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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
10
Biographical sketch of Thomas E. Dewey tracing his upbringing in a midwestern family, his early printer’s work, and the path from spare-time jobs to public service. The piece notes family ties to early American figures and political circles, with emphasis on Dewey’s modest middle-class origins and early intellect.
An account of Dewey's early life tracing his high school interests in football music and public speaking to his Michigan studies in political science and singing. It covers his 1923 move to New York to pursue music while studying law at Columbia, marriage to Frances Hutt, rapid law progress, and his rise to chief assistant under U.S. Attorney George Medalie, culminating in a private practice and a Pawling farm home with two sons.
The MGM comedy Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble stars Mickey Rooney and Bonita Granville with the Wilde Twins and Fay Holden. Rooney’s Andy returns to college facing scrapes with two Wilde sisters and Bonita, as the dean and a Chinese doctor appear in a lightly plotted caper.
The Gazette presents Friday showtimes from Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times and Marion. Films include Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble The Mask of Dimitrios Havoc Knickerbocker Holiday Around the World Henry Aldrick Haunts a House Riders of Red Gap Chetniks Happy Land Get Going Chip Off the Old Block and The Whistler with multiple daily start times.
A silent film summary notes Cry Havoc centers on women under fire in the Philippines with Sullavan Sothern Blondell Hunt and others as nurses aides at a base hospital near Manila in 1942. One male lieutenant dominates the plot until his death in a raid. Knickerbocker Holiday is reviewed as an imitation of Gilbert and Sullivan with Nelson Eddy and Charles Coburn unable to lift the material despite witty numbers and colorful Dutch New York setting.
ST. LOUIS AP Chester Lake a Rural Electrification Administration official said he is feeling better all the time and will continue a fast until REA is removed from political domination. The 51-year-old field representative, whose $5,800 a year job was abolished, declared he must have been eating too much before. He weighs about 200 pounds and his appearance was rugged. He began the fast Thursday.
The speaker, after a Wednesday noon civic club luncheon address, returned to his desk Thursday and intends to continue work until the assignment ends Saturday, after which he will rest.
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