From Humble Clerk to U S Budget Chief D W Bell
D W Bell rises from a $700 a year clerk in Washington to acting director of the federal budget after Lewis Douglas resigns. A career civil servant, Bell enjoyed wartime duty in the tank corps and later advanced through accounts and finance roles. He is married with one daughter and prefers the outdoors to social life.
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Washington
I. I NJ
Donald W. Bell
Lewis Douglas
Roosevelt
New Deal
Treasury Department
Pike County
Illinois
Bell
Gem City Business College
Quincy
Federal Civil Service
United States
Washingon
America
Fort Myer
Tank Corps
France
Motor Transport Bureau
Mufti
Treasury
Douglas
Commissioner Bell
City briefs and personals from Morris Plan loans to YMCA classes
City notices list Morris Plan loans and traffic safety meetings plus Knights of Pythias and parish events. Local reports note Castor bean plants at 1230 Maplewood NE and the Maddigan School of Music moving to the Iowa theater building. YMCA classes for women, seniors, students, and children begin Oct 1 with enrollment through the Y or Mrs Bessie Hall.
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H. A. Cook
Maplewood Drive
Maddigan School’of Music
Roosevelt Hotel
Iowa Theater
YMCA
Hich School
Business Girls
Bessie Hall
Women’s Hotel Association Plans Instruction School
The Hotel Women’s Association of Chicago will open a one year school of hotel instruction late in September. Experts from universities and colleges will lecture on hotel management problems, with monthly lectures for association members.
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Chicago
Hotel Women's Association of Chicago
Deaths and funerals in Cedar Rapids and beyond
Louis B Calder 62 formerly of Cedar Rapids died Friday night at his Ontario California home after a brief illness from a fall. Surviving: widow five daughters two sisters and two brothers. Funeral notices: Abby M Allison Turner chapel Monday 2 p.m. Rev E B Frye officiating Linwood cemetery. William J Greene Turner chapel 4:30 p.m. Monday. No flowers.
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Louis
Calder
Ontario
Calif
Cedar Rapids
George S. Davis
First Avenue E
Charles E
Alcinda A Calder
California
Davis
C. E. Woodward
Frederick, Wis
George Calder
Luck
Wis
Gans A. Calder
Los Angeles
Allison
Abby M. Allison
Turner Chapel
E. B Frye
Madison, Wis
Linwood Cemetery
W. J. Greene
William J Greene
C. F. Edwards
Stolen Violin Recovered At Annual Police Sale
A maplewood violin modeled after 18th century Amati masterpieces was found by Edward Anderson during a Cleveland police auction. Akron dealer Charlies M. Kramberger identified the relic and claimed it as his. police held the instrument pending legal action.
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Cleveland
Amati
Edward Anderson
Northfield
Kramberger
Nikolai Sokoloff
Cleveland Orchestra
Akron
Bandits Strike Chinese Railway Amid Russo Japanese Tensions
Chinese observers report a surge of bandit attacks on the Chinese Eastern Railway from May to August with freight derailments and passenger shootouts. Moscow blames Japanese paymasters while Japanese forces retaliate in Manchukuo as July bandit raids total 3,784 cases with about 9,000 attackers. A new Manchukuo Harbin to Seisin rail link is slated to begin traffic on October first.
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Peiping
INS
Tokio Foreign Office
Moscow
Manchukuo
C.E.R
Rudyl
Japan
Russia
North
Manchuria
Harbin
Seisin
Drought Threatens Expensive Homes in Council Bluffs
Settling from severe drought imperils over twenty costly homes in Council Bluffs. Doors misaligned, foundations cracked, and windows stuck as engineers struggle to diagnose the cause amid extreme ground dryness.
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Council Bluffs
Seeking Canadian Lad for U S Film Role Copperfield
Toronto reports John Farrow an American director seeks an eight to ten year old Canadian boy with English accent to play David Copperfield in a Hollywood screen version. More than 100 Toronto boys applied for film tests.
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Toronto
Ont
Ins
Hollywood
John Farrow
Farrow
David Copperfield
Coast Guard Cutter Aids Expectant Mother on Puget Sound
The Arcata responded to an emergency from Kingston across Puget Sound and transported Mrs Eleanor Wendell 27 to Seattle for arrival of her baby. The crew waited for news at dockside after the transfer to a taxicab.
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Seattle
Uncle Sam
Coast Guard
Kingston
Puget Sound
Arcata
Eleanor Wendell
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2Nd St
Grand Ave
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1St St
Mason City
Nebraska St
Sioux City
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Traffic Safety Commission
Council
Star of the West Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Bungalow
Wenceslaus Parish
National Association of Power Engineers
Sokol
417
Third Street
A. W. Erskine
Rotary Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Europe
Edgar
Iowa Theater Shop
George E. Harms
E. E. Harms
Elmhurst Drive
Columbia College
Charles Filipi
Linden
Modern Woodmen of America
Woodmen Hall
Second Avenue SE
Paul O French
Town Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons
Legislative Committee
State Board of Examiners
Camp Ripley
O W Mull
Walter H Proescholdt
Ralph Yuill
Louis D Burkhalter, Jr
Artillery
Officers Reserve Training Corps
Minn
the Big Shoe Store
FURS
Newman
Women’s Hotel
Ass’n Plans
Louis B. Calder
Dr. Doherty
Star Jewelry
Second Street SE
Buckingham Palace
London
U.S
Stork
Paris
Serrec
Heisey
Mme Janette Serred
Iowa
Wewman
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