Townsend plan inquiry attracts attention in Congress
In Washington the Townsend pension plan probes gain momentum as eight member committee investigates promoters including John H. Tolan and Samuel L. Collins. Salaries to Townsend and R. E. Clem ents from OARP and the Townsend weekly are raised amid charges of a reserve fund and a growing movement. President Roosevelt's weekend actions and Copeland ship subsidy plans are also noted with mixed signals from Congress and shipping interests.
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Townsend Plan
House
Townsend Pension Plan
Burns
Francis EB
Townsend
R. EB
Clements
OARP
Old Age Revolving Pension Organization
Townsend National Weekly
Townsend and Clements
John Steven McGroarty
California
Townsendites
House of Representatives
America
Washington
White House
Royal S. Copeland
Commerce Committee
Guffey
Pennsylvania
Black
Alabama
Navy Department
Gen Hagood punished for New Deal criticism
Gen Maj. Gen John Hagood is relieved from command of the Eighth Corps area and ordered to Fort Sam Houston after criticizing New Deal housing plans. The action, signed by Gen. Malin Craig, follows Hagood’s push to repurpose WPA stage money for army post housing.
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Hagood
Johnson Hagood
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Congress
Malin Craig
Secretary of War
United States Army
Eighth Corps
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Puerto Rico Slayings Spur Call for Reform
In San Juan the assassination of BE. Francis Riggs head of the insular police and district police chief Francisco Velez N. Ortiz followed by a riot at a central cafe underscores long standing policing problems in Puerto Rico. Authorities say two Nationalists killed Riggs and Ortiz and the suspects later died in police fire during questioning.
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Puerto Rico
San Juan
Francis Riggs
Insular
Riggs
United States Army
Francisco Velez N. Ortiz
Utuado
Rio Pedras
Neutrality Act Extended One Year Amid Senate Action
The House and Senate approved a one year extension of the embargo on arms ammunition and war implements and bans on loans to belligerents. Senator Nye rushed back from Minneapolis to vote but missed his chance to offer amendments. SEC chief J M Landis warned over rising stock speculation proposing banking controls, anti manipulation laws, and public education. Brig Gen William Mitchell, famed WWI air commander and critic of air preparedness, died of a heart attack in New York at fifty seven.
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SEC
Ames M. Landis
Securities and Exchange Commission
Princeton University
Landis
CNE
William Mitchell
New York
Billy
France
Couzens Probes W J Cummings Salaries In RFC Inquiry
Senator Couzens Republican Michigan states Walter J. Cummings Dem national committee treasurer earns over 90000 annually from RFC related appointments. Cummings also draws 75000 as chair of Continental Illinois Bank and Trust. a RFC trustee role adds 15000. He defends the pay as justified. Inquirer acquitted in libel case. costs borne by defendant.
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Walter J. Cummings
Democratic National Committee
Couzens
Michigan
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Cummings
RFC
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of
Chicago
Philadelphia Inquirer
Charles J. Margiotti
Pennsylvania
the Inquirer
Philadelphia
Margiotti
John Trevor Custis
Charles A. Tyler
Interesting Delegates Competing for National Conventions
New York delegates to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions are named. Republicans include Charles D. Hilles Ruth Pratt Robert Low Bacon Bertrand H Snell James W Wadsworth Edward H Butler John R Crews Charles H Griffiths. Tammany lists Alfred K Smith as the Democratic leader for Manhattan and Staten Island.
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New York
Hamilton Fish
Borah
State Committee
Charles D. Hilles
Ruth Pratt
Robert Low Bacon
Bertrand H. Snell
House
James W. Wadsworth
United States
Edward H. Butler
The
Buffalo Evening News
John R. Crews
Brooklyn
Charles H. Griffiths
Westchester County
Tammany
Alfred K. Smith
Manhattan
Staten Island
Five dictators unite as England warned of looming war
The article notes Mussolini and Hitler coordinating with Austria Poland and Hungary against England and France while Stalin might align with France. Eden says conditions echo 1914, urging armament and a world security system. Countess Barbara Hutton has a baby boy weighing seven and a half pounds and valued at twenty million dollars, illustrating wealth contrasts.
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Eden
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Germany
France
Rome
Mussolini
Hitler
Austria
Poland
Hungary
England
Stalin
Italy
Ethiopia
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz- Reventlow
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow
General Mitchell Buried in Milwaukee Family Plot
General William E. Mitchell was laid to rest in Milwaukee beside his father, a Wisconsin senator. He fought enemies of his country and harsh superiors, seeking lasting peace in death and leaving behind a legacy of patriotism and courage.
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William E. Mitchell
Milwaukee
Arlington Cemetery
United States
Wisconsin
Mitchell
World News and Curiosities From Paulding Column
At Greenwood Lake a mail carrying rocket flew 2000 feet from New York to New Jersey as spectators smiled in derision. In Madison, Wis. death masks of Indians 3000 years old point to Eskimo mammoth hunts. Russia shows Lenin embalmed in Red Square. Edward VIII trims uniforms. Miners union head Lewis offers Green $500000 to mobilize 500000 steel workers. Green declines. Adler urges separating the Dionne quintuplets for their best interests. Watson Davis calls for a sun powered and atomic age remedy to cancer and heart disease.
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Greenwood Lake
N. Y
New York
New Jersey
Fulton
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Lakes
Russia
Lenin
Great Red Square
Moscow
Watson Davis
Science Service
Roosevelt Victory hopes and TVA gains in 1936
Roosevelt is seen as likely to win re election with broad support as polls show 294 electoral votes planned. The piece credits his handling of NRA AAA and TVA and notes strong support in New Deal reforms while arguing opposition failed to defeat the president. It discusses TVA power for seven state region and neutral war policy limits.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Colorado
Ohio
Illinois
New York
Michigan
Indiana
West Virginia
Maryland
Kansas
Wyoming
Minnesota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
NRA
AAA
Supreme Court
Organized Labor
New Deal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Power Trust
TVA
Tennessee River
Tennessee Valley
Gabriel
White House
America
Muscle Shoals
Alabama Power Company
Grubb
Federal Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of the United States
Mississippi Valley
Columbia River Valley
Northwest
Edison Institute
Wallace Tax Refunds Spark Impeachment Calls in Congress
Henry Wallace denounces returning processing taxes to packers and millers as the greatest legalized steal. Treadway demands impeachment while Norris seeks full facts. The refunds total about 270 million to cotton millers, meat-packers, and wheat millers, with critics alleging price hikes to the public.
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Henry Wallace
Treadway
Massachusetts
Wallace
George Norris
Nebraska
Western Newspaper Union
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Ritchie
F. D. Roosevelt
Henry L. Roosevelt
Department
Swanson
Naval Academy
Marine Corps
Arlington National Cemetery
A. C. Ritchie
Senate
Smith
Senate Agriculture Committee
League of Nations
J. M. Landis
Billy” Mitchell
W. J. Cummings
Sen. Couzens
Brisbane
Gen
George
Kaiser
Edward VIII
Buckingham Palace
Lewis
Miners’ Union
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Mr. Green
Alfred Adler
Yvonne
Annette
Cecile
Emilie
Marie
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