Borah Speaks on Ten Key Issues in 1936 Campaign
The Cedar Rapids Gazette profile of Senator Borah records his responses to the ten questions on major national problems. He backs balanced budgets without new taxes, defends the Supreme Court, and supports a strong American farmer market while opposing farm product imports. He criticizes secret treaties, urges Senate control over trade, and endorses the Utilities Holding Act for public power. The piece notes his vigor at 70, his plain-spoken style, and his status as a leading Republican insurgent within the Old Guard.
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Frazier Hunt
Cedar Rapids Gazette
NEA Service, Inc
Borah
America
Senate
Ohio
Hunt
Supreme Court
Republican National Committee
Argentina
Canada
United States
Idaho
Congress
Senator Borah
Old Guard
Landon
Cleveland
Borah Answers Ten Questions on Budget Relief and Policy
Senator Borah backs balancing the budget and opposes tax increases, supports relief by federal administration with stronger state role, favors old age pensions, rejects permanent unemployment, supports a government role in money and a shorter work week, resists constitutional amendments limiting courts, favors strict anti trust enforcement, opposes farm production cuts, supports reciprocal trade with Senate approval, and backs the utilities holding act for public power.
Luck Versus Skill In A Bridge Finesse
A 1938 contract bridge column analyzes a grand finesse play where declarer overcomes a potential guess by reconstructing the bidding. West opens hearts and trump management leads to a successful diamond finesse after counting hearts. The article explains the reasoning behind the finesse and the defensive decisions.
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Declarer
West
East
Colesburg and Solon Seniors Tour Cedar Rapids
Senior classes from Colesburg and Solon high schools visited Cedar Rapids on Monday for industrial tours. Solon students toured Quaker Oats, Northwestern Bell, Hutchinson Ice Cream, and The Gazette while Colesburg pupils visited the telephone building and The Boney, with a picnic at Ellis Park.
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Colesburg
Solon
Cedar Rapids
Solon Group
Harold McKnight
Quaker Oats
Northwestern Bell Telephone
Hutchinson Ice Cream Company
The
Gazette
Telephone
Boney
Ellis Par
City council approves street oiling and notices
City council orders oiling on Hamilton street SW and other streets, refers a sidewalk merchandise display protest, and grants sign and beer license transfers. It also approves laying 431 feet of water main, considers a street light petition, and delays a sanitary sewer project pending property value checks. Council authorizes purchase of road oil.
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Hamilton Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Sevententh Avenue
Sixth Avenue
L Street
Fourth Street
Eighth Avenue
First Street
Seventeenth
Frank Kent
W. C. Benesh
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Nineteenth Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Linden Drive
Bever Park
Public Improvement Department
Rockford Road
Mind and memory in science and psychology
An excerpt discussing how scientific reasoning and emotion shape morality public intellect. It cites E J Roethlisberger on measurability via thermometer and notes Catherine Cox Miles and L W Pressey studies showing girls’ memory superiority. Includes a call to request a booklet "How to Improve your Memory" with self addressed stamped envelope.
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Catharine Cox Miles
Yale
L. W. Pressey
How To Develop Your Personality by Sadie Myers Shellow
Readers are invited to obtain a practical booklet titled How To Develop Your Personality by Sadie Myers Shellow Ph D The cost is 10 cents with a stamped self addressed envelope Send to Dr Wiegcam at Lets Explore Your Mind care The Cedar Rapids Gazette
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The
Gazette
Josephine Culbertson
Culbertson
Cedar Rapids Gazette
America
Words and intelligence contrasted in mental ability
The dialogue argues that vocabulary breadth reflects general intelligence more than mechanical skill as it spans wider mental activity and behavior, serving as a primary expression of overall mental capacity. The exchange notes heat in argument as a barrier to debate.
Baccalaureate Service At Troy Mills
Two hundred persons attended the baccalaureate service at the school auditorium Sunday night. The sermon titled Higher Life was delivered by Rev. C. E. Sheppard. Commencement exercises are planned for Wednesday night. the class consists of eleven members.
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Troy Mills
C. E. Sheppard
Notice of Receiver’s Hearing in Linn County Court
D R Bates as Receiver of Corn Belt Savings Bank Cedar Rapids seeks court approval to settle or sell remaining assets. Hearing set for June 1936 at 9 a.m. in Linn County Court House Cedar Rapids. Creditors and stockholders may appear to contest the motion.
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District Court
State of Iowa
Linn County
Drl. Bates
Corn Belt Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Toga
Corn Belt Savings Bank of
Iowa
D. W. Bates
Corn Belt Saver Bank
Towa
Banting of of
Come Pelt Savings Bank
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Knox
Keynater
Steiner
Dark Horse
Wadsworth
Dickinson
William E. Borah
TVA
Utilities Holding Company Act
Utilities Holding Act
West North East South
South
Armstrong
City Hall
Alex
Steve Varvaris
Third Avenue SE
Frank Sprynel
First Avenue E
Cedar Park
Albert Edward Wiggam
E. J. Roethlisberger
Harvard School of Business
Milwaukee Road
Rapids
C.u
Milwaukee Roan
Uteb
Toasant Weed Ford
M. E.garmoe
Sr. St. SE
Armstrong’s
Palm Beach
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