Long's lone filibuster halts third deficiency bill in Senate
Senator Huey Long of Louisiana conducted a seven hour filibuster delaying the $103,000,000 third deficiency bill. The measure would fund pensions for the aged and crippled children while thé cotton and wheat loan amendments caused contention. The Senate stood firm. House delays risk delaying New Deal programs into January. The piece notes Soviet talks in Moscow and U.S. responses.
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Congress
Long
House
Senate
Huey Long
Louisiana
Robinson
Controller General
AAA
Works Relief Deadline and U S Russia Note
The Sept 12 deadline for Works Progress Administration relief applications is set with bids or operations to follow by Oct 22 and a program launch by Nov 1. The note to the Soviet Union warns of serious consequences if Moscow continues to allow Communist activity. Bullitt cites pledges violated and Litvinov's return awaited.
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Moscow
Communist International
United States
Karl Browder
William Z. Foster
Communist Party
Gil Green
Sam Darcy
Bullitt
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Russia
N. O. Krestinsky
William C. Bullitt
Department of State
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Maxim Litvinov
Geneva
Litvinov
Mr. Bullitt
Winant Named Head of Social Security Board
J G Winant former New Hampshire governor and Republican is named chairman of the Social Security Board. Arthur J Altmeyer and Vincent Morgan Miles will be members with salaries of 10000 dollars annually. Appointments run six four and one year terms respectively from August 18 last year.
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Ohn G. Winant
New Hampshire
Republcan
Social Security Board
Winant
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Wisconsin
Vincent Morgan Miles
Fort Smith
Ark
Public Works Administration
Senate
Altmeyer
Miles
White House
New National Labor Relations Board
Joseph Madden
Pittsburgh
John M. Carmody
New York
Edwin S. Smith
Massachusetts
J. D. Ross
Securities and Exchange Commission
Benjamin Cohen
Utilities Bill
Death of J N Willys Diplomat and Motor Magnate
J N Willys a leading figure in the auto industry and former ambassador to Voland died in New York at sixty one after a heart attack last May. He built Willys-Overland from Overland and acquired Pope Toledo before selling holdings to a syndicate in 1929 for several million dollars. Also noted was the sudden death of Thomas Edison Jr in Springfield Mass, head of Edison plant research.
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J. N. Willys
Joan N. Willys
Voland
New York
Mr. Willys
Overland Automobile Company
Willys-Overland Company
Indianapolis
Pope-Toledo Company
Toledo
Ohio
Willys-Overland
Thomas Alva Edison, Jr
Springfield
Mass
Edison
West Orange
N. J
Roosevelt Defends New Deal to Youth in Milwaukee
President Roosevelt told Young Democrats in Milwaukee that his talk was not political and offered a word for word message to youth of Republicans. He framed the New Deal as government aid to common men, not socialism, but regulated individualism. Representative Snell countered that curbing citizen rights would empower the rich and warned youth against endorsing such a shift.
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Roosevelt
Snell
Young Democrats
Milwaukee
Republican Party
Republican National Committee
Bertrand H. Snell
New York
Wilson
Congress approves food price inquiry funding in 1982 debate
The House and Senate push a resolution to fund a £150 000 general investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into rising food prices. The analysis aims to map costs from production to consumer, with estimates showing farmers receive a small share of the food dollar amid rising costs to bring goods to shoppers. The session features brawling votes, tariff and utility battles, and diplomatic caution over war and neutrality.
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Yelfore
House
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
White House
Congress
Walter F. George
Georgia
United States
SEC
TVT
Joseph B. Eastman
Roosevelt program sails through Congress on strong support
Congress backed Roosevelt by nearly a full scorecard, approving his farm, banking reform, social security, and power measures. The piece praises his airwave defense of the New Deal, notes ongoing battles with opponents, and highlights the National Youth Administration as a key new element led by Aubrey Williams with Harry Hopkins guiding the relief effort.
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Ashington
Roosevelt
Congress
Hoover
Power Trust
Tennessee Valley
White House
America
Aubrey Williams
National Youth Administration
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
Weetere Newananer Unien
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