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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

12 Mar 1939

Page 37

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1939

Page

37

Bill Shirer the American Reporter in Europe

Profile of Bill Shirer born in Hawkeye Iowa and raised in Cedar Rapids who became CBS radio’s foreign correspondent in Europe. From Paris to London to Vienna he covered Gandhi in India and the Czech crisis while filing uncensored dispatches for Murrow. He recalls bold broadcasts in Rome and Munich and life in Geneva with wife Teresa and daughter Eileen as he navigates war and diplomacy.

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Edward Murrow Columbia London Europe Shirer Berlin Radio America Murrow Vienna Bill Mrs. Shirer Eileen Geneva Czechoslovakia Switzerland Prague Maurice Hindus Godesburg Sudetenland Cologne Munich Bill Shirer Uncle Sam Hawkeye Iowa Cedar Rapids Coe College Paris James Joyce Eugene Jolas Ezra Pound American Mercury H. L. Mencken Coe New York Marseilles The Chicago Tribune Cosmos Alexander Taylor Tribune England Story Teresa Martha Foley Whit Burnett Rome Mussolini Moscow Madrid India Gandhi Afghanistan Balkans Hungary Bulgaria Yugoslavia Cxzechoslovakia Roumania the Tribune Spain International Central Europe Lake Geneva Mont Blanc Chamonix CBS
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Columbia's Young Man About Europe Shines as Reporter

The passage praises a young Columbia journalist known for brilliance in reporting and thoughtful analysis of world affairs, highlighting his unique success as a sharp observer of European events and a masterful thinker on global issues.

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Gins Columbia Europe
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Schoolgirl Awarded Damages Over Headstand Injury

Elizabeth Gardner, a 14 year old Cortland Normal School pupil, won $3,000 after an appellate court ruled she was compelled to perform a dangerous headstand and dislocated her vertebra. The court said the headstand was not a necessary part of education and overturned an earlier judge’s ruling of unavoidable accident.

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Cortland N. Y New York State Appellate Division Christopher J. Heffernan Elizabeth Gardner Cortland Normal School
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New York Republican Leader Indicted in Illegal Surgery Racket

Sol Ullman a 46 year old lawyer and former Republican assemblyman was indicted on five counts of bribery and conspiracy to obstruct justice for allegedly protecting physicians in an abortion racket. Investigators claim Ullman took $13 000 in illegal fees since 1932 and faces up to twenty three years if convicted.

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New York John Harlan Amen Brooklyn Sol Ullman Ullman John J. Bennett, Jr
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Iowa In Washington Iowa In Washington

Congressman Jacobsen of Iowa discusses defense policy and Guam harbor funding. He cites letters from Cedar Rapids readers praising naval fortifications and urges prudent policy amid calls for naval expansion and reciprocal trade programs.

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LaGuardia Children Miss San Francisco Trip

Mayor LaGuardia’s children Eric nine and Jean eleven stayed home in New York to avoid exposure to whooping cough ahead of the San Francisco World’s Fair. Eric contracted the illness and Jean was exposed. The unicorn fish is noted for a single head bone.

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New York F. H. LaGuardia Eric Jean San Francisco
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