Repeal's Fifth Birthday Brings Mixed Nationwide Hangover
The piece notes five years since Prohibition ended on December 5 1933 and the nation faces a leveling off in liquor use while grappling with rising alcoholism. It highlights tax revenue from liquor, employment gains, and social ills including rising female drinking, crime, and accidents. It discusses immigration policy debates and homeland ideas for Jews, but centers on repeal era consequences and public health concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David A. Reed
Pennsylvania
Senate
United States
Congress
Roosevelt
Palestine
Joseph W. Labine
America
United States Treasury
Keeley Institute of
Dwight
Martin Nelson
Nelson
Keeley Institute
Midwest
South
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
New York
Chicago
John Bailey Corme
Inonu and Other Diplomats Shape Postwar World
In Europe Ismet Inonu rises as Turkey's strategic leader while Sumner Welles guides U S policy. Franklin D Roosevelt mentors a new generation of diplomats, and Robert Donat defies early career setbacks to achieve screen success.
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Sumner Welles
Sumner
Germany
League of Nations
South America
Harvard
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Navy
Dominican Republic
A Day in the Life of Ziggy and the Boss
Ziggy narrates tensions with Orchestra Leader Frankie Mas tery and describes watching for the boss as picketing begins. The piece hints at a power struggle within the household and the boss’s nonstop schedule raising questions about control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ziggy
Frankie Mastery
Home Economy Tips for Cleaning and Sewing
A compact guide offers household tricks such as preserving linoleum with linseed oil and waxing floors every four to six months. It suggests heating knives before polishing, using greaseproof paper for dough, stiffening limp taffeta with borax, lengthening short blankets, and dusting flour with nut meats to prevent sinking in cakes.
Weather jokes and legal quips in a busy street scene
A weather bureau chief greets his secretary with a promise of rain in the afternoon. A soapbox orator claims to present the full kettle of fish. A rival notes not remembering a face but never forgetting a Motorist at police court. A dead letter office clerk says condolence letters cannot be sent from there.
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Washington
Germany
Hitler
Roosevelt
America
Milllons
United States
Munich
Weather Bureau
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Adpromotes Gentle Relief
Mothers are urged to ask doctors before use and consider Phillips Milk of Magnesia for children. The ad touts savings with a 25 cent big box and a liquid form, claiming decades of physician recommendation and safety for kids.
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Magnesia
Twy Graphicians
Phillips
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Brackart
Washington Digest
William Bruckart
National Press Bldg
Washington, D. C
Mr. Roosevelt
Wilson
Sam
Union
Repeal
U. S
Commonwealths
Western Newspaper Union
Andrew J. Woolstead
Minnesota
Who’s News
By Lemuel F. Parton
Fnona Andron
York
Europe
Ismet Inona
Turkey
Kemal Ataturk
Inonu
Ismet
Mustafa Kemal
Anatolia
Smyrna
Ataturk
Ismet Inonu
Robert Donat
Donat
Alexander Korda
Korda
Masters
Geriou
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