Debating the Roman Fall And Modern Social Questions
Dr Joseph Fort Newton cites Edward Gibbons reasons for the fall of Rome and warns modern societies face similar dangers. The column, reflecting on public welfare and immigration policy, urges scrutiny of aid laws and unemployment rules amid concerns about honesty and fiscal responsibility.
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Joseph Fort Newton
Edward Gibbon
Dr. Newton
Alexander the Great
Newton
Gibbon
Pontiff Opens Estate to Envoys After Coronation
Pope Pius XII opened his Alban hills estate to envoys from forty one nations who watched his St. Peter's coronation. He praised President Roosevelt for defending religion as U S ambassador Kennedy relayed. Kennedy reported the Pontiff rose to greet him and his party and gave rosaries to the Kennedy children. The Pope recalled meeting the Kennedy family in 1936 and Hyde Park on his American trip. Cardinal OConnell, Dougherty, and Mundelein prepared to sail home as hundreds of thousands attended the coronation pageantry.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Alban Hills
St. Peter’s
Joseph P Kennedy
United States
London
Roosevelt
Kennedy
Joseph P. Jr
Madrid
Holy Father
Pope
Bronxville
Teddy Kennedy
William Cardinal O’connell
Boston
Naples
Vulcania
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty
Philadelphia
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Paris
Catholicism
Five Years Ago Waited Then Felt Strength in Patience
A reader recalls nearly suing for divorce five years earlier but choosing patience. She credits sticking with her marriage for later hardship, a near ruin avoided by restraint, and quotes Emerson and Twain to stress patience as strength. The piece urges patience to grow character and faith.
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Emerson
Mark Twain
Boston
Meredith
Cedar Rapids School Election Sees Early Turnout Rise
Voters in Cedar Rapids head to polls with polls open until 7 p.m. Monday. By 2:30 p.m. 493 votes cast across 23 precincts. 196 ballots counted by 9:30 a.m. The race features Harold Trewin and Mrs. C. T. Hickok seeking reelection and William McCall on the ballot for the fifth time. Voters also decide if the board may sell the Dairy Dale school buildings and grounds. Bever Park garage precinct 10 tallies lead with 45 votes, McKinley school precinct 12 next with 38, Rude Auto company precinct 1 records the lightest at five.
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Cedar
Cedar Rapids
Harold Trewin
C. T. Hickok
William McCall
Dairy Dale
Bever Park
McKinley
Rude Auto Company
Burden of Youth Work and Charity in 1851 Letter
A letter recalls starting work at age 15 or 16 to ease the burden on elders and urges public aid to avoid cutting church contributions or pulling a son from college. The writer asks whose burden he bears now as he seeks support.
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Iowa
American Coalition
Congress
United States
Children of America
Youth of America
Sam
Des Moines Debate Delayed Amid Wave of Public Safety Amendments
Iowa legislators pushed a delay as a wave of amendments to the public safety consolidation bill emerged. Proposals would shift control to the attorney general, bar highway patrol involvement in industrial disputes, and merge patrol and fire marshal offices under the attorney general, affecting about 260 state employees.
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Des Moines
Public Safety Department
Iowa House
Dean W. Peisen
Eldora
House
George A. Wilson
L. O. Lampman
Primghar
Public Safety
William Judd
Clinton
Oscar Johnson
Kanawha
Philip Kohlhaas
Algona
F. A. Latchaw
Wilton Junction
Bureau of Investigation
Senate
Kohlhaas
Jews To Consider British Proposals For Holy Land Settlement
London dispatch reports Jewish delegates at the Palestine conference agreed in a lengthy session to consider the British plan for settlement of the Holy Land amid ongoing strife. The move gives the conference a renewed chance to outline a settlement framework.
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London
INS
Holy Land
Roosevelt delays extra relief fund request in midweek
Washington reports President Roosevelt has postponed submitting a relief funds request to Congress until midweek. He plans to meet with Senate allies to discuss relief unemployment and the economy as a split White House battles right and left over policy.
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FDR
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
James Mead
N. Y
WH. Schwartz
Wyo
Hlll
Ala
Stephen T
William B Bankhead
Ile
Court Rules Massachusetts Tax On Green Estate
The U S Supreme Court decides Massachusetts may collect a $4 947 008 inheritance tax from Col Edward H Green son of Hetty Green based on residence found by Special Master Flannery The decision 6 to 2 affirms Massachusetts with Justices Stone in the majority and Justices Frankfurter Black dissenting over jurisdiction claims by Texas Florida and New York.
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Washington
Edward H. R Green
Hetty Green
Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Green
Col. Green
High Court
John S Flannery
Justice Stone
Frankfurter
Black
Texas
Florida
New York
Greens
Liquor-By-Drink Bill Dies in Iowa House
Iowa House liquor committee opposed liquor-by-the-drink local option, reporting no recommendation for passage. The 11 to 6 vote reflected river county opposition and echoed 1937 sentiments as lawmakers shifted focus to executive council on private liquor warehousing and taxation questions.
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Des Moines
Iowa House Liquor Committee
Assembly
House
Morrow
River County
House Liquor
Executive Council
Liquor Commission Central
Harry JE. Weichman
Newhall
Zebra mauls boy as he feeds at New Orleans zoo
In New Orleans a seven year old boy named Floyd Dugas was feeding a zebra at the city zoo when the animal bit off the middle finger of his hand. The incident occurred as the boy offered the zebra grass and a handful of the greens.
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New Orleans
Floyd Dugas
Zoo
Floyd
Lab burned on Burnett Timken estate after 18 years of work
Alpine New Jersey reports the laboratory of Dr. John Clawson Burnett, husband of heiress Cora Timken, burned Sunday. Fire crews recovered surgical equipment. experts estimate losses at 3 million dollars for equipment plus 200 thousand for the building.
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Alpine
John Clawson Burnett
Burnett-Timken
Hudson River
Burnett
Cora B. Timken
California
City Appropriations Boosted for 1939 40 in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids city council read and filed an ordinance funding city departments from April 1, 1939, to March 31, 1940, totaling 1,398,360.50 dollars, up 73,819.50 from last year. Water works sees the largest rise to 320,000 dollars for bond retirement, police gain 5,000 dollars to 130,000, while contingent funds drop to 9,200.
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L. D Burgus
Burgus
Czechs to Protest Germany Over Minority Turmoil
Czechoslovakia plans a protest to Germany within 12 hours over the Vienna radio station interference and the German minority in Brunn and Bratislava. Clashes in Brunn and reported Nazi propaganda heightened tensions as Iglau and Omudz saw German injuries.
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Prague
Cazech
Germany
Brunn
Bratislava
Vienna
Republic
Czechoslovakia
Ferdinand Durcansky
Berlin
UOP
Iglau
Omudz
Slovakia
Ferdinand Murgas
Hiinia
Europe
Filler
Doctors oppose $2 pre-marital syphilis test fee
Dr A W Erskine of the Iowa State Medical Society returns from vacation to oppose the $2 maximum fee for pre-marital syphilis examinations. He warns the required tests may need extensive investigations and cannot be done for that amount. The proposal, part of a broader pre-marital and prenatal disease control bill, has passed the house and awaits senate action.
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Cedar Rapids
A. W. Erskine
Iowa State Medical Society
House
Senate
Erskine
State Medical Society
Everybody Is Due To Receive Share In Next Conflict
A 1939 essay quotes Bugs Baer predicting large numbers of fighting airplanes in Europe and a future war that targets civilians. It mocks pacifists and hints at indiscriminate destruction, suggesting everyone will bear the consequences and even offering a choice of fronts.
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Europe
Plan for Food Subsidies Approved by U S Conference
A conference of food processors wholesalers and retailers approved the government's plan to subsidize consumption of surplus foods. Secretary Wallace said the program could raise relief workers' food intake by 50 percent and begin in six medium size cities on an experimental basis.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A Wallace
Food and Grocery Conference
Wallace
Roosevelt
Britain and France in touch on Czechoslovak situation
London said Britain maintains close contact with France over Czechoslovakia. Britain has guaranteed Czech protection against aggression, not secession, so no British intervention is expected unless German forces cross into Slovak territory. officials noted.
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London
INL
Great Britain
France
Czechoslovakia
Possible Strong Auton Move Hint in Czechoslovak Crisis
Berlin reports indicate Germany sent a note urging division of Czechoslovakia into Bohemia Slovakia and Carpatho Ukraine and reorganizing Prague's central regime. Hitler met ex Slovak premier Tiso and Slovak leader Franz Karmasin as Berlin signals possible diplomatic action.
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Berlin
Germany
Prague
Bohemia
Slovakia
Carpatho-Ukraine
Adolf Hitler
Josephise
Franz Karmasin
Tise
Sleevak
Hitler
Gama
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Steyay
Vienna
Rome
Rome-Berlin
Bratislava
Tiso
Emil Hacha
Banovec
Slovak People'’S
Girl 7 Saves Cousin From Death By Flames
In Phillipsburg Kansas a 7 year old girl Lydia Demotte saved her cousin Mary Lynn Graves also 7 by cooling a coat on fire. Lydia told her to stand still and ran three times to fetch a pan of water to extinguish the blaze.
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Phillipsburg
Kan
Lydia Demotte
Mary Lynn Graves
Mary Lynn
Lydia Alice
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Thomas G. Corcoran
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Cedar Rapids News
Murgas
Karl Sidor
Ilitier
Brann
Jan Syrovsy
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Fuehrer
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