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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1936
Page
7
A reflective adage on self improvement and overcommitment. The quote warns busy people that claiming lack of time signals reaching the rope end of effort, a deeply sad predicament for anyone seeking progress.
Roosevelt defends eight billion home spending for CCC camps, relief, natural resources, and security while contrasting with postwar foreign lending. He argues both abroad loans and boondoggle programs created artificial prosperity, with private investors misplaying the risk versus government policy.
Former Special Assistant Attorney General Fred Herman Free seeks 2 567 64 for services with 1 700 already paid. The bill covers 4 per hour for travel Des Moines to Sioux City and compensation for gathering evidence he says shows a complete breakdown of law enforcement in Sioux City. An error by Attorney General Ed OConnor appears to affect the case.
The editorial notes an administration's error in appointing Free as special assistant to gather evidence for a grand jury, a move later deemed unlawful. Taxpayers already paid $1,700 and may incur more costs. The piece urges Attorney General to use any collected evidence and present it himself.
The state planning board backs enlarging the Iowa parole system and calls for more widespread release of the evidence behind its recommendations. Critics note miscarriages and a paroled killer’s crime, urging transparency to preserve public confidence and avoid abolition.
A brief baseball line notes Danning’s unassisted ground out to Gehrig. The excerpt also poses a political aside asking Roosevelt and Landon what they were saying when interrupted last week.
A wide ranging 1936 column debunks myths about mental illness and worry. It mocks overconfident self-judgments while asserting worry can become obsessive and self-made, then pivots to political satire and reflections on Americanism and culture.
The present season in New York is seen as a test of endurance for theatre, with many producers aiming for high quality amid a leaner Rialto lineup. Notable impresarios Brock Pemberton Arthur Hopkins and Sam Harris are cited as planning to deliver extraordinary shows, signaling a discriminating year for playgoers.
In his U.S. Navy days he showed championship caliber and impressed James J. Corbett who called him one of the best he faced. Cee has a Sunday left and literature interests him more now, using his fight knowledge to write profitable magazine pieces.
An advertisement touts Creomulsion as a remedy for lingering coughs from colds and bronchial irritation. It claims the product attacks the seat of trouble, loosens phlegm, and soothes inflamed membranes with a druggist guarantee if results are not seen from the first dose.
A collage of literary and cultural allusions featuring Gene Tunney Carl Van Doren Ursula Parrott Roscoe Peacock and others. The passage recalls shipboard storms a crossing in a gale aboard the Aquitania and quips about wit and cleverness amid a 1936 copyright frame.
A Fortune cited review notes cities with populations 2 500 to 25 000 have the highest share of healthy minded people. Hospitals send fewer mental cases from these communities than villages or farms, and far fewer than megacities.
The text argues against the idea that romantic love guarantees lasting happiness. It lists five beliefs of the romantic attitude: marriage holds sole happiness, affections are ideal, one can find an ideal mate, there is only one such person, and immediate recognition upon meeting.
Dr Henry C Link hosts a memory rules booklet tested by science. It explains how to remember names dates and lessons and offers it as a service to readers through LETS EXPLORE YOUR MIND. Send 10c to apply and include a self addressed stamped envelope.
The passage discusses love at first sight as physical attraction that must be followed by spiritual growth for a lasting marriage. It also asks friends to judge whether people today show more or less tolerance than ten years ago on smoking sportiness divorce slang kissing sauerkraut prize fights.
A study by A Walter Buck in Abnormal and Social Psychology reports 1923 to 1933 changes in attitudes across 44 topics among large college groups. Notable shifts include increased tolerance for smoking betting flirting divorce slang and sportiness, with war and saxophones showing opposite trends. Women favored kissing more and liked athletic girls less.
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