KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT A New Deal critique from 1930s
A defender argues business strength rose after NRA demise, citing Kenner of the Better Business Bureau. He claims wages held and even rose, advertising accuracy improved, and selling standards rose as voluntary, fact based ethics work replaced coercive regulation. The piece asserts the Supreme Court aided recovery by removing New Deal excesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Recovery Administration
New Deal
H. J. Kenner
Better Business Bureau of
New York City
NRA
New York
Kenner
Sound System BEXAR COUNTY Governs County Funds
Bexar County adopts a fool-proof system where the county auditor and treasurer safeguard public funds under a new law derived from a constitutional amendment. The auditor enforces daily accounting by all officials, deposits are banked, warrants are triplicate, and disbursements require auditor countersignature. The appointed auditor reports to five district judges, not elected officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bexar County
Edgar G. Garvey
Landon Declares Frills Absent From Government
Governor Alf M. Landon warns against New Deal autocracy in a Kansas State Board of Agriculture address. He argues institutions built by Americans matter more than any single class interests and insists America must stay a nation of free institutions rather than class laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Consciousness and the Checks on Power
The Roosevelt era has made Americans aware that the Supreme Court guards constitutional liberties against a congress and executive bent on expediency. Bricker notes the court’s essential role in restraining legislative overreach, while the piece praises the court as the guardian of rights and a bulwark against radical politics.
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Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Europe
Americana
Russia
Germany
America
Washington
Congress
Execuive
Supreme
Ency
Bris
Bricker
United States
Ten and Twenty Years Ago In San Antonio
A 1928 note recalls the heaviest snow since 1 PM with 2.28 inches measured in San Antonio and a telegram praising Senator Morris Sheppard for enforcement of the eighteenth amendment. It also mentions 1918 film cartoons by Harvey ls shown at the Grand Opera House. San Antonio Commandery No. 7 Knights Templar installs officers including John O. Spieler as commander and Nathan K. Tracy as generalissimo with Walley D. Hood as captain general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Caruary
San Antonio
Morris Sheppard
Mra
J. M. Glass
San Antonio Commandery No. 7
Knights
Creed of Courage From Roosevelt Echoes Across A Youth
A reflective piece uses President Roosevelt’s youth creed about fear, faith, and giving all to a higher ideal. It encourages a young reader to endure hardship, stay loyal to goodness, and pursue an ambitious, selfless path as a shared human undertaking. The narrator, an elder voice, urges embracing responsibility, courage, and the long road of character.
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Roosevelt
Ang Ie
King Foes
Ayn
Los
Charles Chapin
Evening World
Wes
Jay
Reminiscences on New York journalism figures and fashion
An fragmented reminiscence by O O McIntyre catalogues colorful New York figures from Dashiell Hammett to Will Rogers and George Jean Nathan, with notes on editors, writers, and the Evening World staff. The piece layers anecdotes of bosses, colleagues, and late night fashion shopping sprees, ending with 1948 copyright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. O. McIntyre
New York
Dashiell Hammett
Joe Levis
Bill Corum
Lenox Lohr
New
N. B
Head
Leon Errol
Normandie
Constance Collier
Bing Crosby
Martin Downey
George Jean Nathan
Billy Gaxton
Walter Lippmann
Arthur Hopkins
Zoe Beckley
Percy Hammond
Dorothy Thompson
Lindy
Brandywine Summit
Grandma
Robert. B. Sherwood
Rnyon
Galeries Latay
S. S van Dine
Roy Howard
Irvin Cobb
Ben Davis
George Buckley
McNaveht Syod, Inc
Ganglion Tumor Warns Against Harmful Home Treatments
A discussion on ganglion cysts arising near joints explains dangers of old methods such as striking the wrist with a heavy object. It notes that trauma can provoke swelling and pain, and emphasizes that only surgical removal cures ganglion, while warning that improper treatment can break bones or cause infection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gsnellan
King Seas
Rod Lam
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Schechter
Bureau
United States Supreme Court
Tury
Enright
the Supreme Court
Benjamin Decasseres
Supreme Court of the United States
Runnymede
John Marshall
John Jay
Elsie Robinson
Elsie
Grim Reaper
EC. Chapin
J. HK
Tenasnt
Gene Bertrand
Nixols Greexin Y Smith
Lindsay Dennison
Bozeman Bulger
Jack Goldfrap
Warre Warre
McLaughlin
Ernest Bodington
Harry Hazlewood
Frank Marney
Will van Benthuysen
Charlie Somerville
Arthur W. Clark
Johnny Follock
Remsen Crawford
Jon Jordan
Alber Payson Tribune
Hi Pompton Lakes
N. Jr
Ray, Long
Red Book
Terhune
Colllas
Long
Bert
Tony Biddle
Tullo Carminati
Willan Rhinelander Stewart
Royal
Copeland, M. D
Dal
Tamoflén
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