Walsh Named Permanent Chairman at Democratic Convention
Montana sentiment runs high as Senator T. J. Walsh is chosen permanent chairman in Chicago. His decisive leadership, proven in 1924, earns broad support across factions. Big Timber and many towns celebrate a Montana man guiding the convention with fairness and resolve.
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Montana
Chicago
T. J. Walsh
Jouett Shouse
National Committee
John W. Davis
Shouse
Walsh
New York City
Judge Berg Seeks Democratic Vote in Sweet Grass Primary
Judge Berg urges more than 350 Democratic voters in Sweet Grass county to back him in the July 19 primary. He notes he is the district’s first Democrat elected since Montana’s creation in 1889 and cites 11 supreme court upholds with no reversals since taking office in 1929.
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Berg
Sweet Grass
Montana
Stillwater
Supreme Court
Why Taxes Are High
Marshall Field & Co of Chicago warns that federal, state and local taxes rose from 0.22 dollars per dollar of net income to nearly double in 1932 due to reduced income. cites treasury figures showing 1927 and 1932 departmental expenditures with large increases across agriculture, post office, treasury, war, navy, veterans affairs, and others totaling 1.964 and 3.195 billion dollars respectively, urging public attention to mounting government costs.
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Marshall Field & Co
Chicago
Treasury Department
Department of Agriculture
Post Office
Treasury
War Department
Navy
Shipping Board
Department of Justice
Department of Commerce
Legislative Establishment
Department of Labor
Veterans’ Bureau
Veterans’ Administration
Interior Department
Borah Says He Will Not Support Hoover Platform
In response to whether he will back Hoover in 1932, Borah of Idaho declares I will not. The forthright senator contrasts party loyalty with his own principle and emphasizes independence from rigid pledge while upholding constitutional foundations.
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Washington Daily News
Mr. Borah
Idaho
Mr. Hoover
National mood shifts as Borah denounces political vacillation
The text argues that the nation must move forward after hardship and criticizes a partisan House, praising Alaska self government, Indian property rights, and federal farm board achievements. Senator Borah’s direct response is praised as clear and firm, signaling a halt to indecisive politics and a warning against Hoover-like leadership.
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Federal Farm Board
Alaska
Democratic House of Representatives
United States
Borah
Senator Borah
Hoover
Senate Approves 2.3 Billion Unemployment Relief Bill
The Senate approved a large Democratic unemployment relief package totaling 2.3 billion dollars without a recorded vote. The measure includes a 300 million direct relief loan for states and a 900 million addition for a conference compromise attempt. Also approved were provisions to expand borrowing power of the Reconstruction Finance Corp and a 40 million allocation for foreign agricultural surpluses. The House has not acted.
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Washington
Senate
House
Hoover
Reconstruction Corporation
Ways and Means
Vinson
Kentucky
Norris
Nebraska
Stockmen Would Limit Voting to Taxpayers
GLASGOW June 28 The Northern Montana Stockmen's association adopted a referendum measure to limit bond issue voting to taxpayers. Officers reelected were John Survant Malta president John Etchart Tampico vice president and W F Hardin Malta secretary treasurer. The group urged removing the badger from protected animals opposing transfer of unappropriated public domain to the forest service endorsing state control of public lands and supported a state income tax and opposed German police dogs importation due to predatory nature.
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Glasgow
Northern
Montana Stockmen's Association
John Survant
Malta
John Etchart
Tampico
W. F. Hardin
Forest Service
Biological Survey and Livestock Sanitary Board
Senator Wheeler Says He May Apologize To Northwest
Senator Wheeler of Montana, once described as Roosevelt ally, told Garta Sell Bike he feels like apologizing to the northwest for past statements. He recalled Mr Smith endorsing his 1088 work and suggested his progressives have shifted.
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Chicago
Senator Wheeler
Montana
Alfred E. Smith
Roosevelt
Garta
Northwest
Nation’s Convention Delegates Clash Over Prohibition and Tariffs
In Chicago for the national convention, Barkley assails Hoover and Republicans for high Smoot Hawley tariffs and mismanaged farm policy. He accuses leadership of misfortune since 1929, cites agricultural decline, languishing industry, and rising unemployment as proof of failed governance. He pledges to lift tariff making from backroom dealings and to remove the burden from agriculture.
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Secretary Mellon
Barkley
Hoover
Congress
Montana Delegation Strengthens Roosevelt National Committee
Bruce Kremer Montana national committeeman secured approval to leave chair selection to the committee on organization amid Roosevelt forces and defended Huey Long’s delegate contest. Montana cast six votes with proxies and new arrivals boosting Montana’s delegation. Danny Hanley and other visitors in Chicago noted as campaign activity continued.
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National Committee
Montanan
Walsh
Roosevelt
Convention
Committee On Permanent Organization
Roosevelt Organization
Huey Long
Long
General Committee
Roosevelt Camp
Montana
Kremer
Edith R. Battey
T. J. Walker
Frank Walker
New York
Utah
Wheeler
W. W. McDowell
Butte
Raymond Hildebrand
Glendive
Oshey Devine
Great Falls
Danny Hanley
Butte Central
Notre Dame
Chicago
William Donohue
Joe Mudro
Don
Trial of John Curtis Opens in New Jersey
In Flemington New Jersey Col Charles A Lindbergh watches as John Hughes Curtis goes on trial for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Judge Adamo O Robbins presides Prosecutor Anthony Hauck contends Curtis confessed falsely and aided the kidnapers while the state aims to prove he hindered justice.
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Flemington
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
John Hughes Curtis
Derers
Lindbergh
Adamo O. Robbins
Curtis
Colonel Lindbergh
Harry Stout
Anthony Hauck
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Big Timber
Jerome Williams
Rditer and
Qwaer
Sweet Grass County
Tree American Press, Association
Mountaus
Home Pride
B. E. Berg
Bruce Kremer
Ohue
John Curtis
New Jersey
Requet Cafe
Montaza
Southern
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