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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1936
Page
3
Hopkins, Roosevelt's WPA administrator, said relief rolls will hit a winter low not seen since the depression began. He estimated 3.76 million families and individuals will receive federal and local aid on January 1, 1937, down from a peak of 6.316 million in January 1935.
The National Labor Relations Board orders dissolution of the industrial council plan at the International Harvester plant in Fort Wayne Indiana. The board says the plan is an illegal labor organization, limiting genuine collective bargaining while conceding many benefits. The ruling warns the same plan exists at 14 other Harvester plants in the US and Canada and may set a precedent for similar actions nationwide.
Secretary Wallace hints there may be no new crop control legislation for a year unless weather or demand shifts. He cautions surplus risks and says he cannot predict outcomes, preferring to wait and see. Also notes engagement of Franklin D Roosevelt Jr to Ethel du Pont with June wedding planned after Harvard graduation.
Loyalist defenders of Madrid aided by southeast reinforcements and reportedly supplied with aircraft and tanks from Russia faced heavy assaults by Fascist forces. Bombing, air battles, and land fighting raged as attackers breached lines at Los Franceses bridge and crossed the Manzanares before retreating. The loyalists blew the bridge, seized rebel tanks, and a new defense council in Madrid, after officials fled to Valencia, claimed smooth operation and eventual victory, even if the capital fell.
Clark Howell longtime editor of the Atlanta Constitution and publisher died at his Atlanta home aged 83 after a long illness. He helped found Roosevelt for President clubs and was a vice president of the Associated Press. The Constitution won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious service in exposing Atlanta politics. Secretary Roper plans a census of the unemployed and asks Congress for 13 to 15 million dollars to train 25 000 workers to count the unemployed and analyze trades and employability across states.
Exford G Tugwell announced the government had acquired more than nine million acres of land deemed unsuitable for crops and plans to buy ten times as much. The Resettlement Administration will pay $39,916,603 for land under 210 projects in 44 states at about $4.40 an acre. The land will be restored to grazing, forestry, recreation and other uses. Tugwell said 5,476 families still live on the tracts and will need resettlement aid. more than 2,000 families have been moved so far.
A column notes rising dividends and wages as big business loosens liquidity after the Roosevelt win. It cites General Motors and Dupont payouts, a projected farm cash income of 7.85 billion, and a tax heavy car consumer base. It weighs inaugural spectacle and AAA politics, plus a forecast of Roosevelts party dynamics and possible successors.
A quirky prompt lists questions about Napoleon I and III, Lee, gas in dentistry, Faneuil Hall, the Nibelungenlied, and other items. It asks who William Harvey was and who led the first German Republic, plus definitions like turbid water and the Society’s relation to Napoleons.
The notes mention private court, Lincoln shot on April 14, surrender on April 9, 1865, and list items including nitrogen and oxygen, a Boston location, a medieval German poem about the Nibelungs, a South Pacific reference, nephew, an English physician who discovered blood circulation, Friedrich Ebert, and cloudy water.
A compact collection of foreign phrases with English translations and notes. Includes Alis volat propris, Beaux yeux, Deus ex machina, En famille, Flagrante bello, Hoch soll er leben, Jettatura, L etat c est moi, and Coram populo, with brief explanatory tags.
A fragment quotes P Brooks urging decisive aim in life and belonging to a clear intention. It emphasizes living bent toward a meaning or purpose and striving to be something definite. The attribution is to Brooks and reflects a要 philosophical instruction on self direction.
Thirty years of stubborn constipation described by Mrs Mabel Schott with gas bloating headaches and back pains. The ad touts Adlerika as a bowel cleanser giving relief in thirty minutes after one dose and claims it cleanses the bowel where ordinary laxatives do not reach.
A brief quotation notes that hiding duties can obscure essential truth, quoting Ruskin.
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