Young Founders and Their Youthful Feats Cited in Debate
A financial journal headline notes a "young liberal group" drafted the Fletcher Bill last summer while critics rebut the notion that Founding Fathers were old. The quote highlights age gaps of figures like Washington and Hamilton, arguing the era favored youthful leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Congress
Autthor
Edward Rutledge
John Jay
Alexander Hamilton
Federalist
the Treasury
Tugwells
Landises
Washington
Patrick Henry
Virginia House of Burgesses
James Madison
John Marshall
Fletcher Bill
Colorful Career of Governor James Rolph Jr.
A portrait of California Governor James Rolph Jr. his rise from San Francisco businessman to long time mayor and then governor. The piece recounts his leadership style welcomes to dignitaries and his controversial stance on lynching in the 1930s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Rolph, Jr
California
San Francisco
Frisco
Market Street
Jim Rolph
San Fracisco
Jim Reed
al Smith
Rolph
Senator Reed
The Bourbons Attack Roosevelt Proposals as Youth Manifesto
The St. Louis Post Dispatch notes the Bourbons and Tories mock Roosevelt era reforms by labeling them as the work of a "young liberal group" and "Brain Trust" youth. The piece questions whether youth equals wisdom and ridicules the insinuation. It references American history and Thomas Jefferson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Brain Trust
County Board Proceedings Set Delinquent Taxes and Grants
The Sweet Grass county commission approves special deputy sheriff appointment, tax payment installments, and a tax deed plan for E. J. Hodges property. It signs grasshopper control work with Montana State College Extension and audits clerk sheriff and county clerk reports. Several claims are approved and disallowed, with various groceries, meals, and supplies paid, and the board adjourns to July 2, 1934.
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Brown
Grey Cliff
Western Range Corporation
Montana
Sweet Grass County
Sweet Grass
E. J. Hodges
Extension Service
Montana State College
Frank Knoke
Eugene Knoke
Chas. E. Crum
Vick Treadwell
Work Program Expands to Aid Drought Victims
Relief administrations will approve projects with Washington guidance to fit families in distress from drought. Thousands require emergency relief and may gain employment on useful projects for cash wages. Estimates warn rain is urgent. a billion dollars could be needed if drought persists. The surplus relief corporation received 27 bids to process cattle from 134 certified counties as government launches cattle purchase in dry regions.
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Sutherland
Neb
Sam
Uts
Baby
Massus
Relief Administration
Washington
Hopkins
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
Bozeman Woman Heads Montana Business Club
Mrs. Geor gia Higgins of Bozeman was elected president of the Business and Professional Women's Clubs of Montana at the annual session in Glendive. New officers include Margaret Clifford Kalispell first vice president Kathryn Varco Sidney second vice president Winona Lewis Great Falls recording secretary Nina Richert Billings treasurer. The meeting discussed a regional conference at Yellowstone Park June 17 18 and 19 with Miss Catherine Harrington of Butte as principal luncheon speaker.
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Glendive
Georgia Higgins
Bozeman
Business and Professional Women’s Clubs of
Montana
Margaret Clifford
Kalispell
Kathryn Varco
Sidney
Winona Lewis
Great Falls
Nina Richert
Billings
Sidney Club
Yellowstone National Park
Catherine Harrington
Butte
Helen Conrad
Glasgow ‘Club
Alaska
Inez Lewis
Geline MacDonald Bowman
Howard Melaney
Kempton Ranch
Terry
Deficit for Year Falls Short of Estimate
Washington reports a new billion dollar supply bill and treasury figures show the federal government must spend three billion dollars in the final month to reach a seven billion dollar deficit estimate. The bill limits pace against the president’s requests while retaining authority to mobilize up to six billion for relief from unspent funds.
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Washington
Treasury
Roosevelt
House Appropriations Committee
Reconstruction Corporation
Public Works
Calamity Jane in Castle era details and debts
A fragmentary reminiscence describes Calamity Jane in Castle with unpaid rent, spending and generosity. It notes her restaurant on Joe Kidd’s former property, groceries from Babcock and Miles, and interactions with locals including Joe Labrie and Wild Bill Hickok.
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Joe Kidd
Joe
Castle
Harlowton
Babcock and Miles
P. H. Tooley
Hanzlik
Fisher's
Townsend
Jane
Big Timber Readies Fourth Annual Sweet Grass Fair
Big Timber plans the fourth annual Sweet Grass County Fair association exhibition set for Wednesday through Saturday next week. Local notes report tax levies for 1907, real estate deal of Monroe Hopkins ranch, creamery construction, and new permanent officers including J A Lowry as president. Also noted are births, marriages, and a wrestling match scheduled for August 24 with local contractors starting waterworks work Monday.
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Sweet Grass County Fair Association
Board of Commissioners
H. O. Kellogg
G. A. Loasby
John Rye
Bridge
Skillman & Bailey
Monroe & Hopkins
American Fork
Wallis Huidekoper
J. A. Lowry
L. C. Bade
John F. Asbury
A. A. Lamp
J. E King
George Browning
A. Benson
C. Koehler
O. A. Macridan
John Grays
Wormser
Earl Daly
Daly
Miss Connolly
Wickes, Mont
Wilhelmina Kaiser
Ellingson Bros Move into New Motor Inn Home
Pioneer report notes Ellingson Bros occupy their new Motor Inn during the last week though the building remains unfinished. Other items list a fatal accident near Melville and Wormser roads, political shifts at a national convention, births, marriages, and local business moves.
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Ellingson Bros
Motor Inn
Gehart G. Roe
Herder
Lew Webb
Melville
Wormser
Narbo
Norway
Chicago
Montana
Charles Evans Hughes
J. M. Dixon
Roosevelt
Joe Arneson
Bozeman
W. D. McKenzie
Portland
Ore
Senate Grants Roosevelt Power to Alter Tariffs in Trade Bill
The Senate passed a reciprocal tariff bill 57 to 33 giving President Roosevelt authority to raise or lower import duties to promote foreign trade for three years. The measure allows notices and hearings, bans free-list changes, and enables post-agreement effect with consent of nations involved. Amendments to protect agriculture failed. five Democrats and several Republicans supported the bill.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Adams
Dill
Glass
Long
Overton
Capper
Couzens
la Follette
Norbeck
Norris
Shipstead
House
Senate Finance Committee
Pat Harrison
Finance Committee
Harrison
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Henry F. Ashurst
Ashurst
Hiram Johnson
California
Johnson
Congress
O’mahoney
Tydings
Cates Must Hang for Shooting Federal Officer
Montana supreme court affirms the death sentence for William Clarence Cates 42 of Missoula for fatally shooting Paul A. Read a federal prohibition officer. Read was killed July 21 as they exited Cates' car after his arrest on a liquor charge. five shots were fired, two hitting Read.
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Helena
Mont
William Clarence Cates
Missoula
Paul A. Read
Montana Supreme Court
Misoula
Cates
Read
Judge St Sure stands pat on Mooney case
San Francisco June 5 Federal Judge A F St Sure declined to reconsider his denial of Thomas Mooney’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus to free him from San Quentin, where he serves a life term for the 1916 Preparedness parade bombing, ruling Mooney had not exhausted state court remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Chronicle
Benny Hendrick
Babylon
Benny
Herodotus
San Francisco
A. F. St. Sure
Thomas Mooney
San Quentin
Great Falls Smelter Men Ordered to Strike
About 900 to 1,000 members of the International Mine and Smelter Workers Union have been ordered to walk out of the Great Falls plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining company on Thursday morning in sympathy with the Butte strike and allied craftsmen.
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Great Falls
Mont
International Mill and Smeltermen’s Union
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte and
Seven Die in Explosion of Seismograph Oil Party Near Norman
Seven members of an oil exploration party were killed when a roadside dynamite magazine exploded eight miles southeast of Norman Oklahoma late Monday. The tragedy occurred during the seismograph work for oil prospecting and investigators began locating the scene and determining causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman
Okla
Here
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Big Timber
Jerome Williams
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Commissioner’s Proceedings
L. L. Buchanan
Nepstad & Flattum
John Young
Frank Chase
Golden Rule
Theo Lavold
Buchanan
Churchill & Amery Groc
P. G. Burger
Robert Duggan
Ryan Meat Market
Peter M. Peterson
Orchard Farm
Braaten BaSucceee
Davis Cash
Mrs. Torger Birkeland
S. Razgawee
J. N. McCracken
John Larson
Torger Birkeland
McLeod Store
Phil Crolson
Lucy Covrolin
Sawyer Stores, Inc
Fred Thompson
George Sherwood
Willis Clark
Charley Rasnick
Theodore Lavold
Steve Razea
Ceee
Insect Pest Fund
Larry B. Lyall
McLeod Store Gas
C. C. Nicholson
Sigurd Lavold Same
W. A. Conwell
Montana Business Club
E. J. Mo
T. S. Lavold
Seven Mile
D. J. Arnold
Ben F. Dodge
Pearl Braley
Kellogg Picture Show
A. W. Miles Co
Livingston
Bailey Implement Co
Keefe
Northern Drillings Co
McLeod
ST. Sure
Mooney
C. V. Mosier
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