Sunday Morning By-Election in Rhode Island
A Rhode Island by election scheduled for next Tuesday draws national interest as a test of political sentiment. Rhode Island’s eastern district, a textile industry center, faces contrasts between Democratic gains in Roosevelt’s era and Republican hopes in 1954, amid concerns over processing taxes and Japanese imports. By-elections often signal broader trends, with Rhode Island possibly predicting the 1936 political climate.
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Rhode Island
Roosevelt
New England
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Gillett
Washington
Hoover
Allen's Tough Job and Relief Rolls Dilemma
Governor Kump urges Allen to prune relief rolls as industry adapts to NRA dissolution and tapering off. Farmers report harvest labor shortages due to many on relief, while relief workers resist leaving their subsistence anchor. WPA will start projects for willing workers without relief dependence.
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J. B. McLaughlin
Allen
Kump
Works Progress Administration
Governor Faces Burden Of Relief Costs And Reckoning
The piece argues the vast relief burden cannot be sustained by the treasury and must be funded by borrowed credit. It urges the governor to press ahead, set relief recipients on their feet, and move beyond personal sentiment to achieve the objective despite the high stakes and public debt.
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Treasury
United States
August Passages On The Approach Of Autumn
A seasonal meditation notes August as a bridge to autumn, describing waning heat and nature’s changes. It outlines ripening crops, berries, nuts, and harvesting scents, with trees and fields signaling the coming season and the cycle of summer yielding to fall.
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Hemisphere
Debunking Prohibition Era Drunk Driving Claims
The Morgantown Dominion News notes a repeal survey showing more drunken driving arrests during typical prohibition years than the first repeal year. It argues against propaganda alleging rising drunkenness, citing gasoline use and 30 billion extra vehicle miles in 1934 with no spike in auto deaths compared to 1931.
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Repeal Associates
Morgantown Dominion News
Holding Company Bill Occupies Washington Daybook
The utility holding company bill dominates Washington chatter as a conference committee of five senators and five representatives fights over the controversial measure and the fate of the so called death sentence section. Investigations in both chambers probe tactics of power interests amid horse trading behind closed doors while lobbyists push for clarity on what the final bill will look like.
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Washington
Congress
Conference Committee
Senate
House
Philip H. Gadsen
Committee of Public Utility Executives
Man About Manhattan’s Julep Telegrams and Tony’s Transformation
In Manhattan, a Kentucky tobacco king sends six mint juleps by telegram for an eight o’clock train arrival, while a Brooklyn dog’s seeker laments its loss with a week-based note. New York’s Tony’s, the famed speakeasy, has moved to ultramodern quarters next door, preserving the old rooms for diehards as Kay Francis and Tallulah Bankhead once frequented the spot.
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New York
Bill Bruns
Vanderbilt
Bruns
Tony’s
Kay Francis
Tallulah Bankhead
Lee Tracy
Miriam Hopkins
Noel Coward
Tony
Notable Columns Skeptical and Satirical Dispatch
A column by Alphonso delivers a wry mix of opinion, quotation, and observation. It riffs on leadership and character, contrasting ambition with responsibility and mocking empty bravado while weaving in cultural references and quotidian intents.
Little Bobby Robertson Injured In Fall
Summerlee W reports Virginia boy Bobby Robertson fell from his porch Friday and broke a leg. He was taken to Oak Hill hospital where he is recovering nicely. Several residents visited, including Mrs. Carl Lamb and Miss Elsie Berry who is improving after surgery at Oak Hill hospital. Charles E. McGinley recovers from a tonsil operation. Harold Spangler, who lost two fingers in a mine accident last week, is back out.
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Bobby Robertson
Oak Hill Hospital
Carl Lamb
Price Hill
A. J. Bishop
Elsie Berry
Country Club
Jones
Cal
Ling
Oak Hill
H. G. McGinley
Dorsey
Pittsburgh
J. A. Kenery
Charles E. McGinley
W. P. Bitlenger
Harold Spangler
Laurie
Sir Gilbert
Zanuck Named Film Unit Chief After Fox Merger
Hollywood Aug 1 Darryl Zanuck, 32, becomes production czar of the merged Twentieth Century Fox studio, succeeding Winfield Sheehan. The move eliminates producer credits and centers decision making on Zanuck, with “Twentieth Century Fox Presents” used for credits.
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Hollywood
Twentieth Century-Fox
Darryl Zanuck
Dynamo
Zanuck
Winfield Sheehan
Sheehan
United Artists
Rex Moore's Love Triangle Forces Matrimony Plan
Laurie promises to marry her employer Mark Albery to save Rex Moore's career and their romance. Rex returns from a Pacific flight plan and proposes, while Laurie struggles with deceit and family entanglements as Albery weighs the truth and a new fuel project. The scene blends romance with business, medical news, and looming polo interests.
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Rex Moore
Laurie
Mark Albery
Rea
Albery
Rez
Gladys
Pacific
Little Laurie
Montcoal Residents Host Visitors and Travelers This Weekend
Montcoal and nearby towns welcomed a roster of visitors and travelers including M. L. Greiner and Ernest Large from out of town, Mrs. George Reaugh and family visiting Dry Creek, Clyde Tudor from Glen Morrison, and Mr. and Mrs. Foster Bryant of Charleston. Also homecomings included Mrs. O W Brown from Virginia Beach and Nell Pettus hosting a dance. Edward Jarrell broke his arm and was taken to Kanawha Valley hospital in Charleston for treatment. Miss Edna Cornell plans to return to Grantsville after the summer season. Miss Grada St Clair returned from the University of Tennessee to Montcoal.
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George Reaugh
Tris Colcord
Colcord
Dry Creek
Miller
Clyde Tudor
Glen Morrison
Alice Holt
Cincinnati
Ohio
Fred Anderson
Frank Colcord
Billy
Webster Springs
Foster Bryant
Charleston
O. W. Brown
Virginia Beach
Howard Holtzclaw
Layland
A. M. Brown
Nell Pettus
Edward Jarrell
Kanawha Valley Hospital
David Bitzer
W. H. Pettus
Edna Cornell
Grantsville
W. Va
Grada St. Clair
University of Tennessee At
Knoxville, Tenn
Montcoal
Young Moscow student builds tiny 8 volt motor
Moscow reporter AP says 22 year old Yury Yeremin created a micro motor weighing 0.036 grams. It runs on an eight volt pocket battery and marks a notable microengineering achievement. The device demonstrates extreme miniature scale in early 20th century research.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Yury Yeremin
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