Pension plans and world tensions shift in midcentury view
The piece outlines proposed U S and state pension reforms with a focus on Townsendism and a $30 a month federal plan, plus a broad debate on social security funding. It also traces rising Nazi influence and British economic policy as Germany presses for territorial aims and trade leverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Washington
Townsend
Massachusetts
Allen T. Treadway
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Foreign correspondents pace world news in prewar era report
The piece profiles American foreign reporters led by Frank Smothers of the Chicago Daily News and others who shaped coverage from Europe and Asia. It highlights Smothers early life, education, and age, then notes George Rublee and Rublee’s role in European refugee relief and oil disputes. It ends with Max Weber’s art career and the 1925 Sun praise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Europe
Henri S. de Blowitz
Berlin
London Times
de Blowitz
Roseville
Ill
University of Wisconsin
Northwestern
Fine Arts Substitutes Association
New York Board of Examiners
Max Weber
Metropolitan Museum
Weber
Russia
America
Mr. Weber
New York Sun
Great Neck
Island
P Consolidated
Official Title Changes Minds and Powers in Government
A columnist laments officials who gain arrogance under titles and power. He critiques the justice department's consent decree in auto financing cases led by Thurmond Arnold, arguing for full prosecutions instead. He warns against regulatory overreach and Congress’s delegation of power to agencies without clear authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Washington
Department of Justice
Thurmond Arnold
Arnold
Mr. Arnold
United States
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin
Stooges
Germany
AAA
Make This Useful Bag on a Hanger by Ruth Wyeth Spears
A short guide describes crafting a versatile hanging bag for patterns or small tools, using a yard of bright ticking and French seams. It notes a larger variant for laundry, suggests a hanger hole, and promotes Spears books and a crazypatch quilt leaflet offered with orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Wise and Otherwise
A collection of quips about rumor courtship marriage and a joke about an absent minded gangster with a machine gun on his lap and his secretary. The items rely on witticisms about work luck and social behavior and offer short humorous observations.
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G.O.P
Joseph W. la Bine
Great Britain
Neville Chamberlain
Mr. Chamberlain
Lord Stanley Baldwin
King George VI
Chamberlain
Anthony Eden
National Association of Manufacturers
Munich
Lord Baldwin
Mr. Eden
Memel
German East Prussia
Lithuania
Baltic
Reich
Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Moscow
Soviet Republic
Persia
Afghanistan
Balkans
Jugoslavia
Milan Stoyadinovich
Poland
Balkan
Tunisia
Corsica
Nice
Savoy
Suez Canal
French Somaliland
Ethiopia
England
Export Credits Department
China
Mexico
London
Treadway
Anthony Eden Mr. Chamberlain
Who’s News
By Lemuel F. Parton
Mr. Smothers
Chicago
Orient
Chicago Daily News
Boston Transcript
George Rublee
Borge Rublee
Covington, Burling & Rublee
Robert la Follette
Western Hemisphere
Mr. Rublee
Colombia
Boppers
Brackart
Washington Digest
William Brackart
National Press Bldg
Washington, D. C
Ex-Lax
Tig
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