Hoover Rivalry in 1937 on Economic Crisis Debate
A 1937 discussion contrasts Hoover and Roosevelt era policies as markets suffer post 1929 losses. It notes unemployment fears and government action to aid citizens, while criticizing moral blame on business and calls for regulation to prevent another crash. The piece cites critics who blamed Hoover and others as scapegoats.
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R. Roosevelt
Hoover
Covrept
Memke
Mesident
Washington
Supreme Court
Roosevelt warned on crop loans straining federal budget
President Roosevelt cautioned farm leaders against expanding crop loans to a point that would unduly drain federal revenue. Edward A. O’Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation led discussions with Wallace and other officials, proposing 60 cent a bushel corn loans to support prices while weighing the cost of a long term farm bill and a broader crop control program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
O'Neal
Edward A.o’neal
American Farm Bureau_ federation
White House
Bart Smith
Federation
Clifford H. Gregory
Farm Journal
Agriculture Department
Congress
O’neal
Alsace
Penick and Ford Reports Quarter Profit of 36580
Penick and rd Ltd Inc and subsidiaries, processors of corn products with plants in Cedar Rapids Iowa New Orleans and Columbus Georgia, posted a net profit of 36580 for the September quarter equal to 10 cents a share. This compares with a loss of 54340 in the prior quarter and a profit of 289431 or 78 cents a share in the same quarter of 1936.
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New York
Penick and Rd, Ltd, Inc
Cedar Rapids
New Orleans
Columbus
Industry leader Shoichi Kirishi dies at 73
Tokio reports Shoichi Kirishi ma 73 director of Mitsubishi interests and Nichi Nichi newspaper died Wednesday. His leadership spanned major Japanese industries and media holdings.
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TOKIO
Shoichi Kirishima
Mitsubishi
Nichi Nichi
Uncommon sense for a desperate world
A 1937 reflection cites Samuel Rogers and Luttrell on opposing bridge plans and broad warnings against snubbing new ideas. It argues that many so called sensible people resisted Pasteur, antiseptic surgery, and aviation, and then calls for uncommon sense and bold leadership to avert societal chaos. It notes America’s many religious sects and the need for spiritual renewal amid many isms and insufficient insight.
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Samuel Rogers
Luttrell
Old London Bridge
Rogers
Pasteur
America
Truce Ends Dixie Stevedores' Strike
W E Townsend, union organizer, said on Wednesday night that operators accepted terms of a truce offered by the International Longshoremen's Association ending the strike of 8 000 Negro stevedores that crippled shipping in mid south Atlantic and east Gulf ports.
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Tampa
Fla
W. E. Townsend
International Longshoremen’s Association
Soviet Expels Hundreds of Italians Under Pact Breakup
Moscow tears up reciprocal accord with fascist Italy and begins expelling or imprisoning more than 300 Italians since April. The move strains Moscow Rome relations and raises fears of wider war involving Germany and Japan.
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Moscow
INS
Russia
Italy
U.S.S.R
Rome
Germany
Far East
Mamoru Sigemitsu
Berlin
Hitler
Japan
Soviet Union
Guild signs year-long closed shop with California Symphony
New York AP reports the American Guild of Musical Artists led by opera star Lawrence Tibbett announced a one year closed shop contract with the Southern California Symphony Association.
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New York
American Guild of Musical Artists
Lawrence Tibbett
California Symphony Association
Roosevelt presses perfecting credit to curb booms and busts
President Roosevelt spoke at the dedication of the Federal Reserve bank building in Washington, saying only by perfecting the nation's monetary and credit machinery can economic disasters be avoided. He urged coordinated, steady improvement of the banking system since the 1929 low.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve System
Boone
Meres 8 Terce
Ps “i
Roosevelt opens Federal Reserve building ceremony
President Roosevelt addresses officials and guests at the official opening of the Federal Reserve building. He praises the architecture and dignity of the structure and notes the larger meaning of the Federal Reserve's role in government.
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Federal Reserve
Ninety People Convicted in Hungary Nazi Sympathizer Case
In Budapest, eighty nine peasants were sentenced to 18 months to two years in prison for Nazi sympathies. The trial centered on membership in the Scythe and Cross, a Hungarian fascist group with dictatorial aims, and lasted three days.
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Budapest
INS
Scythe and Cross
Greta Garbo Rumored to Wed Conductor Stokowski
Hollywood buzzed about Greta Garbo marrying Leopold Stokowski after a Boulder City Nevada divorce rumor linked Stokowski to Mrs Stokowski identified by hotel records. Attorney Roger Marchetti declined further comment while Garbo and Stokowski remained silent fueling speculation of a high profile match.
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Hollywood
Staples
Boulder City
Nev
Greta Garbo
Leopold Stokowski
Stokowski
Garbo
Purge Traps Bela Kun Former Red Dictator in Russia
Bela Kun, once a central Bolshevik figure in Hungary, has been arrested in the Soviet purge on charges of Trotzkyist activity. The 51 year old exile, who led Hungary’s postwar communist revolution, faces a fate typical of purge prosecutions as the Comintern reports his condemnation amid the ongoing Stalin era executions.
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Moscow
Bela Kun
Hungary
Communist Internationale
Josef Stalin
Russia
Communist Popular Front
Bela
Kun
Nicholas Horthy
Third Internationale
China
Spain
Iowa Students Win Maltby Trophy At FFA Judging Meet
At Kansas City AP Iowa took the Maltby trophy for best all around judging in the National FFA judging contests. Iowa earned two firsts to lead with Michigan Minnesota California and Texas. The livestock judging team Darwin Coffice Kenneth Krogh and Dwight Rogers of Sergeant Bluff led, while Frank Roach of Cheney Washington was high individual. New meat bird judging went to Iowa with Robert Mason and Harold Rhinehart of Alleman. Rhinehart was top individual.
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Kansas City
Iowa
Future Farmers of America
Michigan
Minnesota
California
Texas
Darwin Coffice
Kenneth Krogh
Dwight Rogers
Sergeant Bluff
Frank Roach
Cheney
Wash
Kansas
Washington
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Robert Mason
Harold Rhinehart
Alleman
Rhinehart
Old World Not Only Place To Find Row
Bugs Baer argues foreign policy should stay foreign and notes the history of war shows postponement creates a double header. He jokes the 1913 diplomat was more decisive than the 1914 events and mocks Americans for bearing the economic cost of foreign conflicts.
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Row
Bugs
Baer
HY Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Davis Sails to Represent All at Conference
Ambassador at large Norman H. Davis sailed for Brussels as part of the nine power delegation on the Far Eastern crisis. He declined to reveal U S mediation steps citing a presidential gag order while six peace groups urged the neutrality act and embargo to curb war materials to China and Japan before the October 30 conference.
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New York
INS
Norman H. Davis
America
Brussels
Roosevelt
China
National Council For the Prevention of War
Washington
Davis
Stanley Hornbeck
Cordell Hull
J. Pierrepont Moffat
State Department
Robert T. Pell
Paris
Current Information
Charles E. Bohlen
Chicago
Reelected Leader Helps Crown National Electric Contractors Group
Carl N. Peak of Marshalltown Iowa was reelected president of the National Electrical Contractors Association at the convention on Wednesday.
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Los Angeles
Carl N. Peak
Marshalltown
Iowa
National Electrical Contractors’ Associated
Wednesay
Brand Of The Broad Arrow Serial To Begin Tomorrow
The Cedar Rapids Gazette will begin serializing The Brand Of The Broad Arrow tomorrow. Ace investigator Charlton Clarke uncovers the real criminal amid river piracy clues and a Cinderella romance woven through the plot.
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Cedar Rapids
Spokesmen For Farmers Back Pope Measure
About 450000 words of testimony showed farmers from Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa favoring a Pope McGill bill for crop acreage control and an ever normal granary. Sixty five of 101 witnesses at a three day Senate agricultural subcommittee hearing voiced support, with many briefs filed by around a hundred others also backing the measure.
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Sioux City
Nebraska
South Dakota
Iowa
Congress
Senate Agriculture
McGill
Northwests
Cal
Iowa AG bars detaching license stubs for city violations
Des Moines AP notes Attorney General John N. Mitchell ruled Tuesday that stubs may not be detached from Iowa drivers licenses for violations of city ordinances requiring operation of motor vehicles.
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Des Moines
John N. Mitchell
Iowa
Stocks Rally As Market Bounces From Recent Lows
The New York stock market rose for a second day, with gains of 1 to 7 points or more, marking the strongest advance since March 15, 1933. Traders cited belief prices had fallen too far, hopes for tax reconsideration, quick-turn profits by rapid traders, and the cleanup of margin accounts, while some warned of potential profit selling amid a longer downtrend. Total shares traded reached 4,336,620 versus 7,287,990 prior session.
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New York
Wall Street
Washington
Berlingieri Seeks Court Jurisdiction In Merry Fahrney Divorce
Counsel for Baron Arturo Berlingieri, husband of Merry Fahrney heiress to a patent medicine fortune, was given until October 30 to file a petition asserting lack of circuit court jurisdiction in Merry Fahrney's divorce suit.
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Chicago
INS
Arturo Berlingieri
Merry Fahrney
Circuit Court
Merry
Cedar Rapids poet Sigmund dies after hunting accident
Cedar Rapids poet Jay G. Sigmund died at 10 p.m. Tuesday after his left leg was amputated following a hunting accident near his Waubeek summer home. He was 51. He was wounded when a discharge from his own shotgun struck his leg as he slipped while pursuing a rabbit. He was conscious and remained so until aid arrived. He authored many books and plays and served in insurance leadership. He is survived by his widow Louise, two daughters, a son, and his father. funeral planned at Grace Episcopal church in Cedar Rapids with burial in Central City.
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Jay G. Sigmund
Cedar ‘Rapids
Midwest
Waubeek
Sigmund
Frank Wilmott
Wilmott
Springville
Hunt
Bie Yon
James Bruce
Weis
Sigmand
Wanbeek
Herman R
Sarah Jane Bruce Sigmund
Cedar, Rapids
Tthe
Central City High School
Cedar Rapids, Life Insurance Company
United Benefit .Insurance Company of
Omaha
James
Minnesota Mutual Life ‘Insurance Company
Midlands
Authors Society
Iowa Press and Authors Club
Barrabas
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Cascade
Dubuque
Hiss
Mary Louise
Jane
Coe College
Fourth Avenue
Herman Sigmund
Central City
Ed Smith
Stone City
William Mitchell
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