Leadership and budget battles mark a split in two parties
The piece argues the 1931-32 congressional session showed weak leadership in both parties as deficits rose and taxes shifted. It notes Democratic and Republican factions parried, with tax votes and the bonus bill illustrating fault lines, while no side claimed clear public credit for budget balance.
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Congress
Republian
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Mills
Treasury
Canada
House
Representative Fish
New Yor
Roosevelt
Republican record in Congress and presidency criticised
The speaker argues that the Democratic record in Congress was poor while the Republican performance and the President's dealings with Congress were only barely acceptable, not deserving of propaganda.
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Congress
New York Tribune, Inc
Winchester Scenes and Local Updates in The Potomac Edison Issue
One year ago a sailor fatally jumped from a bus at Staunton. Commissioner Isaiah Roe backs Democratic county nominees. Winchester featured in Potomac Edison News. Handley High hosts Cumberland High in next game. Winchester semi pros beat West Virginia All-Stars 18 to 0.
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Staunton
Isaiah C. Roe
Winchester
Potomac- Edison News
Handley High School
Cumberland
Be cheerful in the face of discouragements
A brief note urges maintaining cheer and a contagious smile to lift personal mood and influence friends and neighbors, even amid difficulties. The quotation emphasizes optimism as a social force to spread positivity.
Public sale of Union Bank stock at Winchester courthouse
By execution in my hands I offer fifty shares of Union Bank of Winchester stock at public sale in front of the County Courthouse Winchester Virginia on Saturday October 22 1932 at 11 o clock A M Terms cash Lee Barr Sergeant 61 11 13 15 17 19 21
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Winchester
Virginia
Union Bank of Winchester
Lee Barr
Norris Sees Big Roosevelt Vote in Philadelphia Speech
Senator Norris told a Philadelphia audience that Roosevelt can win only with nonbelievers who vote party. He urged breaking party lines, argued Hoover embodies partisan politics, and recalled Lincoln and Roosevelt to defend welfare and democracy against wealth and machine power.
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Norris
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Nebraska
George W. Norris
Pennsylvania
Hoover
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Lincoln
Metropolitan Opera House
Roosevelt Independent State Committee
Partisa
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin
Theodore
Unknown ads and odd concrete keys near Broadway
An uptown sidewalk slab embeds many keys to signal a hardware store as pedestrians pass. A separate note notes that over one third of national cemetery burials are unknown. A joke quote depicts a delay for lunch due to watching a large beetle in its death-throes.
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Broadway
Jack
Governor Pollard Refuses Special Session on Redistricting
Richmond Va Oct 18 Governor Pollard says he will not call a special session to redraw state legislative districts, citing constitutional timing and doubt about legislative action. McMarran and other lawmakers fear court action over existing reapportionment and await assembly direction ahead of the November 8 election.
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Richmond
Pollard
General Assembly
Danville
Pittsylvania
Assembly
McMarran
Robert F. McMarran
House of Delegates
Portsmouth
Supreme Court of Appeals
Virginia
Aest
Peter Saunders
The
Commonwealth
Charles C. Berkeley
William Moseley Brown
Berkeley
Dr. Brown
Supreme Court For
Judicial Review
Saunders
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RB. Rogers
Dellinger Bros
Tires and Service
Prompt Road Service
Goodrich
Silvertown Tires
Cammer Tire CO
Braddock and
Bescawen Sts
Twin City Oil & Gas Corporation
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Martinsburg Pike
Amherst & Boscawen Sts
Valley Ave
Braddock St
Shenandoah Motor Company
Sherwood Anderson
Smythe County
England
F. W. Pingley
Shenandoghea National Bank
Winchester Lions Club
Madie Brown Bell
Kaiser William
Germany
Alsace
Lorraine
W. D. Smith
Frederick County
Red Cross
H. C. Stuart
Old Dominion
W. R. Talbot and Family
Akron
Union Bank
Ickers
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Gov. Pollard
C. C. Berkeley
W. M. Brown
Noan Numskuire
Tye
Noah
June Sitzn
Ploteal Park
Long Island
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Arthur Pryor
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Columbia
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