Our First Duty and Immigration Fears Debate
A New York gathering features Mme Julia Cantacuzene, granddaughter of President Grant, denouncing the Our First Duty bill as opening immigration to Communists Nazis and Fascists. She argues officials advocate Communist doctrines and warns of threats to government, religion, and economy, urging strict port entry examinations.
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Secretary of Labor
Europe
Mme
Julia Cantacuzene
Grant
New York State Women’s Republican Club
United States Department of Immigration
United States
Germany
Karl Mars
Mme. Cantacuzene
Republic
Refugee Issue Echoes a National Duty to America
A historical quotation asserts that America must guard its institutions by prioritizing Americans while opposing foreign revolutions and oppressive modes, urging asylum only with caution to preserve free American society.
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America
Peek Points Way for Tariff Reform and Trade Policy
Secretary Roper resisted copying foreign trade moves to the state department. George N. Peek urges splitting policy making from selling, remodeling the tariff commission into a congress directed policy body. He calls for a permanent board drawn from industry agriculture and finance to unify trade policy and curb the state department.
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Roper
Summer Welles
Commerce Department
State Department
George N. Peek
Roosevelt
Mr. Peek
Hearst
Tariff Commission
Congress
Peek
Board of Foreign Trade
Critique of Federal Art Projects From Channing Pollock
Playwright Channing Pollock denounces New Deal federal art programs as bunk arguing they distort art to glorify government. He says projects like the Federal Theatre promote communism and propaganda and stifle free artistic expression.
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Uncle Sam
Channing Pollock
Federal Theater
Pollock
Never Pal Up With a Shark Re Hue Fable Warning
A moral lesson warns against bad company citing Aesop and a cat and monkey fable. It cautions that associating with racketeers leads to swindling and befriending Reds will make you a Communist, which the author implies you may already be.
Health Day in New York City Schools Promotes Child Wellness
Health Day urged in New York City schools as teachers stress health rules and screen over a million pupils for vision hearing height weight and other defects. Reports sent to parents request medical and dental treatment where needed to curb childhood disabilities and aid learning.
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New York
By Royal S Copeland M D on child health defects
The article discusses how hearing impairments and underweight, nervous children impact school progress and attendance. It explains the challenges in education for such children and the broader consequences of untreated health issues in early schooling.
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King Foax Syau
Tar
Texas Air Transport buys Ryan monoplane for Halt Antonio service
May 26, 2928 report notes Texas Air Transport plans to use a new Ryan monoplane for passenger service between Halt Antonio and Dallas Fort Worth. Pilot Prank Glennon travels from California to fly the aircraft back from the factory as interest grows in expanding regional aviation.
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Texas Air Transport Company
Halt Antonio
Dallas
Fort Worth
Gambling odds and a Derby toast thread through pastimes
The piece surveys odds on poker, sweepstakes, roulette and numbers games, with notes from P R Hales and Dr Bakst on winning likelihoods and house advantages. It recalls Wodehouse quips and Sir Abe Bailey's fate, then mentions Bailey’s Derby plans and a Cape Town voyage, ending with a nod to Gold Sovereign at Epsom Downs.
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Hollywood
New York State
Madhesimticians
P. R. Hales
Tinois
Monte Garlo
Agron Bakst
Columble University
Perso
Cecil Rhodes
South Africa
Lwwo Loge
Sir Abe Bailey
London
England
Epsom Downs
Abe
Feau
Syad
Tne
Birth Pictures Stir Debate on Youth and Morality
A Colorado Springs reader quotes John Damgaard urging open discussion of birth and sex education. The letter argues that revealing the natural process is a social service and that suppression harms youth, urging community figures to provide accurate information and asking readers for input on who should teach these truths.
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Young America
John Damgsam
Colorado Boeings
Colo
Robinson
Receb Lesse
Af & Rational
Baby
Ures
Ahah
Imers
Hoentlows
Allee van Diest
Colorado Entrepe
Erie
John Damgaard
Sarave
Colorsda
Springs
Dobn
What Do You Know The Knowledge Test Quiz
A fragmented trivia quiz questions readers on science and natural history topics. It asks about milk from unfeated cattle, meanings of terms, naturalists, heat exposure injuries, fuels, domestic saints, potash uses, septicemia terms, United States hydrographic offsets, pottery versus engines, and lists fields like anthropology ornithology archaeology genetics entomology.
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U. S
Monroe Doctrine Matters Warns Mussolini On War
A dated discourse argues the Monroe Doctrine remains the United States’ core shield against imperial aggression. It recalls the Zimmermann note and wartime history to warn Mussolini and Hitler that hemispheric defense, not democracy expansion, governs U.S. policy. The piece links Brazil’s suppression of unrest to broader Pan American security concerns and cautions against European or Asian interference in the Western Hemisphere.
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Mussolini
Hitler
Brazil
Genoa
Woodring
11 Duce
United States
Germany
Mexico
Berlin
New Mexico
Texas
Arizona
Pir
Harte
Monroe
Mussolinii
Kaiser
Words of Wisdom on Greatness and Night Reflections
A fragmentary quotation piece discusses the idea that greatness requires effort, citing figures like Longfellow and Mary Baker Eddy. It contrasts luminous achievement with steady, solitary toil and the warning that many are only dimly great without true goodness.
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Mary Taker Eddy
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Geir
Royal’ S. Copeland, M. D
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McAlin
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Hugh McLelan
Brackenridge Duga School
Seriool Pudlicnum
Musa
Claire West
Georgiana Rcott
Elizabeth Joyce
Dna Bkinner
Arthur Ones
James Knowlton
Hilary Gushing
Gordon Shauchteth
By Edwin C. Hill
Dr. Eaker
Tull House
Fioulette
Odehouse
Abe Bailey
Cape Town
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Pathers
Wiole
Comyrigil
Olean
Wilson
Wise
la Roelicou
Matt
Longfellow
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