Sugar allotment sparks legal clash in Pampanga don
In Guage Pampanga an aged landowner refuses a $7500 sugar processing tax payment saying it violates God. His heirs sue for the funds after the court orders payment. The don’s idealism collapses as the check is handed to his heirs amid personal reflections and comic quips.
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Don Maxima
Guage
Pampanga
Don
Ashe
Paramount Issue Lacking in Nation in Campaign Debate
National politicians debate a single paramount issue for the 1940 election, with many arguing no one issue dominates. Analysts such as Senator Arthur Vandenberg say the campaign centers on a mix of major group issues affecting farmers laborers business unemployed women and youth. The piece notes a broad surge of group politics and the challenge for leaders to unite diverse interests.
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Byron Price
Bureau
Associated Press
Washington
Rothers
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ieaders
Grover Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chamber
Political drift taints chambers of commerce and public life
Essays on how groups like the Chamber of Commerce drift with politics, from nonpartisan aims to linked stances with Roosevelt opponents. Included are notes on damaging July statements and the broader impact of political affiliations on business groups. Also mentions British railway safety stats and a boxing scene anecdote alongside a gasoline dynamite equivalence fact.
Memory of Father Procopius Scientist Honored
A fragmentary report notes a Czechoslovak memory exhibit for Father Procopius science and a 1784 invention credited to a conductor, with Benjamin Franklin linked strangely. A Brenditz museum opens, and a peasant destruction story is linked to a crop ure. In Rome, arrest on suspicion is legal and the accused must prove innocence.
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Steand Bex
Franklin Znoimo
Czochoslovakia
Procopius
Benjamin Franklin
Brenditz
Father Divisch
Prient
Rome
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George A. Haddad
Joe T. Robinson
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