Congress Opens With Roosevelt Push For Tax Hikes And Defense
President Roosevelt opened the new congress with a defense and tax agenda, urging renewal of most favored nation trade, proposing a 460 million dollar defense boost funded by new taxes, and pledging limited social and labor reforms. Debates focus on debt limits, a processing tax for farm aid, and Wagner act amendments amid party majorities.
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Alben’ Barkley
Washington
Roosevelt
Yhis
Treasury
Ronsevelt
Joyal Sen
Fat Harrison
Mississippi
Congress
Senate
House
Martin
un-Americanism Committee
Notable Political Shifts and Legal Rulings Across 1930s Figures
Fiary Bridges, a West Coast reader, seeks naturalization soon after deportation. Charles Edison, newly named secretary of the navy, begins pushing faster naval construction. Louis Buchalter gets 14 years for narcotics law violations while Dewey vows a 500 year racketeering sentence. Cromwell, Doris Duke's husband, is named U S minister to Canada. John W. Finch urged to resign over iron in the blood at Interior. Neville Chamberlain notes little time for fishing while presiding over Midland Salmon and Trout club.
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Fiarry Bridges
West Coast
Charles Edison
Secretary of the Navy
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter
New York
Thomas Dewey
James Hf. KR
Cromwell
Doris Duke
U. S
Canada
John W. Finch
Bureau of Mines
Harold Ickes
Bureau
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
Midland Salmon and Trout Club
English peer's daughter return to England after shooting
An English peer's daughter, a Mitlerite expatriate in Germany since before the war, was carried back on a stretcher to England with two revolver bullets in her neck. She is identified by name detailing a dramatic wartime incident.
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Germany
Moscow
London
Sir William Leeds
Viacheslav Molotoff
Augusto Rosso
Paul Emile Nogetar
Jeur Porssen
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Herman Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Joe Goebbels
Robert Ley
Hans von Mackensen
Russia
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Finland
Reich
North Sea
England
Eamon de Valera
Parliament
Martin Dies
Congress
Justice Department
Robert Fechner
Guy Ballard
U. S
Mews Quiz Answers and Census Mix in Patchy Text
Fragmentary lines mention Grity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford and fear of uprisings by an outlawed army. It references a false statement, requests for funds, and deaths in a Russian division. A business census is noted with dates in April.
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Freeman-Mitford
Dist Republican
Songress
Jamuay
Courts and Appointments Stir 1940 Political Facts
Supreme Court upholds NLRB rulings on Falk Milwaukee union ballots and CIO coastal waterfront bargaining. Justic e Harlan Stone notes congressional review harms. Tax forms simplified by Helvering. Roosevelt appoints Murphy to Supreme Court and Jackson as Attorney General. Farley sets 1940 Democratic convention plans. Hindin denies being Roosevelt’s No 1 choice.
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Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
Falk Corporation
Milwaukee
C. I
J. OG
A. F. of L
NLRB
Harlan Stone
Congress
NLRE
Roosevelt
Frank Murphy
Robert H. Jackson
Jtorney
Cordell Hull
Francis Biddle
Circuit Appeals Court
Warren Madden
Chawman
James A Farley
National Committee
Washington
Chicago
Cordell Hindis
Seven Years of Nazi Tactics Cement Hitler's Grip on Reich
A retrospective recounts Hitler rising to power starting January 1933, the Reichstag fire aftermath, the 1934 purge, the 1935 Saar plebiscite, and the 1939 invasion of Poland. It notes failures and expansionist aims, asking where Hitlerism will go next.
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Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Third Reich
von. Hindenburg
Miller
Fese
Willer
Cart
Ernest Kashm
Hiller
West Miller
Leasur of Nations
Saar Plebi Seite
Witler
Poland
Russia
France
Britain
Streamlining an Old-Time Couch in a Family Room
Reader sketches a project by Ruth Wyeth Speaks to transform a kept couch into a streamlined piece. Instructions describe painting frames, adding cotton batting, bright fabric, box end tables, and a fitting partition or shelves. A note promotes Book No 3 with step by step bed and craft directions.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Strange Tales From Across the World and Workplaces
A collection of odd notes spans mining alarms using butyl mercapten with a skunk-like odor, a autocratic travel ritual by a shah involving road closures and whitewashed homes, a quirky stat about half of the world’s 2000 adult midgets being married to normal-sized partners, and a French monastery custom where only the head walks center while others hug the walls as humility.
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Shah of Ivan
Mostercar
la Treppe
Aiguevelle
France
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