Unemployment Policy Debates Highlighted in Congress
A 1930s discussion urges national unemployment legislation with a $100000 allocation as a starting point. It argues workers want jobs and pay, not charity, and favors a plan tied to private enterprise revival. It suggests delaying Senate proposals until President elect Toover takes office, trusting his engineering expertise to craft effective, dollar-for-dollar unemployment measures.
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Congress
England
Nerbert Hoover
Manitowoc
Senate
Wagner
Toover
Weather Turns Cold As Epidemic Eases
Leaden skies hang over the city as colder air approaches and illness reports decline. The Times office and shop suffer from the epidemic with staff staying home. Schools close until after holidays to curb spread and protect resistance, signaling a turning point as winter arrives.
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Times
Careful wrapping notes mix safety with holiday sorrow
Postal authorities warn wrapping Christmas packages with care to avoid breakage and delays. The piece reflects on insured valuables and the everyday joy of simple gifts, contrasting a farmer turned city radio listener finding jazz comforts with business bustle.
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Miipin
Questions Answered in Manitou Times Q A longevity of knowledge
A reader service lists Q and A pairs from the Manitou Times style feature. It covers duplicates in grass blades, deepest wells, bird flight, word origins, orange water content, tin foil area, highest inhabited place, soft drink consumption, cheese holes, jumping beans, auto types, Babbit metal name origin, presidential powers over the Army and Navy, congressional at large representatives, and inauguration day timing, with concise authoritative answers.
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Olinda
California
Rosecrans
St. Annaberg
Saxony
Barbara Uttmatin
United States
Tzaac Babbit
Annanar Ansa
Navy
Congress of the Confederation
Couzens Gets Better Of U S Pocketbook
Washington column by Charles P. Stewart notes Senator Couzens fights back at the Treasury over income tax publicity and a demand for back taxes. The piece questions mismanagement claims, recounts his $989,833 tax matter tied to Ford stock, and ends by lampooning fiscal probity versus forgiveness in hard times.
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Washington
Jim
Senate
Lee
Retary Mellon
Treasury
Couzens
Congress
Treasury Department
Uncle Sam
Sam
Jia
Youlury Department
New York Ties in Flight and Stage Feuds Stir Headlines
In a bustling New York scene Walter Bi Wrichel and Mine xelusive eCitral Fress report on Henry Ford’s rotor car talk, a pricey Ford plane, and a public feud between Ashton and Stevens. Florence Weber, newcomer from Chicago, lands work opportunities with Earl Carroll and Roxy, amid a tough town atmosphere. Owen Davis’s Tonight at 12:00 thrives in a Westchester suburb setting.
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Manitowoc Times
New York
Guesa
Henry Ford
Ford
Catlett
Ashton
Stevens
Chicago
Land
Willers
Charley
San
Landers
Theodore Forta
Tine
London
Weill
Bank Lantes Stevens
Reed
Ashton Stevens
Hawthorne
Broadway
Florence Weber
Chicago Opera Company
Earl Carroll
Roxy
Jher
Owen Davis
Hudson
Papas
Westchester
Jack Keith
Victoria Woodhull and her sensational era in society
Victoria Woodhull died in 1927 at age 87. Born in poverty in Ohio she rose as Wall Street broker and controversial advocate of socialism free love and various quack remedies. She faced hearings before a congressional committee on woman suffrage and later ran a scandalous weekly with sister Tennessee Claffin, noted for blackmail and sensational tales suppressed by Anthony Comstock.
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Ictoria Woodbull
Hamer
Ashe
Wall Street
Commodore Vanderbilt
Emanie Sachs
Victoria
Eevee
Ictoria
Tennessee Claffin
New York
Anthony Comstock
Henry Ward Beecher
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Coppin
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Tur Manitowoc Times
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York Steel
Wis
Mule AG
Phone
le Men
Imarry
Frederick M. Kerby
Washington Bureau
New York Avenue
Washington, D. C
Charles P. Stewart
U. S
Mellon
Lramarks
Jim Couzens
Aaa
Jimmy Jams
Walter Bi Wrichel
Mac West
Charles B.” Driscoll
Mall
Teeer Tam
Manttowoo Times
Arn
Junior
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