Debunking Bank Deposit Guaranty Claims and 1933 Banking Debacle
The piece critiques post cards alleging bank deposit guarantees would destroy the banking system. It cites Governor Landon, Representative Spence, and Senator Barkley, recounting political arguments about the 1933 banking crisis, federal insurance, and New Deal opponents. It notes post card distribution and partisan blame, with references to Iowa and Detroit.
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Washington
Viola
Uncle Sam
Tammany
Jim Farley
Farley
Landon
American Bankers’ Association
Chicago
National House of Representatives
Spence
Kentucky
National House
London
Roosevelt
Congress
Owever
Alben W. Barkley
Viola Farmer
Cedar Rapids
Senator Barkley
Iowa
Couzens
Michigan
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Detroit
Franklin Detroit
Hoover
White House
Move To Save Spanish Hostages Dramatic Diplomacy Expands
London dispatches report Soviet aid to Madrid and imminent recognition of the insurgent government by Italy and Germany as the Spanish civil war nears its climax. Britain urges hostage exchange while Latin American nations push notes to Madrid seeking sanctuary for some 2000 right wing sympathizers and thousands held as prisoners.
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London
INS
Russia
Spain
Madrid
Europe
Buenos Aires
Great Britain
Pablo de Azcar
Gazette editor denounces graft probes in Iowa politics
Verne Marshall of the Cedar Rapids Gazette urges Governor Herring to force trials for all indicted conspirators in Iowa graft cases. He accuses state officials of blocking prosecutions, cites Joe Gagen and Max Duckworth, and calls for full reporting of campaign contributions and unprosecuted rackets amid 1930s Des Moines disclosures.
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State Department of Justice
Iowa
State House
Joe Gagen
Max Duckworth
Gagen
Polk County
Des Moines
Mike Mercurio
Bernard Manley
Liquor Control Commission
Manley
Mr. Manley
Benjamin Bills To Speak At Cedar Rapids Chamber Banquet
Benjamin Bills of Chicago, noted author and lawyer, will speak on Business Recovery at the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce banquet on Oct. 26 at the Shrine temple. Reservations are due by Saturday morning. the event features roast beef, entertainment by the Rainbow trio, and Hillbilly selections.
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Benjamin Bills
Chicago
Midwest
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Bills
School of Commerce
Northwestern University
Chicago Bar Association
Bills Management and Mortgage Corporation
Bills Realty, Inc
Income Properties, Inc
Billy B. van
Rainbow Trio of Girls
Si Perkins
Hill iBillies
Reflections on life society and values from Dr Newton
A collection of aphoristic musings spanning happiness attitudes politics religion and human relations. The author critiques overbearing laws extroverted rule disagreements with war pledges and the role of reading in shaping character while urging empathy and long term perspective.
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United States of America
United Sates
Europe
Mississippi
John Morley
Nurse Witness Guards As Baby Clinic Trial Opens
In Los Angeles AP report nurse Bernice Tiernan 25 testifies against an abortion syndicate claiming she saw Violet Pelligrini destroy two infant bodies. Tiernan who fled San Francisco fearing retaliation is guarded and returned there after testimony.
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Los Angeles
Bernice Tieman
San Francisco
R. L. Rankin
Political Radio Listings Across Outlets Include Roosevelt and Kennedy
Thursday broadcasts feature Democratic and Republican segments with leaders such as William Hard Frank Tomson Clare G Fenerty Ogden Mills Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde and Joseph P Kennedy. Programs air on WABC CBS NBC NBC and WEAF from 8:30 to 11:15 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. local times.
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CBS
William Hard
Frank Tomson
Kansas
WABC
N. Y. State
W. F. Bleakley
WJZ
NBC
Cong
Clare G. Fenerty
Pennsylvania
Ogden Mills
Pres
Roosevelt
WOR
Gov
H. H. Lehman
Joseph P. Kennedy
Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde
WEAF
London
Florence Birmingham
Massachusetts
Catherine Neff Cox
Ohio
President Roosevelt Campaign Parade Stirs Massachusetts
A wild motor cavalcade through Rhode Island into Massachusetts endangered bystanders and drivers as crowds surged for front rows. Three children suffered fractured arms and several people were trampled during the Fall River stop while the President spoke.
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Fall River
Mass
Roosevelt
South Park
Massachusetts
New England
Providence
R. I
Rhode Island
New Bedford
Marguerite Lehand
Malvina Scheider
Roosevelt Opens New England Campaign in Rhode Island
President Roosevelt spoke from the Rhode Island capitol steps promising to resist regimentation by selfish minorities that lead to bankruptcies and breadlines. His remarks targeted industrial workers amid the two day New England swing.
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Providence
R. I
Roosevelt
New England
Rhode Island
New York Supreme Court Bars Union Party From Ballot
Albany New York Supreme Court Justice Gilbert V Schenck ordered Secretary of State Edward J Flynn to refrain from placing the Union Party ticket on the New York state ballot for November 3.
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Albany, N. Y
Supreme Court
Gilbert V. Schenck
Edward J. Flynn
Union Party
New York State
Eddie Cantor Says Nazi Threats Forcing Guarded Travel
Hollywood comedian Eddie Cantor says his life is in danger after attacking Nazism in America and must tour under guard. He disclosed the threat at an anti Nazi meeting in Hollywood Tuesday night.
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Hollywood
INS
Eddie Cantor
America
General election registration extended moves to city hall
The notice announces additional days to register or update registration at the city hall ahead of the general election on November 3.
King Edward Gift to Wallis Simpson Revealed
London reports that King Edward gave Wallis Simpson a 125000 emerald necklace, part of gifts totaling up to around a million. Police kept loiterers away from Cumberland Terrace, the new home site, amid ongoing speculation about the royal friendship and accompanying scandals.
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London
Cumberland Terrace
Wallis Simpson
King Edward
Edward
Simpson
Browder Silenced by Egg Barrage in Indiana
Earl Browder communist presidential candidate was blocked from a radio campaign speech in Terre Haute as a hostile crowd hurled eggs and tomatoes and blocked entrances. Police jailed Browder overnight on a vagrancy charge. a court denied his injunction to stop local officials from interfering with his speaking engagement. Three people were lightly injured in the melee.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Earl Browder
Albert Owens
Sam Beecher
James C. Yates
William Baker
Browder
Temperature Drops 40 Degrees From Tuesday High Point
Cedar Rapids temperatures fell from a Tuesday high of 80 at 3 p.m. to 40 at 7 a.m. Wednesday amid evening thundershowers. Grey skies continued with 41 at 9 a.m. and 61 at 7 p.m. followed by 45 at midnight, per Chambers Inskeep company records.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Landon Leads in Nationwide Straw Vote Vote Totals Released
A 3000-paper grass roots straw poll final tally shows Gov Alfred Landon with 57.1 percent to Franklin D Roosevelt's 36.8 percent across forty states. Other candidates listed include Lemke 4.6 percent Browder 4,638 votes and Colvin 3,580 votes.
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New York
INS
Alfred M. Landon
Autocaster Service
The
American Press
Gov. Landon
Roosevelt
Pet
Watenoue
Colvin
Browder Sevsseeeses
Landon Warns Of Threats To Freedom In U S
Gov Alf Landon touring the East assails the New Deal as destroying the bill of rights. In a Los Angeles rally he denounces administration policies and defends free speech press and religion while replying to Ickes. He labels critics as puppets of big business.
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Landon
U.S
Phoenix
Ariz
Alf M. Landon
Los Angeles
H. C. Brewster
Washington
Ickes
New Deal
Fred Margett
California
Townsend Old Age Pension Movement
Bernarr MacFadden
Power of Congres
Fire wipes out downtown San Diego block causing $2 million loss
A downtown San Diego blaze destroyed the Whitney department store and part of the Watts office building. Losses were pegged at $2 million, with Guilford Whitney estimating $1.5 million of his Whitney’s losses, including $750,000 in stock, insured. Two men were injured and a fireman hurt when hose equipment failed.
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Whitney
Watts
Eddie Baum
V. Szczepanski
Dale
Naval Hospital
National Dollar Store
Guilford Whitney
Whitney’s
Governor Herring Won't Comment on Gazette Editor Address
Governor Herring said he had no comment on a radio broadcast by Verne Marshall of The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Marshall criticized the democratic state executive council for failing to prosecute graft cases tied to the Sioux City investigation. Herring spoke in Mason City and toured Storm Lake during his campaign for senator.
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Sioux City
Des Moines
Gazette
The
Joe Gagen
Max Duckworth
Woodbury County
Duckworth
Nels Kraschel
Kraschel
Marshall
Federal Bureau of Internal Revenue
Government Service
Kansas City
San Francisco
Herring
Grand
Gagen
Joint Legislative Committee
Mason City
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Democratic State Executive Council
Lake
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