President Wades Into Beef Buy Affair and Buzz Saw Politics
Brackart's Washington Digest analyzes President Roosevelt's decision to award a navy canning contract for 24 tons of Argentine beef amid debate over Buy American laws, trade policy, and costs to national prestige. The piece notes the political backlash, defenses of domestic policy, and the March to explain or justify the move.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Navy
Inc
Uncle Sam
Supreme Court of the United States
Navy
United States
Argentine Cooperatives, Inc
Congress
Department of State
Hull
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Hull
White House
Capitol
Argentina
South America
Radio and TV bring new doors for vaudeville stars
A glance at the evolving entertainment scene notes radio’s break for old vaudeville actors as television nears, predicting new opportunities for stage and film performers. Highlights include Richard Barthelmess in Union Pacific, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart rising at Metro, and other stars like Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner.
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Radio City
Union Pacific
Ecuador
Jean Arthur
Cary Grant
Thomas Mitchell
Cecil B. DeMille
Barbara Stanwyck
Joel McCrea
James Stewart
Metro
Margaret Sullavan
Sewing for the Home Decorator offer and rug color guide
Ruth Wyeth Spears shares how to analyze rug colors to plan room schemes. A chart of rug colors guides wall tones and accent picks, with tips to use pale wall shades and stronger rug colors. The notice advertises Book 1 Sewing for the Home Decorator and No 2 Gifts, Novelties and Embroideries at 15 cents each or 25 cents for both, plus optional leaflets and a prompt mail order to Mrs Spears in Chicago.
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Spears
Examination Time NSWERS And The Golden Silence
A playful set of analogies redefines common phrases with literal twists. It pairs a cheeky misdirection about exams with a mock glossary of terms like crematorium as a milk separator and a specter as a baseball cheerer, ending with a poetic note on ancient horn calls and gold prospecting.
Jolly Dialogue Turns Sour in Mixed Street Talk
A fragment from a newspaper page captures quick quips and banter. Lines include a blunt exchange between a sergeant and sentry about shooting, and a banter between a rejected suitor and Joan about a ring and heartbreak followed by a taxi driver joke. The piece then shifts to a couple’s dinner mishap with a chef’s onion aroma.
Around the House items of interest to the home
Practical tips for cooking hair care furniture cleaning and storage. How to roast chicken with olive oil for tenderness and flavor. Lemon juice in rinse preserves hair color and adds shine. Shellac seats prolong chair life and prevent reed splitting. Pewter cleaning method uses soap pumice and polishing cloth. Coffee grinding tip to revive flavor. Mustard on sandwiches mixed with butter for even spread. Turnip sauce as horseradish substitute. Cedar chests do not kill eggs but prevent moth damage if garments are clean before storage.
Quiz Questions From A 1920s Reader Card
A set of trivia prompts asks how many days in a fortnight and the meanings of terms like counterpane. It also covers topics on national emblems, weights of dairy liquids, bulb function, reptile distinctions, translation of Mona Lisa, number of Shetland islands, passport requirements for international travel, and a biblical verse about a woman whistling.
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Shetland Islands
Fill in the missing terms and notes from the riddle
A list of clues defines coverlet and two options, glow, turtle and tortoise, Mona and Lisa, a population claim about many tiny inhabited items, a confirmation, and a note debunking a biblical prohibition about a whistling woman with an unknown origin
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Mona
Madonna
Lady
Lisa
Milk cream floats to the top in dairy phrase examples
Fourteen relates to a number, then lists Scotland Ireland Canada France as countries, and a pint of milk with the note that the cream rises to the top.
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Scotland
Ireland
Canada
France
Or Wash Your Face Teacher-Remember Jimmy and the lawn job
A concise snippet contrasts a teacher’s reminder with Jimmy recalling a lawn mowing task. It hints at a small scene of work done and reflected upon, implying pride or relief in completing a job so well that it need not be repeated.
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Jimmy
Perhaps the Darbys Ducks Were Storks
A Tennessee salesman asked a man by a ford if he could drive through a creek with his car. The man assured him, but the engineer flooded the engine as the water rose higher than expected. The clerk explained that the water was deep because the ducks only came halfway up on his ducks.
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Tennessee
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Washington Digest
William Bragkart
National Press Bldg
Washington, D. C
House
Senate
House of Representatives
House Committee On Appropriations
Ripley
Virginia Vale
Richard Barthelmess
Howard Hughes Aviation
Louis Hayward
Ida Lupino
Hollywood
Man In the Iron Mask
New York
Lee Tracy
the Spellbinder
Barbara Read
Vicente Gomez
Bob
Phil Baker
Stooge
Paul Muni
Emile Zola
Muni
Louis Pasteur
Sol Lesser
Our Town
Ernst Lubitsch
Lesser
United Artists
Werner Janssen
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Ann Harding
Walter Wanger
Dartmouth
Union
By Ruth Wyeth Spears
Joan
eau-de-Cologne
Iruol-Ay
Grove
Joseph
Pure Aspire
Eorge W. Langley
Prince Albert
Jackson
Reynolds Tobacco
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
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