Honest Thinking on Policy and Accountability During Crisis
A bold call for democratic inquiry into Roosevelt era reforms and the NRA. It warns against silencing debate, cites Keynes and Hearst as voices urging recovery balanced with reform, and urges loyal cooperation through candid thinking and honest speaking. It argues that great issues loom, liberty and taxation are at stake, and contrasts swift action with long term prudence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Maynard Keynes
Keynes
Roosevelt
Hearst
Hehen
NRA
Roosevelt Budget Push for General Sales Tax Hits View
The article argues for a federal general manufacturers sales tax of at least 8 percent as a revenue tool to reduce deficits and strengthen credit. It cites Canada’s model as painless and equitable, with Senators Walsh and Rep. Fish Jr. backing the plan and Roosevelt showing openness to such taxes to sustain recovery. The piece frames tax reform as crucial to the New Deal’s financing.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Canada
Senator Walsh
Massachusetts
Senate Finance Committee
Hamilton Fish Jr
New York
White House
Mayor La Guardia’s simple three-basket mail reform
New York Mayor La Guardia introduces a blunt three basket mail system. Nuts slides unworthy requests for dismissal. Regrets holds letters with partial basis but no action. Thanks stores polite replies to those accommodated. This efficiency idea could spread among executives.
New York Diary Bits End With a Prison Window
A fragmentary diary style piece Visits literary figures like Croy Crosby and Norris. References include Disney Cooper Ferber and Coward at social events in New York. The prose shifts to a dreamlike prison scene with a knight and the Tombs, hinting at longing for freedom.
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New York
Homer Croy
Percy Crosby
Walt Disney
Paris
Nassau
Charles
Kathleen Norris
Chatham
Edna Ferber
Clifton Webb
Noel Coward
Alma Clayburgha
Mrs
Ronsevelt
Mivian
Keni Cooper
Alice Longworth
Cincinnati
Lo Iin
Aing Bing
Wrk Fuimanniy
Tolan Mophandt
Helen Kane
Max Baer
Ashton Stevens
Chicago
Wil H. Hayes
Sullivan
Ind
John Helder
Taye’ Montgomery
Montpansery and
Stone
Night in New York Lingers Over Street Scatterings
A fragmented reminiscence paints a New York night with Grand Central and tall tales. Odds and ends spill from a doorway hoarded by time, from crumpled papers to an umbrella broken in two, while ads and voices fade into the 3 a.m. hush.
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Grand Central
Palm Beach
When midwinter blues yield to life’s spring ground view
An essay-style piece urging endurance through winter gloom. It compares human spirit to the earth’s cycles, insisting life returns despite failures and despair. Ground-fixations replace mood, with hope that growth and renewal follow hardship. The author emphasizes persistence, renewal, and belief in a better future.
Daily Exercise Advice From Royal S C
A 1934 column urges daily exercise as essential for health. It warns against abandoning activity due to time, notes walking, swimming, bowling, and other sports as aids, and emphasizes balanced eating to avoid over or under exercising. It cites a brisk half hour daily walk as key to fitness.
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Elsie
Tambiar
Royal S. C
Iceland
M. D
Parton
Ure Avenue
Mae
Jae Kime Rens
Ayn Une
Local Officials Enter Local Races and Dismissals Cited
Ten and twenty years ago notes show Campbell indicating plans to run for county tax collector, replacing John A. Bluer in that post. A separate item reports a 1914 altercation involving Robert Uhr and others, with charges dropped as the case proceeded in court.
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Junglice
Peace
Campbell
John A. Bluer
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