Congress to Chart Social Security Limits and Reforms
The House Ways and Means Committee proposes moderating payroll taxes while advancing pension eligibility to 1940 and expanding benefits for some groups. The plan aims to placate reformers and the Townsend faction, but critics warn it risks larger government handouts and weakens confidence unless Congress sets a sustainable national level.
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House Ways and Means
Washington
Townsendites
Congress
Better public relations technique is developing
The article argues improved public relations and labor relations are vital for industry. It highlights Charles Belknap’s report to employees, explaining industry as a clearing house of exchanges, using simple pictograms to reach the less educated, and foresees more transparency to prevent gouging and build public trust.
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Charles Belknap
Belknap
New Dose of Humanism on the Amazon
Dr Edward A Strecker notes a tribe along the Amazon pauses their daily tasks and sits on their haunches until their souls catch up with their bodies. He suggests modern society could learn from this patient pacing and inner timing.
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Amazon River
Edward A. Strecker
Material values under scrutiny by psychiatry chief
The head of the University of Pennsylvania psychiatry department argues that civilization is lopsided toward material values. He warns that democracy and mental hygiene risk embracing mass pathologies like communism or fascism, urging a de-emphasis of material wants to restore morale and spiritual values.
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University of Pennsylvania
Strecker
Correct this sentence It is Christian warfare said the clergyman
A 1939 copyright note leads a column of travel and social commentary with ironic and critical observations on war, fascism, and American life. The piece cites travel anecdotes, cultural contrasts, and calls for understanding while condemning violence and hypocrisy.
New York Day by Day Portraits of Mary Martin and Charles Gibson
Charles Driscol presents Mary Martin, the Weatherford Texas singer and Broadway hit star, and diplomat P McEvoy in a portrait of stage charm and seasoned diplomacy. The piece recalls Martins rise from Texas accent to Broadway success and highlights Gibson as a veteran U S diplomat with long service and steadiness in world affairs.
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New York
Mary Martin
Weatherford
Texas
Mary
Daddy
William Gaxton
Victor Moore
Miss Martin
Rainbow Room
Rockefeller Center
Sophie Tucker
Hollywood
Stars in Your Eyes and World’s Fair Plans Stir Boston Chronicle
The piece recalls a winter Boston visit to a Broadway show and the aging author’s stressed mood as previews begin. It notes air travel plans for the New York World’s Fair, Eddie Rickenbacker’s effort to keep prices low, and the impact on city business. It ends with a counterpoint about hosting relatives during the fair and a New Yorker’s enduring hospitality debates.
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Free City
Danzig
Cairo
Rome
van Paassen
Palestine
Lawrence
China
Near East
Janes
Europe
America
Boston
J. P
New York
Eddie Rickenbacker
mid-Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
The Poet of the People and a City Paving Notice
Edger A Guest poem explores mother love in a reflective verse. A formal notice from Cedar Rapids Iowa outlines a proposed paving project on Sixth Street NW including concrete and asphalt options, with assessment of costs and public objections due May 18 1939.
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City of
Cedar Rauids
Lown
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Towit Sixth Street
G Avenue
Penn Avenue
City Clerk notices public hearing on proposed improvement costs
The document records a May 1939 city notice for property owners to file objections to proposed assessment costs. It specifies four weeks’ publication and a May 18 1939 hearing at ten A M, with the City ClerkStorey permanently attesting. The Gazette published the notice in Rapids City.
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City of
Cedar Tapia
Cedar Raunds
Rapids
Storey
Codas Rapids
Notice of Park Concessions Bids in Cedar Rapids
City invites sealed proposals to operate refreshment stands in Bever Ellis Daniels and Riverside Parks from May 6 to November 1 1939 with Labor Day ball diamond access at Ellis Park. Bids due May 8 1939. required security checks. city reserves right to reject all bids.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Bever, Ellis, Daniels
Riverside
Ellis Park
Commissioner of Parks
L. J. Storey
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