Hoover S Eastland clash over power board nominees
President Hoover stands firm against Senate moves to rescind three power commission appointments, citing executive prerogative and a legal opinion. The Senate restores the names 86 to 23, while debate over drought relief and Red Cross funding dominates, with figures like John Barton Payne and Arkansas Senator Caraway active in relief discussions.
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Burton EK. Wheeler
Montana
Khe
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Payne
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Interior Department
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Thomas W. Page
John Lee Coulter
Alfred P. Dennis
Edgar B. Brossard
Lincoln Dixon
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Utah
Old Tariff Commission
Ritchie Says He’s Ready for 1932 Democratic Nomination
In his fourth inaugural address as Maryland governor Albert C. Ritchie signals openness to the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination. He frames the party’s wet stance and reframes the national debate as he addresses the economy and governance.
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Albert C. Ritchie
Maryland
Tom Titus Fights Indian Giver Image Over Charity Plans
In a campus tale, Tom Titus opposes charitable interference with business and retrieves his borrowed suit from an industrial mission led by Jane Perkins's grandmother. Jane learns Tom’s gift to help a down and out man impressed her, and he later overlooks his prank as romance grows.
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Bones Shine Beside Bushes After Night Walk
A narrator recalls seeing something gleam near bushes and hearing a rattling sound of bones late at night as Ab walked home. The fragment hints at a mysterious find and a tense moment.
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Hobos and White Collar Needy Feed at Mission Relief
Captain Hammill cites a St Mark's mission turned white collar restaurant aiding idle workers and artists. Father Di Isle says food is available Sundays and daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m with no takeaways, while merchants demand proof of need to curb chiselers. The welfare council notes 50 bread depots are enough for the unemployed willing to work.
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Fifth Street
Captain Hammill
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Hammills
Michael di Iisie
Jersey
Father di Isle
Daniel Platt
Hammill
Welfare Council
Colleges Autos Roads Blamed for Hobo Life
Ames Iowa State College professor P H Wood Sr says colleges, automobiles, and paved roads push men to loafing. He argues college life inspires loafing while travelers in cars enable easy travel, fueling the hobo lifestyle.
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Towa
P. H. Wood
Iowa State College
1930 Healthiest Year on Record for America
Metropolitan Life researchers based on mortality data from 19 million industrial policy holders report the best health conditions in the United States and Canada through November of 1990. They note no widespread contagious outbreaks and only a potential rise in self harm deaths, with overall death rate per thousand near zero versus 4 in 1920.
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United States
Canada
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
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Divorce Ends Woman's Choice of Two Loves
Memphis Tennessee. Mamye Briggs Seruges was granted a divorce from her husband on cruelty charges. Seventeen years earlier, at age nineteen, she faced two suitors in her home and chose one, tearing up the other license to marry Douglas P. Scruggs while the rejected suitor Russell J. M. Dod son blessed the union.
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Mamye Briggs Seruges
Mamye Briggs
Douglas P. Scruggs
Russell J. M. Dodson
German Professor Claims Brain Fluid Boosts Intelligence
Berlin reports Professor Haberlandt of Innsbruck claims a new brain fluid injection can make sluggish minds work faster. He says the extract of oxen and calf brains, heavily concentrated, elevates brain matter and could later be made into a pill.
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Haberlandt
Innsbruck
Snow White Raccoon Killed Along Eel River North of Peru
In Peru Indiana a 15 pound snow white raccoon, possibly the largest of its kind in the area, was killed along the Eel river north of town by Carter Kungle. The event notes the exceptionally large specimen and the location.
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Thieves Steal Beehives and Honey in Martinsburg
William Lupton, former orchardist, reports unidentified thieves took two beehives with wintering colonies and this season’s honey. He had not gathered honey, hoping bees would store food for winter, and suspects the thief aimed to seize the honey by stealing the hives and bees.
Roman village unearthed near Cologne dating to 3000 B C
Archaeologists from the Cologne museum uncover a Roman village in Schéndenthal a Cologne suburb dating back to 3000 B C. Experts say the site may be the first of its kind found, with excavations ongoing under museum supervision.
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Schéndenthal
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