World’s Week: Fascist Powers Rally Against Conference
A Western edition report details Germany and Italy declining to attend the Nyon conference to stop Mediterranean piracy citing Soviet accusations against Italian submarines and calls for non intervention in Spain. Britain, Russia, and France proceed with plans while tensions rise between Rome and Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Germany
Nyon
Switzerland
Mediterranean
Russia
Great Britain
France
Anthony Eden
Britain
Palermo
Sicily
Hitler
Japan
Adolf Hitler
Reichsfeuhrer
Nuremberg
Europe
Fifth largest cotton crop yield foreseen in 1937
The Department of Agriculture forecasts a 1937 cotton crop of 16,098,000 bales, the fifth largest in U.S. history. As of September 1 the crop was 75 percent of normal, indicating an average yield of 228.5 pounds per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Japan Aims to Coerce China and Expand War Chest
The Japanese government signals its aim to force China to submit and extend the war in Asia. Emperor Hirohito publicly detailed the conflict while Hirota defended mobilization as a means to secure stable North China. Parliament considers a 592 million dollar appropriation, bringing the war chest to 737 million. The article also notes U.S. ambassador Dodd’s opposition to attending Nazi congress and Hull’s plan for Gilbet to represent the United States in Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
China
Koki Hirota
Hirohito
Nippon
Hirota
Asia
Dodd
Hull
William E
United States
Germany
Nuremberg
Cordell Hull
Hitler
Prentiss Gilbert
Berlin
McGrady Quits Labor Post for RCA Executive Role
McGrady resigns as assistant secretary of labor to join the Radio Corporation of America as executive vice president in charge of industrial relations with a reported salary range from 15000 to 50000 dollars. Roosevelt expresses deep regret over the move. He had been a federal mediator in labor disputes, notably the Little Steel strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far East
Shanghai
Washington
United States
American Chamber of Commerce
Secretary of State
Hull
State Department
Roosevelt
Augusta
Yangtze
China
Ohn
L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Democratic National Committee
Lewis
McGrady
Dward F. McGrady
Mme
Frances Perkins
Radio Corporation of America
End of Cotton Growing Looms in Southeast Says Opinion
A national column argues nine cent cotton loans and acreage cuts signal the decline of cotton farming in the Southeast. It traces world demand, Brazil’s price competition, and U.S. export patterns, predicting the South east may abandon cotton for other crops as exports drop and costs rise. It links policy, Mellon legacy, and New Deal politics to the broader economic shift and notes upcoming Justice Black’s confirmation as a turning point in Washington.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Brazil
Hoover Farm Board
Soviet
Russia
Farm Board
Arthur M. Hyde
Secretary of Agriculture
Via
Texas
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Georgia
Svaialine
South
North Carolina
Louisiana
Arkansas
New Deal
Andrew W. Mellon
Hoover
James A. Farley
Charles Michelson
Herbert C. Hoover
Alfred M. Landon
Cleveland
Aes
Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Treasury
Harry L.“Hopkins
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Louis D. Brandeis
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Henry Ford
Revival Through the Church and Moral Renewal
A lesson for September 19 discusses national moral decay and the need for revival within the church of Christ. It emphasizes laws of God guiding right choices, divine encouragement for righteous living, and the eternal distinction between right and wrong, urging personal renewal and societal reform led by faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Church of Christ
Jesus Christ
Will H. Houghton
God
A Season to Everything and Silent Watches
A fragmentary meditation cites Ecclesiastes about time to be and time to die. In the lone vigil the speaker contemplates ambition, floodlike thoughts, and inward communion, recalling Amburgh and a murky reflection on purpose and fate.
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Ecclesiastes
Gil
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Amoy
Formosa
Hong Kong
Peiping
Chahar
Kdlgan
John L. Lewis
W. E. Dodd
Honduras
Nicaragua
Mars
Capital
Carter Field
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Wentacn Newspaper Union
Amburgh
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