Bigelow pension plan criticized as costly risk to Ohio
Canton Repository argues against the Bigelow pension scheme, noting wide cost estimates from 56 million to 381.6 million and warning it could cost Ohio at least 247.92 million annually. The piece likens the plan to stepping from a window, urges voters to reject it as an insult to common sense.
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Division of Aged
Ohio Emergency Committee
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Bigelow
California
Colorado
Canton Repository
American Curtiss planes pace aviation surge in wartime speed
New all metal single place Curtiss super planes, built for the Army, enter production and promise at least 50 mph faster than the 300 mph rate cited in France. The design mirrors the craft Lloyd Child tested at 579 mph last January and will soon be publicly shown at Army airports. Production is set to boost U.S. aviation industry and allied sectors, while spurring further aeronautical R&D.
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France
Curtiss
America
H Lloyd Child
War Develops Social Laboratory
The billeting of a million London children from slums to farms and estates aims to be an education for all. Homes guarded privacy, yet invasion stirs human problems needing time and patient effort. Hosts note disconcerting realities, from ill clothing to homesick and unruly children, including childless couples and scholars studying child care. Sociologists and historians will weigh this experiment, as may novelists.
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London
Blackouts curb crime in wartime London vigil against thieves
London reports that blackouts and wartime precautions have nearly wiped out violent crime. Scotland Yard notes jewelers and farriers burglars avoid light and cannot work in darkness, while patrols rise at night. Theatre closures keep people home, making it dangerous to move about after drinking. The era also sees a de facto truce between criminals and police amid stricter wartime punishments.
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London
Scotland Yard
Nso
Emerson
Future Farmers Of America Convention Draws Hopeful Farm Boys
The Future Farmers of America association, started 32 years ago with support from the US Office of Education, will convene in Kansas City during the week of Oct 15. Delegates from every state plus Hawaii and Puerto Rico attend as the movement promotes a brighter, educated farming future.
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America
Kansas City
US Office of Education
Hawai
Puerto Rico
Boake Carter Warns of Dictator Risk After War
A Boake Carter piece argues Americans fearing defeatist attitudes risk embracing a quasi dictatorship as the United States nears postwar policy debates. It highlights Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover opposing wartime controls and warns of business pressure for planned economies after 18 months of war.
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Woodrow Wilson
War Council
War Trade Board
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Saturday Evening Post
Paris
Wilson
Europe
America
Oig
Roosevelt
NRA
Roncevelt
The Washington Merry-Go-Round: Chamberlain, Stalin Pact Spark Debate
United States readers glimpse reactions to Hitler Stalin alliance with Chamberlain praising the shift while Britain fears the realignment. Junkers in East Prussia feel exposed by Soviet reach and a future Polish border change looms. Murphy’s Sweetheart tells of a five year old admirer who travels to meet him in Washington. A Army Mobilization Plan notice hints at a semi dictatorial wartime government.
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Chamberlain
Hitler
Soviet Russia
Europe
Stalin
England
East Prussia
Poland
Russian
Frank Murphy
Anne Mallon
Mary Mallon
Barbadoes
Anne
Murphys
British Barbadoes
Mallons
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Attorney Generals Secretary
Murphy
United States
United States Government Printing Office
New York City's Government Budget and Debt Compared
John H'x i. C'S notes New York City runs the nation’s costliest city government with a near 590 million dollar annual budget. The city recorded a net debt of about 2.0176 billion last March, triple the burden carried by New York State and alarming critics.
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New York City
United States
New York State
Document access restrictions stir public debate and hints of conflicts
The piece notes scarce copies of the Industrial Mobilization Plan, with War Department and War Resources Board disputes. Footnotes reveal internal Army disagreements over drafting provisions, including banker appointments to the War Finance Commission. Other items cover federal health bill talks, a single fatality in a pilot program, NYA staffing limits, rising female applicants for old age insurance, and 1936 Social Security context.
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High Justice Department
War Department
War Resources Board
Congress
Paul McNutt
American Medical Association
Sesson
Civil Aeronautics Authority
National Youth Administration
Aubrey Willams
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Anniversary list highlights notable births and deaths
Today's anniversaries recall Benjamin West born near Springfield died 1820 and Hezekiah Niles founder of Niles' Register died 1839. Also listed: Jean Pierre Chouteau, George Pope Morris, Anson G McCook, William Everett, Victor Metcalf, Helen Hayes, Kermit Roosevelt, Edmund A Walsh, Frederick Patterson, Alonso B Houghton, Beatrice M Hinkle, Arthur O Lovejoy, with notes on public events from 1845 to 1918 and a closing line on energy and conflict in nature.
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England
Britain
Royal Academy
Springfield
Jean Pierre Chouteau
St Louis
New Orleans
Hezekiah Niles
Baltimore
Niles’ Register
Chester Co
George Pope Morris
New York
Philadelphia
Anson G McCook
Ohio
US Senate
Steubenville
William Everett
Quincy Mass
Watertown
Mass
Victor H Metcalf
California
Cabinet Oficer
Utica, N Y
Oakland
Cal
Helen Hayes
Washington DC
Kermit Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
NY Steamship
Roosevelt
Edmund A Walsh
Georgetown University
Boston
Frederick D Patterson
Tuskegee Institute
Alonson B
Houghton
Cambridge Mass
Beatrice M Hinkle
San Francisco
Arthur O Lovejoy
Johns Hopkins
Germany
Bible Readings on God's Relation to the Soul
An overview of the Bible as a living library of religion. It traces God's central role from the Old Testament to the New, stressing a righteous holy God who seeks humanity with compassion and mercy. The piece suggests religious study aids personal growth and life potential.
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