Senate aims at June adjournment war on treaty and tariffs
News Review of Current Events reports President Hoover plans a special session after Congress adjourns around June 15 to push the London naval treaty while House leaders seek to finish business including tariff rivers and harbors veterans and keep the treaty from a rush. Navy officials warn on trade routes and cruiser cuts amid Senate fights over tariff language. Indictments in Seattle target Roy G Lyle and associates in a corruption probe linked to prohibition enforcement.
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Edward W. Pickard
Hoover
Congress
Senate
House
Johnson
California
Hale
Maine
Navy General Board
Navy
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations and
Naval Affairs
United States
America
Japan
Erate
Gill
Curtis
Tariff Commission
Methodist board probes prove political activity in 1928 campaign
Senate lobby panel questioned officials of the Methodist temperance board over reports it failed to report under the corrupt practices act. Deets Pickett and Clarence True Wilson defended actions around Hoover's 1928 bid, noting mass circulation of Voice and Clipsheet attacking Al Smith and asserting nonpolitical activity despite DOJ nonprosecution. Separately, reports from Rangoon describe escalating riots and clashes among religious groups as British rule faces renewed resistance.
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Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Senate Lobby Committee
Deets Pickett
Clarence True Wilson
Hoover
Department of Justice
Pickett
al Smith
Voice
Doctor Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
Indiana and world tensions dominate latest reports
Across the globe reports describe labor violence in India, looming Franco Italian war talk, Chinese Civil War developments, and U S political actions. Hoover vetoes pension expansion while aviation feats, royal obituaries, and Indiana state updates fill the page with fresh names, places, and dates.
Flags of the President and other American banners
The article traces the history and symbolism of the President's flag and other U S official ensigns. It explains designs for the President, secretary of war, navy, treasury and commerce flags, their disputes and eventual standardization in 1916, and notes heraldic concerns about the eagle's head orientation.
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Elmo Scott Watson
United States
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Commerce
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Navy
Gideon Wells
War Department
Navy Department
Roosevelt
State Department
Army
Taft
White House
Byron McCandless
Secretary of the Navy
Bureau of Construction and Repair
McCandless
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Delphi
Greece
London
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Grundy
Penneylvania
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Ile
Francis H. Bohlen
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Association
Supreme Court
Sheppard
Texas
Jones
Washington
Enforcement Bureau
Bureau
House Judiciary Committee
Seattle
Roy G. Lyle
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Alaska
William MM. Whitney
Mr. Lyle
Earl Corwin
M. L. Fryant
C. T. Melkinner
Kentucky
Olmsted Liquor Gang
Rangoon
Burma
Remier Mussolini
Italy
France
Gray
Chamber of Deputies
Europe
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Northern Alliance
Yen Hsishan
Feng Yu-hsian
Chengchow
Yellow River
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Supreme Court of the United States
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Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Apt
Roscoe Turner
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Western Newspaper Union
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Minn
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Indianapolis
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Nulltown
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Indiana Department of the Grand Army of the Republic
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Wabash
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William HH. Talbert
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Symons
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Warren McCray
Chicago Board of Trade
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Simons
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Allen Kenoyer
Newton County
John D. Hughes
Margaret Lee
DePauw University
Gladys Ronrig
Brazil
the Elks Lodge
Lafayette
Walter P. Andrews
Atlanta
Elizabeth Vivial
Helen Appello
Coolidge
Mary Devenny
Helen Basqui
Anna Corcoran
Quartermaster’s
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William E. Chandler
Chester Alan Arthur
Isn
MacWinley
Department of State
Mare Island
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