Tax Consumers Attack on New Deal Propaganda Funds
A critical, era-tinged screed targets government magazines The Consumer The Consumer's Guide Rural Electrification News and Polly Power as socialist tools. It labels them a costly propaganda racket run by Labor Department AAA and RHA, funded by taxpayers who merely consume and pay taxes.
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United States
Washington
The
Consumer
Consumer's Guide
Rural Electrification News
Polly Power
Department of Labor
AAA
RHA
New Deal
Treasury
Jail in Style Opens in Queens County with Modern Van
A new prison van begins service in Queens County boasting hot water heating for winter, fan ventilation for summer, and shatter proof glass. Painted green with side doors and pneumatic tires, it moves like a limousine though riders cannot shout Home James.
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Queens County
New York
James
Pellagra and Its Vitamin Deficiency Explained
Royal Copeland summarizes pellagra as a vitamin G deficiency disease tied to poor diets. He notes southern prevalence, risk from corn meal and white flour diets, and that lean meat eggs milk wheat germ tomatoes and vegetables help prevent it. Emphasis on varied diet and cautious use of yeast as temporary relief.
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Congress
United States
Royal
Copeland
United States Public Health Service
Doctor Goldberger
Mississippi
Wise Words From Poets In A Fractured Quotation
A collection of fragmented quotes attributed to Byron Cata and Stevenson. The text presents disjointed lines on happiness fear and honesty, with garbled phrasing and missing context. The result resembles a collage of literary maxims rather than a coherent historical note.
Colossal Palomar Telescope Lens Heads for Mount Palomar
At Cornell they finish a 201 inch telescope lens to ship to Mt. Palomar California. The 24.43 inch thick mirror will gather four times as much light as Mount Wilson’s 100 inch lens. The lens cooling began December 2 1934 and weighs 18 tons. It promises to reveal space vast beyond imagination and test relativity theories.
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Edwin c. Hill
Cornell
Mt. Palomar
California
Mars
Venus
Corning
Dr. Hinstein
Mount Wilson
Galileo
Jupiter
Mount Palomar
Earth
King Feas
Dear Govt letter critiques New Deal programs and unfinished projects
A satirical 1930s letter from Winston Norman lampoons FERA WPA PWA and CWA spending. It complains of incomplete projects including a model town sewer and a broken Stone Creek bridge, urging continued funding while claiming mass unemployment. The missive targets Hopkins and Roosevelt, fearing next election motives.
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Ion
Hasry Hopkins
D.C
Mr. Hopkins
Stone Crick
Wilbur
CWA
FERA
Hopkins
PWA
WPA
Congress
Roosevelt
U. S
Norman
King Fear, Spud, Inc
Listen World by Elsie Robinson on God and personal vision
The essay argues that each person’s God matches their vision and needs. It contrasts the pygmy’s simple view with that of a great poet, urging readers to seek God directly by living and using Him. The piece notes personal discovery and limits of religious imitation.
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Congress
Elsie Robinson
God
King Feas
Sunshine Shafts A Man in Search of Credit
A fragmented note suggests a man may be a six full victim and not nave amid smoky enunsiry. The piece hints at a person who is always seeking credit yet rarely possesses it.
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WPA
CCC
New York Scene Shows Celebrities and Accessory Fads
An article surveys on Broadway culture, noting Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern as top tunesmiths, their quiet natures, and lavish entourages. It details monocle fashion trends among English actors, Beatrice Kaufman’s Harper's Bazaar role, and anecdotal nightlife scenes with socialites and autograph collectors mingling at premieres.
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Broadway
Lucius Beebe
Boston
New York
Jules Bache
Achmed Abdullah
de Segurola
Tommy Millard
George Arliss
Europe
London
Erskine Gwynne
Beatrice Kaufman
Playright
George 5. Kaufman
Harper's Bazaar
Carmel Snow
4 Colony
Kaufman
Dorothy Parker
Noel Coward
McCrory plans San Antonio store building at East Houston
From 1928 notes G McCrory chain store owner visits San Antonio to plan a new building at East Houston and Navarro to house a San Antonio shop. Also in 1916 Henry Steingruber supervises planting 40 date palms on Alamo Plaza to create a semi tropical atmosphere as civic groups revive flowers parade tradition.
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G. McCrory
San Antonio
East Houston and
Navarro Streets
Henry Steingruber
Alamo Plaza
The
Chamber of Commerce
Alamo
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Euter
Ellen Mackay
Jerome Kern
Kern
Berlin
Vic
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Mackay
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Joe
Lambs
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Ginter Hotel
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