Grafton Sentinel Opinion on Fiscal Policy
The Grafton Sentinel decries ongoing federal spending and a lack of budget balance under Roosevelt. It argues for a go to pay as you go approach and balanced budgets to reduce burdens, urging Republicans and Democrats to join in retrenchment for public welfare.
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Grafton Sestinel Publishing Company
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Grafton
W. Va
Grafton Printing Co
Roosevelt
National Defense
Calumet Drive mansion owner amid campus romance
Walter Van Buren Pomeroy, a Houston mansion owner, hosts his daughter Geraldine at a Rice Institute campus dance. The evening exposes social rivalries, flirtations, and complex courtships featuring Professor Thornton Holgate, Sara Sue Davis, and Worthington Gurley as peers jockey for attention.
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Houston
Calumet Drive
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Rice
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Thresher
Peaches
Holgate
Bob Towne
Bob
Davis
Charlie Bane
Sara Sue Davis
Waloe
Stituse
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Cam
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Peaches Pomeroy
Fee
Worthington Gurley
Sara Sue
Thornton Holgate
Tew
Hega Bara Sue
Z. J. Sanders
Sara Sug
Sue
Finda Sanders
Sanders
Sara Sie
Dopa
Alobe
Sandare
Sub Rosa
Big Bob Towne
Gurley
Sara Sue Davis, Incorporated
Sara
Dr. Holgate
Miss Pomeroy
Jana
Miss Pomgrey
Advertising the State Promotes Tourism and Defense
A Huntington report urges stronger state publicity for scenery and recreation, proposing a Chamber of Commerce sub‑group to raise funds for statewide ads. It calls for inviting national sports writers and broadcasters to showcase parks, hunting and fishing, and suggests trips that would boost national coverage of West Virginia's offerings. The piece also criticizes New Deal spending, taxes, and defense funding as misused public money.
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State Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia
Dillon Graham
Spending Has Done It, Clarksburg Telegram
The article condemns New Deal spending as wasteful and debt increasing. It argues federal debt nears 40 billion dollars, with money diverted from defense to supposed experiments. It cites forest leaf raking, flood control dams, morbid murals, and billions paid to farmers as misused funds.
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Clarksburg
New Deal
United States
America
McNary Calls Republicans to Cut Spending Now
Senator McNary, Republican Senate minority leader, arrived in Washington outlining a priority to shrink government spending and restore balance between income and outgo. He said Republicans will oppose New Deal expansion toward collectivism, and unite with independents to oppose reorganization, court packing, and similar measures if the administration pursues them.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
McNary
United States Senate
Congress
Washington
Grave search may uncover poems by Shakespeare and peers
A Baltimore Evening Sun correspondent notes Westminster Abbey plans to open Edmund Spenser's grave to seek poems by Ben Jonson Beaumont Fletcher and possibly Shakespeare. The dispatch recalls Rossetti exhuming his wife’s coffin to recover poems and mentions Shakespeare's epitaph and the idea that poets left poems with Spenser’s remains for a later discovery.
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Evening Sun
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Westminster Abbey
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Beaumont and Fletcher
Shakespeare
London
Paul de Labilliere
Rossetti
Elizabeth
Spenser
Roosevelt Faces Congressional Year With Tax Proposals
The president, en route from the Bahamas, said no story behind his Little White House trip. He and Bankhead and Hopkins will launch a season of congressional issues from December as Republicans gain strength. Proposals include new taxes on undistributed profits and capital gains, re-enacting expiring luxury taxes, reciprocal taxation, liberalizing social security, more crop control laws, and railroad finance reforms.
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Roosevelt
White House
Miami
Fla
Bahamas
Bankhead
Hopkins
Washington
Congress
Elections Forecast Pushes Republicans Toward Right
A sober forecast notes the 1938 elections show Republicans gaining over eighty House seats eight Senate seats and fourteen governorships signaling a shift toward conservative policy. The commentary urges a bipartisan, middle of the road approach to economic recovery while warning against radical liberal shifts and predicting a shorter 60 day legislative session with likely leadership moves in the West Virginia legislature.
Daladier Move Continues Amid Worker Clashes Across Cities
Daladier’s government faced continued clashes with workers with confrontations reported in Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Dieppe, Grenoble and Marseille. Observers expect two foreign policy gains: a French representative sent to insurgent Spain and steps to break the French Russian mutual assistance pact.
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Pageanes
Lille
Lyon
Nantes
Dieppé
Grenoble
Marseille
Two Seek Candidates Ready Candidacy For Senate Leader
Two individuals have emerged as contenders for the upcoming race. Paull, former majority floor leader in 1937, indicated he would reserve comment until next week. Capitol observers note another possible candidacy could be forming. Senator Pelter, former house speaker in 1935 from Logan County, has announced a bid for senate president and is a holdover from the previous elected group.
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Charles Lively
Senate
John Hall
House
J. William Cummins
Wheeling
Helmick
A. L. Helmick
Tucker County
Dan Fleming
Continea
Paull
Pelter
Logan County
Judge Praised Defense Claim in German-Linked Case
A court proceeding featured three German or German-born defendants who argued they receive equal consideration with American citizens. The judge criticized U S laxity and opened a summary of the government's key witness, Guenther Gustave Rumrich, a former U S Army deserter turned defendant, urging careful examination of his testimony.
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Guenther Gustave Rumrich
U. S
Judge Knox Defends Open Courts In Spy Trial Recap
Judge Knox told the jury that Rumrich was an unabashed liar in many instances yet admitted even a liar can tell truth sometimes. He voiced the opinion the defendants were part of the German system and criticized lax spy investigations while praising the American way of justice. A luncheon followed with Charles E. Hodges welcoming. A. H. Pruitt led talks on uniform contracts for motor carriers. James W. Weir to report. officer elections to wrap up.
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Knox
Rumrich
Senarate
Charles E. Hodges
A. H. Pruitt
Charleston Giazette
James W. Weir
Elkins
Journalists clash as publishers meet in Chicago
NEWSPAPERMEN engaged in a dig at Chicago and could not at the same time weekly newspaper publishers met to discuss a legislative program public notices and contracts with Herman P Dean of Wayne vice president of the groups in charge Associated Press members considered coverage of the coming legislative session and other problems A report was submitted by Max Pullerton chief of the Charleston bureau Holt James To Speak Governor Holt and Tax Commissioner Ernest K James will be honor guests and speakers at
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Chicago
Herman P Dean
Wayne
Associated Press
Max Pullerton
Charleston
Holt
James
Ernest K. James
Theft ring solved in Fairmont arrests of two men
Fairmont police announced the solution of about a score of automobile thefts after the arrest of Ralph Corbitt, 22, and Harry Sickles, 23, both of Fairmont. Police Chief Joseph T. Hodges said the pair would be held pending further investigation.
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Fairmont
Ralph Corbitt
Harry Sickles
Joseph T. Hodges
Ex convict Kilgore sentences Bogle for break in
Beckley December 19 Harley Kilgore sentences Bogle a negro ex convict to years imprisonment after conviction for breaking and entering. Bogle admits prior penitentiary terms and serves to punish his latest crime in a state jail.
Shoe Shop Blaze Damages Mullens Store
A fire starting from an initial source near December 1 destroyed a local shoe repair shop operated by Dominic Cataffa in Mullens. Losses were estimated at about 2 500 dollars and a relief effort was reported underway.
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Mullens
Dominic Cataffa
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