Give Business A Chance Defends Recovery Plan
A Senate hearing features Harry Hopkins arguing that 1500 million dollars for relief is insufficient without deeper business reform. He says tax burdens and labor strife hobble growth and urges government action to ease taxes and avoid hamstringing enterprise while stressing that recovery hinges on business’s ability to employ people.
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Harry. Hopkins
Works Progress
Senate
Mr. Hopkins
Hopkins
Carr
Real Peace Plan Would Put War Power To Referendum
A constitutional amendment proposed by Indiana Congressman Ludlow would give Congress only after a nationwide referendum. It states that declares war only with majority popular approval, except in invasions or attacks on citizens abroad. The plan argues that those bearing war burdens must decide.
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Congress
Congressman Ludlow
Indiana
United States
Ludlow
America
Bigger Brains and Brain Growth Theories
Dr Frederick Tilney argues that heavier thinking enlarges the human brain forming dome-like foreheads in men. He compares modern brains to extinct ancestors, but evidence suggests brain size has not grown through recorded history. Progress from crude writings to television is noted as context.
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Frederick ‘Tilney
Tilnney
Java
Pittdown
Kay Becker advocates morse maid work as best for girls
Elsie Robinson readers exchange letters on domestic service vs factory work. Kay Becker argues home maid jobs offer better pay and fewer expenses, while Georgia Powell questions marriage duties and independence. Evelyn Lahey praises laughter as relief from hard work. prize rules outlined for youth letter contest.
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Kay Becker
Morse Maid Front
Kay
Elsie
Evelyn Lahey
Bradford
Mass
Evelyn
Pioneer Freighters elect Texas president at San Antonio meet
Ten and twenty years ago items note Pioneer Freighters' association electing a president in Texas and inaugurating a two day convention in San Antonio. Light Townsend named vice president to lead a clean up campaign while rural mail boxes near the city are targeted for uniform boxes. A separate item mentions draft soldiers to be housed at San Antonio cantonment, boosting the city’s population by about a third.
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James O. Luby
San Diego
Texas
Pioneer Freighters’ Association
San Antonio
Light Townsend
B. G. Lucas
L. W. Ryan
War Department
Dorlot in France Feints a Mussolini Comparison
A European political sketch compares Jacques Dorlot to Mussolini, noting his rise from metal worker to leader in St Denis and his anti Marxist, nationalist stance. The piece warns of a middle class rebellion amid Blum front anxieties as France braces for a possible shift to the radical right ahead of the fall.
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France
Mussolini
Jacques Derlet
M. Derlet
Blum
Cuburbs
Bt. Dens
Dorlot
Ipm
Mussoln
Musy Solid
Dortot
Italy
Betty
Chamber of Deputies
St. Denis
Huey Lang
Germany
England
la Liberte
Railcat
Eek
Blum Popular Front
Mnet
Popular Front
Joseph Caillaux
Senate Finance Committee
Memoir notes and theater talk from a 1937 New York page
A diary like panorama covers docks and tenements on the water front in Weat Forty-seventh Street with mixed chatter about a poisoning letter from Seymour tad and Hamish Mobaurin’s California trip. The author recounts dinners with a Scottish maid, travels to Lous Inland, a read of Oppenheim’s volume from Guen Bey, youth reactions to cinema, and shifting film star rankings including Menjou, Taylor, and Wayne Morris. It also recalls fashion shifts, dog etiquette, and reflections on Noel Coward’s curtain speeches, theater memories, and gossip about performers such as Ethel Waters, Vanderbilt Jr., and J P B McEvoy.
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New York
Dilary
Purser
Wilkey
Weat
Forty-seventh Street
Seymour
Tad
Hamish Mobaurin
California
Emly Ringi
Dean Cornwell
Will Pye
Eoen
Henry Bells
Lous
Phillips Oppenhain
Guen- Bey
Clarke Gable
Slong
Taylor
Wayne Morris
Noel
Coward
Hut Coward
Odd Facts From a Fragmented Wire and Weathered Figures
Apparent clippings reveal miscellaneous data: a piano's wire weight about 23.5 pounds, total instrument wire lengths near 42.3 miles, and tuning details. Exhalation notes of a performer compare air output. A decade-ago, a bay’s weight and height are noted, and U S coast guard age is traced to 2700, with references to revenue cutters. A sunken steamer Borie refloated, Britain’s post office payroll claim, and a message bottle's famed voyage from Stockton-on-Tees to the Gold Coast in 43 days amid fast winds.
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United States Coast Guard
Revenue Cutter Services
Borie
Agsic
Ae Fam
Stockton-on-Ties
England
Dropsy in Disease Signals and Medical Views of Its Cause
A 1937 medical note explains dropsy as a symptom from various disorders rather than a disease itself. It describes fluid buildup in tissues and cavities, causes swelling in limbs and organs, and potential treatments like tapping or purging, urging medical consultation for persistent signs.
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Peland
Med
Bright
Keine Meas
Fragmented historical excerpt on gender, deception, and natural history
A garbled historical note questions government responsibility, mentions a girl wearing slicks who reveals her sex when-pocket actions, and reflects on truth and gossip. It also contains a quirky natural history line about a canary and hippopotamus being related through shared eating of a peck at a time, plus a tale of a mother reconciled to a daughter's suitor and candy rewards.
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Georgia Powes
Georgia
Miss Robinson
Powell
Denver
Colorado
Atla Girit
What Do You Know Quiz on Literary and Historical Topics
A quiz item asks about Whitman, Millay, and Arlington Robinson, plus questions on Kipling’s first name, a tenth century Latin comedy writer, arithmetical notation in Europe, a French writer of 206+ short stories, medieval Spanish religious plays, Machiavelli’s treatise, and notes a reference to a Comte page and a 1987 copyright notice.
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Pet Besrere
Alt Whitman
Cere Ee Beta SE
Yan Th Millay
Arlington Robinson Hotsman
Hidyard Iipling
Wen
Europe
Machiavelli
Comte
King Feslures Syndlealy, Tae
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Texas Good Roads’ Association
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