Budget forecast to top billion for defense in 1938
The 1938 budget estimates likely exceed 1 billion for national defense as departments rush to file figures with Acting Budget Director Daniel W. Bell. Bell urged reductions elsewhere to keep overall spending below 1937 levels while drought and expanding programs push costs higher. Budget hearings run two months with agriculture and treasury first.
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Washington
Daniel W. Bell
Budget Bureau
Bell
National Defense
Agriculture and Treasury Departments
Congress
Camp Fire Leaders in Cedar Rapids Spotlight
Miss Ariana Burr and Mrs. M R Warren lead Cedar Rapids Camp Fire operations as longtime director and board president. Burr joined Camp Fire in 1912 and trained as a physical education educator, while Warren, a five year Camp Fire supporter and ex Camp Huaga committee chair, advocates Camp Fire values for youth.
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Ariana Burr
M. R. Warren
Brain Trusters
Camp Fire Organization
Cedar Rapids
Miss Burr
Warren
New York City
Camp Fire
the Guardian
Vassar
Sargent School of Physical Education
Cambridge
Mass
Betty Lee
Camp Huaga
Just Folks on Summer Cottages and Farewell Joys
A nostalgic meditation on summer cottages and long friendship. The poet recalls cheerful visits, lively dinners, and the happiness shared with friends, followed by the loneliness and sadness that arrive when the last goodbye is spoken and the cottage grows quiet. The piece ends noting that joy’s price is the sorrow of parting.
Roundtable for Cubbers and Scouters Held This Evening
A Cubbers and Scouters roundtable is set for this evening at First Congregational church with a 6:30 dinner and 7:30 roundtable. Chester S. Johnson presides as area Scout commissioner. Bert Watkins will speak on recognizing the New Scout. other speakers cover ceremonies and Senior Scouting leadership. A Den chiefs training course at Camp Waubek runs Friday 5 p.m. to Saturday 5 p.m.
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First Congregational Church
Chester S. Johnson
Bert Watkins
Joe Stenner
Harry W. Fraser
Arthur Nie
den Chiefs
Camp Waubek
Alcohol Not Paralysis Cause in Whisky Patients Says Harvard
Ten men and women cured from whisky paralysis and alcoholic insanity by diet and vitamin B were cited at Harvard Medical School's centenary. The patients drank daily up to a quart and a half of whisky yet improved with two eggs milk beef or lamb orange juice vegetables yeast and vitamin B complex concentrate. Treatments lasted two weeks to four months and starved dieting proved key to recovery.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Cambridge, Mass
Harvard Medical School
Maurice B. Strauss
Assis
Har
Strauss
Florida Tops Nation in Swamps and Wetlands Area
Florida has the largest area of swamps and wetlands among states, totaling about 19,800,000 acres.
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Florida
States of the Union
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Altana Burr
Thompson
Edgar A Guest
Gazette
OWA Electric Licht and Power Company
Coe
Cornell
Iowa
Grinnell
University of Washington
Minnesota
Big Ten
All America Board
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