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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1933
Page
11
A concise quote from economist Ulysses K. Lake asserts that any loss is temporary and sentiment will rebound once market confidence is back, highlighting a belief in resilience through restored trust and stability in financial systems.
Washington reports President Roosevelt firm on debt payments and Congress adjournment. Prime Minister MacDonald sparred with debt relief talk at the London conference, while Roosevelt warns against concessions and pushes for a clear tariff and policy plan to force European debtors to act. The piece notes a push for a decisive stance to end stagnation and avoid wholesale default, with emphasis on concrete consequences and national economic independence.
The mayor and Cedar Rapids officials press a ready to spend plan for a comprehensive public works program to attract federal money. They warn taxpayers must provide their share and urge immediate, well planned projects to secure Cedar Rapids’ full dole while noting past indifference and mockingly referencing China wheat loans and Sino Japanese war.
Col Louis McHenry Howe, a Roosevelt aide, sparked criticism during Sunday evening broadcasts by asserting that senators were anxious, provoking a sharp public reaction and signaling friction over how the New Deal is being explained to the public.
Critics and supporters clash over President Roosevelt era radio appeals and veteran benefits while senators condemn claims by Colonel Howe and a separate note on public debt risks. The piece also mentions Vandenburg Fess and Mussolini urging focus on larger human problems and tariff talks.
A 1933 column laments Americans meddling in others affairs as a Puritan legacy. It argues true liberty means voluntary restraints only and mocks racketeering, political graft, and social control, urging indifference to private matters and reflecting on moral, political, and economic hypocrisy across society.
Manhattan celebrities cling to fixed dress standards in a survey of taste. Fannie Hurst Julia Hoyt and Dorothy Hall are noted for signature outfits while Peggy Fears and Claire Booth Brokaw display distinctive hair and accessories. Elizabeth Young’s dramatic comeback story follows a Montana auto crash and a rise in Hollywood. An observant reporter recalls park bench readers and a subway book survey alongside vivid portraits of Katharine Cornell Hepburn and other luminaries.
Editor William Wirt Mills notes how papers in town echo Gaynor Epictetus quotes as municipal affairs twist. The piece quotes Noel Coward remarks about an Englishman and an American reaction, with tongue in cheek on press satire. From an Oregon weekly, McIntyre’s Portland picture provokes ambiguous speculation. Verne Porter is credited with a basement sale umbrella joke.
Mrs William McClenahan returns from Chicago where she visited daughter Margaret who graduated from the University of Chicago Miss Esther Louise Whitfield graduates from the University of Iowa and leaves for Flagstaff Arizona to teach Spanish and French Mrs E Holmgren hosts farewell for daughter Mrs F S Kearney and husband departing for Memphis to live Charlies E Byrnes city treasurer re elected state secretary of the Catholic Order of Foresters at Waterloo F A Canfield of Cedar Rapids elected secretary-treasurer of the Iowa Federation of Labor at Des Moines Ed Webel returns from three weeks trip through Tennessee Arkansas and Missouri Richard Ryan resigns his position in the post office building.
A man has gone to Des Moines to take a business course. The report notes local residents and upcoming lectures by University of Iowa professor B Shimek in New York, Baltimore and Cleveland.
A native crew member named Tumia fended off a fourteen-foot shark during a reef encounter off Barrow Point, about 100 miles north of Cooktown, Australia. Companions in a nearby boat pulled him aboard after the struggle as the cutter’s crew fished trochus.
Two natives in a dinghy dove for shell. Tumia submerged to several fathoms and was bitten by a shark as he neared the surface. Gobi struck the shark with a spear, the fish let go, then attacked again. Tumia was brought to Cooktown hospital after a two day trip.
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