Social notes from Sully area residents and visitors
Local page lists numerous visitors and residents from Altoona Clara City Grundy Center Wellsburg and Des Moines. Attendees include the Van Maanen funeral guests and visitors to Century of Progress in Chicago as well as church and missionary activity in Sully. Several families travel to Ames Des Moines and New Orleans for studies and conventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerrit Slothauber
Connie Langstraat
Henry Boon
Boyden
Will Bode
Clara City
Minn
John Primus
Grundy Center
Ben Primus
Marion
Wellsburg
B. van Maanen
Miss Pronouncers Only Girls to Get Young's Attention
Burbank letters writer critiques radio voices and announcers, mocks soprano shrieks, yodelers, and mispronunciations. He notes California politics with Upton Sinclair, Roosevelt, and a Republican gubernatorial candidate, urging independence and skepticism of social schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young
Burbank
Calif
Putin
Chronicle
Towa
Sahn
San
California
Upton Sinclair
Hiram Johnson
U.S
Roosevelt
Sinclair
Townsend
Local visitors and family gatherings reported in Des Moines and Grinell
A sequence of social visits centers on Des Moines families including Mr and Mrs M A Ketman and Mr Phebe Stringer with Verda, and Mr and Mrs Clint Gibbons with Billy. The Sterrenbergs joined the Gibbons to Grinell to see Mrs Baarda. Dewey Koopmans’s son injures a finger uncorking a glass receptacle. Abe Bernstein and family from Chicago, with Ray Brom of Gibson, Iowa, spent the weekend with the B J Brom household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Ketman
Phebe Stringer
Verda
Hattie Ketman
Farr
Des Moines
John Goodhart
Clint Gibbons
Billy
J. Sterrenbers
Ray Brom
Gibson
Iowa
B. J. Brom
Utopian Movements and Red Scare Echoes in Los Angeles
In a letter from Los Angeles County, the writer critiques a Quixotic Utopia movement backed by Townsend and notes its secretive nature and modest funding. The piece links the trend to populist reform bursts, contrasting it with the ongoing Single Tax debate and Upton Sinclair’s socialist rhetoric while warning of broad Marxian influences in urban California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townsend
Long Beach
Washington
Roosevelt
Utopia
Iowa
Middle West
Los Angeles County
Chronicle
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair
Rainbow Chaser
Russia
California
Merriam
James Rolph Jr
George Creel
McAdoo
W. A. Young
Platform for 1932 presidential candidate sparks reform debate
A proposed platform from a 1932 candidate calls for government led exposees to undermine business confidence, expanded government competition and regulation through fifty new bureaus, and purging experienced civil service staff for campaign loyalists. The plan envisions dramatic public scrutiny of business and a sweeping overhaul of federal personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Commission
Washington
Political pressure tactics warned by critic in press
The document cites threats to publishers and voters to suppress criticism of the President during a crisis. It claims punishments for critics, claims unpatriotic actions, and attacks on constitutional interpretation to bypass barriers. It asserts press intimidation and judiciary threats as tools for enacting controversial legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paeulee
James E. Boyle
Cornell, University
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Reformed Churches
Irene Hoksbergen
Walter de Kock
Henry Keuning
Frank van Heaften
J. W. Rietveld
Knoxville
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Sam van Vliet
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William van Doorninck
Ames
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Fred Long
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Lee Jarman
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Portland
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A. B. van Houweling
P. G. Gaass
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N. J
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G. G. Gaass
Birdie Snow
A. N. Vander Linden
Women’s Board of Domestic Missions
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Irwin J. Lubbers
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F. C. Warner
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L. D. Warner
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Plainview
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Lamont
Ella Berning
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B. F. Vander Linden
Emmett Edwards
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J. W. Jewel
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