Loveless Moves Iowa Toward Reform with Careful Balance
Iowa's new Democratic Governor Loveless outlines a reform agenda in his inaugural address, seeking bipartisan support from a Republican legislature. He backs reapportionment to base one house on area and one on population, urges study of liquor control, and calls for education system improvement while avoiding radical breaks. The speech aims to advance reforms with gubernatorial backing and legislative cooperation.
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Iowa
Loveless
Teamsters leadership urged to face racketeering probes
Officials of the Teamsters assail senate committee authority over union graft claims while pointing to Taft Hartley act provisions. The dispute centers on annual financial disclosures and officer compensation as hearings loom and honest leaders demand fair treatment for labor at large.
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Teamsters Union
Senate
International Teamster
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Teamsters
Faith Healing Through Surgeon and Patient Tale
Norman Vincent Peale recounts a South veteran hospital encounter where a surgeon frames healing as a spiritual partnership. The doctor and patient, both devoted in faith, collaborate with God as the healing team, leading to a successful operation and a message of faith’s power.
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Bill
Cedar Rapids Guardsmen welcomed home in Cedar Rapids
A crowd in union station cheered the returning 200 Cedar Rapids guardsmen after six months on the Mexican border. They led a parade to the city auditorium for a program in their honor.
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Union Station
Cedar Rapids
City Auditorium
How Public Opinion Breaks Down by Occupation
A public opinion analyst explains the classification system used to segment society by occupation. Categories include professional and executive, small proprietor, white collar, personal service and protective, factory labor, nonfactory labor, and a notable final group the housewife.
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America
Modern potatoes evolve from plain tubers to processed products
The article notes a shift from rustic potatoes to uniform high grade bakers and pre peeled spuds. It highlights new forms such as flakes dehydrated spuds and snack items while reporting one sixth of consumption now comes from processed potatoes and Maine surveys favor baked potatoes.
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Grandma
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Maine Department of Agriculture
Sociologists View Segregation and Race Psychology
The article summarizes views of leading social psychologists on segregation and racial differences. It cites McGurk’s claim that Negroes as a group show less education capacity by tests, which 18 experts dispute, arguing differences stem from environment, not innate ability. It notes North and Klineberg findings against inherent racial superiority and Jahoda on social status and miscegenation, plus Williams’ field work on intergroup relations and Southern attitudes facing a crisis psychology.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Frank C. J. McGurk
Villanova University
Villanova
West Point
McGurk
American Psychological Association
Essense
U.S. Supreme Court
North
Otto Klineberg
Columbia University
Klineberg
Marie Jahoda
New York University
Dr. Jahoda
Jahoda
NYU
Research Center For Human Relations
Daniel Wilner
Rosabelle Price Walkley
Stuart W. Cook
New York City
Robin M. Williams
Cornell University
Hillsboro
N.C
Williams
Elmira
N.Y
Steubenville
Ohio
Bakersfield
Calif
Savannah
South
Prejudice Dwindles Williams Sees Race Contact Reducing Bias
Williams argues that increased interracial contact lowers prejudice. He says the South’s separate schools while seeking equality undermine progress and that higher education among Negroes reduces the push to segregate. He warns prejudice could spill over to other minorities if whipped up by leaders.
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Williams
South
Snow Shoveling Arrangements From Community Voices
Neighbor helps with heavy snow while others rely on family effort. A clothing seller notes timely help after work. a service-station manager cites a big January snow. a clerk describes shared duties at home. a foreman praises a teen helper. a railroad fireman and a plumber worker recount practical shoveling routines.
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Eugene Root
I Avenue
Mark E. Brown
Reynolds Avenue
Carlos Viall
Belle Plaine
Viall
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