Travelers Aid Helps Thousands in City Through Detours and Need
City Travelers Aid aids thousands of travelers including runaways foreigners and elderly, with Mrs. Alice Nye supervising a help desk at major stations. The program, supported by YWCA, logs cases, provides shelter and guidance, and urges communities to offer safe activities to deter long journeys and risky hitchhiking.
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Adeline Taylor
Travelers Aid
Milwaukee
Union
Interurban
Alice Nye
Portugal
Portugese
New York
Washington
National Association of Travelers Aid Societies
Johnson Praises Roosevelt as Campaign Speculation Grows
Senator Hiram Johnson of California issued a statement praising Franklin D. Roosevelt's conduct in accepting the Democratic nomination. The remarks sparked further speculation about Johnson's own presidential plans while he declined to discuss any campaign intentions.
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Washington
Hiram Johnson
California
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Johnson
Norris
Neb
Rooseve
Roosevelt
Hoover
Dreiser backs Foster in public Independence Day speech
Theodore Dreiser, famed author, announces support for William Z. Foster of the Communist movement. He says Republicans, Democrats, and Socialists share similar capitalistic aims, designed to concentrate wealth and power, while exploiting ignorance and fear. Dreiser will vote for Foster next November.
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Theodore Dreiser
Foster
New York
Communist Party
Dreiser
William Z. Foster
Knoxville Baptists Question Roosevelt On Prohibition Remark
A Bell Avenue Baptist Church group in Knoxville sends a telegram to Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt seeking clarification of his Chicago acceptance speech remark that the seventh amendment is doomed. Rev. W. B. Harvey, pastor, led the 1000-member congregation in sending the inquiry after their meeting last night.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Baptists
Bell Avenue
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chicago
W. B. Harvey
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Iowa
Nye
Marcia
Lane
Travelers Aid Post
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Sen. Johnson
Kryptok
H. G. Fussell
Credit
Okinow
Second Avenue
Florsheims and
Arch Preservers
Veiluadt
Armstrong
DIAL
Craemer’s
Pilicer Petroleum Co
First Avenue
Craemer's
Cedar Rapids
Normandy
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