Cedar Rapids Voters Urged to Support School Board
The editorial asks Cedar Rapids residents to vote in the annual school election, stressing the high stakes of managing 10,000 students and over a million dollars in annual spending. It notes two incumbents up for reelection, Mrs. Charles T. Hickok and Harold R. Trewin, and mentions candidate William McCall, urging turnout to preserve quality public service.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles T. Hickok
Harold R. Trewin
William McCall
Liublbert
Portland
Ore
Hurlbert
Benchley, Woollcott
Secret plan to buy and stockpile strategic war materials
A Washington INS dispatch reports the house committee on military affairs approved a plan to negotiate with foreign governments to acquire strategic war materials in advance. The piece notes potential financing by war debts credits, barter of cotton and wheat, or using government gold hoards, with doubts about European willingness to engage.
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House Committee On
INS
Washington
United States
Congress
Kentucky
Call to Buy Gold and Strategic Metals for Long Term Defense
The piece argues that securing gold and essential metals like tin manganese and rubber is vital for economic stability and potential war preparedness. It contends the United States may need to purchase these at above market prices to ensure readiness, a move seen as more sensible than funding immediate aircraft and ships production. The article urges Congress to adopt this national defense step.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Congress
Martin
Military Committee
Franco consolidates power as Spain's future axis ally
As Franco strengthens control after the Madrid government collapse, Spain's new regime merges monarchist and fascist factions into a single party, aligning with the Berlin Rome axis. Analysts note rivalry within the coalition and hints of potential monarchy restoration, while foreign powers eye nationalist stability.
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Franco
Madrid
Junta of National Defense
Mola
Requetes
Church
Phalangists
France
Great Britain
Spain
Germany
Italy
Berlin
Quotes from leaders on knowledge, media, and liberty
A collection of statements from public figures including Hoover Russell Forrest Wells Compton Kettering Shotwell Goering Ostermann Downey and Senator Brown. The excerpts touch on religion education media responsibility and the balance of government and individual rights.
Iowa Republicans split on Roosevelt reorganization bill
Iowa delegation in Washington largely opposed President Roosevelt's government reorganization plan, with Rep. Thomas E. Martin and Rep. Henry O. Talle voicing doubts about centralizing power. Rep. W. S. Jacobsen supported the measure, arguing bureaus require Congress action and that reforms may curb bureaucratic pressure.
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Pyrsington
Iowa
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
House
Thomas E. Martin
Iowa City
Henry O. Talle
Decorah
Martin
Congress
Senate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Talle
Rep. W. S Jacobsen
Clinton
Act of Congress
Community groups form and officers named in Cedar Rapids
Hart er Signers of Ben De Mer temple No 12 elect officers at a March 7 meeting in J. F. Ball's office. Cedar Rapids baseball club picks W. G. Haskell as president with Barton vice president and Plumb secretary. Sin clair Literary Society graduates listed. Local clubs name officers and sign changes noted. Markets report wheat corn oats hay hens eggs hogs steers prices.
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Harter
Ben de Mer
the Knights of
W. G. Haskell
Cedar Rapids
Cayenne pepper and coffee notes from San Francisco maverick John McKee
New York Day by Day recalls meeting John D. McKee, San Francisco financier and spice connoisseur, who travels with a Cayenne shaker and a taste for red kidney beans cooked slowly with pork. The piece also profiles blind musician Glenn Hurlbert, his daily studio routine, and McKee’s private Hawaii coffee venture.
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Yohn D. McKee
West Coast
San Francisco
American Trust Company
John McKee
J. R. Hayden
Santa Fe Railway
McKee
FYROM
Hayden
W. K. Etter
The
Santa Fe
Hawaii
NBC
Glenn Hurlbert
Hurlbert
The Stone and the Rose in Pain and Growth
A meditation compares the stone under the chisel and the rose pruned in June to human growth. It suggests pain as a catalyst for art and character, linking early cries to adulthood. The poem speaks of cyclic shaping by fate and the bearing of responsibility as life deepens.
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Rome-Berlin Axis
Popular Action
Gil Robles
Alfonso
Phalanx
Hoover
Presbyterian Sesquicentennial Fund
Lord Bertrand Russell
Wilbur S. Forrest
New York Herald- Tribune
H. G. Wells
Arthur H. Compton
Charles F. Kettering
General Motors
James T. Shotwell
Columbia University
Hermann Goering
Joseph D. Ostermann
Committee For Catholic Refugees From
Walter F. Downey
Massachusetts
Brown
Michigan
ED Hadley
Gazette
Albany
Tallies
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Potomac River
Fort Tess Monroe
Chesapeake Bay
Army
Chile
LD Hadley
James J. Hruska
Khorassan
Sinclair Literary Society
Coe College
Coe Assembly Hall
Sadie Smith
Lillian Egloff
Pearl Clark
Josephine Buchanan
Helen Brooksmith
High School Athletic Association
Tlapa
Robert I. Merrill
Charles B. Burtis
Frank Buser
Samuel D. Donnan
David T. Emery
Bradley Gibson
Emerson Fitzgerald
Ralph Epley
O. H. Wilson
B. C. R. and
N. Railway Men’s Club
B. Morton
A. E. Webber
L. B. Osborn
Theodore Stickney
W. H. Card
C. H. Tresher
W. G. Nichols
Anderson Heads Elks
Lew W. Anderson
Elks
F. A. Allen
Otto Willner
W. E. Holmes
Lew Benedict
A. B. van Albada
J. H. Munholland
Tyler
C. E. Anderson
Oscar Solomon Clothing Store
Solomon, Crenshaw, Wescott Company
Ernest A. Lee
Chicago
Art Institute
China
Sinclair Organization
T. M. Sinclair Co., Ltd
S. E. Sinclair
H. B. Soutter
Robert S. Sinclair
Gilmore and
Leonard
Hogan's Alley
Blonden and Fennesy Musical Company
New York
Charles Driscoll
Boston
Mr. McKee
Edwin Booth
Booth
Texas Panhandle
Edger A. Guest
Third Street
Lews
Cpt A
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