Moratorium pact forged paving postwar debt relief
Hoover and French negotiators sealed a plan allowing July 1 1931 to July 1 1992 suspension of reparations and war debts totaling about 500 million dollars. Germany avoids current payments for a year while loan guarantees and European support are arranged. Foreign leaders praise the accord though German press criticizes it as flawed.
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Germany
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
United States
Hoover
Pot
Jollas Curtius
Bruening
Paris
Mellon
Hoov
Premers
Lonnon
Stimson
Enetland
Young Plan
St Lawrence canal debate and all American waterway push
Senators Copeland and Harmilan Fish urged early federal action to build a Great Lakes to Atlantic waterway via Mohawk valley and Hudson to relieve unemployment. They argued the St Lawrence canal would benefit grain exporters and dismissed the project as a myth amid conflicting European leadership and papal diplomacy.
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Great lakes-Hudson Waterways Association
Albany
N. Y
Copeland
Harmilton Fish
Empire State
St. Lawrence Ship Canal
Mike West
Europe and Latin America News Drift Through Quiet Crisis
The piece describes church state clashes in Mexico and Veracruz with bishops opposing priest limits and seeking open churches. It notes Bolivia Paraguay tensions and a diplomatic break, plus Peru's internal conflict near Cuzco. Stalin unveils a conciliatory line toward bourgeoisie and kulak farmers as five year plan aims push industrial growth.
Rockefeller Birthday Quietly Observed at Tarrytown Home
John D. Rockefeller celebrated his ninety second birthday with a family dinner at his Tarrytown residence. Attending were John O Rockefeller Jr. and his wife Abbie plus their husband David Milton and four Rockefeller children.
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John D. Rockefeller
Turrytown
N. Y
John O. Rockefeller, Jr
Abbie
David Milton
Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Polish Gentleman with Eight Wives Draws Front Page Fame
Warsaw tailor Warsaw Leo Weidenberg, sixty one, has eight marriages and forty six children. His eighth wife sought divorce with five undivorced partners in court. Weidenberg fled. dating tales span Russia Poland and America with faith changes from Jewish to Russian Orthodox to Roman Catholic. Police tracked six ex wives. Russian and American spouses remain unrecovered.
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Warsaw
Leo Weidenberg
O Ples
Weldenberg
Weidenberg
Rebecca Frol
Russia
Marriag
Poland
Plock
Channa Zebrak
Lublin
Mary Nowak
Iages
Lips and Eyes as Clues to Character in Oxford Reunion
At an Oxford Old Students' reunion Professor Bettmann of Heidelberg tested lips and eyes as indicators of vocation and character. The study found a general link but only one clear exception, the legal profession showing a predominant feature of thin lips. Bettmann notes deep thinkers tend to have thinner lips.
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Oxford
England
Bettmann
Oxford University
Bettman
Mormon Mantle Shelves to Adorn Parish House
Marble mantle shelves carved by Brigham Young will decorate the Second Presbyterian parish house under construction. The shelves, with timbers from the original house, date about a century ago. Brigham Young spent his boyhood days in Port Byron New York.
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Anbar
Brigham Young
Uo Presbyterian Pariah House
Second Presbyterian
Port Byron
Fingerlake
New York
Revolution Brings New Bullfighting Slang Into Spain
The article notes a surge of monarchial terms in bullfighting slang. It cites phrases like monarchial and monarchical to label poor performances and a fan chorus of You’re worse than the monarchy. It mentions bullfighter Gitanilo de Triana, real name Francisco Vera de los Reyes, appearing in Valencia with posters listing Francisco Vega de la Republica.
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Madrid
Gitanilo de Triana
Franciees Vera de Los Reyes
Reyes
Valencia
Hunter Brothers Retain Refueling Endurance Record
The Federation Aeronautique Internationale has not approved Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien’s 7 hour 28 minute flight near St Louis due to technical conditions. The official record remains held by the Hunter brothers at 3 hours 41 minutes.
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Washington
Federation Aeronautique International
France
Dale Jackson
Forest O'Brien
St Louis
Hunter Brothers
Uncle Eben Praises Looks After Compliment from Hippo
In a humorous note from the Washington Star a speaker quotes Uncle Eben saying when unhappy with his looks he goes to the goo and offers thanks for being handsomer than the hippopotamus.
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Eben
Dan de Hippopotamus
Washington Star
Man Seeks 60 Day Term After Slapped Wife
Holland, Mich. James Verano, 49, received a 30 day jail sentence for slapping his wife. He requested an additional 60 days, but the judge denied the appeal.
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Holland, Mich
E. B. Parsons
James Verano
African Beauties in London Model Parade Tour
A Manchester firm sponsors a caravan of cars carrying dresses and fabrics bound for a tropical country. Stops planned in Damascus, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo and Cape Town. impromptu manikin parades with native women wearing the models will be staged at each stop.
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London
Manchester
Damascus
Jerusalem
Alexandria
Cairo
Capa Town
College Education Valued at Sixty Thousand Dollars
Attorneys sue Morito Brothers for 60 000 dollars claiming Edna Schleck age 19 and Fred Schleck age 16 lost the chance to attend college after their father Edward Schleck was killed in a truck collision. The suit argues the education lost is the compensation sought.
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Seattle
Morito Brothers
Edward Schleck
Edna
Fred Schleck
Fred
Conceited criminologist notes poor driving in LA
A Los Angeles Times item reports that the conceited criminologist finds conceited people make the worst drivers and observes a large number of poor drivers in the city.
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Los Angeles Times
Machines That Are Almost Human
A feature on robots that capture images in inaccessible places such as ocean depths and high altitudes. The telehor and radio telegraph systems transmit pictures directly to receivers, enabling rapid news photos, fashion alerts, and forensic uses.
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Ocean
United States
Washington
Pacific
Europe
Asia
Frm
New
Fim
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Chernsseake Bay
Chesapeake Bag
Western Newapapar Upton
Judge's Black Cap Symbol of Justice and New Restoration
The text discusses the judge's black cap as a symbol of impartial justice and the notional meaning of the cap with scales and a sword. It notes three years of research leading to a miniature scale model of Williamsburg Virginia's historic colonial capital, to be restored by Rockefeller interests.
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Old Bailey
Tondon Court
America
Europe
Wirginia
Williamsburg
Rockefeller
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