Secret Campaign for Spending Snarls Roosevelt Adjournment Plans
An undercover effort by New Dealers to push heavy spending against White House budget plans threatens to derail Congressional adjournment hopes for May or June. Key leaders forecast delays as anti monopoly, banking holdouts, securities trading, and tax measures collide with relief bill struggles.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Charles L
McNary
Oregon
House
Sen
Francis Maloney
Connecticut
Cardenas seeks to ease Tamaulipas unrest with public works
President Lazaro Cardenas orders full employment along the Matamoros Ciudad Victoria highway and irrigation projects on the Rio Grande to curb unrest in Tamaulipas. Four killed in a Monday agrarian clash linked to economic hardship.
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Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
Tamaulipas State
United States
Department of Communications
Tamaulipas
Matamoros
Ciudad Victoria
Rio Grande
Congressional Budget Clash Shapes White House Clash
Since the special session a strong congressional faction pushes for sharp economies to balance the budget. In recent weeks Mr. Roosevelt faces pressure from leading New Dealers to open the federal purse even if additional taxation becomes necessary.
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Roosevelt
Juarez Court Records 117-Year-Old Woman's Death
In Juarez, the civil court records the death of Nieves Chavez de Sanchez age 117. She died Wednesday at Tres Jacales suburb and was born in 1821 somewhere in Chihuahua. In Wisconsin, Tommy the cat walked 40 miles home to Superior after a visit, taking three weeks.
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Juarez
Mexico
Nieves Chavez de Sanchez
Tres Jacales
Chihuahua
Superior
Wis
U.P
George Turgeon
Tommy
Fort Wing
Film Star James Dunn and Frances Gifford Wed in Yuma
James Dunn and Frances Gifford, a film star and actress, married in Yuma and honeymooning in San Francisco, looking ahead to resuming film work after their elopement.
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San Francisco
James Dunn
Frances Gifford
Hollywood
Yuma
Actress Seeks Payment in Suit Over Unmade Film
Los Angeles February 4 Actress Constance Bennett seeks $35,000 judgment from Gaumont-British for a part she never played in The Hawk while $30,000 as 10 percent of gross profits. Superior Judge Charles Burnell awarded her over half the requested amount and noted Gaumont-British would continue litigation.
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Los Angeles
Constance Bennett
Gaumont-British Picture Corp., Ltd
Charles S. Burnell
Miss Bennett
Gaumont-British
Burnell
Don Marlin
Associated Press
Gaumont
British Corp
Boll Weevil Inspired Amarillo Fat Stock Show’s Start
The boll weevil’s spread into Texas cotton fields spurred diversification efforts led by Dr. Knapp and local leaders. A 4-H and county extension movement grew, culminating in the Amarillo Fat Stock Show to be held March 7 11, featuring the 4-H calf and lamb sale.
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High Plains
Amarillo
Rio Grande
Texas
South
East
Seaman A. Knapp
Bradford Knapp
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Terrell
East Texas Blacksand
Knapp
Department of Agriculture
Dr Knapp
Jack County
P. C. Bennett
Soil Conservation Service
Vega
Swisher County
Panhandle
Bennett
Potter County
W M Gouldy
Grover Hill
Panhandle Livestock Association
The
Livestock Association
Court deeds and vehicle registrations in Amarillo briefs
Courthouse records list Hattie G Cobb et al transferring to Mary E F Bivins for 2600 dollars. F P Walter sells to City of Amarillo for ten dollars and land description Plemons block 103. Vehicle registrations include Ford sedan Firestone Chevrolet and Ford trucks. Roy Mathes and Herbert Janney noted. Marriage license issued Karl P Stewart and Dessie Mae Bernard. Colorado Secretary of State George Saunders says state employees may be reimbursed five cents per mile for travel.
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Hattie G. Cobb
Mary EF. Bivins
F. P. Walter
Amarillo
Plemons
Firestone Auto Supply Co
Herbert Janney
Dodge
Roy Mathes
Phillips Petroleum Co
Karl P. Stewart
Dessie Mae Bernard
Denver
U.P
George Saunders
Colorado
Saunders
1767 New Orleans strike and hunger protest revealed
WPA letter from Antonio Ulloa dated March 25 1767 recounts a brief island strike and a food riot by French and Spanish workers at San Carlos Fort in the Mississippi River island settlement. Ulloa ordered arrests and prison confinement to quell mutiny amid discontent after Spain gained control from France.
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New Orleans
U.P
Louisiana
WPA
Antonio E. Ulloa
Mississippi River
Don Antonio Boscareli
Cuba
Havana
Ulloa
France
San Carlos
Spain
Gregorio Gon
McKnight's Warehouse Installs New Fire Alarm System
The Beasley Alarm System installs a thermostatic electrically controlled fire alarm system in McKnight's warehouse the only one of its kind in Amarillo. The setup includes 500 thermostatic thermometers throughout the building.
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Beasley Alarm System
McKnight
Amarillo
What, No Peddler's License
Charlotte report from February 1944 notes a traveling vendor arrested for peddling without a license. The man carried three pairs of pants, coats, shirts, socks, and a trove of small items including razor blades, string, rope, glass, pencils, a sling, a jar of petrolatum, and a bundle of 21 other similarly trivial articles. The man claimed to be from up where.
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Charlotte
N. C
Downtown Vagrant Charged By Police On Cold Street
A man was picked up by police on a downtown street during a cold spell and charged with vagrancy. He showed no apparent concern about the arrest.
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Pinkney’s
Pinkney’s Sun-Ray
Meat Packers
Amarillo, Texas
Rg Aluminum
Borden
Boll Weevil
Texas Ward
Courthouse Records
Quality Liquor Store
West Sixth
Capitol Liquor Store
Polk
Bond
Bou Rge
Old Taylor
Glenmore
Bos Sherbrook
Bour
Andy Pricot
J.W. Johnson Grocery & Market
ACN
Harrison
Pittman
SR Goa
Sehr
Waltham
Man's Elgin
Sints
Elgins
Sears Seas
Lhe
Ile
Elgin
Polk Street
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