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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1932
Page
1
The fragmentary item cites Associated Press dispatch rules and newspaper notes. It mentions the Decatur Daily and The Tifton Gazette urging caution on the highway and gloomy winter outlooks. It recalls Albany history with saloons and asks about moonshiners, then muses on life and partridges and sportsmen.
The Eagle invites readers to vote on a two week questionnaire to select a preferred presidential nominee among available candidates. Hoover and Roosevelt are assumed nominated. readers may write in any other candidate. Voting does not require a signature and results will be published daily with totals.
Column quotes farmer hardships and politics with wry proverbs. It critiques farming income, rural insight, and party dynamics while lampooning political advisers and figures. The piece notes Roosevelt Smith’s split in the Democratic party and general public cynicism about money and work.
A veteran aviator Eddie Stinson who logged about 14000 hours, dies in a crash. The piece argues aviation remains dangerous thirty years after its invention, noting Stinson’s pioneering role and his experiment with spin recovery. It contrasts conventional airplanes with gyros, stressing landing speeds and ground risks.
Twenty years ago in Dothan councilman Charles Roland announced a bid for mayor and J Whiddon announced candidacy for city treasurer. The Curtis Exhibition offered an aviation exhibit. Local civic and business trips and visits are listed, including speakers and guests from Ozark, Ashford, Columbus, and Montgomery.
William Gaines notes the Senate finance committee inquiry into foreign securities drew elite society to open hearings. The big room overflowed with fashionable attendees, bankers, State Department attaches, and social swank, with many prominent spouses and diplomats among the crowd.
The room filled with notable figures as Thomas P. Lamont, Mitchell, and Otto Kahn appeared before congressional committees. State department officials and Francis White testified, heightening interest. Mrs. White also attended, watching her husband’s testimony amid a charged session.
Senator Johnson led the inquiry with relentless questioning and persistence, breaking through testimony to uncover the truth. He faced criticism for pressing witnesses to the brink, but proponents say he kept pushing until he found solid leads.
The House Ways and Means Committee delayed action on a proposed three cent letter rate and sent the matter to a hostile Postoffice Committee. Public reaction favors no rate hikes, arguing postal service costs should be borne by other departments not the mail system.
New York Letter reports Morton Downey, famed crooner, negotiating for a palatial Yonkers residence near the Bronx line with an asking price around 45000. The section notes Yonkers as a close sixth borough with a resident celeb colony including Samuel Untermyer and Joseph Urban, plus Downey’s prior ties to Yonkers.
Former Yonkers mayor John E Andrus, once dubbed the world’s champion strap hanger, nears his 91st birthday on February 16 after a long passion for the subway. The piece notes Yonkers elevators carpet industry pride, seasonal parks scenes, and social life in New York area, with remarks on politics and weather influencing travel and fashion.
A prominent newspaper sends its best man to Washington to study the situation. Herbert Hoover aims to save the country and will not let politics interfere with his duties. The writer notes this is an unpopular view and calls it ridiculous. The comment appears in E W Howe's Monthly.
A charm lies between an inferiority complex and a swellhead, defining a balanced self view as described in the San Francisco Chronicle quotation.
The Glendale News-Press voices a view that if citizens could settle private debts based on ability to pay, many large department stores would owe money, highlighting a contrast between personal finance and national debt.
A Montgomery Advertiser bid to boost farming coverage is praised as J P Mitchell of Headland pushes for more newspaper help for farmers. The column rails at wasteful verse and lauds doctors, surgeons, and a lighted life of work, with reflections on Alabama finances, education, roads, and legislative cooperation while noting a humorous verse about appendicitis.
The article argues child discipline hinges on affection not authority. It traces historical views from medieval to modern times, asserting discipline is an educational element shaped by the parent-child relationship. Affection, reassurance, belonging, and security are vital to guiding behavior.
Fragmentary text discusses Trist BAR Reverere UJFE and mentions home as a child’s world. It notes training for the wider world outside and that certain actions bring approval or disapproval.
Miss Margery Doig, a department store buyer who flies recreationally, said women fliers are sometimes poor sports and inferior to men in flying ability. She cited cattiness and personal motives as reasons many take up the sport to escape personal frustrations.
New York January 26 AP Brooklyn baseball club handed out 40040 in cash plus two rocks fielder for Lew Hack Wilson, the former National League home run king. The club calls him a bargain after his great 190 season and expects him to boost attendance and bring profit, with other clubs likely to bid.
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