Battle Rages in North China With Tientsin Bombings
Reports from Western Newspaper Union describe Japanese air attacks on Tientsin amid Chinese counteroffensives along a 95 mile front from Taku to Peiping. Urban casualties mount as troops clash in streets and at key railroad stations. Peiping’s Twenty ninth Army retreats westward with significant losses.
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China
Tientsin
United States
Nippon
Tient- Sin
Nankai University
Chinkiang International
Taku
Peiping
Japan
Chang Tsu-chung
Madrid Suffered Largest Civil War Battle Yet
The piece reports on the fiercest Madrid defense against insurgent forces led by Francisco Franco. It notes massive casualties, with thousands dead or dying, and 250000 troops in a major salient. It also mentions Italian reinforcements and a dawn air attack on Barcelona as the conflict intensified.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Franco
Barcelona
Senate braces for recess as Roosevelts reform bills stall
In a mood to leave Washington, the seventy fifth Congress shows little appetite to pass major reforms. The judiciary reform bill is recommitted, the lower court plan is substituted, and Senate leadership shifts to fill Senator Robinsons seat. WW Garner seeks to heal party rifts while key Roosevelt measures lag until next session. The Wagner housing bill advances from committee and may move fast, while the AAA and regional farm program plan await January report.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Robinson
Seventy-Fifth Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Garner
AAA
Senate Agriculture Committee
James P. Pope
Idaho
Joint Congressional Committee
Barkley
White House
New Court Reform Bill Drafted and Debates Delegated Roles
A senate judiciary report outlines a reform bill removing no Supreme Court personnel but adding direct appeals to the high court from district decisions on federal statutes. It also empowers the Justice Department to intervene in such suits and creates a three judge panel to rule on enjoining federal statutes.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Circuit Court of Appeals
Riot sows chaos at Corrigan McKinney plant injuring sixty
Civil strife flares as Steel Workers Organizing Committee pickets clash with loyal workers and police at Republic Steel in Cleveland. A mob hurls rocks at employee cars. 500 workers surge out to attack the line. one striker killed when a stoned car roars through the crowd. In Buffalo a food shortage follows a strike by 1000 wholesale truck drivers and 1000 butchers affecting butter eggs and vegetables.
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Independent Steel
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Corrigan-McKinney
Republic Steel Corporation
Cleveland
Buffalo
A. F. of L
A Year of Reclamation Under Last Year’s Conservation Program
Applications for grants covered 283 million acres two thirds of the nation’s cropland and involved about 4 million farmers. H R Tolley reported 31 million acres diverted from soil-depleting crops and 53 million acres benefiting soil building practices. Conservation payments totaled 32.3 million dollars with benefit and rental payments over 235.7 million. AAA total expenditures reached 357.4 million in 1936 including admin costs and liquidation of obligations after a Supreme Court ruling.
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H. R. Tolley
AAA
Supreme Court
St Marys College Auction Sells Oakland Campus
Edward Patrick Slip Madigan era football coach helped raise St Marys College enrollment to 700 at Oakland California. The college failed to meet bond payments totaling 1 370 500 since 1934 and was auctioned for 411 150 to security holders. Madigan likely remains coach at about 7000 annually plus ten percent of gate receipts. Last year receipts reached 174 671.
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Edward Patrick
Slip
Madigan
Little
St. Mary's College
Oakland
Calif
Masligan
St. Mary's
Notre Dame
Ever Normal Granary Debate Mirrors Farm Policy Clash
William Bruckart analyzes Secretary Wallace's plan for an ever normal granary and the farm bill, arguing the scheme risks depressing prices and repeating Hoover era failures. He notes congressional split, lack of hearings, and the difficulty of controlling foreign production while urging balance between consumer and producer interests.
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Mr. Wallace
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Wallace
House
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Senate Democrats
Joe Robinson
Arkansas
Alban Barkley
Kentucky
Robinson
Senate
Western Newspaper Union
Crocheted Flowers for Your Bedspread Pattern
Instructions for making large and small crocheted medallion flowers to form a bedspread and dresser scarf. Includes material list, illustrations, and stitch details. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. for pattern 5817 with name and address.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Funeral Customs Include Hair Brooches in Seventeenth Century America
Collier's Weekly notes elaborate funerals in early America featured mourning brooches with the deceased's hair for every woman mourner. When the deceased was bald or lacking enough hair, male relatives and friends gathered to compensate for the shortage.
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America
Collier’s Weekly
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