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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1933
Page
11
A brief quotation attributed to James Branch Cabell asserts prose as a uniquely challenging art for Americans, highlighting literary ambition and national identity in a concise line.
The 25 percent state tax reduction proposal threatens Cedar Rapids finances. It would force next year's operating levy down to about 30 mills based on a 20 percent reduced valuation, challenging bonds and city services with a projected shortfall around 160000 after current budgets.
President Roosevelt orders a temporary suspension of gold exports under the Trading With the Enemy act, citing wartime emergency powers. The move follows massive withdrawals from the Federal Reserve as fears of domestic hoarding and overseas transfers rise, mirroring earlier actions in 1919 and 1931. The banking holiday accompanies the embargo to stabilize the dollar and curb financial uncertainty.
A mosaic of opinion pieces on banking, wartime policy, and social attitudes from 1933. It argues confidence in banks depends on depositors, critiques schemes to guarantee deposits, reflects on America’s postwar stance, and comments on education, diplomacy, and public debt with satirical asides.
The article notes a serious situation Saturday with gold leaving the country until U.S. banking stability could be achieved. It claims President Roosevelt acted decisively, fulfilling his pledge to take strong measures to address national problems rather than deliver rhetoric.
The piece argues editorials stall on rapid changing events like nationwide bank holidays. It notes editors seek lasting topics such as the disarmament conference or war in China to avoid chasing volatile headlines.
A jumble of stage notes and social vignettes describes Weber and Fields on a troubled Musical Hall season, Rupert Hughes thwarted by a hotel window, Noel Coward and Broadway personalities, Bruce Reynolds and a Bowery berth, and a quirky jet-set of journalists and a dining-on-trains anecdote, reflecting evolving taste and theatrical history.
The writer notes stuffed picklegherkins on trains impaled on toothpicks and ham with a diner fried tang. A yellow ice cream aboard train is praised as good as a Ritz dessert. A news item mentions nightly soft blows on a doorstep. The excerpt ends with a quip about an old she wolf leaving kittens.
The article recalls events from March 7, 1923 including Dr G E Crawford opening a medical session in Chattanooga Tennessee and plans by Col W G Dows and Isaac B Smith to lease Wyoming land for a vast gas well. It notes Miss Jennie M Pinckney wed Frank Waters, Cedar Rapids figures at Wilson inauguration, and city council actions to aid Quaker Oats with a 5000 dollar sale price and 800000 dollar improvements. Public entertainments and travels of Mrs Grace Kratz and Mr Mrs James H York are listed along with various social gestures.
At last evening's council session the old market ordinance was amended after Judge Preston struck it down. The new market will be built on North First street at the former Hubbard ice house site on property owned by North Western railway.
A poem about the white cane as a symbol of blindness and kindness. It urges readers to be thoughtful and helpful to those who are visually impaired as they move through life.
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