Willkie LaGuardia Johnson on Campaign Debates and GOP Figures
A compilation of remarks recounts Willkie attacking federal deficits, LaGuardia accusing him of reckless talk, and Johnson noting Roosevelt's broken promises. It also covers Carter Glass’s stern rebuke, Pew’s Philadelphia influence, and Willkie’s Pennsylvania reception during the 1932 campaign.
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Willkie
LA Guardia
LaGuardia
New York
Congress
Carter Glass
United States
Roosevelt
Phillipic
Senator Glass
Joe Pew
Philadelphia
Robert Taft
Wendell Willkie
Pew
Pennsylvania
Taft
al Smith
Middle West
Tammany
Joe
Wendell
Thanksgiving Date Split Across Calendars This Year
Thanksgiving will fall on November 21 or 28 this year as calendars diverge. The piece traces past moves by Presidents Roosevelt and Lincoln, cites retailer concerns, and notes 32,000,000 turkeys aiding the holiday feast. It mentions Lew Hahn, Harry Hopkins, and NRA ties, plus colonial origins and shifting observances.
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Bob Wunderlin
Western Newspaper Union
Union
United States
Roosevelt
Lew Hahn
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Harry Hopkins
Hahn
Ridgewood
N. J
NRA
Roper
Department of Commerce
Brain Trust
New York
Continental Congress
Congress
George Washington
James Madison
Abraham Lincoln
Inquiry into Detroit graft and Hollywood gigolo reform
The piece surveys a postwar justice department push targeting Detroit graft tied to liquor stores and mail fraud, with indictments planned after the election. It notes Rockefeller Whitney efforts to curb Hollywood gigolo image, rising Central European communism, and American plans for Latin American cooperation and goods stock surveys for defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Department
Detroit
U.S
Louisiana
Supreme Court
Michigan
Justice
Hollywood
Nelson Rockefeller
John Hay
Jock
Whitney
Rockefeller
Argentina
France
U. S
Martinique
Roosevelt
Defense Commission
Agriculture Department
Expanding. Business Creates More Jobs Says L G Elliott
L G Elliott of LaSalle Extension University notes rising factory payrolls and consumer buying surging past ten percent year over year. He cites broad gains in major industries, with rapid expansion in arms related sectors and government demand boosting earnings and purchasing power nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. G. Elliott
LaSalle Extension University
Gove
Sailors Prayer Books and the Holy Stone Misprint
The note explains that sailors used porous sandstone stones to scrub decks on Sundays, earning the stones the nickname sailors prayer books. A humorous eleventh commandment mocks labor on six days and scrubbing on the seventh with the holy stone.
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Washington, D. C
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Colchester
Connecticut
Shirley Ann Vleit
Florida
Illinois
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Britain
Czecho Slovakia
Austria
Hungary
Vienna
Bela Kun
Henry
Kladno
Germany
Russia
Hitler
Communist Party
Joe Kennedy
Merry
National Defense
Army Air Corps
LaSalle
la Salle Extension University of Chicago
Bones
THE
Welsh Mineral CO
Montana Ave
Billings
Montana
Roane
Pam
Livarta
Mad
Ore
Beautiful Lake
Grand Coulee Dam
D.P. Crookshank
Coulee City
Wash
Acme Trading CO
Grand Coulee Dana
Neon
H. Strasa
Western Training Service
Mead Building
Portland
Oregon
FOX Studios
Simpson's St
Helen
A.C
D.C
Billings Pipe & Supply CO
Pipe & Supply CO
Minnesota
P.O. Bon
Lydia E. Pinkham
Syieb
Pinkham
Doans
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