New York Day by Day A Portrait of City Elites
O O McIntyre offers a brisk panorama of New York society and culture. Names the era’s movers and shakers from editors to socialites, notes bath conscious habits, fashion hubs, and the fading Casino in the park, ending with the newsroom blues.
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New York
O. O. McIntyre
York
Ed Howe
William Allen White
Carmel Snow
Osgood Perkins
Trench Coat
Hugh Baillie
U. P
Fifi Dorsay
Paris
Brock Pemberton
Boulevardier
Jules Bache
Rex Cole
Armand Vecsey
Ritz
John McClain
Long Island
Robert Taylor
Rudy Vallee
Rudy
Francine Larrimore
47Th Street
Ginger Rogers
White House
Pour le Bain
Upper East Side
Roosevelt Mile a Minute Tour Triggers Political Rumble
The President's fast Massachusetts trip turned into a racing parade with local politicians jockeying for positions near the car, eight injured in a rear-end crash at Quincy, and debates over union and employer influence on voting. The piece questions the politics behind the spectacle and calls for voters to consider undue influence and labor rights during this period.
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Roosevelt
Massachusetts
United Press
Providence
R. I
Fall River
New Bedford
Mass
Quincy
House Judiciary Committee
Democratic Platform
Chicago
Anne Sullivan Macy Heroine of Helen Keller Tribute
Anne Sullivan Macy, longtime companion and teacher to Helen Keller, died at age seventy after forty nine years of guiding Keller from blindness and deafness to speech and literacy. Her patient work and devotion defined a lifetime of quiet heroism.
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Helen Keller
Miss Keller
Anne Sullivan Macy
Coercion Charge in 1936 Campaign Tactics
The piece discusses fears of bold efforts by political operatives to influence workers during elections. It cites a Coffeyville Kansas case where pay envelope notes urged voting for Landon and Knox, notes possible Senate committee actions, and references a proposed Vanys bill to curb employer pressure, noting current law gaps.
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New Deal
Big Jim Farley
Lonergan
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Coffeyville
Kan
Landon
Knox
van Ys
Senate
The Ordinary Man’s Quiet Acts of Kindness and Satire
A reflective piece on compassion for the sick and the lonely, urging simple fellowship as the true remedy. It contrasts charitable wealth with humble human contact, then tangentially critiques capitalism and cultural pretensions with wit and social commentary.
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Beit
Death of Mrs Jonathan Barthell in Waukon
Mrs Jonathan Barthell died Wednesday at her home after a lingering illness. Wilhelmina Steinbaugh, her daughter, was born January 2 1860. She married Jonathan Barthell May 19 1886 and lived on a farm west of Waukon before moving to town in 1900. Six children were born, four surviving Leonard Dubuque Mrs John Minneapolis Walter and M Henry Nesheim Waukon. Barthell died in 1908.
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Waukon
Jonathan Barthell
Wilhelmina Steinbaugh
Henry Steinbaugh
Jonathan Barthel
Leonard
Dubuque
John Minneapolis
Walter
Henry Nesheim
M Barthell
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