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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1936
Page
4
An editorial warns the FBI should remain free of political influence to prevent abuse of power. It cautions against using the Bureau for partisan aims or personal enemies, imagining a dictatorship era risk if misused, while noting no current administration shows such intent.
The speech argues that presidential candidates lack such dreams, but the real concern is the existing machinery itself. A president seeking dictatorial power would find it highly useful, so the organization must remain permanently divorced from politics. Its value hinges on staying apolitical to avoid becoming a curse.
Governor Fitzgerald proposes a nonpartisan parole board to depoliticize decisions. He argues current parole politics lack criminology expertise and fells offenders back into society without proper rehab. The plan seeks to treat parole as a social issue rather than a political tool.
Easton Pennsylvania hosts the League of Political Common Sense founded by Lafayette College president Dr. William M. Lewis. The group intends to study glib promises and panaceas, send questionnaires to candidates, and analyze answers at public meetings with candidates excluded.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette urges taxpayers to read and take action on auto taxation trends seen across all taxes. It argues that reforms occur only when taxpayers rise up and demonstrate they mean business, warning the system will persist otherwise.
The Tennessee valley relief project employs 12 530 people with 89 grant recipients totaling 446 000 dollars yearly. Some grants reach 10 000 dollars annually while none fall below 5 000 dollars. Secretary Hull links the program to Tennessee. The outlook notes socialist influence unlikely to affect the two major parties. Mr. Thomas faces defections amid Roosevelt policy debate.
Washington dispatch notes a likely Supreme Court retiree may speed a vacancy before the November vote. Republicans hope a name and confirmation battle would dramatize the constitutional issue while conservatives fear a radical pick. The piece also covers party splits, liquor control debates, fundraising tricks, and shifting GOP power in Pennsylvania led by J. Howard Pew and E. T. Weir as Mercer backers.
An article outlines Washington signing a confession interpreted by Jacob Van Braam as the murder of De Jumonville due to a mistranslation. It notes French criticism, later exoneration, and views by historians that the so called confession helped fuel the French and Indian War. It also touches on suspicion of Mexican communist influence and U S relations with Argentina.
Fifty years ago today the site known as Small's Landing was renamed Festival Park. The item notes the local naming event and the civic sentiment around the change.
A humorous line from a 1926 Robert Quillen piece features Aunt Het lamenting return of George and Jennie’s anger versus the sense of being overly helpful. The quip exposes small town social tensions with a playful tone.
Comic verse by Claud Callan features a speaker praising his polite nature and a dry humor about sharing an umbrella to shelter a nearby pretty girl during rain. The lighthearted piece uses simple dialogue style and domestic whimsy.
Puzzle lists across and down clues with pattern based hints covering human beings to beings, herbs, metals and more. Solvers must fill pattern with cross referenced terms including RS N and other entries.
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