Waste-Basket Snoopers Target Civil Liberties Probe
The Senate Civil Liberties Committee led by Wisconsin's LaFollette is criticized for snooping on corporate records and waste baskets while investigating alleged espionage. The piece likens its tactics to Gestapo and Stalinist methods, alleging secrecy and subpoenas misuse in cases like Railroad Audit and Inspection.
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Senate Civil Liberties Committee
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Tts
Roosevelt
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Railroad Audit and Inspection Company
Civil Liberties
Robert M. LaFollette
Civil Libertins
la Follette
New Deal
Black Telegram
Schoors
Hitler Gestapo
Stalin Qgpu
Thumbs Down Inflation After New Deal Practices
In 1933 an average American could buy two dollars of groceries including chuck roast bacon milk butter eggs potatoes onions bread lard and canned corn and tomatoes. After three years of Roosevelt policies the same two dollars buys far fewer items and less quantity due to brain trusting and other government experiments.
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Roosevelt
Listen World No. Politically charged critique of Roosevelt era policy
A writer identifies as Elsie Robinson, railing against Franklin D Roosevelt and New Deal programs. She attacks aliens and communists, praises relief efforts yet condemns federal actions, calls for curbing wart and press influence, and laments social unrest amid 1930s economic hardship.
WPA shows off New Mexico road project amid criticism
The Hopkins office touts Trechado road linking Quemado and Trechado for seven and a half miles alongside 19 miles built by ERA. Critics call it wasteful with 11 residents, $18,176 spent, and warn the road leads to nowhere, while Quemado sits on a transcontinental highway with limited local use.
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WPA
Harry Hopkins
New Mexico
Catcon
Quemade
Treehad
Ahéer Hooey
Rand McNally
Quemado
San Diego
Norfolk
Trechado
10 and 20 Years Ago From the Files of 1928
The column notes county auto statistics with Bexar figures, listing 45,345 autos taxed and a valuation above 449 million dollars as reported by County Tax Collector H. Nett Campbell. It also mentions Brackenridge Times issue previews and editors Willa Milter and Thelma Bulb.
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Bexar County
H. Nett Campbell
Tee Willa Milter
Miss Thelma
Barney
Bulb
Brackenridge Times
Stars and Stripes Tales of Growing Dangers in Altitude
Fragmentary note discusses heights of dates and plants, contrasting dangers of tall growth with lower altitude varieties. Mentions wall screed and beakers in a cryptic, machine-translation style.
New York Letters From 0 C McIntyre and Friends
A collage of city scenes from New York featuring 0 C McIntyre, Lean Gordon, and Roy Howard. Vignettes include a Turkish cafe visit, Mary Ellen Bute’s Visual Music studio, a dangerous deck incident, Dorothy Parker’s Hollywood exit, and remarks on other public figures.
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New York
Clary
Datamon Bern
Yed-Thab
Lexington Avenue
Jamorel
Lean’ Gordon
Irwin
Frazier Hunt
Paris
Prosper Volterre
Yyssihington Street
Idwal Jones
Brooklyn Bridge
Roy Howard
Claude Bowers
Chronicles of
Jefferson
West Forty-sixth Street
Mary Ellen Bute
Texas
Miss Hate
Ccrean
Stokowski
Sturbl
Jack Whitney
Dorothy Parker
Hollywood
California
Miss Parker
Enema
Pat Campbell
Aine
Sunken Treasure and the Curse of the Hapsburg Line
A legend links Otto of Austria to the sunken steamship Merida off the Virginia coast. A treasure hunt seeks Maximilian and Carlotta jewels seized after the Mexican empire fell, with the curse said to haunt the Hapsburgs, spreading misfortune across generations.
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Edwin al Fist
Otto
Archduke
Austria
Atlantic
Virginia
Merida
House of Hapsburg
Maximiilian
Mexico
Carlotta
Mie
Maximildat
Portirio Diaz
New York
Farragal
Virginia Capes
Maximilian
Francis Joseph
Leopold 7
Maximian
Milan
Taly
Louis Napoleon
Napoleon
North America
Solaing Hig Chance
United States
Carlotta’y
Unitted States
Maxico
Monroe
Haps
Karolyt
Hiss
Entheros Francie Joseph
Kerhiyl Cupe
Faas Sym
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George E. Phair
Elsie Robinson
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D. Roosevelt
Meriba
Mr. Roosevelt
Lenin Ling
Noarest Federal
Tandpa
Sunday Worker
New Masses
Bererol
Bronx
Tebbage
Washington, D
King Feax Syad
Wiliam G. Mesdoo
United States Treasury
San Antonio
5. A
Federal Land Banks
Dansay
Athe St. Anthony Hote
Murray Brooks
Paul Adams
Fred Tipps
Russell Wine
J. Crosswell Halli
John Spencer
Lei. Faulkner Heard
C. McIntyre
Fred Astaire
George Buckley
Tee
Wason
Botores Gostelta
Mas Parker
Pennsylvania
Pocanas
Mack Pearl
Billie
Pearl
Bagatelles
Tony Canzoneri
Jimmy Cromwell
Borabhy
Duke
Jack
Eat’ Benham
Iso
Benham
NeNaughl Synl
Moula Napoleon
Sheridan
Rio Grande
Maximilan
de Queretaro
Carlotty
Chatere
Belgium
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