Every Day Is Birthday at the White House Gifts
A Smithsonian style reminiscence notes the White House mail room receives diverse gifts for F D R from 1933 onward. Chicks bulldog and baby alligator sit among paintings, manuscripts, and unusual tokens. Gifts are logged and donors thanked. perishable items go to veterans and elderly care.
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White House
Bangor
Emilio Aguinaldo
Funston
U.S. Army
New York
Europe
Fella
Scottie
New Deal
Persia
Ohio
Warm Springs
Veterans
Wallace fails to get stenographer exempt from draft
Vice President Wallace sought draft deferment for Leo W. Kutler a 23 year old stenographer in his Capitol office calling him essential work. The Washington Draft Appeals Board denied the request. Kutler listed as secretary to the assistant to the VP was identified by officials as just a stenographer.
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Washington
Wallace
Capitol
Leo
Mr. Kuder
Detroit
young man’s _neighborhood board
Board of Appeals
Henry Jr
Rough wagon days on a Texan trail across Southwest
The narrator recalls childhood road trips with his father across Southwest Texas in a covered wagon pulled by horses Jim and Joe. They camped in towns and open country from Eagle Pass to Del Rio and Uvalde, surviving nights with coyotes howling and sharing chores like cooking, cleaning, and tending the camp.
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Old Jim
Joe
Jim
Texas
Hondo
D’hanis
Sabinas
Eagle Pass
Christian Herald
Gypsy Smith
Uvalde
del Rio
Carrizo Springs
An Editor's Prayer and Old Wagon Journey Reminiscences
A reflective piece recounts a wagon journey to Austin with goat meat tasting better than remembered beef, desert scenery and field memories of San Marcos, ending with the sale of the wagon and the deaths of favored horses. It closes with a devotional poem blessing advertisers and loyal contributors to the newspaper.
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Fort Worth
San Marcos
Wood County Democrat
Navy Athletes Shift to Combat Training for Sea Duty
The Navy announced that athletes at Norfolk's physical instructors school are to receive gunnery and fire control training for assignment to battle stations. Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs ordered combat duty courses for the branch's roughly 3,000 members. Commander Gene Tunney cited the goal of placing these sports heroes in roles where leadership and aggressiveness aid actual combat.
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Washington
Navy Department
Norfolk
Randall Jacobs
Naval Personnel
Naval
Navy
Gene Tunney
Soil Erosion Worst in 52 Years Says Farmer
Farm writer Joe Fisher in Muenster laments April erosion. He notes fields shed more soil this month than in 52 years since sod breaking, with gullies three feet deep and yield losses from sixty to seven-five bushels per acre. USDA Soil Conservation urges contour strip cropping and terracing to curb erosion. Franklin clergy blame him for toying with the Lord’s lightning.
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Muenster
Joe Fisher
Soil Conservation
Soil Conservation Service
USDA
Fisher
Reflective snippets on honesty and hard work from Fort Worth letters
A Fort Worth column weighs motives behind public demands and personal actions. It notes a wife tracing her husband with a home brew device, a farmer praising crops amid WPA worries, and a wary tone toward opportunists in religious communities.
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Fort Worth
High Mark Students Choose Occupations On Interest Basis
Carnegie Foundation analysis of 1227 Pennsylvania college graduates ten years out shows high college marks do not predict income. About 40 percent picked careers for interest over money. unemployment over two years was 8 percent. after a decade, 25 percent earned under 2000 dollars and 25 percent over 3500 dollars annually. Byrd Antarctic expedition mapped about 200000 square miles of new territory.
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Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Pennsylvania
Objective Inquirer
William S. Larned
New Territory
Admiral Byrd
Antarctic
Pithy Reflections and Quips From a Local Paper Reader
A collage of quips about plans after the war and personal advice. The speaker warns against self declared failure and recalls a grouchy friend with a proverb about grinding axes. Tim Meddlin and a sentence about homely girls appear as colorful asides in a reflective column.
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Donald Wilhelm
Kiwanis Magazine
Steno
de Leon
Father Massanet
State of
Amichel
Florida
Apacheria
Land
Nueva Felipinas
New Philippines
Quivira
Sun Office
Royce House
Whitewright Lumber Co
Hell Riders
Congress Avenue
Austin
Tce
Round Rock
Taylor
Franklin
Lord
The
Sun
Leroy M. Anderson
Jake J. Loy V. R
Vernie) Henderson
H. Grady Thompson
Fred
Hank
Mooty
J. Benton Davis
G. P
Prentice
Gafford
George Schumacher
Robert Dean
S. V. Earnest Paul Finch
Sewell R. McKinney
F. W. (Finis) Alverson
J. H
Jim) Waggoner S. B
Ben) Vaughan
J.S. Taylor
Homer M. Price
WPA
Hitler
Louis XIV
Heaven
Tim Meddlin
Bud
Father
Kirkpatrick
Dad
Gomer May
L. LaRoe& Co
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