Regulate Power and Interstate Transactions Urged
The Indianapolis Times discusses regulation of power across state lines. It cites 1928 export figures and 1929 federal trade commission estimates, noting rising interstate energy movement and the need for expanded federal authority. It also highlights holding company profits and the push for reorganization of the federal power commission.
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National Electric Light Association
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Commission
The
Trade Commission
Couzens Just
Federal Power Commission
Hoover Haitian settlement hailed as diplomatic success
The text credits President Hoover for accelerating a Haitian settlement that ends marine occupation and Borno's rule, with Eugene Roy to lead a temporary government and elections to follow. It notes improved U S standing in Haiti and Latin America, and praise for the commission and Haitian patriots.
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Hoover
Star Department and Marine
Aleady
Haiti
Borno
Eugene Roy
Roy
Govermment
United States
General Russell
Latin America
Commission
Hoover Commission
Storno
M. Roy
Hoover Flags Unreliable Stats in Unemployment Crisis
President Hoover warns that federal unemployment data are rough and uncertain and his measures pale beside labor bureau indices. He acknowledges distress concentrated in industrial states, cites drop in employment and building permits, and urges swift passage of Wagner bills for federal statistics exchanges and public works planning.
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Hoover
Atic
American Federation of Labor
Congress
What An Incentive Means in Owning a Home Debate
A reader letter from a young home owner in Lakewood Ohio contrasts the pros and cons of owning versus renting. It argues that mortgage payments and taxes are not inherently uplifting and presents a view on home ownership framed by personal experience and common urban phrases.
A. L. Erlanger and the Ben Hur Contract Legacy
Frederick Land highlights A. L. Erlanger’s dramatic Ben Hur production and the pivotal contract with General Lew Wallace. The piece notes Crane’s unexpected legal skill in drafting the deal, the early motion picture rights, and praises Wallace as a romantic yet grounded Indiana figure who shaped American literature.
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A. L. Erlanger
Lew Wallace
Song
Erlanger
Crane
New York
Wallace
Indiana
Scarface Capone, Gandhi, Doheny cases in a busy week
M E Tracy surveys a week of global headlines from Capone’s potential release and a guard entourage to Gandhi’s fate debates. He notes the Doheny oil scandal fallout and Russia’s church policy versus minority rights, plus Haiti’s provisional leadership shift and the broader link between politics and economics.
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Scarface
al” Capone
Mahatma Gandhi
Doheny
Washington
Russia
Chicago
Daily Thought From Sacred Text And Stoic Quote
The excerpt blends Acts 10 35 about fearing God and doing right with Epictetus urging fear of poverty exile imprisonment and fear itself only should be feared. It contrasts religious and philosophical views on fear and virtue.
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Epictetus
City Life and Health Progress Across The Ages
Drs Haven Emerson and Earle B Phelps argue city life was unsafe until modern sanitation. They note rising urban populations, higher city disease rates, and improvements in sewage water food transport and housing cut gaps. By 1910 sanitation narrowed the life expectancy gap between country and city children and adults.
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United States
New York
Brandeis Whalen and Humpty Dumpty Reflections
A column cites Brandeis on free speech in the Whalen case and uses Humpty Dumpty as a parable. It discusses courage to challenge laws, the role of education over suppression, and notes the author’s own past work on Humpty Dumpty with satirical court dialogue.
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Brandeis
Belief in Ourselves From Daily Lenten Devotion
Read John 17 1 8 memory verse Having accomplished the work which Thou hast given me to do It is faith we can make out of ourselves something worth while A Christian view holds life as a divine appointment Jesus modeled this belief Pray for clarity to see the tasks God has set and courage to pursue them Amen
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Doheny
USSIA
High Heaven
Russia
Greece
Rome
Europe
Alfred Lief
Justice Brandeis
Supreme Court
Grover Whalen
America
Mother Goose
Humpty Dumpty
Jesus
Times Readers Voice Views
A reader argues editors should freely criticise judges and public acts without contempt charges. The letter condemns courts that deny truth as a defense and calls for legislative action to remove restraints on press criticism.
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Times
Leaf fragment and canyon lore illuminate earth's past
The piece reviews The Living Past by John C. Merriam, detailing chapters from scientific fieldwork in California caves and the Columbia River Gorge. It highlights a Gingko leaf fossil story as a vivid example of science revealing romance and poetry grounded in reality.
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John C. Merriam
Scribner's
Merriam
America
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Dr. Merriam
California
Columbia Gorge
R. Merriam
Washington Drives British From Boston on Evacuation Day
The British evacuated Boston on March 17 1776 after Washington, aided by Henry Knox’s cannons, seized Dorchester Heights and forced General Howe to withdraw to Halifax. About 1000 Tories left with the British. Washington entered Boston triumphantly the next day.
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Boston
Washington
Henry Knox
Ticonderoga
Cambridge
Dorchester Heights
Howe
Halifax
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Scripps-Howard Newspape
Indianapolis Times Publishing Co
West
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Indianapolis
Ind
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D W. Howard
Boyd Gurley
Frank G. Morrison
Fhone—Riser
United Press
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Newspaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations
United States Bureau of Labor
Lakewood
O.) Post
Frederick Land
General Wallace
Benjamin Crane
Crawfordsville
Albert R. Anderson
New York City
Possum Trot
Daniel Webster
Daniel
M. E. Tracy
Gandhi
Dawes
Daily Thought
Daily Health Service
Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
Hygeia, the Health Magazine
Heywood Brown
Whalen
Science
David Dietz
Elijah
Columbia River Gorge
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