TVA Ruling Upheld In All Points At Issue
Supreme Court upholds the Tennessee Valley Authority act as constitutional on all questions in the suit by Alabama Power Company stockholders. Decision limits scope to TVA transmission line acquisition for Wilson dam. McReynolds dissents. Federal power authority affirmed for dam construction and surplus power disposal. Paragua revolt follows street fighting. Col Rafael Franco to head new government in exile.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
New Deal
Wilson Dam
Norris Dam
Tennessee River
United States Supreme Court
Congress
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United States
Frank R. McNinch
Federal Power Commission
Grand Coulee
Bonneville
Fort Peck
Paragua
Smith
Recalde
Chaco
Paraguay
Asuncion
Ayala
Col
Rafael Franco
Buenos Aires
Italian Casualties Seen Heavy in White-Only Frontline
The report notes uncertain Italian casualties likely heavy and observes that only white Italians took part in the fighting, implying a racialized battleground dynamic.
Italians claim victory in six day Ethiopian battle
Dispatches from northern Ethiopia report General Badoglio leading about 70 000 Italian troops to rout 80 000 Ethiopian forces including 10 000 of Ras Mulugheta s guard and 70 000 under Ras Kassa and Ras Seyoum. Italians seize Enderto and passes in Tembien, plant flag atop Aradam after encircling raids. Over 6 000 Ethiopians killed, with many more casualties.
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Tembien
Aradam
Amba Alagia
Senate Passes Farm Bill Amid Debate on AAA Plan
The senate approved the administration substitute farm bill 56 to 20 and sent it to the house. It would pay farmers to retire land from production under four criteria for two years, then shift to 48 state AAA regulators with federal funds to states.
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House
Supreme Court Aaa
Secretary of Agriculture
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Sam
White House
Supreme Court
Germany Warned to Keep Troops Off the Rhine
RANCE reports Hitler waiting for a favorable moment to remilitarize the Rhineland in violation of the Versailles treaty. BelgiumPremier Van Zeeland and French Foreign Minister Flan din warned that remilitarization would trigger immediate reprisals. Britain is believed to back France and Belgium, while Belgium strengthens border fortifications.
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Rhine
Hitler
Rhineland
van Zeeland
Belgium
Paris
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Flandin
Great Britain
France
Four Moslem Nations Unite in Friendship Treaty
IS dispatches from Istanbul report Turkey Iraq Persia and Afghanistan have concluded a treaty of friendship and nonaggression to be signed soon in Teheran or Bagdad. The four nations, acting on their own initiative, aim to patch up past differences and seek future cooperation.
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Turkey
Iraq
Persia
Afghanistan
Teheran
Bagdad
Soviet and Japan Near Mixed Commission Probe
Russia and Japan agree in principle to appoint a mixed commission to investigate clashes on the Soviet Manchukuo border. The Japanese offer was conveyed by Ambassador Ota. A Soviet official noted prior similar proposals, while Russia ordered its Mukden consulate closed and did not link it to border clashes.
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Japan
Moscow
Foreign Office
Tamekichi Ota
G. S. Stomaniakoff
Mukden
Manchukuo
Outer Mongolian
Siberia
Norwegians Win Winter Olympic Title At Garmisch Partenkirchen
Norway tops the Winter Games with 146 points at Garmisch Partenkirchen Germany Germany takes second with 117 points and the United States finishes fifth with 354 percent Americans win only the two man bobsled title credited to Ivan Brown and Alan Washbond of Keene Valley New York Norway dominates speed skating and ski jumping events as rivals struggle
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United States
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Ivan Brown
Alan Washbond
Keene Valley
N. Y
Pan-American Parley On Peace Proposed
William L. Ransom of the American Bar Association announced Newton D. Baker will chair a special committee to set publicity standards for trials including press radio and lawyers. President Roosevelt sent letters inviting Latin American leaders to a Pan American peace conference in Washington to organize peaceful dispute resolution and possibly redefine the Monroe Doctrine.
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American Bar Association
Chicago
Newton D. Baker
Association
Bruno Hauptmann
Etters
Roosevelt
Washington
State Department
Slayers of King Alexander Sentenced in France
In Aix en Provence France verdicts declared six defendants guilty in the Jugoslav king’s assassination case. Three Croat Ustashi members given life in French Guiana, while the six who evaded capture were sentenced to death. among the condemned is Dr Ante Pavelich reputed Ustashi head.
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Jugoslavia
Marseilles
Aix-en-Provence
France
Ustadil Society
French Guiana
Ante Pavelich
Ustachi
What a Troubled World in Brisbane This Week
A wide survey notes riots in Spain and South America, Paris unrest, and labor strife while pondering TVA power roles for farms. Charles M. Schwab remains optimistic about labor and industry. steam turbine planes and synthetic fuel promise future progress. Global tensions with Russia Japan Italy Germany loom as new safety driving courses appear in New Jersey high schools.
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New Jersey
Kings Tee Tecate, Inc
Drafting New Farm Measure Opinion Piece
Earl Godwin Ashington discusses the Senate agricultural committee substitute farm bill. He compares it to a timid schoolboy, examining federal state relations, court rulings on direct farmer deals, and the role of the secretary of agriculture in soil conservation. He weighs costs, legality, and political risks amid Roosevelts policy debates.
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AAA
Senate
Agricultural Committee
High Court
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
Supreme Court
Bureaucrats Stalled on Veteran Bonus Paperwork
The piece argues that Congress rushed through the veteran bonus and now demands clerical staff to process records. It questions who will handle the books, letters, and accounts, insisting the work cannot be done by ghosts and must be performed by additional clerks in the Veterans bureau.
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Roosevelt
Rome
Stalin
Mussolini
Hitler
Congress
Baltimore
Jowett Shouse
Liberty League
Shouse
White House
Veterans Bureau
Western Newspaper Union
Seismology Lab Opened 1400 Feet Underground Near Benthen
An underground seismology laboratory 1400 feet deep near Benthen in Silesia opens in connection with the Observatory of Upper Silesia. It will record earthquakes and study geophysical phenomena related to earth crust movements.
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Benthen
Silesia
Upper Silesia
Railways in East Africa Draw Indian Coolies to Uganda
The Uganda railroad era brought 20 000 to 30 000 Indian coolies to East Africa. Many found land favorable and stayed, becoming leading tradesmen in the region today.
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East Africa
India
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