Tornado Toll and Tax Clash Dominate Weeks News Review
The report describes deadly tornadoes across five southern states with Alabama hardest hit, dozens of deaths, thousands homeless, and relief efforts by the National Guard and Red Cross. It also covers a major tax bill defeat over sales tax, partisan clashes, and political maneuvering around Prohibition and Lindbergh kidnapping news with new investigative hints.
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Georgia
Tennessee
South Carolina
Reo- Toecky
National Guard
Alabama
B. AM. Miller
Red Cross
Detroit plans to stop paying interest on city debt
Walter Frank Murphy of Detroit announced last Thursday a plan to halt Detroit city interest payments on its 400 million dollar debt. He said the move followed a long telephone talk with Senator James Couzens, who reportedly approved the plan.
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Waater
Frank Murphy
Detroit
Lust
James Couzens
Ten Percent Cut Forces Senate Revisions in 124 Million Bill
The ten per centers led by McKellar push for government economy. The senate rejected 124 million state justice labor and commerce funding, sending it back to appropriations for a mandatory ten percent cut. McKellar claims potential savings of at least 25 million, while debt service and veterans payments are exempt.
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Senate
Thera
Ten Per
McKellar
Tennessee
Committee On Appropriations
State, Justice, Labor and Commerce
Jones
Prohibition Vote Moves Toward Record Senate Action
Senator Tydings of Maryland filed a motion to discharge the judiciary committee from consideration of repeal or amendment of the eighteenth amendment. He led a petition with twenty four members to back the effort and allow others to sign.
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Prohibition
Senate
House
Tydings
Maryland
Judiciary Committee
Tydlogs
De Valera Signals Plan to Abolish Oath of Allegiance
President Eamon de Valera informs J H Thomas that Ireland intends to abolish the oath of allegiance to King George. Thomas reports grave information but offers no details and discusses the matter with the king at Buckingham Palace. Britain stands firm against abolishing the oath and against land annuities, totaling about 10.15 million dollars with Ireland owing 350 thousand to Britain.
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W. Dolanty
Thomas
House of Commons
Free State
Dublin
de Valera
Ireland
Hitler Loses Broadcast Chance in German Presidency Bid
Dolf Hitler faced rejection of a broadcast platform while Paul von Hindenburg led in the German presidency race. The government banned thirty Nazi newspapers for allegedly endangering the republic through attacks on the state. They had printed Hitler's denunciation of raids by Prussian police on Nazi offices as tensions rose.
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Dolf Hitler
Eiven
Paul von Hindenburg
Republic
Hitler
Germany
Electric Energy Dooms Big Cities
The article argues that giant cities will grow but lose financial and industrial power as energy shifts to electric and distributed work. It cites Harper Leech predicting vast cost rises and a new industrial era, with Carolinas as a model of future American industry driven by electricity and transmission.
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New York
Harper Leech
Lesch
Anya
United States
Mr. Leech
America
Carolinas
Piedmont
England
Manchester
Leeds
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Leech
La Follettes plot and Navy yard cuts in 1933 politics
Washington dispatch notes the La Follette faction plans to enter Senator Norris of Nebraska in the Wisconsin Republican primary to deny President Roosevelt renomination, a tactic echoed from 1928. It also reports talk of closing or economizing Navy surplus properties, with potential multi‑million dollar annual savings, and a tense World Court debate as Stimson testifies before the Senate.
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Washington
la Follettes
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Norris
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Georgia
G. A. Howard
Atlanta
John N. Garver
Navy
Boston Navy Yard
Charleston Navy Yard
Portsmouth
NHL
Senate Foreign Relations
Stimson
Renate
Boreh
Johnson
California
World Court
Uulee
Gene Venzke Breaks Indoor One Mile World Record
Gene Venzke of Pottstown set a world indoor mile mark at the Binxter mile feature during the sixty fourth annual New York Athletic Club meet at Madison Square Garden. He clocked four minutes ten seconds.
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Gene Venzke
Pottstown
New York Athletic Club
Madison Square Garden
Gene
Colorado Sand Dunes Draw Tourists in Alamogordo
Colorado's sand dunes in Alamogordo attract thousands of visitors as rolling hills of smooth sand lure tourists and westerners. Once icy dunes now draw skiers, with the sands praised as a natural wonder that may rival Colorado's famed rock mountains.
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Alamogo
Colo
Colorado
Pilots Offered to Help China in Air Campaign
Ottawa reports Canadian and American pilots, some with decades of war service, may join Chinese efforts against Japan. Teh- lin Li forwarded word that China welcomes experienced Occidental aviators to fly under the National Flag, with plans to form two squadrons initially. The program could begin mid March, costing nine million dollars for year one.
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Ottawa
Nanking
Lis
Aviation Department
Chinese Aviation Department
China
Royal Canadian
Force Lnyoff
Whale Tows Smack Off Cape May Harbor
Captain Esse Boies of the Sea Toy reports his fishing smack joined a school of whales off Cape May N J and one whale tore loose his anchor from Chinco league Va while searching for cod. The whale dragged the boat back and forth until it freed the anchor, sparing the crew further trouble.
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Cape May
N. I
Esse Boies
Sea Toy
School of Whales
Boies
Methodist Church
Chincoleague
Sidewalk Repairs Provide Work for Unemployed Men
Chicago reports emphasize sidewalks as emergency employment. Cleveland maintained an extra 2000 to 50 workers repairing damaged sidewalks. Other communities, including Macomb, Iowa, pay repair crews through unemployment bureaus, with cities covering only materials and supervision.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Ohio
Macomb
Construction Bargains Seen in Lowered Costs
Construction bargains emerge as prices in contracts fall. Oak Park awarded a concrete wading pool contract for 1000 dollars, with earlier pools costing 2400 in 1828 and 1450 each in 1931. The 1952 bid is said to be over 40 percent lower than a prior vict im in 1980.
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Oak Park
Buut
Camille and the Paris Lovers Famed Mistress of Death and Fame
A dramatic portrait traces Marie Duplessis and her rise as the Paris courted muse of Dumas and risked a life of ambition. It notes her childhood in poverty, ascent amid aristocrats, romantic entanglements, and her death that sealed a legend.
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Camille
Felon
Theater Guera
Regi UN
Mille
Alexander Dennis
File
Beter
Duplessis
Paris
Nuire de Guiche
Pote Dumas
Olene
Dnmas
Constantinople
Lirst
Marie
Dumas
Spain
Tls
Marie Duplessie
Tragic Poe and the Virginia Clemm Tale in 19th Century Lore
The piece recalls Edgar Allan Poe and his wife Virginia Clemm, noting their marriage at ages 26 and 14, Virginia’s poetic and musical talents, and her death at a young age. It contrasts Poe’s genius with poverty, and includes a discussion of the saying like Sam Hill and its political connotations in Guilford Connecticut.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Virginia Lemm Moe
Annabell Lee
Poe
West Point
Mra Marie Poe Clemm
Baltimore
Grst
Virginia
Bor
Southern Literary Messenger
Errat
Fordham
New York
Degeneration Claim From Archeologist State
Fragmentary archival note suggests an archaic belief about degeneration among men of ancient times. It mentions a heavy granite object weighing 15 pounds and references a federal or political context described as defiant, with unclear meaning and decayed wording. The passage is incomplete and lacks verifiable names or dates.
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