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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1937
Page
8
The piece denounces auto junk yards as graveyards for wrecked cars and links them to waste of property and life. It notes traffic accident costs surpassing a billion and a half dollars in a single year, urging reflection on careless driving and indifference.
The State Department fears coups abroad and a possible move of naval power toward Latin trade routes. Washington weighs transferring ships to southern routes and allowing radio for goodwill propaganda amid domestic fights over the Supreme Court plan and farm and wage policies. The President nudges Congress to push reform while reshaping the agenda.
Reports from Washington say Congress in a second Roosevelt special session is unruly as business faces recession and relief worries. The President trimmed his agenda to four measures to restore confidence, defend small firms, and reduce regulatory burdens while housing relies on private initiative. The mood in Congress and the nation remains unsettled about how far reforms will go.
The piece argues fascism is advancing from Europe into the Americas, citing Brazil under Vargas as a shift toward a corporate state with dictatorial powers. It warns that fascism now threatens North American democracy more than communism, as Italy Germany Japan expand influence and pressure grows to defend democratic ideals.
Ida Tarbell, Theodore Roosevelt, and Frank Kellogg in the early 20th century influenced U S policy on trusts. Tarbell’s History of the Standard Oil Company spurred anti monopoly efforts. Roosevelt supported her work while Kellogg advised on trust busting and later served as Senator and Secretary of State. Gossips relish sharing scandals.
President Roosevelt plans to stimulate home construction meet resistance from insiders as the housing bill is rushed through. An administrator delay and quarrels within the White House stall field surveys and funding, leaving cities awaiting federal aid to turn blueprints into buildings before winter. Builders like Ickes and the United States Conference of Mayors express dismay at the chaotic rollout.
A list of historical figures with birth and death details including Thomas Ruff born in King and Queen County Virginia and died January 15, 1870s. Seth Boyden founder inventor born Fenborne Massachusetts died Hilton. Stephen Champlin naval hero born South Kingston Rhode Island died Buffalo February 2 1870. John B Montgomery naval officer born Allentown New Jersey died March 25 1873. John B Ford Mississippi River steamboat inventor born Danville Kentucky died May 1 1903. Thomas Taggart Indiana hotel owner senator born Ireland died Indianapolis March 1929. Frank A Vanderlip banker born Aurora Illinois died June 29.
The fragment recalls Anne Hutchinson's antinomian trial in Boston for impugning ministers, John Peter Zenger’s seditious libel case shaping press freedom, early Capitol building sessions in 1800, a lone tavern city landscape, Suez Canal ceremonies in 1869, the 1874 Cleveland temperance convention, Col Robins' mysterious disappearance en route to Hoover, a 1936 religious riot injuries in Syria under French mandate.
A confidential memorandum, attributed to economist Leon Henderson, warned last April that a recession threat looms as wholesale prices rise and purchasing power falters. The document cites 1933 recovery parallels, cites a 16 percent price rise since 1936, and predicts a race between incomes and prices leading to reduced spending, production, and employment.
A brief biographical note highlights Ed as laborious and naturally adaptable to changing circumstances. It emphasizes stability and modesty as notable characteristics, painting a portrait of a dependable individual.
Henry A Shute of Exeter New Hampshire, 81, noted boys story writer. Prof Grace Abbott of the University of Chicago, 59, public welfare expert and former Children's Bureau chief, born Grand Island Nebraska. Chester C. Davis, Federal Reserve official, born Dallas County Iowa 50. Justin Miller, Duke University Law School dean and Tax Appeals board member, born Crescent City California 49. Maj Gen Thomas Ashburn Inland Waterways Corp president, born Batavia Ohio 63. General Henri Gouraud France's Par is military governor, born 70.
A reflection on native potential: with money inherited he could lead industry as a captain of enterprise. Without it he can still forge profit from available materials. The mind remains content and poised for success.
Read St Matthew 27 11 26 Pilate asks whom to release Barabbas or Jesus. Priests prevail to free Barabbas, a violent path. The piece contrasts Barabbas violence with Christ, urging restraint and ethical reform. It urges the Church to offer Christ as a path beyond violence and to support the Church.
The discussion on reorganizing the government stirs old tensions among Democrats. Critics say the plan would cut jobs held by loyalists, revive bitter White House biases, and provide a pretext to filibuster other presidential initiatives while many topics from appointments to prices and recession are debated.
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