Social Security amendments reshape 1940 elections debate
The piece discusses Townsend plan support shifting to the 1940 campaign, Congress and the White House clashing over revised social security provisions, wage and tax proposals, and projected cost impacts amid political maneuvering and labor tension in Minneapolis. It also notes Sino-British tensions in China and domestic LSU embezzlement indictments tied to campus projects.
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WPA
F.C. Harrington
Congress
Roosevelt
Minneapolis
George E. Leach
Washington
A. F. of
L. and Co. I. O
White House
John Lewis
William Green
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Senate
House
U. S
Michigan
Arthur Vandenberg
Not So Hot Weather Tricks In The Heat Wave
A mid July to late August heat wave drives Americans to inventive cooling methods. Detroit residents spray hydrants while New York tenements seek relief, a Gloucester beachgoer tolerates 94 degrees, and Prof Charles M Heck of North Carolina State conducts a heat survey from Empire State Building observations with instruments tracing heat rays and atmospheric moisture.
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America
Detroit
New York
Gloucester
Mass
Charles M. Heck
North Carolina State College
Empire State Building
Heck
The Modern Sisyphus of Morning Shaves
The piece likens shaving to Sisyphus daily toil, noting men begin each day scrubbing the chin despite knowing tomorrow will demand the same routine. It adds that Camels burn 25 percent slower than the average of 15 large brands, slower than all tested.
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Sisyphus
Finis
Which cigarette offers all of them
Read three important cigarette facts revealed by tests on 16 top brands. Camels show more tobacco by weight, burn slower by 25 percent, and hold ash longer than the average of others, suggesting five extra smokes per pack.
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Joseph W. Labine
Townsend
Western Newspaper Union
Francis E. Townsend
Europe
Paris
Asia
Britain
Tokyo
China
Chiang Khishek
Tsingtao
Japan
Hongkong
Robert Leslie Craigie
Hachiro Arita
Chiang
Tientsin
Albert Lebrun
Sarah Delano Roosevelt
U.S
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Edouard Daladier
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
James Monroe Smith
Clarence A. Lorio
Louisiana Medical Society
Lorio
George Caldwell
LSU
Caldwell
E. N. Jackson
Dr. Smith
Board of Supervisors
Townsend Beaton
Chicago Samaj
Ayee Rigee
No. L
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