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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1937
Page
4
Voters are offered an aggressive and business like administration for two years starting January 1. Nominations were by acclamation, signaling a likely victory on October 5. Republican candidates are HONEST and active, forming a cross section of Beckley’s business community ready to extend municipal services and corporate limits amidst city growth.
The article weighs LaGuardia reelection prospects amid a fractured coalition and strong Mahoney showing in the Democratic primary. It notes Copeland and LaGuardia GOP votes, Mahoney’s overwhelming Democratic total, and the broad, diverse support behind LaGuardia including New Dealers, labor, and socialists.
A columnist critiques youth stance in colleges citing Scribner's Magazine on LSU Phi Beta Kappa interest and Morris Harvey College freshman rules. The piece portrays freshmen required to wear caps and armbands, attend games, avoid library steps, obey upperclassmen, and attend pep meetings, suggesting a lack of genuine student leadership progression.
A period piece collage mixes a nature sonnet about marshes and autumn with editorials and humorous sketches. It includes musings on dam construction jokes about telephone installers, hawk migration debates, and political banter around candidate Minter. It also lightly touches on cider quality and a fanciful football polo merger, ending with a culturally loaded anecdote about African and white perspectives.
Opinions frame President Roosevelt as waging a global democracy struggle with domestic economic aims. Analysts compare his West Coast tour to historic presidents, noting high drama without Wilsonian alliances. The piece suggests the trip could signal epochal shifts, while predicting he will refuse a third term to push the New Deal through his remaining years.
Central Press writer William Ritt mockingly critiques international affairs and social quirks. He jokes about Italian involvement in hunting a pirate submarine, Shanghai bombings, American Legionnaires in New York clubs, fashion department stores, Greenland weather patterns, and seaside puns with a light satirical tone.
A New Books notice surveys James L. Phelan’s Museum a harsh prison tale drawn from his own life and Frederic Prokosch’s The Seven Who Fled praised for its beauty and unreal precision, noting intense vision and rare readability amid wartime imagery.
Joan Bennett warns photographers at Walter Wanger party atop Radio City as guests mingle by a lavish bar. The scene prompts talk of old and new theater magnates while noting Georges Carpentier’s former Upper Manhattan space now a Cuban nightclub after a Chinese restaurant legacy.
A review lauds Prokosch for delivering a remarkable fantasy about seven people fleeing danger in central Asia. It notes his unusual method of detailing prior histories with lyrical style, minor flaws in word choice, and a central moral that emphasizes acceptance of life’s defeats.
Pres cott Fanning abducts Janet in Baltimore to his yacht Neill a young federal agent pursues them to Absaloms Harbor finding Fanning shot dead Janet faint gun beside her Neill hides Janet in a liner joins Mark Bonniger to watch events Neill is captured but freed by Eyster in a tense action sequence
Neill and Eyster twist through the village chasing a possible ally as Neill suspects a double game. Bonniger shares tips on the missing girl, the Buckless room, and a new lead from a rogue in New York as Neill plans a yacht inspection for clues.
The DuPont powder mill at Hagley Delaware erected in 1822 stands as a premiere example of early American industrial architecture. It likely drew design inspiration from contemporary French powder mills.
Senator George W. Norris urged Nebraskans to decide the court issue at the ballot box and outlined two proposals aimed at a more democratic high tribunal. He suggested preventing a simple majority from declaring a law unconstitutional without a constitutional amendment and urged an amendment to limit federal judges and supreme court justices to nine-year terms instead of life tenure.
A tortoise kept for years in a green house at Trybrind Denmark vanished in 1894 and has suddenly reappeared in the same green house after 43 years, surprising observers with its return.
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