European crisis dominates League talks amid Rhineland tension
Britain and France push for Germany to withdraw from the Rhine while warning of sanctions under the League of Nations. Hitler reviews forces as Locarno pact allies urge action, protests tempering German parade plans. Paris signals determination to punish rearmament even if it fractures the League.
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France
Poland
Prussia
Germany
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Great Britain
Hitler
Sarraut
Reich
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Italy
Council of the League
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Eden
England
Fland
League Council
Paris
Flandin
League
Locarno
Frankfort
Werner von Blomberg
Frankfurter Zeitung
Britain names Inskip to coordinate defense effort
Britain’s Prime Minister Baldwin names Sir Thomas Inskip to head a new cabinet post coordinating the army navy and air services. The sixty year old attorney general is described as calm and unruffled and was a surprise choice over Churchill Chamberlain Duff Cooper and Hoare.
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Thomas Inskip
Baldwin
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain
Alfred Duff Cooper
Samuel Hoare
Thomas
House of Commons
Defense
Army
Navy
Air Services
Cummings Wins Fight Over Virgin Islands Civil Control
The U S Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld Leonard McIntosh's conviction for a minor theft, ruling the federal Justice Department has full control over the district court and the islands government attorney. The decision favors Attorney General Cummings against Interior Secretary Ickes’s approach to civil affairs in the Virgin Islands.
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Department of Public Works of
The
Virgin Islands
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Philadelphia
Federal Department of Justice
District Court
Islands
Cummings
Chicago mayoral candidate runs for president in third party
Newton Jenkins of Chicago, who ran as an independent for mayor last April and won 11 percent, announces he seeks the U S presidency. He says the Third party will nominate a President and that he is a candidate for that nomination. The party is an organization he incorporated last year with two municipal candidates.
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Newton Jenkins
Chicago
Dyerten Jenkins
United States
Legal Action Blocks Telegram Seizures in Senate Inquiry
Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the District of Columbia Supreme Court granted Silas I. Strawn a injunction preventing Western Union from releasing the firm's telegrams to the Black senate committee on lobbying. The court ruled the subpoena exceeded the committee's powers as to copies of telegrams. Hearst fights to keep an original confidential telegram from the Black committee, while the American Newspaper Publishers Association condemns seizure.
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Alfred A. Wheat
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Black Senate Committee
Chicago
Silas I. Strawn
Western Union Telegraph Company
William Randolph Hearst
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Hearst
Franco Establishes Paraguay as a Totalitarian State
Provisional Paraguay leader Rafael Franco enforces a one year ban on unions not emanating from the state and proclaims a purging of evils as the country adopts a Nazi fascist modeled regime. Recognition comes from multiple nations including the United States and Great Britain as Franco aims to build a new strong Paraguay.
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Canada
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Brazil
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Uruguay
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Germany
Spain
England's Bachelor King Hints He May Marry
England's king Edward hints at marriage when authorizing the civil list notes a contingency for a wife. Five European princesses are deemed eligible, including Irene and Catherine of Greece, Juliana of the Netherlands, Eugenia of Greece, and Eyre of Russia.
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Netherlands
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Eyre
Russia
Grand Duke
Cyril
Asia Rivalry and War Trends Stir Global News
Editor Arthur Brisbane surveys Asia and Europe amid talk of Russia and Japan possibly aligning, fears of bolshevik influence, and Lloyd George urging peace while warning of escalating military power. Reports cover extortion plots, daytime street lights, and shifts in war insurance and labor legislation.
Roosevelt Has Kept Pledges By Earl Godwin
In a Washington column Earl Godwin argues Roosevelt honors campaign promises, notably power resources control by the people and St Lawrence waterway development. He decries power lobby resistance and notes Senate probes exposing power trust propaganda and public-spirited reforms.
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Roosevelt
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Mississippi System
Tennessee Valley
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Boulder Dam
Canada
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Liberty League
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Black
Alabama
Liberty
Federal Communications Commission
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Communications Commission
Senate Lobby Committee
United States Senate
Electric Power Organization
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Walking Away From Roosevelt and Railroads in Distress
A Western Newspaper Union blurb notes debates within the Democratic camp over supporting Roosevelt, citing Millard Tydings and Harry Byrd as anti Roosevelt tensions. It discusses railroads facing six years of revenue loss, merged routes, labor costs, and a June fare cut by the Interstate Commerce Commission aimed at reviving passenger traffic.
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Alfred E. Smith
Roosevelt
Senate
Millard Tydings
Maryland
Senator Tydings
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Liberty League
Tydings
Harry Bord
Virginia
Interstate Commerce Commission
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