Carter Glass Battles Roosevelt Banking Plan In Senate Fight
Sen Carter Glass challenges President Roosevelts bank bill as House committees move to approve the measure. Glass seeks to split Title II to block a central bank plan while Senate leaders expect a favorable sub committee vote despite opposition. The measure would make deposit insurance permanent and expand Federal Reserve powers.
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Roosevelt
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Virginia
Full
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Florida
Henry B. Steagall
Alabama
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Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Banks
Reserve
Reserve Board
Drouth Surveyor Encourages Hope in Liberal Kansas
Frank McNaughton reports from Liberal Kansas as dust bowls strain the region. Tom Hopkins, a large-scale farmer, maintains optimism about rain and rising wheat prices despite barren fields. Locals cite “suitcase farmers” and relief reliance as signs of a fragile recovery while noting scattered green patches and a potential alfalfa crop if showers continue.
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United Press
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Kansas
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New Mexico
Colorado
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Hopkins
Clorado
Arkansas River Valley
Springfield
Colo
Boise City
Oklo
Syracuse
Garden City
Lamar
Wichita
L. M. Sloan
Finney County
Scouts of Canada Pay King Tribute
Scouts of Canada will light chain beacons coast to coast to honor King George V Silver Jubilee. At dusk May 6 Lord Baden-Powell will light a beacon in Winnipeg with bonfires to follow nationwide. A royal salute of 21 rockets will precede the beacons.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Boy Scouts
Dominion
Lord Baden-Powell
Winnipeg
Modest hero saves three river rescues in Delaware incident
In Burlington New Jersey on April 19 Robert Moore nine quietly aided two boys who fell into the Delaware River and saved a third child Richard Quinn. He urged secrecy with the remark that his mother might not let him near the river again if told.
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Robert Moore
Delaware
Richard Quinn
Robert
Glass Opens Determined Fight on Bank Reform Drive
New York reports plans for a nation wide GOP fundraising drive to rehabilitate the party for the 1936 elections opening in Manhattan with campaigns in New York Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio and New Jersey. Henry P Fletcher says precincts and wards must have funds to carry on through 1935. Funds raised may be split between National and state committees. Also Brooklyn lawyers seek five more assistant positions with DA Geoghan as a pending bill and a note that whales can live over a century.
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New York
Republican Party
National Committee
Manhattan
New York State
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
New Jersey
Henry P. Fletcher
BEST
Brooklyn
William F. X. Geoghan
Kings County
Lehman
Potter County Teens to Enter CCC Program Next Week
Seventy youths from Potter County join the Civilian Conservation Corps with 15 alternates, part of a 231 youth Texas quota. Neal E. Guy will supervise enrollments starting Monday, as 2,725 enrollees head to out of state camps and the rest remain in Texas. Pay is 30 to 40 dollars monthly with 25 dollars deducted for families.
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Potter County
A. A. Meredith
Neal E. Guy
CCC
North Panhandle
Meredith
Guy
Effe T
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
Prospective veterans bonus sparks debate and global tension notes
The column critiques a proposed three percent negotiable bonds veterans bonus, warns of inflation via new money, and highlights wartime policy clashes. It cites Pat Harrison’s bill while flagging costs to taxpayers and rising international aviation advances. It also lampoons Congress member P L Gassaway and quips about Huey Long and Congress.
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Pat Harrison
Mississippi
P. L. Gassaway
Oklahoma
Congress
Lemke
Huey Long
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