President calls housing act revisions to spur building boom
President Roosevelt urged Congress to revise the housing law to ease credit and unleash idle capital for a large building boom. He proposed lower FHA loan charges, adjustable mortgage insurance on diminishing balance, higher insurable limits, and easier financing for large rental projects and blanket mortgages.
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Congress
Federal Housing Administration
National Mortgage Associations
Federal
Roosevelt Goes Fishing For Policy On Trusts In Miami
President Roosevelt sailed to Miami Florida for a fishing cruise after presenting tax and housing reforms to Congress. He was joined by Assistant Attorney General R H Jackson and other aides including Secretary Ickes and WPA Administrator Hopkins to discuss legislation aimed at acting against bad trusts while protecting good ones.
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Roosevelt
Miami
Fla
R. H. Jackson
Ickes
WPA
Hopkins
Barkley Pins Tax Revision Hope On House Delays
Senate majority leader Senator Barkley said no time remains in the extraordinary session to draft or pass a tax revision bill. He noted President Roosevelt supported revision but stressed any such legislation must originate in the House, delaying the undivided corporate surpluses and capital gains revisions.
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Senate
Senator Barkley
Congress
Roosevelt
Subcommittee
Duc de Guise Appeals From Exile For Monarchy Return
From Belgium exiled Duc de Guise denounces the Republic and declares a bid to reclaim the throne. He calls on French citizens to resist dictatorship and restore France under a titular king, claiming the plot against the republic was real and the danger masked.
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Belgium
Duc de Guise
France
President Roosevelts Vinson nomination to DC court of appeals
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Rep Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky to fill a vacancy on the United States court of appeals for the District of Columbia. The post pays 10000 dollars annually, for life with retirement privileges. Vinson, a 47 year old tax expert in his seventh term, lives in Ashland Kentucky. The President also nominated Associate Justice D Lawrence Groner of Virginia to be chief justice, creating another vacancy. Groner will be succeeded by Henry White Edgerton of New York, whose nomination also went to the Senate.
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Senate
Fred M. Vinson
Kentucky
United States Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Vinson
House
Ashland
D. Lawrence Groner
Virginia
Croner
Henry White Edgerton
New York
Walters of Idaho Dies
Theodore Walters, assistant secretary of the interior, died of pneumonia at the Naval hospital in Washington after an emergency gall bladder operation. He was sixty one years old. Walters was chosen by President Roosevelt in 1933. A former resident of Caldwell Idaho, he had long been prominent in Idaho Democratic politics.
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Naval Hospital
Washington
Walters
Roosevelt
Caldwell
Idaho
Spending Patterns of Midwestern Village Families Rise With Income
A Bureau of Home Economics study across 46 villages in Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa finds autos food and clothing are the top wants as income climbs. Food spend jumps from 180 to 539 dollars clothes from 25 to 186 dollars and family car expense from 14 to 315 dollars as wages increase from 250 to 2499 dollars.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Bureau of Home Economics
Green Opposes Labor Bill In Break With Administration
William Green, president of the A F L, denounces the pending wage and hour bill as unacceptable to labor and urges it be sent back to committee for revision. He assails the national labor relations board and says it is unsafe to allow a government board to manage labor relations with employers.
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William Green
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National Labor Relations Board
American Federation of Labor proposes six point plan
The federation urges maintaining wages and employment at high levels, raising wages where demand allows, expanding heavy industry through plant expansion and purchases, and boosting building activity. It calls for credit access, prompt unemployment benefits in 22 states next January, measures to boost business confidence, and improved employer employee relations via union recognition and cooperation to cut costs.
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American Federation of Labor
Federation
China War Moves Force Nationalist Rethink After Nanking
Rain and mud slow Japanese advance up the Yangtse valley as the Nationalist government abandons Nanking and spreads government departments to several cities. American Ambassador Johnson and staff relocate to Hankow while Japanese control of Shanghai tightens. Hostage demands target four top citizens, including T. V. Soong. Far East Conference in Brussels adjourns without progress on the China Japanese clash.
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Yangtse
Nanking
Johnson
Hankow
Shanghai
International Settlement
T. V. Soong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Brussels
Roosevelt Opens Talks With Utilities Amid Economic Strain
President Roosevelt holds a series of conferences with heads of privately owned public utilities to ease fears of government policies during the recession. He meets Wendell Wilkie of Commonwealth & Southern and Floyd Carlisle of Niagara Hudson Power, while a state report accuses private interests of anti public power propaganda.
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Wendell Wilkie
Commonwealth & Southern Corporation
Floyd Carlisle
Niagara Hudson Power Corporation
New York State Power Authority
Selfish Christmas Experiment Ends In Joyful Renewal
A married couple Kay and Toby Barnes test a “selfish” Christmas, Kay buys only for herself while Toby follows suit, and a twist leads to unexpected generosity. Kay’s plan backfires into a revelatory gift exchange as a rich family scene unfolds with a decorative tree and a neighborly Christmas spirit.
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Kay
Toby Barnes
Mr. Barnes
Cleaning and knitting tips from a bygone page
Practical household notes cover tar stain removal with turpentine and fullers earth, preserving patent leather, occasional glycerine rubs, knitting hints on sleeve decreases and snap fasteners, glass cleaning with vinegar, and a breadcrumb pudding recipe using stale bread, milk, sugar, cocoa, vanilla, and butter.
How One Woman Lost 20 lbs of Fat
An ad style claim urges fat people to weigh themselves and take Kruschen Salts daily for four weeks. It promises fat loss, energy, clearer skin, and a younger feeling, with a money back guarantee and availability from druggists nationwide.
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America
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