Wallaces Critique of Chief Justice Sparks News Debate
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace openly criticizes Chief Justice Hughes over a Kansas City live stock rates ruling. The dispute highlights tensions between the executive, judiciary, and the press amid broader New Deal debates.
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Hughes
American Law Institute
Wallace
Kansas City
Minton
Washington
Italy
Russia
Germany
Supreme Court
Four taxi drivers and clerk arrested in liquor raids
Cedar Rapids police raided liquor operations in the city, arresting four Century Cab drivers Harry L. Andrews Leroy Brookman Merle Meyers and Herbert Schwensohn and Fifth Avenue Pharmacy clerk Earl Smith on illegal liquor charges. Schwensohn had whisky and two pints of Iowa state liquor on hand. Bond set at 500 for each taxi driver, Smith released on own recognizance.
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Cedar Rapids News
Harry L. Andrews
Second Avenue
Leroy Brookman
Fifth Avenue SE
Merle Meyers
Nineteenth Street
Herbert Schwensohn
Milner Hotel
Century Cab Company
H. C. Ring
Earl Smith
Fifth Avenue
Smith
Earl Stanley
Marshall and Bailey
Stearns and Walters
Schwensohn
Towa State Liquor Store
Andrews
Iowa State
Stanley
Brookman
Myers
The Golden Rule as Remedy for Everyday Life
A 1938 meditation urges resolving global and personal conflict through simple virtues. It argues modern science cannot fix relations without timeless courtesy and unselfishness, applying the Golden Rule in daily acts and speech to prevent friction and folly.
Recovery Bill Faces Bitter Senate Clash Over PWA Power
Roosevelt’s omnibus recovery bill stalls in the senate with conservative Democrats seeking to strip PWA and RFC control. Senator King plans a resolution challenging interior authority as Carter Glass and Vice President Garner back a blocking move. The fight centers on ministerial power for Jones in administering a $5 billion program and a $1.5 billion RE loan fund for big business.
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INS
Roosevelt
Senate
King
Washington
Vnovinia
Carter Glass
Garner
I Successu
Jones
Tes
Absah
Houston
Seate Oo
Pl. Jones
PAWSA
San Quentin Convicts Stage Sit-Down Strike Over Lunch Hour
About 350 inmates at San Quentin Prison took part in a sit-down strike in the workshops Friday to protest a shortened lunch hour.
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San Quentin Prison
Calif
San Quentin
Noted Fear of Losing Influence in International Bank
The speaker warns that seeking to prevent harsh references to US pumps and Washington’s efforts may backfire. He notes that many nations owe the United States while the US owes none, implying potential loss of representation in the bank handling international settlements.
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Bank For International
Switzerland
United States
Bank For International Settlements
Washington
Wwe
Navy expansion bill sent to President Roosevelt
The Senate approved a 1.156 billion naval expansion plan to create a powerful fleet. The measure allows the President to decide whether to authorize 45,000 ton dreadnoughts, with total battleship tonnage possible to 135,000 tons for three 45,000 ton ships if needed.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
United States
Neutrality Bloc
Bible distribution tops seven million in 1937
The American Bible Society reported 7,328,550 Bibles distributed in 1937 in 197 languages and dialects including Braille editions for the blind.
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New York
INS
American Bible Society
Repairing and Grinding Want Ad Featured by Gazette
Bunce E at 1407 Bever Ave obtained 13 lawnmower repair and grinding jobs from recent Gazette Business Services Want Ad column. Call for pick up and delivery. $1. Advertising invites readers to place Want Ads via Dial 2-1121 for repair, remodeling, or refinishing work.
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E. Bunce
Bever Ave
Want
the Gazette
Medics urged to solve care gap without government subsidies
Dr. Arth Erskine of Cedar Rapids warned at the Iowa State Medical Society banquet that government grants would politicize medicine and threaten care for low income families. He urged the organized profession to craft its own plan for adequate medical service, citing Linn County as a model and calling for unity and determination.
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Iprahe
Iowa State Medical Society
Arthur W. Erskine
Cedar Rapids
Erskine
Des Moines
Arth Erskine
Iowa State Car Society
Des
Sessior the Society
Ciles
Linn
Towa
Deny Labor Board Right To Set Aside Steel Case Order
U S circuit court of appeals refused to let the national labor relations board set aside its order in the Republic Steel case and ordered the board to certify its record as is. It also restrained the board from further steps until the certified record is filed. The board had sought to reopen due to a Supreme Court ruling in another case. Republic lawyers opposed producing the current case record. The board had ordered Republic to reinstate 5,000 striking workers with back pay and to disestablish alleged company unions.
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U. S
Supreme Court
Henry Wallace
Hughes
Wallace
Kansas City
National Labor Relations Board
Philadelphia
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Republic Steel Company
Republic
NLRB
Boy Found After 30 Hours Lost In San Bernardino Snow
David Baumgarten age two was found by his father among 200 searchers after wandering away from a San Bernardino store midweek. He lay face down in snowy slush and pine needles, exhausted, 19 miles from the store. The boy had been missing for about 64 hours.
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San Bernardino
Calif
David Baumgarten
San Bernardino Mountains
Notable Iowa Medical Figure Named in Cancer Work
The article highlights Dr. Erskine of the American Medical Association network as author of two textbooks on X ray treatment. He serves on the cancer committee of the Iowa State Medical Society and on the executive board of the Women’s Field Army of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Iowa division.
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American Medical Assocaety
Erskine
Iowa State Medical Society
Ant
Women’s Field Army
American Society For the Control of Cancer
Towa Division
Cedar Rapids In Forbes Map Among Top US Business Centers
Cedar Rapids ranks high on Forbes business map as a center for sales activity collections and promotion of operations. The city sits in the second best fifth spot territory with seventeen other cities in the region.
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Cedar Rapids
wWacati
United States
Forbes Magazine
Rebels Claim Big Gains Near Teruel
Insurgent forces report trapping ten thousand government troops in the mountains near Teruel after coordinated attacks from northeast and northwest fronts. Salamanca tallies 1000-plus government dead in a single sector with 280 prisoners and large war material captures. Insurgent air raids on Barcelona and Valencia killed about 140.
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Nendaye
France
INS
New Mastrazgo
Teruel
Mediterranean
Burgos
Salamanca
Barcelona
Valencia
Mercury Rises in Cedar Rapids Under Bright Sun
A sunny Friday in Cedar Rapids pushed temperatures higher after a frosty night. The day opened with a 41 degree low, climbed to 69 by mid afternoon, then cooled to 43 by midnight according to the Chambers Inskeep company dial.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Senate panel rejects Nye arms embargo lift for Spain
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, by 17 to 1, shelved the Nye resolution to lift the arms embargo to Spain. Secretary Hull opposed reversal of neutrality policy citing risk of complications. The move blocks material changes to American neutrality policy this session.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hull
Nye
Spain
Baby donor gives Camp Good Health Fund a start
Judith Bass, just five days old, becomes the youngest donor to the Camp Good Health Fund with a gift of 337.25 dollars. The Cedar Rapids baby, daughter of A W Abe Bass of 1553 Washington Ave SE, born at St Luke’s hospital, supports a camp for physically handicapped children aged 1 to 12 run by the Public Health Nursing association near Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Judith Bass
Camp Good Health Fund
A. W
Abe” Bass
Washington Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Linn County Bar Association
Judy
Camp Good Health
Lincoln Highway
The
Public Health Nursing Association
Note Rebuke To Black In Hughes' Talk
Washington observers noted parallels between Chief Justice Hughes remarks on an effective judiciary and a Harper’s piece challenging Justice Hugo Black’s qualifications. Marquis W. Childs argued Black lacked judicial craftsmanship while Hughes urged voters and appointing authorities to uphold standards in a broad address before the American Law Institute.
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Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
Hugo L. Black
Marquis W. Childs
St Louis Post Dispatch
Harper's Magazine
Justice Black
Childs
Tue Law Institute
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A Wallace
Wallace
Hughes Supreme Court Decion
Agriculture Department Oan
Nntentional Labor Relations Board
President Roosevelt Defends New Deal Spending Program
In a press conference, President Roosevelt denied that his original spending plan failed. He said the administration seeks a formula to accompany the new program and hopes congressional study of monopoly issues will yield it. He noted NRA’s experimental nature and discussed inventory build up and price rises as factors in the recession.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
NRA
Missions Bombed Hit Chengchow Churches
A report from Dr Stanford Ayers of Atlanta says Japanese planes bombed the American Baptist mission and the Italian Catholic mission at Chengchow on Friday, causing heavy Chinese casualties and widespread destruction.
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Hankow
American Baptist Mission
Chengchow
Stanford Ayers
Atlanta
Antidote effort eyed to counter fascist broadcasts
Washington reports say Roosevelt approves eight government radio stations with a planned high power unit near San Diego to broadcast goodwill programs to the Pan American region. Congress considers hearings on funding and operation as a preventive measure against fascist and communist propaganda.
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United States
Representative Celler
New York
Uncle Sam
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
South America
Europe
House Naval Committee
Roosevelt Haus
Vinson
Ao Senate
San Diego
Calif
Navs
Interior Departments
Rehearing Sought on Eastern Passenger Fare Increase
Eastern railroads petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to reopen and reconsider its 6 to 4 denial of a fare raise from 2 to 2 cents per mile, claiming a misapprehension of law in the ruling.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Pope Pius May Speak Against Nazi Attitude
Trustworthy Catholic quarters report Pope Pius plans a vigorous attack on Nazi attitudes toward the Catholic Church. Informants say he may speak on the German question this weekend, possibly Saturday, at an opportune moment.
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Vatican City
Pius
No Second Doctor Needed If Patient Recovers Or Dies
A satirical 1938 piece by Arthur Bugs Base mocks dual recovery plans in U S politics. It argues the country cannot endure a second plan whether recovery succeeds or fails, comparing Republicans to too many points and referencing wheelchairs.
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Arthur “Bugs
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