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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1936
Page
2
A.B. critiques the 1932 Republican platform as a pale reflection of the Roosevelt era. The piece notes that many planks align with liberal reforms already enacted and accuses the platform of attacking the New Deal while calling for reduced regulation and a Hoover-like farm relief approach. The tone is sharp and political.
Henry Seidel Canby analyzes a historical novel about Claudius, the last republican who becomes emperor after Caligula's assassination. The work portrays his moral struggle, his devotion to Messalina, and how absolute power corrupts, framing imperial Rome as a crude yet mighty world that could not endure.
The piece laments low grade whispering campaigns in U S elections and recalls how leaders from Washington to Sherman faced smears. It argues that political lies aim to shape prejudice and ruin reputations, noting figures like Jefferson Jackson Adams and Sherman endured such attacks.
Franklin D Roosevelt spoke at Delphi at 2:00 PM with audience cheering as Miss Bess Wilson took shorthand. Other notes mention local travel, school enrollment, a warning about GOP fundraising teams, and various community items.
The Music Box reports two national broadcasts of top symphonic music. The Philadelphia Summer Concerts Orchestra airs Sundays from Robin Hood Dell Philadelphia at 6 30 CST starting June 28 conducted by Alexander Smallens. The Portland Symphony opens CBS series June 25 at 6 00 to 7 00 p m CST directed by Basil Cameron.
A pretty wedding was solemnized Saturday evening at 6 30 at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Best in the city when their younger daughter Edna married Millard Quinn of the city. Also reported Benton White a 36 year old negro who shot his ex sweetheart at Logansport Wednesday was taken from a Vandalia freight train at Flora. Mrs N J Howe entertained a company of ladies at a Valentine party Saturday afternoon. Lewis Grantham and son topped a car load of white faced Herefords at the Indianapolis stock yards, bringing $10 per hundred.
Auto owners who fail to display state license tags by April 1 face police overhauls and state reports. Charles Hargraves Yeorhan home burned Wednesday forenoon. insurance amount not learned. Monon railroad downsizes staff with ten firemen discharged and ten engineers demoted. Room 7 led by Miss Edna Kirkpatrick earned 22 dollars from a cherry pie sale Tuesday for European relief. Presbyterian society met Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. G. A. Shaffer’s home.
On June 14 at 7 00 p m Kathryn Meisle will be guest soloist with the Ford Symphony orchestra and chorus directed by Victor Kolar. On June 17 at 7 00 p m Lily Pons will perform with Andre Kostelanetz Orchestre and Chorus.
The sixth annual festival will be held next Sunday June 14 at Traipsin Woman cabin on the Mayo trail in Kentucky's foot hills, fifteen miles southeast of Ashland. Kentucky mountain singers on the Federal Music Project will perform rare ballads and hymns not heard outside the region. An old-time singing school will feature shaped notes and a tuning fork. Participants will sit on backless benches beneath oaks in front of the cabin home of the festival.
The Goldman Band from Central Park will be heard across NBC networks marking the 16th straight year of open air concerts. The first broadcast from New York on June 17 will feature martial, classical, sacred, popular and light operatic works. Subscribe for The Citizen.
The column compiles remarks from Roosevelt La Guardia Broun Darrow and Smith on poll parrots public service labor maps and personal effort. It also notes Hoover’s criticism of postwar recovery and Lemon’s critique about economic opportunity.
A collage of comic riffs on Republican Democrats and campaign life. The piece mocks political speeches, tax ideas, and social debate while poking at Hollywood culture and media trends. It riffs on Puerto Rico, the revenue plan, Tom Mooney, Scottsboro, and a living Buddha in Tibet, all in a sharp satirical voice.
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