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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1944
Page
16
A call to strip citizenship from those who miss five consecutive elections. The piece cites 1940 census figures showing 37.6 percent of qualified electors did not vote, urging Congress to act. It labels persistent nonvoters as native non citizens and aliens and advocates penalties for fifth-time abstainers.
Fragmented notes recount Walter Winchell on Broadway, radio music rights, and 1938 papers. The piece touches on Hollywood stars, stage figures, and industry attitudes toward freedom of speech and publicity, with scattered references to films, theatres, and personnel including Duke, Palomar, and Norman Corwin.
Lip roughening and chapping from cold weather can lead to sore lips and flaky skin. Deficiency of vitamin B2 riboflavin may cause severe lip conditions. treatment includes riboflavin tablets or capsules and vitamin C, with protective sulfurbased and medicated scalp preparations for scalp use.
A fragmentary account describes Sam Bass and partners preferring stagecoach robbery over trains. After a string of failed and successful heists around Fort Worth in 1877, they plan a bold Christmas day robbery with Henry Underwood captured and a haul around $400. Easy shifts toward train crime but that path ends in the same sphere of criminal activity.
Dr H N Bandesen discusses a common chronic infection around the singers nails linked to cosmetics and hormonal changes. He recommends general health, fresh air, and sunshine, plus soaking fingers in hot salt water and drying then applying an iodine phenol mixture around the nails. For prevention daily skin care and potential topical treatments may help.
Dr. Robert E. Doherty outlines three co operative education plans at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. The evening school program for employed men, a Westinghouse co op with semesters in industry, and summer employment schemes expose students to production and management. The plan emphasizes work experience, industry insight, and scientific study, with Westinghouse scholarships supporting about 50 scholars yearly.
The piece muses whether early leaders wrote their own lines or used ghostwriters and whether they spoke impromptu or memorized. It weighs the power of words versus deeds, cites Roosevelt, Hoover, Taft, and Clare Luce, and notes microphone quirks and engineering aids shaping political oratory.
George E. Sokolsky critiques John Bricker and Thomas Dewey speeches noting Bricker spoke from the heart without notes while Dewey's delivery blends thought with refined delivery. He contrasts Bricker’s memorably vivid delivery with Dewey’s perfected oratory and radio technique in a convention context.
A cross country journey with identical routes and costs yields opposite views. Al finds heat, dust, and tedium while Pete cherishes deserts, bayous, and dams, showing life hinges on inner reactions, not external scenes.
An essay by Elsie Robinson contrasts Pete and Al with all humanity, arguing we live by our inner reflections rather than external appearances. She states we share the same life elements including graves and cradles, monotony and ecstasy, with common emotions guiding all people. The piece emphasizes inner unity across individuals.
A 1924 plan to build a dam series on the San Antonio and Medina rivers in Bexar County seeks irrigation and power. Thurnan Barrett, a congressional candidate, outlined the new PWA project after speaking at South Pan dustania.
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