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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1932
Page
7
In a sharp social portrait, the upper crust navigates recession with an ironic grace. Dinner parties loosen dress codes while theater seats and grand self-images shrink to fit lean times as nostalgia clashes with austerity.
The piece urges Congress to end inaction over eight million unemployed and five million part time workers, criticizing the Hoover administration and calling for a wide public works program funded by a large prosperity loan. It argues Congress must lead with facts, implement public works, and restore purchasing power and prosperity.
Chicago plans a next year panorama showing human evolution from gorilla to modern man over 50 000 years. The display contrasts with Smithsonian efforts, arguing the mosquito has remained unchanged for four million years and claiming the idea fuels an inferiority complex.
Amid a mood of national unease writers move from ridiculing civilization to embracing patriotic tones. The piece contrasts pessimists in prosperity with optimists in hardship and questions whether global view or habit fuels this shift.
ARTHUR Bugs Baer comments that income tax is on a war basis though no war exists. He notes taxpayers face war like burdens without excitement while slackers profit by buying tax exempt securities.
In a raw vignettes scene, Sam confronts a drummer around Marcellus Davis’s store as rumors of fits and danger swirl. The tale recalls past schemes by Bob and Bill and a streetwise code among local players, with Sam’s volatile temper at the center of a brewing street crisis.
A column on what defines a gentleman beyond polish and breeding, noting shifts as roles and manners evolve. Anecdotes include a cowboy exit, a Reno divorce, and a farmer selling carrot land with bids from firms. Cultural change is tied to local stories and humor.
A 1932 discussion of marriage deception in Panteleimon Romanos’s Without Cherry Blossoms. It argues wives lie to please husbands, explores economic equality, state nurseries, and the strain of modern love under Soviet Russia. The piece cites A O and Letters of a Woman, noting persistent domestic deceit amid changing social norms.
A compact look back recalls 1922 Poland’s hardships described by Miss Daisy Davies before the Woman's Missionary council. 1912 San Antonio notes include Throroughbred breeders A H Morris and D H Morris en route to Kerrville, with Judge Burns and D H Hart traveling west.
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