Election Clash Over Coffin Regime Governing Indianapolis
A column denounces Coffin’s political influence in Indianapolis urging decisive action at the polls. It criticizes Glossbrenner for endorsing Coffin backed candidates and warns against electing candidates who would continue stripping citizens of rights and maintaining an iron-handed governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coffin
Supreme Court
Winkler
Glassbrenner
Glossbrenner
Grossbrenner
Keane
Emmelman
Albert Beveridge
Legislatire
Nts
Tariff Without Representation by Joseph R Grundy
Joseph R Grundy voices a brutal critique of tariff legislators before the Senate lobby committee. He blames the founders for two senators per state and urges constraints on powerful states like Pennsylvania. He favors reduced southern and western representation and silent rural senators during bill drafting. The piece portrays Grundy’s bold stance and hints at behind closed doors influence in tariff policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph R. Grundy
Frank
United States
Senate
Com
Grundy
Pennsylvania
South
Watson
Smoot
Government wires its way to tyranny in wiretapping case
A DC grand jury indictment on liquor conspiracy hinges on wiretap evidence. The piece cites Brandeis and Justice Brandeis’s dissent in the Seattle case, arguing that federal wiretapping undermines constitutional protections and invites anarchy by government officials breaking the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prohibition
Hoover
District of Columbia
Justice Brandeis
Supreme Court
Seattle
Brandeis
One at a Time Ladies Henry Ford Predicts Women in Industry
A current magazine article quotes Henry Ford predicting women will disappear from industry as they refuse to think and prefer to take orders. The piece notes Ford’s courage but questions his judgment, arguing that women can think as fast and accurately as men, with the trend moving against his forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ford
Mr. Ford
Mob psychology blamed for stock bubble and potential cold feet epidemic
M E Tracy argues mob psychology fueled a volatile stock surge not tied to dividends or business. He cites Yale Professor Irving Fisher and a public craze over betting on rising prices, warning that the boom originated in speculation and may trigger a market slump with little real impact on business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Fisher
Yale
Dreaming an Old Fashioned Town in Dearborn
Frederick Landis envisions a thoroughgoingly old fashioned town in Dearborn Michigan built around a memory evoke. He outlines a tobacco shop barber shop post office town pump shoe shop grocery and courthouse with period details from wooden Indian to bans and guitars, belt of townsmen and mail calls and horse stalls.
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Dearborn
Mich
Henry Ford
Climax
Eyes Cannot Be Transplanted Says Dr Morris Fishbein
Dr Morris Fishbein debunks eye transplantation myths in Daily Health Service. He explains the eye’s delicate structure cannot be removed and reinserted, as vision travels via the optic nerve to the brain. He notes rare outward pushing of eyes occurs with certain diseases, cites a Cuban case, and warns that actual eye transplants have only involved moving the eye or corneal portions with limited success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Cate
Born to Be inspires through Gordon’s vivid life story
A column reviewer praises Taylor Gordon’s Born to Be as a lively autobiographical account of a Black singer’s varied early work from page boy in a brothel to Pullman porter. It notes rough prose but strong voice, highlighting Gordon’s observational insight and emotional depth, and compares the work to Van Vechten’s Nigger Heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor Gordon
Montana
Gordon
Carl van Vechten
Relief in Slump: Corporations and Merchants Face Credit Shifts
The piece argues that many large firms welcome the slump as it relieves them from dividend obligations and reduces call money demand. It notes higher interest rates and overproduction due to a boom, with real estate and building held back. Lower prices could ease credit pressures across sectors.
Atomic weight and Iraq flag Q and A summary
The text answers atomic weight as the weight of an atom relative to hydrogen. It describes Iraq’s flag as double length, three horizontal stripes black white green with a red truncated cone near the staff, and two seven pointed white stars centered on the flag. It notes New York police force total personnel in 1927 as 16,973.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingdom of
Iraq
New York
Daily Thought Reflecting Vanity and Accountability
A compact reflection cites Ezekiel 13:8 and Lingree on vanity and deceit. It argues men condemn women's vanity while they themselves kindle a similar fire, urging self-examination before judgment.
Readers Voice Views on Dog Illustrations in The Times
Letter from P Hamilton Goodsell first vice president American Kennel Club New York City praising dog articles with illustrations in The Times. He notes benefit to pure bred dog enthusiasts and acknowledges Hoosier Kennel Club Indianapolis as AKC member appreciating the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
Hoosier Kennel Club of
Indianapolis
American Kennel Club
P. Hamilton Goodsell
New York City
Battle Over Cradle of Humanity Across Continents
Three competing theories argue the cradle of humankind. Europe, Asia, and Africa each claim earliest human origins, with evidence ranging from Neanderthal and Cro Magnon remains to Java ape man and Rhodesian skulls. Asian origin proponents cite long oldest Java remains and widespread primate fossils.
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Europe
Asia
Africa
America
American
Alaska
Ales Hrdlicka
United States National Museum
Piltdown
Sussex
England
Heidelberg
Germany
Java
Rhodesia
Rhodes
Fayum
Egypt
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
R. Henry Fairfield Osborn
American Museum of Natural History
Osborn
Roy Chapman Andrews
Mongolia
George S. Duncan
American University
Peiping
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Indianapolis Times
Boyd Gurley
Scripps-Howard
Indianapolis Times Publishing Co
Maryland Street
Ind
Marion County
Roy W. Howard
Frank G. Morrison
Lise
Washington
Mittee
M. E. Tracy
Frederick Landis
Daily Health Service
Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
Hygeia, the Health Magazine
Heywood Broun
Muriel Draper
Taylor
Daily Thought
Ezekiel
Chicago
Jackson Park
Paris
White City
David Dietz
Wilson Bros. Furnishings
DOTYS
North Meridian Street
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