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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1941
Page
38
The piece argues that Americans have faced dark days before such as Valley Forge and Civil War struggles and have always met problems with courage. It frames current burdens like a looming debt and national strife as similar to historical tests, asserting faith in America's greatness as a bulwark for the future.
Illinois sources boast a possible 53 bushels per acre corn yield this year while Iowa trails at 51. Illinois also won the national cornhusking championship for the second year, stirring Iowa’s pride and urging contest-wise measures in a lighthearted regional rivalry.
The United States should pull back its marines from China arguing that their presence no longer serves a purpose. Originally stationed at Peiping Tientsin and Shanghai to protect nationals, most have left after the Japanese invasion and remaining troops are scattered and hard to reach.
A German report notes 17 of 974,910 Romanian voters opposed the government in a Nazi sponsored election. The piece mocks the small dissent and the unanimity claimed by the regime, lampooning the overwhelming approval as a sham.
Carl Sandburg compares Huey Long to Adolf Hitler in a review of books on Mein Kampf and Louisiana politics. The piece cites Francis Hackett’s What Mein Kampf Means to America and Louisianan Huey Long’s persona as parallel to the Nazi dictator in rhetoric and power.
A Vienna paper hanger mocks Huey Long as subhuman while recounting Huey Long's assassin Harnett Kane describing dictators and the 1930s Vienna social democratic decline. The dying Huey Long questions his shooter as Louisiana’s critics recall his harsh words and claimed ancestry of his killer.
Iowa readers express mixed views on organized labor. They note union rank and file loyalty despite criticism of leadership and emphasize national defense as vital while young men serve for 21 dollars a month.
Verse about a husband who naps through the evening, waking only for forty winks. The wife laments his sleepiness, recalling his former charm. The poem notes wives coping with sleep loving husbands and shared evenings.
Col. Frederick Palmer argues Tokyo’s envoy Kurusu arrives as a gesture not a hard5 terms. Negotiations continue directly between the United States and Japan as Washington weighs possible shooting on sight. The piece links Kurusu’s role to Tojo’s regime, embargo impact, and Japan’s waning oil and fuel reserves.
Iowa dairymen confront a butterfat price squeeze as war demand for cheese and oleomargarine shifts markets. Cooperatives fear loss of patronage if cheese factories expand and butterfat prices lag, risking a weakened creamery system despite $60 million in dairy spending.
In the press gallery George Stimpson notes the 212 to 194 House vote to accept Senate amendments allowing ships to sail where the President directs. Speakers Bloom and Fish control time as Jeannette Rankin and Harold Knutson oppose repeal. Debates hint war or peace with votes casting a tense, partisan mood despite no formal party lines.
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