Why Not Teach American History says educators urged
Henry F. Pringle argues in the Saturday Evening Post for a national push to instill American history consciousness in students. He cites a Times survey showing widespread historical ignorance among college freshmen, urges reform, and criticizes many teachers for lacking core U.S. history knowledge and writing ability.
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Yale
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Smith
Max Lavelle
Leland Stanford
Jy. University
Karl Marx
Thomas Jefferson
Walter Winchell Memoir Notes and Social Ties Across City
The item surveys Walter Winchell and Molly Mirror era figures in New York society and media circles, noting linking names such as Doris Pleeson, Judge William Black, Mrs. John O'Donnell, and ambassadors. It mentions Time magazine foreign coverage, Mexican actions, social marriages, and prominent locales like Palm Beach and East Seventy-First Street, with references to John Kennedy and Katherine Dunham amid broader press and political milieu.
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Ann Eubiricos
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Bie Iniaz
Xolto
Katherine Dunham
East Seventy- First Street
New York
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Washington Society
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Junius Gromwell
Christine
Abe
Hd Willams
Weasell
PDR
St. Albans
Boggy Ryan
Lleyt
Charles Maxwell
Col’m
Wangey
Cong
Broadway ad and a tangle of wartime whispers
A chaotic mix of rumor and pop culture notes from wartime era press. Mentions of Broadway figures, political operatives, and industry gossip weave through pledges, bonds, and theater news. Names include FDR, OPA, Wheeler, LeRoy, Litvak, and Wagner, with references to nurses, Met Opera, and charity events. The item blends scandal, morale stories, and entertainment notices in a rapid, fragmentary column.
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Holswood
Doris
Mys- Mervyn) LeRoy
Benny Rubin
Bob Burns
Frankie
Robert FL Wagner
Alvin Theater
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George Hils
Lenvite
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le Tlrady
Senate
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Henry Cubalt
HF. Jordan
the Waldorf
Poland
Monte Blue
Darbara
Met
Ann Mace
Dr. V. Parlante
Ruth Reid
Manger
D. Murmy
Wallace on witness stand draws fierce criticism from letter writer
The letter condemns Henry Wallace’s Senate testimony proposing vast postwar employment programs. It labels his plans as utopian and economically reckless, citing past failures like the ever normal granary and stating his proposals would drain the U.S. treasury and burden taxpayers. The writer argues for caution and calls Wallace a dangerous visionary.
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Henry Wallace
Senate
Deste Jones
Wallace
Commerce Department
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Tabor
Nader
Wallice
Jon
Bhab
Soima
Odds and Ends From Lost Text on Tea and History
The fragment discusses tea drinking influencing shipbuilding, a Mount Vernon banquet carpet woven by royal order, George Washington dining on Indian cakes and tea, and the bald eagle protected across the United States from hunting and collecting.
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Louis XVI
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United States
Internal Republican feud clouds Dewey leadership
Washington dispatch by Paul Mallon outlines a muted but real intra party clash at the Indianapolis gathering. Bricker declines to run, Brownell negotiates a compromise, and Kelland and Stassen resist the program while Dewey seeks to sustain influence without public leadership.
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National Republican Weekly
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Tne
Jom Bricker
Kerbert Brownell
Washington
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Hig Hans
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Iine
Oreanlaing
Roosevelt
Linn
Minnesota
Stassen
Clarence Budington Kelland
Corrittes
Taft
Vandenberg
New York
Congress
Willkie
King Features Syndicate
Chronic Gastritis By H N Bundesen
Article reviews chronic gastritis, its two forms atrophic and hypertrophic, possible causes including tobacco use infections and nutritional factors, and symptoms such as abdominal pain and weight loss. Treatment emphasized infection control vitamin therapy hydration and dietary changes to avoid irritants and heavy meals.
Jury Clears Itself In Land Grazing Indictment Case
A Texas jury faced its own indictment crisis in a court led by Judge Frank Willis over private grazing use of school lands. Indictments alleged defrauding the state of pasture rentals. The jury acquitted at trial after dramatic deliberations involving Colonel Goodnight and notable figures, in a historical legal moment.
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Western Union Drops Horse Race Bet Transmission at Alamo Downs
From the Los Angeles Light files, January 29, 1935, Western Union in San Antonio announces the end of transmitting horse race bets to Alamo Downs. The decision follows a Texas racing commission directive via Guy Waggoner to Alamo Downs president Raymond Russell. Detectives search the business section for a roughly dressed man selling a gold frame thin pen and pencil for one dollar, believed to be a bur wine.
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San Antonio
Alamo Downs
Guy Waggoner
Texas Racing Commission
Raymond Russell
Alano Downs
Lb. C. Robinson
Johnnie Higging
Rann
Ae. Mati Ty
Burwine
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