites sociology, editors, Kennan, and Dr. Spock to claim many so called expert pronouncements are contradictory, and urges basing decisions on instinct and independent thought.
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Harvard
Pitirim A. Sorokin
Fortune Magazine
George Kennan
Europe
Alexander Holtzoff
House Committee On UN
Benjamin Spock
Veterans magnetizes support for WWII veteran bonus
At Post 788 VFW meeting Frank Miles editor of the Iowa Veteran magazine urged a state bonus for WWII veterans noting civilians received benefits while many veterans now earn more than ever. Kenneth Lindsay of Cedar Rapids was elected first vice president of the American Road Builders Association’s manufacturers division in Chicago. The Gazette Company won FCC approval for 10,000 watt FM operation.
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Post 788
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Frank Miles
Iowa Veteran Magazine
United States
Kenneth Lindsay
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Cedar Rapids
American Road Builders Association
Manufacturers’ Division
Chicago
The
Gazette Company
Federal Communications Commission
Don't Bet on U S Reds Going Titoist
Washington columnist Roscoe Drummond analyzes moves toward Titoism among American Communists. He notes shifts in Poland Hungary and Western Europe, questions the sincerity of a New York convention resolution, and argues Moscow still dominates the U S Communist Party through reliance on Soviet dictates.
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Roscoe Drummond
U.S
Washington
Communist Party
United States
Moscow
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Tito
New York
Moscow Party
Subversive Activities Control Board
Russia
Finland
Hitler
Stalin
Robert S. Bird
New York Herald Tribune
Siberian cities resemble early American company towns
In Kemerovo the mining district shows a single restaurant and a House of Culture run like a company town. Miners insist they are working class while observing a strict regime of recreation, virtue, and discipline, as the author notes pride in craft and class identity.
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Kemerovo
Joseph Alsop
House of Culture
Kemerovo Coal Trust
Miners
Comsomol
Soviet Union
Nho
Quick Change Artist
A drunk unsuccessfully attempted a revolving door and leaned on a lamp post. A passerby walked through as a pretty girl emerged from the other side. The drunk eyed her and quipped that he did not understand what the man did with his clothes.
Wage War Wounds Industry
The piece argues rising labor costs erode profits across sectors in 1956. It cites U.S. Steel, Monsanto, Burlington, and Radio Corp of America showing higher expenses and lower after tax profits, with wage gains and higher materials costs squeezing publishers and manufacturers. It calls for disclosure and action to reverse the trend.
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Washington
U.S. Steel Corporation
Monsanto Chemical Company
Radio Corporation of America
Congress
How to Quit Smoking A Reader Suggests Ideas
Dr. Joseph Mother discusses quitting smoking for a large readership. He covers willpower, not inhaling vs puffing, pills that alter taste, and a physician’s observation that deep breathing can curb urges, noting mixed results but some success with the breathing technique.
Bugs Baer Probes Saud Family Oil Wealth Ties
A sharp cryptic piece questions King Saud Ibn and Ibn Saud's dealings with American oil interests. It suggests Saudi leadership benefited from American oil ventures, noting large sums and long-running ties as the Van Sands accumulate vast migwackies of wealth over twenty years.
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Ibn Saud
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Hahn
Board of Health
CCC
Maqnoketa
Maanoketa
Allied Industrial League
Don Russell
Representative de Molay
Masonic Hall
YMCA
Harold Horan
R. H. Pickford
Robert Buchanan
Forrest Russell
Tom Rhodes
George Laird
Frank Smith
Ralph Yuill
A. C. Sinclair
John P. Gallagher
Canopus
Drummond
Marx
Engels
Lenin
Siberian
Wall Street Journal
David Lawrence
Lawrence
Dr. Joseph
Bugs” Baer
Saud Ibn
George Clark
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