GURRENT EVENTS PASS IN REVIEW
Edward W. Pickard surveys Roosevelt's social security bill passed by the House 872 to 33 as Senate action looms amid NRA extension debates. He notes key provisions of pensions, payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, and a new Social Security Board with state grants for health services.
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Social Security Board
Bureau of Government
Burns
White House
G HUGH JOHNSON APPEAL SHIFTS SENATE VIEW ON NRA LIFE
Johnson urged extension of the NRA and took blame for its failures. A senate finance committee majority favored continuing the Blue Eagle program with alterations. Three Democratic members opposed prolongation. most others supported extending the recovery act pending bill changes. The next fight shifts to the senate floor.
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Hugh Johnson
NRA
Senate Finance Committee
Blue Eagle Organization
Pat Harrison
Senate
Reich defies League with brief note on Hitler birthday
German government challenges League of Nations rulings on disarmament and asserts right to future position on questions from the April deliberations. Hitler’s partisans hail the move, celebrating his forty sixth birthday with a gift of about sixty war planes funded by popular contributions and storm troopers.
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League of Nations Council
Reich
Hitler
von Buelow
Maglana
Stresa
Geneva
Eric Phipps
London
Reichsfuerder
League
Rome
Council of the
League of Nations
Germany
Council of the League
Paris
Russia–France pact talks stalled by French chamber
Russia voiced disappointment as France's chamber rejected the mutual assistance pact drafted by Litvinov and Laval. The halt is official but negotiators hope to sign later if Moscow promises to curb communist agitation in France. French radicals seek the alliance. conservatives split in stance.
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Russia
Briand
Germany
Poland
Berlin
Warsaw
Communist Party
Pravda
Soviet
Litvinov
Laval
France
Huey Long Attacks Roosevelt in Senate Chamber
Senator Huey Long delivered a lengthy tirade against President Roosevelt and the administration before a packed senate chamber. He accused Ickes Farley Wallace and General Johnson, called for resisting federal loans to Louisiana projects, and warned of a tax rebellion if federal spending continued to intrude, arguing the administration seeks to win the 1986 election by incurring debt.
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Huey Long
Senate Chamber
Ickes
Farley
Wallace
General Johnson
Roosevelt
Louisiana
Huey
Bishop Endorses Father Coughlin in Detroit Meeting
Detroit archdiocese confirms Rt. Rev. Michael Gallagher endorses Father Coughlin, pronouncing him sound in doctrine and approving his word. Michigan unit of the National Union for Social Justice holds its first state meeting as the priest aims to mobilize millions of members into a democratic force.
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Ather Coughlin
Detroit
Michael Gallagher
Father Coughlin
Michigan
National Union For Social Justice
Republicans attack New Deal at White luncheon in Washington
Republican leaders at a Washington luncheon hosted for William Allen White of Kansas turned the event into a political meeting. They urged the party to openly attack the fallacies of the New Deal and discussed a regional midwestern meeting planned in Kansas to draft a constructive platform and restore constitutional government.
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Washington
William Allen White
Kansas
Mr. White
Republican Party
A Factional Contest Marks G W R Adel Notice
The convention of the A U A R in Washington elected Mrs. William A Becker of New Jersey as pres ident general over Mrs. Flora Myers Gillentine of Tennessee by 1 486 to 619. Becker faced opposition for endorsing The Red Network associating Roosevelt Perkins and other administration members with redm label.
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Washington
William A. Becker
New Jersey
Flora Myers Gillentine
Tennessee
Becker
The
Red Network
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Labor
Perkins
Redg
Turkish Women Attend Global Suffrage Congress Unveiled in Istanbul
VER describes the twelfth congress of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship in Istanbul with about thirty nations represented. Mrs Corbett Ashby chaired while Turkish women, unveiled and in European dress, hosted hundreds of delegates. Debates covered women’s rights, professions, civil rights, and antiwar measures. Under Kemal’s rule Turkish women have gained parliamentary and city votes and joined civic and professional life.
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Turkey
International Alliance of Women For Suffrage and Equal Citizenship
Istanbul
Corbett Ashby
England
Kemal
Republic of Turkey
King Boris Retains Bulgaria Throne Amid Arrests
King Boris of Bulgaria cracks down on alleged fascist plot arresting Alexander Zanhoff Kozina Georgieff and M Natcheff. Arrests trigger jailstorm by supporters repulsed. In Sofia Premier Zlatteff and cabinet expected to resign with Dimo Karasoff named to lead government.
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Bulgaria
Alexander Zanhoff
Democratic Entente
Kozina Georgieff
Macedonian Party
M. Natcheff
Sofia
Petko Zlatteff
Dimo Karasoff
Jugloslavia
Subversive teaching debate grips Illinois colleges
The Illinois senate moved to form a five member committee to probe alleged subversive Communist instruction in tax exempt colleges. A companion bill requires oath of allegiance from all teachers and professors as state lawmakers elsewhere push similar measures.
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University of Chicago
Illinois Senate
Senate
House
Work relief program buys materiel for huge sum
Washington reports the administration will start purchasing materials for relief, overseen by Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples. Centralized buys likely for cement and other essentials, while states and agencies handle most procurement. Ariana Earhart flies LA to Mexico City with a bug in her eye delaying 60 miles. Amelia hopes to fly nonstop to New York next.
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Washington
Christian J. Peoples
Treasury
Peoples
Navy Supply Corps
Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ariana Earhart
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Amelia
Mexico
New York
Harrison bonus bill could shift maturity to 1938
GENATOR HARRISON proposes a compromise bonus bill that would have certificates mature in 1938 and convertible into 8 percent bonds. Veterans seeking cash could sell the bonds, accepting only lost interest. The plan adds about $500 million vs current law, and faces opposition from Milo Warner and veterans groups amid hearings.
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Genator Harrison
Harrison
Patman
House
Milo Warner
The
American Legion
Veterans’ Organizations
The Do as You Please Home Life Idea in 1920s
The article argues for a do as you please room where children can be alone to finish tasks like sewing or kite making. It stresses recognizing individual tastes, needs for quiet, and the value of solitude for concentration, temper, and school success.
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Hilda Richmond
National Kindergarten Association
York City
Helen
Mary Joyce
Ordeals of conscience at the bar of self
A philosophical reflection on the hardest ordeal for an honest man. The speaker imagines standing arraigned before his own conscience. He asserts the conscience knows more than any external adversary could urge for a guilty verdict.
Charity and Knowledge Inform Charity to Dissenters
A quote attributed to Norman McLeod notes that a man’s charity toward those who differ on difficult questions grows with his knowledge of them. The greater his understanding, the greater his charity toward others who hold differing views.
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Norman Mc Leod
Heart wounds no longer seal fate in surgery
A series of medical cases shows surgeons successfully treat heart injuries. From a knife embedded in a Mexican servant to shrapnel removal and a stabbing case in Leeds, doctors reclose hearts, revive patients, and return them to duty, illustrating advances in cardiac surgery and emergency care.
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Leeds
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