The Boyhood of Walter Chrysler
The account traces Walter Chrysler’s early life in western Kansas and Ellis as a mechanic’s apprentice. It details his watchful childhood among Union Pacific shops, his self made tools, rapid rise through rail and automotive firms, and his eventual New York headquarters with a signature toolbox that started him on the path to fame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Walter Chrysler
Kansas
Wamego
Union Pacific Railroad
Ellis
Walter
Chrysler
Wnt Corpinon
Western
Salt Lake City
Colorado & Southern
Trinidad
Colo
Chicago & Great Western
American Locomotive Company
Pittsburgh
Buick Company
Buick
General Motors
Willys-Overland
Maxwell-Chalmers
New York
Tuenis van Delsen
New Amsterdam
Istrict
Thomas C. T. Crain
New York County
City Club
Crain
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Samuel Seabury
Seabury
Police
New York City
U S Soviet rift and War Debates Stir Congress
Molotov blasts U S with charges of imperial plots and starvation claims while Congress weighs Russia policy. Stimson study on Soviet issues noted, with no move to create a separate Russia division and Hoover’s stance intact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Socialist Soviet Republics
United States
Washington
Henry Stimson
Hoover
William R. Castle
Stimson
Castle
Russia
State Department
Navy to award contracts for six destroyers this summer
NAV officials announce contracts for at least six of the eleven destroyers funded in the short session will be awarded early this summer. The ships are described as the largest, fastest and most seaworthy of their class for the United States fleet, with 40 mph speed, 1 500 ton displacement, 5 inch guns and extended fuel capacity for greater range.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Senate
United States
Great Britain
Arthur Henderson
Geneva
NAV” Department
Western Newspaper Union
Highway beautification drive unites groups for Washington entrances
The American Automobile Association leads a campaign to unify civic groups, architects, highway engineers, and newspapers in beautifying Washington approaches ahead of the 1932 bicentennial. A leading editorial in American Motorist notes daily columns on citizen meetings, reduced billboards, and advertisers shifting tactics to support the effort. Washington Star commends the unification of efforts as worthy of the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Automobile Association
Washington
District of Columbia
American Motorist
Washington Star
Warfare Upon Ugliness: A Civic Duty for Chicago’s City
The Municipal Art League of Chicago marks 80 years promoting art and beauty while tackling a citywide fight against ugliness. It seeks broad civic and group support to curb smoke, roof signs, and billboards, arguing that communal cleanliness mirrors individual home upkeep and requires large scale action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Art League of
Chicago
League
Kansas City Star
Playground Shortage in Growing American Cities
Playgrounds essential in expanding communities go underdeveloped as towns add subdivisions and schools. Parks lag, school yards shrink, and convenient playgrounds remain scarce while communities grow, often for years if ever.
Build Now urged as reason to speed construction
A bulletin mailed to 200 Illinois organization secretaries by the Illinois chamber of commerce argues for immediate building by citing low material prices cheap money abundant labor fast delivery and near term business recovery making the time ripe for construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambers of Commerce
Illinois
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Safe Sidewalks and Their Everyday Importance
A sidewalk is a familiar yet often overlooked part of daily life. Its condition reflects on safety, durability, and cost efficiency, with a good sidewalk ensuring trouble free use, longevity, and lower expenses.
Villages May Profit From Traffic Solutions
The piece argues that larger cities are strained by traffic and rely on overhead ways and subways. It urges growing towns to study these problems now to provide street capacity as populations rise.
To Be a Healthy Woman Bowels and Syrup Pepsin
An old family doctor endorses Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a reliable laxative for women and children. The remedy, made from laxative herbs and pure pepsin, promotes regular bowels without diet restrictions and is popular with over a million women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nagako
Japan
Hirohito
Chichibu
Dr. Caldwell
Elderly woman buys tickets then tears them up in Manchester
An elderly woman bought two tickets from ticket agent Guy Damug in Manchester New Hampshire and tore them up explaining she once rode from Raymond to Manchester. She admitted neglecting to buy tickets for two twelve year old boys who accompanied her and said her conscience troubled her since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Damug
Manchester
N. H
Raymond
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The
North American Newspaper Alliance
State Stimson
Edward W. Pickard
UCH
Moscow
Vatican
Poland
Hamilton Fish, Jr
T. C. T. Crain
Italy
Joseph Potter Cotton
Baltimore
Cotton
Rhode Island
Commerce
Liver Wendell Holmes
Supreme Court of the United States
Hughes
Justice Holmes
Supreme Court
Tealing
Republican National Committee
Advisory Council For Agriculture
L. J. Dickinson
Iowa
Arthur Capper
Robert G. Simmons
Nebraska
Fred 8. Purnell
Indiana
Borah
Norris
Senator Cutting
Costigan
Colorado
Employment Service
Rowe
Samuel McGowan
War Policies Commission
Johnson
House Veterans’ Committee
Delafield
War Department Board of Contract Adjustments
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
Balkans
Jugoslavia
Bulgaria
Greece
Alexander
Boris
Red Cross
Europe
Mauritius
Peru
David Samanez Ocampo
Lima
Arequipa
Ocampo
W. H. Wattis
Hcretary of the Interior
Companies, Inc
San Francisco
Hoover Dam
Boulder Canyon
William H. Wattis
Congress
Dean’s
Doan
Doans
Sants Sta
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