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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1934
Page
2
A reader on the Liberty League led by Al Smith and John W. Davis criticizes the New Deal while asserting its own aims. The piece questions their rhetoric about home, business, and savings and argues Roosevelt's policy has restored ownership to average citizens.
The Birmingham Age-Herald notes Will Rogers praising London's Hyde Park as a venue where Fascists and anti-Fascists clash without violence. It cites a 150,000 crowd, 5,000 per side, police with batons, and asks if U S parks could mirror such restraint amid heated political discourse.
New York Day By Day reports on Charles V MacArthur and Ben Hecht making motion pictures in an Astoria studio and following a hands off order. The duo, known for rapid, humorous production, is praised for efficiency and fidelity while a star haberdasher retires and Tammany Young moves from gate crashing to acting.
Washington dispatch discusses the senatorial arms inquiry lacking clear remedies. It argues domestic embargoes would fail without global coordination, notes European entanglement with munitions, and predicts the probe will mainly generate publicity. It also links arms to broader politics and trade, mentioning Ford and Broadway dynamics.
In Eagle readers are invited to submit short paragraphs to Batchelor's Buttons column printed in the Do The Dothan Eagle. Submissions may be unsigned and lighthearted lines on politics, fishing, farming, vanity, and everyday wisdom are shared, with a playful tone and compiled for publication.
The Birmingham News notes Al Smith’s facial likeness to Jimmie Durante and mocks John W. Davis. It comments that Davis’ utterances lack dignity, contrasting a Virginian's presumed respectability with the Liberty League's evolving, undistinguished career.
Two tramps quarrel at a widow’s cottage gate. One volunteers to fetch aid but returns with a black eye, reporting the widow’s might. The exchange ends with the line about the widow’s power. Pearsons Weekly.
The Buffalo Times notes James Wadsworth is not likely to risk his political future by running as a GOP candidate for governor. The Fayetteville Observer comments on a der Fuhrer speech as urging support for Saar.
A collage of quirky lines: a hot summer, jokes about frozen assets, a dig at Rochester Times Union, gags about recruitment and nose injuries, and a warning not to return to certain spots from the U S S West Virginian Mountaineer.
A drill instruction fragment and recruit exchange query touch on rifle handling and trigger pull. The fragment mentions the U S S New York Knickerbocker and a definition of longevity from Devil's Dictionary, implying a rough discussion of fear of death and weapon use rather than a coordinated event.
Verbatim observation notes a Buffalo Times quote by Jean Harlow on how rumor mongering harms friendships and marriages, highlighting social damage from gossip in the public sphere.
Allentown report describes Herbert Mitch recalling a armed hold up at his gasoline station. The bandits left empty handed after Mitch claimed he was poor and in need. In West Chester, federal agents traced a counterfeit operation to a cornfield on the county poor farm with crude furnaces producing nickels and quarters.
Two men robbed the apiary of Hir any C Ordway in Hornell New York but escaped stings from the bees and faced punishment from Justice a Ent. Jorwin Taft, 30, got a 260 day suspended sentence while his companion was jailed 60 days and fined $36. Separately in Cincinnati Solomon was praised as a supper king and Dr Nelson Glueck cited as noting Solomon used forced labor in mining in Transjordan and Asia Minor to feed exchanges for gold and silver.
London reports Big Ben's faces cleaned and repainted in crimson and real gold. After extensive overhauling the landmark returns to its bright 1960s appearance. The gold layer is described as the thinnest gold leaf.
Classified ads note that New Dealers face opposition and warn of a political backlash. They report Miami American Legion delegates unlikely to back the bonus, with less than a third in favor. Next convention may be in St Louis. Moley travels to Texas and Mexico with Rayburn to meet Garner, while Lovee critiques the New Deal in Bluff Point New York.
The article argues that indulgent parenting creates spoiled children who disrupt communities. It notes parents' fear of disciplining, resulting social exclusion of the child and long term resentment. It cites potential compensating outcomes like athletic success but warns most suffer lifelong inadequacy.
In a tribute by Dr Lago Goldston the death of Marie Curie is noted as a landmark loss for science and medicine. The article recalls her rise from Warsaw to Paris, the discovery of radium with Pierre Curie, and the Polonium link to Poland. It notes her continuation of work after his death and mentions her daughter’s involvement in radionuclide research.
New York awaits the arrival of Erik Charell’s international production described as an expensive, stage-spanning piece. He notes San Francisco’s appeal and plans for a massive Hippodrome venue in New York, with a focus on spectacle, music, and vivid design as the show travels from Madrid and Berlin to Paris and London before its U.S. premiere.
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