Morrow’s New Jersey Victory Ends Dry Dictatorship Era
Opponents of prohibition faced an overwhelming victory for Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow in the New Jersey Republican senatorial primary. The result, amid a four cornered race and anti Hoover framing, signals a shift toward repeal and could undermine the dry influence in eastern state Republican organizations. The Digest poll matched the outcome closely, showing a nationwide trend toward wet policies.
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New Jersey
Dwight W. Morrow
Fort
Hoover
Morrow
House of Morgan
Anti-Saloon League
Literary Digest
Digest
Meddling Diplomats and War Trade Critique
An opinion piece argues against State Department limits on US sales of aircraft and munitions to Russia. It accuses officials of hypocrisy and calls for government noninterference or, failing that, federal regulation under Congress. The article also cites Stanford and university pacifism, labor policy, and social insurance debates.
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State Department
Russia
Great Britain
Britain
United States
Italy
Mussolini
Moscow
Congress
David Starr Jordan
Stanford University
Thorstein Veblen
Edward A. Ross
Leland Stanford
Central Pacific
Cornell Uiversity
Theodore Hoover
Robert D. Speere
Stanford Daily
Jordan
Mars
Dean Hoover
Speere
San Quentin
Who Pays the Fiddler in the Great Depression
The piece argues workers suffer under repression with wage cuts and rising unemployment, while owners of stocks and bonds remain unpinched. It cites labor bureau data showing May 1930 dividend and interest payments at 570.3 million dollars, up from 490.4 million in May 1928, and dividend payments higher in May 1930 than 1929.
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Labor Bureau
Boxing and the fading honor of prizefighting in history
The author laments the glory of past champions and condemns prize fighting as degrading. He arguesfighters value gate receipts over greatness, recalls John L. Sullivan as a symbol, and notes matches decided by knuckles rather than gambling, while reflecting on cultural shifts and national pride.
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Mr. Schmeling
Mr. Sharkey
John L. Sullivan
Chicago
One in a Million Stars May Host Planets and Civilizations
The article reports Dr. F R Moulton's view that about one in a million stars could have planetary systems and possibly inhabited planets. It explains planetesimal theory, star proximity, and estimates of 40,000 inhabited planets in the Milky Way, with civilizations potentially much older than ours.
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F. R. Moulton
Moulton
T. C. Chamberlain
Earth
Dr. Moulton
R. Moulton
Mankind
Pascal’s Birth and Early Life Highlighted
Blaise Pascal born June 19 1623 at Clermont Ferrand France is noted as a French philosopher mathematician and writer who showed early mathematical brilliance. He studied with his father moved to Paris as a youth and later shifted from mathematics to religious life joining the Jansenists at Port Royal near Paris.
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Blaise Pascal
Clermont-Ferrand
France
Paris
Pascal
Leibnitz
Rouen
Port Royal
Daily Thought Quotation on Mercy and Justice
A devotional line cites Psalm 136 3 and Longfellow praising mercy over vengeance. The text presents a moral reflection contrasting divine mercy with human justice and vindictiveness.
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Lord of Lords
Shock Changes in Nervous System From Electrical Currents
A Johns Hopkins neurology study shows different electrical currents produce distinct brain and nerve cell lesions. Langworthy notes heart disturbances and breathing failure explain many fatal electric shocks. hemorrhages occur mainly with alternating current, more severe damage with continuous current at 500 to 1000 volts.
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Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University
O. R. Langworthy
Langworthy
Telephone Anecdotes and a Memory Trick for Numbers
A columnist muses on telephone exchanges and memory, weaving a tale around 7070 and Chickering to fix numbers in mind. He riffs on reforms, quoting the era's tariff debate and noting difficulty recalling names and exchanges while poking gentle fun at the era's telecom quirks.
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Central
Pelham Manor
New York Telephone Company
Bogardus
Readers Voice Views on crime, gender roles and city care
A Times reader laments ongoing crime coverage and argues married women should stay home to reduce street crime, while criticizing city officials for park, recreation and budget failures. The letter also questions Riley’s grave prominence and muses about railroads and the American Mathematical Society address.
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Times
Indianapolis
Crown Hill Cemetery
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Annie
Florence Brooking
Morrow wins in New Jersey amid Prohibition shift
The article notes M. E. Tracy four orrow victory in New Jersey with a fivefold margin, driven by Prohibition as a key issue. It argues politicians overreact and that Morrow's wealth, education, and sincerity set him apart from typical leaders. It cites Wall Street nervousness and a broader push toward economic realignment.
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Orrow
New Jersey
Morrow
Ward Heeler
Weighing Global Tensions and Domestic Rights in 1930
The piece argues that Soviet arms policy risks alienating allies, notes Hoover’s arms shipment ban to Soviet Russia six months prior due to lack of diplomatic relations, and contends that postwar debts and policies fuel turmoil. It cites the American Civil Liberties Union reporting intensified repression and censorship in early 1930, with state surveys showing varied conditions across forty states and six states improving.
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Bolivia
Red
Baltimore
Soviet
Russia
Hoover Administration
Soviet Russia
American Civil Liberties Union
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Bible Quiz Do You Know Your Bible Series Teaser
A fragmented educational item presents five questions about biblical events and figures. It references furnace of fire Daniel three men and the palm tree prophetess and mentions Haman Mordecai and John the Baptist with scriptural clues. The piece hints at the Midnight Sun region concept.
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Jesus
Kingdom of Heaven
Haman
Mordecai
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