Roosevelt’s Stance on Labor Problems Revealed in Transcripts
Transcripts show President Roosevelt advocating that collective bargaining should have a permanent place in American life. He condemned sweatshop labor, supported garment workers’ strikes, and urged labor education and responsibility. He discussed devaluation, money policy, and federal control of agriculture, and praised Senator Norris as essential to the nation.
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Mr. Roosevelt
New York City
Roosevelt
San Francisco
Associated Gas and Electric
Commonwealth and Southern
TVA
Supreme Court
Agriculture Adjustment Administration
Donahey Chosen To Head TVA Inquiry
The TVA investigating committee selected Senator Donahey of Ohio as the chairman and planned to begin the inquiry promptly. The article also notes six date classifications: perishable standard dry bread off grade and call.
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Donahey
TVA Inquiry
Washington
TVA
Senator Donahey
Ohio
Congress to Stay Open Over Wage Action Plan
Washington insiders report a bold bid to delay adjournment until July to push wage hour reform. House leaders confident they hold a majority and can block ad journment until the measure is voted. The rules committee intends to shelve Norton’s wage hour bill, forcing a petition for a discharge vote if denied.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Roosevelt
House
Rules Committee
Princeton Yale Ask Fuehrer For Books In Purge
Princeton and Yale joined to ask Chancellor Hitler to donate to the Austrian national library the non Aryan books ordered for destruction. Harvard was invited to join. Four Princeton undergrads started the move and sent a cable praising the purge as a gesture from Germany to America. Yale later tapped the Congressional Library to access the books via Nazi authorities.
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N. J
INS
Yale
Hitler
Germany
Harvard University
America
Daily
Princetonian
Yale Daily News
Congressional Library
LaGuardia backs La Follette third party plan
New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia said he supported Gov. Philip F. La Follette’s third party movement. He declined to attend the Madison gathering to discuss the plan and its timing.
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York City
Philip F. la Follette
Wisconsin
LaGuardia
Madison
Wis
La Guardia says U S faces wartime-like emergency
Wichita Falls Texas mayor Fiorello H LaGuardia addressed the West Texas chamber of commerce asserting the nation faces an emergency greater than in 1917 and urged candor over partisanship. He spoke without endorsing any political bid and launched into a discussion of national problems.
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Texas
INS
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
LaGuardia
Unearthed Proof Of Whitney Illegality As Far Back As 26
A SEC accountant testified that he found positive proof that Richard Whitney wrongfully appropriated stocks to secure loans as far back as 1926. Indications of similar manipulations appeared in 1925, though substantiation for 1925 was not definite.
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Whitney
Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Richard Whitney
J. P. Lyss
Barber Who Shaped Kaiser's Look Dies at 77
Francois Haby, longtime barber to the former Kaiser Wilhelm II, died Tuesday night in Berlin at age 77. He is credited with introducing the mustache style made famous by the Kaiser.
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Berlin
Francois Haby
Kaiser
Wilhelm II
Hickenlooper Files Papers For Lieut Gov Nomination
B. B. Hickenlooper of Linn county Iowa filed nomination papers for the Republican nomination as lieutenant governor with the secretary of state. As a Linn county representative and floor leader he earned statewide recognition for his farm to market road stance and debating record.
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B. B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Warren Named To Comptroller General Post
President Roosevelt reportedly chose Rep Lindsay Warren of North Carolina for the vacant 15 year post of comptroller general. Warren, a New Deal stalwart, chairs the House Accounts Committee and has been an administration ally. The office has been vacant since John R McCarl’s term ended last year.
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INS
Roosevelt
Lindsay C. Warren
North Carolina
United States
Warren
House Committee On Accounts
House
John R. McCarl
Nebraska
McCarl
Mrs. Dugan Shows Self To Be Top Ranking Optimist
Mrs Dugan and her husband Edward S Dugan of Freeport Wisconsin were an odd couple with little social contact. He died in bed after months bedridden from a cerebral hemorrhage and neglect while she later died of pneumonia after mistaking his coma for an ankle sprain.
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Freeport
Dugans
Madison
Wis
Edward S. Dugan
Frances
Giants Beat Phils To Take Sixth Straight
New York pounded Philadelphia 7 to 3 in the opening game of a doubleheader as Harry Gumbert limited the Phillies to six hits. Chuck Klein delivered a two run homer for the Giants while Ripple also contributed for the visitors.
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Phils
NEW York
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Chuck Klein
Gumbert
Unis Ripple
Philadelphia
Zoad
Smtuleally
Sivess
Atwood
Dannin
Army Reserve Bill Signed By President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt signed a bill enabling the establishment of a regular army enlisted reserve. The measure aims to strengthen national defense by organizing a formal reserve component linked to the Army.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Curator Henry Bullen Dies at 80 in New York
Henry Lewis Bullen, 80, curator emeritus of the typographic library and museum started by American Type Founders, Inc. in Jersey City, New Jersey, died Wednesday. He had worked as a compositor in Davenport, Iowa, before 1880.
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New York
Henry Lewis Bullen
Typographic Library and Museum
American Type Founders, Inc
Jersey
City
N. J
Davenport
Quints to be kept from public schools under royal protection
Judge Valin outlines plans to place the Dionne quintuplets in a private home with 24 hour armed guards and strict supervision. The girls will receive tutored home education from Ontario education department teachers while the rest of the family also gains financial support and college or convent options.
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Valin
Ontario Department of Education
Dionne
Ford and Roosevelt Talk Over Business Cooperation
Business leaders urged a stable industrial system with full opportunities for legitimate profits and steady production. They called for continuous government consultation with industry to ease overproduction and support initiative, pledging aid and endorsing the president’s call to work together to move the nation forward. The message reached the president minutes before his press conference and he called it an excellent statement.
Four Defendants In Fight To Serve Two Days
Injustice W R Watsabaugh court on Wednesday settled an assault case from a Monday fracas at Dr Briney residence 515 Eighth Ave SE. Wayne Jeffords Darrell Donald and A A Lloyd each receive thirty day terms with twenty eight days suspended two days to serve if not interfering with WPA work.
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W. R. Watsabaugh
Wayne Jeffords
Thirteenth Avenue SE
Darrell
Donald
A. A. Lloyd
Fourth Avenue SE
Lloyds and Jeffords
Dr. Briney
F. E. Briney
Briney
Briney’s
Births Reported From Local Families
Born to Leslie Hackney at St Luke's April 27 a son. Jay Root in Belle Plaine April 26 a son at St Luke's. Vincent Ernest at Mercy April 26 a son. Chester Goldsberry at Mercy April 26 a daughter. Wendl B Gatto at Mercy April 26 a son. Clifford B Wells at home April 26 a son Daniel Walter. Harry Hilton Jr at University hospital Iowa City April 20 a son eight and a half pounds.
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Leslie Hackney
C Avenue NE
St. Luke’s Hospital
Jay Root
Belle Plaine
Vincent Ernest
Eighth Street SE
Mercy Hospital
Chester Goldsberry
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Wendl B. Gatto
Fifth Avenue SE
Clifford B. Wells
Sixth Street SE
Daniel Walter
Harry Hilton, Jr
University Hospital
Iowa City
Holt Blocks Effort To Cut Navy Debate
Washington Senate opposition halts a bid to curb debate on a $1.156 billion naval expansion bill. Senator Rush D Holt objects to limits on remarks, blocking unanimous consent and keeping the debate open.
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Navy
Washington
INS
Senate
Rush D. Holt
West Virginia
Barkley
Phi Beta Kappa speaker announced at Cornell dinner
Mrs Winifred Mayne Van Etten of Mount Vernon wins the Atlantic Monthly prize for I Am the Fox and will be the main speaker at Cornell College Phi Beta Kappa dinner at the Commonwealth tea room Thursday evening.
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Winifred Mayne van Etten
Mount Vernon
Atlantic Monthly
I Am the Fox
Cornell College
Phi Beta Kappa
Commowealth
FBI To Half Strength In Budget Cut Shock
Washington report says the FBI will be reduced to half strength this spring with field personnel and key identification clerks laid off. The curtailment affects special squads tied to major cases including the Levine, Matson, and Fried kidnappings and other high priority operations.
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INS
Federal Bureau of Investigation
G-man
Bureau
Levine
Matson
Ross
Fried
Kentucky
Harlan” County
Kansas City
Sudeten Anschluss Seen as Inevitable by German Official
Berlin reports a cabinet official told the AP that union of Czechoslovakia’s Sudeten Germans with Germany is inevitable and bloodshed may be avoided. He warned France not to aid Czechoslovakia, urging peace through a unified Reich. Hans Krebs, former Iglau resident, is named gauleiter candidate for the Sudeten region.
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Associated Press
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Europe
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Iglau
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Franconia
Joseph Buerckel
Saar
Austria
Erich Koch
East Prussia
Krebs
Gauleiter
Glass Painting Talent Of Grant Wood's Sister Wins Favor In New York Exhibit
Nan Wood Graham, Grant Wood's sister, gains notice in a New York glass painting exhibit. Discovered by Mrs. Grant Wood in the Cedar Rapids attic, she creates reverse glass works with humor and color. Her pieces include animal pictures and dolls in national costumes, with a Cedar Rapids show planned and mutual interest from art groups.
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New York
John Selby
Associated Press
Iowa
Nan Wood Graham
Yeeward
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Mother Wood
Nan
Clare R. Marshall
Cedar Rapids Art Association
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Marshall
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Dunn
Art Association
Rules Tama Indians To Be Eligible For 1938 Farm Program
The Agriculture Department legal division ruled Mesquaki Indians on the Tama Iowa reservation eligible for the 1938 farm conservation program. A single crop allotment could be issued for the entire reservation, with tribe members potentially sharing the benefit payments.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Tama, In
Iowa State Conservation Committee
Publisher head hits labor strain during convention
James Stahlman president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association said labor has been extremely obstreperous in the past year and that a virus seems to have infected some newspaper personnel. He criticized journalism schools and tax increases while urging legitimate aims of organized labor and praising arbitration pacts shaping industrial peace.
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James Stahlman
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Stahlman
N Nashville
Tenn. Banner
Egypt
A. N. P. A North Press of America
Newspa
A. P.A
ALN
P.u
International Printer Pressmen’s and Assistants’ Unit
North America
Nebraska Attorney Probes Release Of Persing At Carroll
Falls City Neb UP reports County Attorney James H Fallon opened an inquiry into why Richard Persing of Omaha was not detained by Richardson county officers after his acquittal at Carroll Inn for a dice game murder case involving Earl Heider. The warrant to Carroll was deemed proper by Fallon, though Iowa officials dispute it. Persing and O C Sigman are charged with holding up bookmaker Lavines Falls City and stealing jewels in 1936.
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Neb
James H. Fallo
Richard Persing
Omaha
Richardson County
Carroll Inn
Earl Heider
Ke Fallon
Carroll
Iowa
Fallon
O. C. Sigman
Fort Dodge
Iai
Persing
Sigman
Harry Lavines
Misys Lavine
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