Grant era State Department moves eyed amid remodel debates
A column notes plans to relocate the Secretary of State to the fourth floor to accommodate six presidential assistants, while criticizing the failed outside remodel and praising enduring tradition. It reflects on press freedom, European journalism, and a cautiously rising US economy with retail gains and farm outlooks improving, amid political and war-uncertainty.
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General Grant
State War and Navy
Washington
Ecole Des Beaux Arts
Department of State
Treasury Department
Mr. Hull
Stimson
Kellogg
Hughes
Lansing
Bryan
Knox
Hay
Root
Blaine
Evarts
Fish
Taxes Eat Huge Hole In An Average Pay
A New York labor committee reports that taxes on the average worker amount to about 365 dollars a year, unseen and direct levies cutting into income and curbing private enterprise. It warns that persistent high taxation harms investment, employment, and individual freedom.
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New York State Federation of Labor
New York State
Local Security Board
New York
New York Day By Day Diary Highlights and City Scenes
In a bustling July to August stretch, Captain Dennis O'Brien and son Paul visit a neighborly East Side. the Lettie Lynton plagiarism case is noted as won by the O'Brien firm for authors. Parisian sidewalk cafes flourish and McGraw Hill building towers rise with green glassy façades. Rockefeller Center elms show stress from drought while plane trees are favored for city planting. Speeches on Italian language in Hitler schools close the column.
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New York
Dennis O'Brien
Paul
Lettie Lynton
O'Brien
North Brookfield
Mass
Ray Carney
Erin
Visi
Captain Kidd
Brevoort
Fifth Avenue
Wheeler Loomis
University of Thaois
Marthas Vineyard
McGraww-Hill
42D
McGraw-Hill
Rockefeller Center
Center
Rockefeller
Bryant Park
Public Library
Sixth Avenue
Moses
City Hall Plaza
Roosevelt relief speech to outline WPA cuts and gains
The piece notes an upcoming Roosevelt schedule speech likely a fireside chat or westward address to explain WPA economy cuts and the fate of 650,000 relief workers dropped since July 1. WPA rolls will drop to about 1.8 million by September and then rise to around 2 million in winter, with data to show who found private employment and who did not. It also covers Taft versus Smith on radio debates, Krock’s book on lean years, and various DC political notes including Rep Rabaut’s nepotism stance and a discordant U.S. Army encounter with Major Ratay over Hitler optimism.
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Department of Commerce
New York Times
Washington
Roosevelt
West
Congress
WPA
Act of Congress
Taft
Smith
University of Chicago
Bob Taft
Gallup
Denver
Virginia Institute of Public Affairs
Senate
Arthur Krock
Astate
LaFollette
Gardner Jackson
Alexander Kirk
Chicago
Berlin
San Francisco
Gordon Lange
Rabout
Marie C
Louis II
Louis
Mary Jane
Rabaul
AFL
Frank Morrison
Cincinnati
Morrison
William Green
Richard Ornburn
Union Labor Trades Division
Herbert Rivers
Building Trades Department
John Frey
Metal Trades
Greens
Ornburn
Morrisons
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Robin nests and eggs repeatedly rebuilt at Denham airport
A robin keeps rebuilding its nest at Denham despite airport workers tearing it apart. The bird lays eggs and takes short flights while the unhatched brood remains hidden, a persistent cycle of nesting and disturbance noted in a quirky observer’s report.
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Denham
England
Anniversaries and History in Brief Today
A dated collage notes anniversaries of Josiah Meigs James Lick William Kelly John Fritz and William Pepper with brief biographical markers and death dates. It also lists 1621 marriageable ladies anecdote about Rabaul and labor news on AFL official Morrison retirement and potential successors, plus a sequence of historical events and notable births.
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Connecticut
Yale
Franklin College
Univ. of Georgia
Middletown
Conn
James Lick
San Francisco
Fredericksburg
William Kelly
Pittsburgh
London
Heirs and vineyard keepers and a silent penitent church
The passage contrasts a parable where the tenants kill the heir with a bitter rebuke of Christian anti Semitism. It condemns mistreatment of Jews and explains that many Christians ignore Christ today, letting him die by indifference rather than direct persecution. Studdert Kennedy is cited on the notion of passing Jesus by.
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Christ
Studdert Kennedy
Jesus
Birmingham
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