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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1932
Page
12
Paul Block argues that Senate amendments to broaden the amusement tax will cripple the motion picture industry, shutting thousands of theaters and worsening unemployment. He urges balanced taxation through sales taxes and a beer tax, plus a prosperity bond, to avert economic collapse and boost jobs. He appeals for congressional action to meet public demands.
Congress is urged to pass a prosperity loan to finance public works and restore employment. The piece argues that idle workers must be reemployed to lift demand and profits, calling for accelerated federal construction programs and decisive action over half measures. Local groups push Congress to back job creating projects to end economic deadlock.
Ian't Just E T'm not very popular he writes uphepply. People tell me I take things too hard They say Use i just a ow of cherries They are right No we moderns tap-dance through life wisecrack in the face of destiny We think that proves we're clever But It doesn't We aren't automatting life with us
Fragmented poem fragment speaks of courage over cynicism and the search for meaning beyond comfort. It contrasts danger and beauty with a call to pursue authentic experience despite fear and pain.
Before his editorship at The New Yorker, New York journalist Ross led a roaming life from Tahiti beach combing plans to northwest logging camps and Utah construction. He served with the AEP and drew headlines in San Francisco. Known as a hard boiled figura with pompadour, his adventures included a dramatic run in a disreputable saloon and a night in jail after a police raid.
In a 1892 style column, the writer mocks prison reforms with a new $2,000,000 House of Detention and reports on a wandering figure with a companion. The piece riffs on sensational novels, banned works, and the era’s jazzy Harlem scene led by Blancha Calloway, while noting risqué gossip and literary quips from Manhattan’s social world.
The piece explores the idea of the marrying age for men and women, arguing that men reach their susceptible, table-thoughtful phase in their early thirties while women face social rules about mourning and behavior. It weaves reflections on love, life, and authenticity against a backdrop of cultural expectations and self realisation.
City detective Joe A Laure recalls policing shoplifting in 1927 San Antonio. He describes tracking hundreds of thieves, detaining groups at a downtown counter, recovering thousands of dollars in goods, and coordinating with merchants and courts to deport perpetrators back to Mexico.
From The San Antonio Light files: in 1923 a Mystery Gors Motel 800, Cole Aero-Eight was unveiled on Alamo plan as a safey week promotion. The car, said to be one of the city’s most fully equipped, was sold by Ann fonio Mater to Dr. G. B. Gwinn. H L Camshaw, pool discoverer, is linked to Laredo fields and questions the main pool. Dr Ferdinand Herff, medical dean and pioneer, dies at 308 East Houston Street aged 70. Zeta survivors include Ilva Bons and others in San Antonio. a German-born sibling duo also noted. Delegates to district conventions split between pro- Taft and pro-Roosevelt.
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