Democratic Convention Nominates Roosevelt and Abolishes Two-Thirds Rule
The Democratic convention in Philadelphia renominated Franklin D. Roosevelt with a strong New Deal platform. Delegates voted to abolish the historic two-thirds rule, pledged continued soil conservation, farm payments, and a balanced budget, and endorsed a flexible constitutional approach to core reforms.
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Plduk
Drought Strikes Northwest and Midwest Crops
The specter of drought harms crops across the Northwest and drought areas in South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana with heat parched fields. Railroads set emergency freight rates for livestock to grazing districts as a relief program under Hopkins plans work relief for 5 000 farmers across the Dakotas Wyoming and Montana amid seventh year crop losses.
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Harry L. Hopkins
Lemke Joins Union Party Bid for Presidency
North Dakota representative Lemke announced a presidential run under the Union party with Charlies E. Coughlin as sponsor and Thomas C. O'Brien of Boston as running mate. The 15 point program calls for farm mortgage refinancing, wage security, central bank control of currency, and universal work, with a Cleveland convention planned in August.
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Detroit
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Boston
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Townsend Old Age Pension Movement
Lynn J. Frazier
House of Representatives
French unrest eases as popular front reaches accords
Tribes and industrial difficulties continued to harass France but a conciliatory stance by the new popular front government toward chambers of commerce was forecast. Premier Leon Blum assured representatives that no more manufacturing plants would be tied up by folded arms strikers, whose peak numbers reached about one million workers.
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Quotations and Phrases Latin and French Aphorisms
A compact glossary of phrases with translations in parentheses. Entries include equal mind equable glance delightful to unbend occasion after the fact or act at the point of death a slip of the tongue necessity has no law God willing lift up your hearts and related notes.
Purpose and duty guide personal growth from Phillips Brooks
The passage urges setting an earnest purpose to discover one’s mission and diligently pursue it. It argues that a loftier aim leads to personal enrichment and, in turn, to making the world richer through growth.
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Phillips
Brooks
Young Man Refuses Reward Golf Club Ruse
A gallant youth saves a drowning heiress in a canal. The father offers money, the hero asks only for a golf club. A week later the multi millionaire sends a telegram saying he has bought the club for the hero and is negotiating for other properties.
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Pop
Sunnydale
Grape Nuts Ad Teases Dizzy Dean Winners Prizes
An advertisement urges readers to study the Dizzy Dean Winners promotion in another column of the paper to learn how to join and win valuable free prizes. The spot hints at a consumer contest with a cereal brand angle.
Man's Opinion on Creation Attributed to Self
Fragmentary OCR reads as a philosophy note where a man declares his own view of creation as a testament to human achievement. The text is unclear but hints at self-authored statements about artistic or moral mastery.
Where Affections Light
A brief musing notes that affections strike like lightning, elusive until they fall, a reflection on love’s sudden, unpredictable spark.
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Lacordaire
Real Temptations Question Human Behavior under Pressure
Essay fragment notes that most people face few real temptations and doubt their own actions when confronted, suggesting uncertainty about behavior in challenging moments.
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