Government leaders urge business to aid recovery drive
A national broadcast featured Henry A. Wallace and WPA chief Hopkins outlining recovery plans. Hopkins said WPA purchases will create 250000 indirect private jobs, while Wallace urged production to expand domestic markets. Gray Straus and Kingman touted public works, housing, and flood control as job creators and economic stabilizers.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
PWA
Howard A. Gray
United States Housing
Nathan Straus
John J. Kingman
United States Army Engineers
Hopkins
Wallace
Gray
Ickes
Straus
Kingman
Y Pope
Keep Out of Politics Warns Officials in Campaign Probe
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas heads the senate campaign expenditures investigating committee which orders government agencies to refrain from participating in campaigns. The panel vows vigorous, fearless inquiries and will prosecute improper conduct. Also warns candidates and aides. committee members include Harrison Walsh Mahoney White.
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Morris Sheppard
Texas
Senate
Sheppard
Harrison
David I. Walsh
Joseph O’mahoney
Wallace White
German Spies Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
A New York federal grand jury indicted eighteen individuals as spies for the German government after five months of investigation. Four defendants are in the United States awaiting trial. the others, including three German officers, are abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Roosevelt Weds Anne Lindsay Clark in Nahant Church
John Roosevelt youngest son of President and Mrs Roosevelt married Anne Lindsay Clark at a Nahant Massachusetts church. A reception followed at the Nahant club and the couple began a honeymoon to Campobello Island as the news notes tensions over Austria and debts loom in Europe.
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John Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Old
Nahant
Mass
Nahant Mass
John’ Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Anne. Lindsay Clark
Old Nahant Club
Campobello Island
Henry Tells Tale of Cop and Anthem in Soapy’s Winter
A short story features Soapy choosing between philanthropy and the law to endure winter. He dines, feigns poverty to summon police, vandalizes a plate glass window, and taunts a passing girl with his street corner antics, setting up further mischief.
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Henry
Soapy
Once in Prison William Sydney Porter’s Life Story
The piece details William Sydney Porter born 1862 in Greensboro N C later known as O Henry. He worked at a bank in Austin Texas where an embezzlement of 1150 dollars occurred and Porter was sentenced to five years in an Ohio penitentiary. In prison he wrote prolifically and by 1903 worked for the New York World earning 100 dollars per story weekly. He died in 1910 and was buried in Asheville North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Sidney Porter
Greensboro
N. C. O. Henry
Austin
Texas
Porter
Ohio
New York World
Asheville
N. C
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Soapy Loosens Grip On Island Night Ends in Resolve
A distraught Soapy, followed by a nearby police presence, tries to disrupt a street scene but withdraws when accosted by a wary crowd. He contemplates a fresh start after a night of mischief and a pull toward Madison Square Garden, inspired by an organ anthem heard in a cathedral.
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Madison Square Garden
Soapy
Mt Honead
Farm Champions on the Air Feature 26 Voice of the Farm programs
Among the champion farmers featured on Firestone's 26 Voice of the Farm programs Everett Mitchell interviews leading crop growers and stock raisers. The lineup includes Albert Schroeder and others as farm champions in crops and livestock across categories such as potatoes corn cotton and hogs with Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn breeders highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champion Farmers of America
Firestone
Voice of the Farm
Everett Mitchell
National
Farm and Home Hour
Albert Schroe
Der
Sarah-Ann
John Tolan
Darwin Neal
Paul Fisher
L. E. Mathers
Harry L. Chadwick
Adolph Pirani
Ralph L. Heilman
Paul Stiefboldt
Distinguish by Purity Not by Descent or Derivation
Quotation from Horace urges judging worth by purity of life and heart rather than lineage or descent. The line emphasizes inner character as true merit, contrasting external birth with personal virtue.
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Horace
Wise and Otherwise Paradox and Proverbs From A Humorous Column
A light column shares quips and maxims about trust and risk. It notes a tailor seeks cash upfront and a doctor warns small worries disturb sleep. It jokes how a silver fox necklace triggers envy and how honesty paradoxically spills dirt when coming clean.
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Buddy
Buckingham Fountain Gift From Kate Buckingham
The Buckingham Memorial fountain in Chicago is a gift from Miss Kate Buckingham in memory of her brother Clarence. It cost 1,000,000 dollars, sits in a 600 feet square garden with three basins and a central pool, and can discharge 5,500 gallons per minute with a column 75 feet high. It features night illumination in five colors.
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Buckingham
Kate Buckingham
Chicago
Clarence
Art Institute of Chicago
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Harry Hopkins
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Jack Frost
Elizabeth James
Yale
Mrz
Mui
Buckingham Fountain
Firestone Tire
Firestone Auto Supply & Service
Firestone Convoy
Isa
MIT
Goks
Margaret
Speiy
Firestone Sympony Orchestra
Alfred Willenstein
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