Today's Young Men Show Youths Conquer Hard Times
Felix B. Streyckmans argues low mood created opportunity for young thinkers. He cites Broadway sign king Douglas Leigh, Wall Street president William McChesney Martin, and other 20s 30s achievers who rose from adversity. He hosts profiles in a new book and compares them to colonial pioneers.
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Felix B. Streyckmans
Streyckmans
Reilly and Lee
Chicago
Horatio Alger
Broadway
Sign King
Douglas Leigh
Leigh
New York
Birmingham
William McChesney Martin
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
St. Louis
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank
America
Thomas Wingate
Amarillo
Texas
Tom
Home Economics Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
William Brannan
Beloit College
Wisconsin
Bill Brannan
Robert Kintner
Joseph Alsop Jr
Washington
New York Herald-Tribune
Bill Rogers
Will Rogers
Beverly Hills Citizen
West
Paul Smith
San Francisco Chronicle
Farm Security Board
Farm Tenancy Commission
San Francisco
Western Newspaper Union
Industrial Products Are Dressed Up to Spur Sales
Walter Darwin Teague, a Pendleton, Indiana native in New York City, pioneers industrial design by reworking products with new color and styling to cut costs and boost appeal. He serves major corporations as the industry’s “tailor,” stressing design for maximum functional efficiency and decorative advertising impact.
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New York
Indiana
Big City
America
New York City
Walter Darwin Teague
Pendleton
Ind
Teague
LaGuardia Urged as Presidential Candidate
LaGuardia, busy running New York City, faces pressure from friends to enter the presidential race. Franklin Roosevelt is also referenced as a possible candidate, with humorous exchanges noted between the mayor and supporters. The piece also covers Rex Tugwell’s Roosevelt history work and Pare Lorentz’s Florida Keys park idea.
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LaGuardia
Rex Tugwell
Tugwell
Roosevelt
Pare Lorentz
Florida Keys
Key Largo
Key West
Neutrality Patrol
Fort Callahan
Navy
Republican farm program path to 1930s victory argued
A political analysis argues Republicans can win by recapturing New Deal losses, especially farmers in Ohio Illinois Indiana Iowa and Nebraska, with a simple direct subsidy funded by a processing tax. It praises Senator McNary as a ready-made candidate, contrasts Taft Dewey Smith and Wallace, and notes opposition from Seagram and Schenley to a distilled spirits code.
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New Deal
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Illinois
Wallace
Bruce Barton
Fiorello LaGuardia
Wendell Willkie
Charlie McNary
McNary-Haugen
Mr. Roosevelt
McNary
Taft
Henry Wallace
Mr. Dewey
al Smith
Senator McNary
Distilled Spirits Institute
Sturges
Institute
Seagram
Schenley
Alen
College Research Given Credit For Speeding Building Trades
Washington reports a National Home Builders bureau survey credits college and university laboratories with boosting residential construction by 15 percent in 1940 versus 1939. It estimates research savings of about 180 million dollars annually in home building costs and highlights campus innovations from structural glass to weather conditioning and new plastics aiding energy efficiency and durability.
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Washington
National Home Builders’ Bureau
Negroes Use Odd Cures for Miseries in Atlanta
In Atlanta a Southern farm Negro community uses unusual remedies for misery. One cure reportedly treats neuralgia with a camphor ball tied around the neck, among other folk practices described in the clipping.
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Atlanta
Presidents and their historic milestones in the early republic
The passage notes that Cleveland won 496 bills, Polk was the first dark horse president, Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate, Jefferson and Adams were elected by the House, and lifespans before and after the Civil War averaged 73.8 and 61.67 years respectively.
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Rover Cleveland
James K. Polk
Andrew Johnson
House of Representatives
Senate
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
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Martin
Bill
Harold Stassen
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Theos . Bernard
Tibet
William M. Martin
Walter D. Teague
Edwin
Pa”) Watson
Watson
Europe
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Congress
Michigan
J. Hardin Peterson
Florida
George Johnson
West Virginia
John Kunkel
Pennsylvania
Fred Bradley
John G. Townsend
Delaware
Georgia
Paul Brown
Joel Hendricks
Milton
Billy Bullitt
France
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Tony Mut Sreel
Chas. McNary
T . Fe
Cvrssep
Photography
Fox- Studioa
Billings
Mont
Acme Trading CO
Montana Ave
California
Mecadera Really Co
Madera
Tenny
Madera Realty Co
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M. Clouston
Artesia
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