Roosevelt inflation debate splits old party lines
In a Graettinger Times column, supporters and critics clash over President Roosevelt's inflation policy and a stabilized dollar. The piece argues the gold standard harms the economy while praising a commodity dollar and congressional backing for inflation, naming Senator Borah and Father Coughlin as voices.
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When Trucks Swing Down the Pike
A Knoxville Express column paints southern towns as fading remnants of once thriving communities. It laments abandoned churches and hotels, emptied stores, and dwindling fortunes as licensed trucks symbolically cart away municipal life and practical services to distant places.
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Whitman as a Journalist A warning from 1857
A study in the Saturday Review of Literature recalls Walt Whitman writing in the Brooklyn Daily Times in 1857. The essay highlights economic restraint and the virtue of living within one’s means as a timeless admonition amid national stress.
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