The NRA and Change in the New Deal Era
The piece analyzes the first weeks of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, focusing on the NRA’s meaning for business and workers, the rush of action promised by Roosevelt, and the uncertainty about recovery, government control, and constitutional limits as the nation seeks stability. It notes brain trust optimism, the risk of bureaucracy entrenchment, and public mood as recovery unfolds.
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NRA
Franklin Roosevelt
Brain Trust
Signed Codes Backed by Johnson in Recovery Drive
Johnson urges fast adoption of wage and hour codes across industries including electric power and meat packing while denying President Roosevelt can rewrite signed agreements. He calls for a labor capital pledge to avoid strikes amid the economic emergency and supports a tribunal to quickly decide hardship cases under the re employment pacts.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
White House
New York
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Johnson
Electric Light and Power Industry
Johnaecn
NRA
Slain Man Found Buried Head Down on Long Island
Police on Long Island discovered a man buried head down in a nearly vertical grave between North Hempstead Turnpike and the Long Island Motor Parkway. The victim, believed to be Henry F. Sanborn, eastern representative of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, disappeared July 17 and was not reported missing until July 24. Letters in his pockets aided identification. berry pickers first noticed a shoe protruding from the earth.
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New York
Long Island
Henry F. Sanborn
St. Louis
San Francisco
Sanborn
North Hempstead Turnpike
Long Island Motor Parkway
Police Missing Persons Bureau
Berry Pickers
Illinois Small Town Printers Draft Code
Illinois printers draft a code for small newspaper plants offering a 40 cent per hour minimum wage and a working week of forty or forty eight hours. S. B. Preston, president of the Illinois Press Association, says the code counters higher standards set by the United Typothetae, which could threaten small printers.
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Chicago
Illinois Press Association
S. B. Preston
Preston
United Typothetae Association
Frick Coke Co Signs Separate Mine Peace Pact
Washington reports that the Frick Coke company refused formal UMWA recognition while other operators and miners reached a separate peace pact. The text of the agreements shows participation by Pittsburgh Coal Company W J Rainey Inc Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Co Peale Peacock Kerr Jamison Coal and Coke South Union Coal and other firms. Governor of Pennsylvania and John L Lewis signed with the national recovery administrator.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Hugh 8. Johnson
National Recovery Administrator
United Mine Workers of America
H. C. Frick Coke Company
United Mine Workers
Pittsburgh Coal Company
W. J. Rainey, Inc
Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Peale, Peacock and Kerr
Jamison Coal and Coke Company
South Union Coal Company
John L. Lewis
National Recovery Act
Stolen Securities Recovered as Oklahoma Man Placed in Custody
Police report recovery of 155000 dollars in stocks bonds and war bonds stolen in Midwest robberies. Elmer Wagoner of Oklahoma City detained after suitcase at Los Angeles airport held stolen securities tied to Pretty Boy Floyd gang. four mob members at large. 41000 dollars seized in four weeks.
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Los Angeles
Oklahoma
Kansas
Elmer” ‘ Wagoner
Oklahoma’ City
Lefty James
Wagoner
Midwest
Charles
Pretty Boy
Floyd
James
Oklahoma City
Utilities Seek 40-Hour Week and Minimum Wage
Public Utilities asked the NRA for permission to substitute labor provisions of proposed codes for the re-employment agreement. The codes would establish a forty hour week across gas and electric industries and set minimum wages from twelve to fifteen dollars per week.
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Washington
Public Utilities
NRA
Wallace orders sweeping grain trade probe in Chicago
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has ordered a wide inquiry into speculative grain trading that caused a sharp market break ten days earlier. Peter B. Carey, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, said a detailed investigation into market operations has begun, seeking reports from brokers about traders holding 200000 bushels or more between June 14 and July 31.
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Chicago
Wallace
Peter B. Carey
Chicago Board of Trade
Grain Exchange
Cedar Rapids Firms Display NRA Blue Eagles
Cedar Rapids firms display blue eagle emblems as recognition of compliance with the minimum wage and maximum hour codes or with industrial codes from the national recovery act. Postmaster Frank Hahn requires certificates of compliance to bear a personal signature from an executive.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt
Frank Hahn
Trade Practice Provisions Ban Unfair Retail Tactics
Washington AP reports tentative code for retail trades outlining unfair competition bans to take effect after approval. Provisions cover below cost selling, truthful advertising restrictions, and prohibitions on advertising underselling claims while preserving bona fide clearances and certain perishable goods. Sponsored by major national retail groups.
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Washington
National Recovery Administration
Hugh S. Johnson
National Retail Furniture Association
National Retail Hardware Association
Mail Order Association of America
National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers
National Retail Dry Goods Association
National Shoe Retailers’ Association
Powers Protest German Threats To Austrian Liberty
Paris sources report France Great Britain and Italy lodged formal protests with Germany over alleged threats to Austrian independence. The move follows the Mussolini ten year peace pact and Versailles terms, with diplomats citing air propaganda over Austria and tensions around Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
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Paris
France
Italy
Berlin
Germany
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Austria
Engelbert Dollfuss
Impossible Is Not a Word in the Faithful
A moral column argues against limiting beliefs and highlights giants like Arthur Schnabel and Moravians who specialized on the impossible. It contrasts the cautious practical man with those who pursue bold, innovative aims, noting that impossible tasks become commonplace through faith and effort.
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Arthur Schnabel
Beethoven
Chesterton
England
French airmen aim for nonstop atlant ic crossing in giant monoplane
Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos flew from New York in the Joseph Le Brix with 1770 gallons of fuel and 9 ton weight hoping to reach Karachi, India in about 72 hours. They plan to fly three days and nights non stop, seeking the longest endurance flight on record. Weather over northern and southern Europe approaches eased as their route remained uncertain with talks to veer toward Portugal and North Africa.
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Paris
Air Ministry
C.S. T
Maurice Rossi
Paul Codos
Atlante
New York
Europe
Minstry
Joseph le Brix
Floyd Bennett
Karachi
India
England
Walfish Bay
South Africa
O. R. Gaylord
G. E. Nicholette
Great Britain
Atlantic
Boston
Sable Island
Nova Scotia
United Press
Louis Bleriot
Portugal
North Africa
Man Arrested Over Threatening Letter to Financier Wife
Gordon Dignem, a Wolff Island native, was arrested in Chananoque Ontario on a charge of sending a threatening letter to Mrs Cleveland E Dodge wife of a New York financier. Police say the note aimed to extort money.
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Chananoque
Ontario
Gordon Dignem
Wolff Island
Cleveland E. Dodge
New York
Ontaro
Poce
Revolt in Cuba disrupts tourism and warns of intervention
U S tourists in Havana cut visits as widespread strikes threaten revolution. Two steamers left with no passengers, commerce paralyzed, and arrests of strike leaders followed amid clashes and martial law talk. A bomb was found near a professor's home as police fired on protesters.
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Havana
United States
Cuba
New York
Santa Paula
California
Santa Barbara
South America
Sumner Welles
Ane Saba
Gerardo Sin Ion Deonem
Rafael Lauzan
Union of Telegraph Operators
Pedro Pena
Railroad Brotherhood
Revolutionary Movement
Valdez
Ara
Menendez
el Pais
Aguayo
Woul
St Louis Grocer Slain By Bandits
St Louis police report William Schroeder a 50 year old grocer was shot to death in his store late Saturday by unknown attackers. Neighbors heard three shots and saw two men run from the scene. Schroeder appeared to have defended himself with a meat cleaver found near his body.
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ST. Louis
William Schroeder
Schroeder
Weather Outlook for Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys
Weather outlook for August 7 to 12 shows temperatures near normal with a few local showers and generally fair conditions across the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Six Men Slain In Kentucky Ballot Fights
In Kentucky during the election period six men were killed and six wounded in clashes linked to primaries, with counts in Harlan Clay Breathitt and Bell counties. Victims included Robert Roark Joe Lee and candidates Theodore Middleton and Tom Shelton. National guardsmen were on duty in Harlan county amid gun and dynamite exchanges.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Harlan County
Robert Roark
Joe Lee
Theodore Middleton
Clay County
Gilbert Buttry
Foggertown
Estill Spurlock
Oneida
Breathitt County
Harlan Centers
Hampton
Brown Strong
Whick
Tom Shelton
Pineville
Bell County
Atarta Monye
Stratosphere Quest Ends With Balloon Forced Landing
Lieut. Commander T G W Settle declared eagerness for another stratosphere ascent after a 20 minute flight from Soldier Field ended when a gas valve stuck. The balloon drifted toward the loop area, narrowly missing skyscrapers before landing in a railroad yard. No injuries reported and sponsors pledged full cooperation for another attempt.
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Chicago
T. G.’W. Settle
Soldier Field
Settle
The
Daily News
Miners to Resume Work on Monday After Roosevelt Truce
John L. Lewis says 65 000 miners affected by the strike will return to work Monday following President Roosevelt’s truce. Operators plan hearings on twenty code provisions for the bituminous coal industry next Wednesday. Nonunion operators oppose compulsory union contracts. Lewis calls the agreement temporary and vows continued union drive.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Northern
John Morrow
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Northern Coal Control Association
National Union
PLAN DELAYED BY FARM HEADS DISAGREEMENT
Washington report says farm administrators debating how to handle a 350 million bushel wheat surplus have stalled on a definite plan. Factions argue for domestic acreage cuts, export subsidies, or using trade and credit to shift surplus abroad. A decision by Cummings at the upcoming super cabinet meeting could shape farmers’ payments and debt deductions.
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Washington
United States
Cummings
Wheat Belt
More Arrests In Luer Kidnaping
Seven arrests were made in the August Luer kidnapping case as East Alton real estate dealer Charles Chessen aged 51 and his wife Lillian aged 50 were charged with violating the Cochran law. U S Commissioner Arthur Felsen issued warrants in East St. Louis alleging they sent a ransom demand by mail. The Chesens were jailed in Benton Illinois with bond set at $100000.
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Chessen
Benton, Ll
One Dead Heavy Damage In Western Kansas Flood
Sharon Springs Kansas residents faced severe floods on Saturday with at least one death and thousands of livestock believed drowned. Communications lines were shattered and property damage ran into thousands of dollars across a wide area.
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Sharon Springs
Kan
Kansas
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
A Cedar Rapids toll report shows counts of accidents injuries and fatalities for the year. It notes total incidents and compares figures to prior periods, highlighting trends in road safety within the city.
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Cedar Rapids
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