Tax Bill Battles and Budget Debates Roil Congress
Democratic lawmakers push the President's tax bill while Republicans demand adjournment and tax talks delay until next winter. Senators Hastings Vandenberg La Follette Nye clash over timing and scope as Eccles banking bill advances to conference. WPA relief programs expand Educational and white collar projects. Italy Ethiopia crisis and Berlin tensions loom as League action debated.
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Sonk the Rich
Congress
Hastings
Delaware
Vandenberg
Michigan
Senator Vandenberg
Uncle Sam
la Follette
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Advances AAA Challenge With Supreme Court Test
Opponents of the AAA amendments to strengthen Agriculture Secretary Wallace powers allowed the basic act to reach the Supreme Court. The Senate passed the administration bill with 15 opposing votes. Both Republican and conservative Democrats expect the Court to rule the act unconstitutional, while a Senate amendment opens suits to recover processing taxes not yet passed to producers or consumers.
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AAA
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Supreme Court
Senate
Harry Byrd
Virginia
Glass and Bailey
George
Long
Congress
Federal Court of Appeals
Chicago
Senate inquiry probes cigar box tale in Wheeler-Rayburn bill fight
Senator Hugo Black pressed John W. Carpenter on a mysterious box wrapped in newspaper amid the Wheeler-Rayburn utility bill debate. Carpenter admitted hotel conferences and trips with congressmen but could offer no clear explanation about the box. The panel, with conferees from Senate and House, struggled to reach accord as tensions flared and two Administration lobbyists drew walkouts. Carpenter said he never claimed the box contained a weapon or bribe, only possible cigars. Huddleston stated the House would not yield from removing the death sentence from the bill.
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Senate
Duffy
Wisconsin
House
Mmeinate
League of Nations Council
Jaille Selassie
Ethiopia
League
Gerfeva
Tada Hlawariat
France
Italy
Stanley Baldwin
London
W. C. Martin
Foreign Office
Hugo Black
Senate Lobby Committee
John W. Carpenter
Dallas
Texas Power and Light Company
Chesapeake Bay
Texas
Black
Carpenter
Administration
Benjamin Cohen
Dozier A. de Vane
Wheeler and
Barkley
George Huddleston
Alabama
Cohen
Wheeek
Huddleston
Roosevelt
Hamilton Fish
New York
Bertram Snell
Fish
Bert Snell
Congress
Messrs
Fish and Snell
Snell
Guffey
Pottsdam
N. Y
House of Representatives
Uncle Sam
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
NRA
Ways and Means Committee
Tom Cullen
Tammany Democrat
Brooklyn
Cullen
Western Newspaper Union
Ray Silver Dies at 65 in Martinsburg West Virginia
Ray Silver a lifelong agriculture advocate died suddenly at his Martinsburg home at sixty five. He served as president of the United States Grain Market Chicago and led several fruit grower cooperatives including Inwood and Berkeley. He headed growers credit groups and served on national economic panels and tariff commissions. He toured Europe in 1924 with the farm bureau and was on unemployment study commissions.
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Ray Silver
Martinsburg
W. Va
United States Grain Market Corporation of Chicago
Inwood Fruit Growers’ Co-Operative Corporation
Berkeley Fruit Growers
Easters’ Credit Association
United Growers of America
Federated Growers Credit Association
National Bureau of Economic Research
Taft
Farm Bureau Federation
Europe
Roosevelt Moves to Settle Virgin Islands Row
President Roosevelt removes Gov Paul Pearson and Judge T Webber Wilson over the Virgin Islands dispute. Lawrence W. Cramer is nominated as Pearson's successor, while Pearson and Wilson face job reshuffles amid protests from St Thomas and St Croix factions. Pearson is reassigned to housing in the PWA. Wilson's replacement on the parole board follows a forced resignation.
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Virgin Islands
Roosevelt
Paul M. Pearson
T. Webber Wilson
Pearson
Lawrence W. Cramer
St. Croix Island
Senate
St. Croix
Wilson
Washington
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Ickes
PWA
Judge Wilson
Harrison
Federal
Parole Board
Cummings
Amy A. Stannard
Two Birthdays and a World on Edge
Henry Ford at seventy two and Mussolini at fifty two are contrasted as aging leaders. The London Times reports clashes between Ethiopians and Italians with casualties. Debates on Italian gold in London and Britain’s wartime loans frame a restless, newsy snapshot.
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Italy
London
Mr. Swope
Henry Ford
Ilenry Ford
The
London Times
Universal Service
Impeachment talk, AAA fight, and liquor law views
Earl Godwin argues against impeachment of the President, critiques Rep. Snell and Rep. Fish, and discusses the Guffey bill. The piece notes farmer support for AAA, Senate votes, and the evolving liquor law debate as tax and enforcement issues persist amid broader New Deal politics.
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