Bureaucracy Grows Fat in Distress, Borah Seeks Taxpayer Burden Share
U S Senator Borah laments a swelling bureaucracy claiming it has become master of both executive and Congress. He questions whether it will share the burden with taxpayers during this period of strain. The remarks appear in a May 1932 report highlighting calls for reform and accountability.
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Congress
U. S
Borah
Baby Lindbergh Returns Home With Comforting Hope
A private message expresses national sympathy for the Lindberghs after the infant’s death and abduction tragedy. It speaks of Baby Lindbergh as heaven’s baby, condemns the abductor, and offers blessings to the family and those who aided in the search. The note looks to divine justice and renewed faith amid grief.
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Baby Lindbergh
Sourland Mountain
America
Kingdom of Heaven
Power In The 1932 Campaign Power In The 1932 Campaign
A reform group promoting public ownership of the power industry released a pamphlet with signatures from fifteen senators and twenty-two representatives urging attention to the power issue in the 1932 campaign. It argues that while unemployment rises and businesses falter, political power moves could worsen employment and the tax problem among other national concerns.
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Senate
House
United States
American Federation of Labor
Mounting Cost of Government Excerpted Letter to Stockholders
The E I du Pont de Nemours Company presents a 1932 cost of government versus 1927 figures arguing expenses rose as industry slowed and prices fell. It cites increases across Agriculture Treasury War Navy Labor Veterans Affairs and other agencies, blaming officialdom and lobbyists for expanding but not eliminating services.
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E. I. du Pont de Memours
Fot
Department of Agriculture
Treasury Department
War Department
Wavy Department
Board
It of Labor
Bureau Veterans’ Administration
Downfall of Ivar Kreuger Shows Limits of Big Finance
The piece argues that famed financiers were not wiser than the average man and exposes Kreuger as the world’s greatest swindler. It notes banks loaned him vast sums on forged bonds and non existent concessions, challenging the aura around big reputations and cautioning future investment optimism.
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Ivar Kreuger
Paris
Kreuger
Boston
Pioneering And Wealth by Fred Vaile
Vaile argues that postwar depressions stem from failing to adapt to major economic shifts. He cites the auto era labor-saving tech and changing production, plus altered wealth creation, urging shifts in political and financial policy to reward real value and services. He warns frontier-era mindset hampers modern redistribution of rewards.
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United States
Europe
A Fine Organization The Fan's Side
The Association of Professional Baseball Players of America founded in Los Angeles in 1925 aids sick indigent and aged players and pays funeral expenses. It has 2640 members including players and umpires with offices run by elected officials and a salaried secretary.
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Association of Professional Baseball Players of America
Los Angeles
California
Potter's Field
Canada
Cuba
Frank Isabell
George Stovall
Charles Deal
John Rawlings
Charles Check
Russ Hall
Art Kruger
Art Griggs
Nick Williams
Roger Peckinpaugh
Eddie Collins
Babe Ruth
Andy High
Nick Altrock
Jake
Ats
Jack (Beans) Reardon
Local residents visit relatives and attend events
A flurry of brief notes records visits to Philadelphia Atlantic City and Reading. Many locals traveled to see relatives while others attended a Red Men party and hospital nurse training events.
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Henry Knauss
Boston
Floyd Gross
Oliver M. Kahler
Harry Mooney
John Core
Philadelphia
Thomas Hoffman
E. A. Butts
Allentown
James Fry
Thelma Flyte
Catherine Fry
Elizabeth
N. J
Atlantic City
Jack Welsh
Springfeld
Mass
Ellen, Leh
Laura Encke
Aurora
Ill
Joseph Rickert
John VanNatta
Robert Danforth
William Widdecombe
Emma Musselman
William Burnett
East Stroudsburg
Corna Brofflet
E. G. Held
Mabel Held
Easton
William Kleppinger
Pennsburg
Felix Stein
Norman Stofflet
William Follweiler
Asher Schleicher
Clarence Rodgers
Henry Schlegel
Louise
Mary
University of Pennsylvania Hospital
Clarence Grube
Butztown
Paul Meyers
Evelyn Rundle
Edmund Kellow
Pen Argyl
Clara Bouman
Lydia Bouman
Wm. Fry
Reading
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Sarah C. Rader
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