Labor law clash and tax talk shadow 1938 pieces
The piece discusses the Wagner Act's aim to ease labor disputes while the NLRB reports a surge in cases since its constitutionality was upheld. It contrasts Ford's potential clash with the board, notes Iowa tax revenue from food and clothing, and criticizes farm bill merging ideas and Roosevelt's state of the union remarks. It cites Eicher and references graft investigations involving Fred Free and Des Moines. The tone spans national labor policy, taxes, and political intrigue.
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National Labor Relations Board
Supreme Court
Labor Relations Board
Wallace
State House
Sioux City Tribune
Fred “Egree
Edward Mor
Des Moines
Insurance Firms Propose 2 Billion Home Financing Plan
Ten of America’s largest insurers met in New York and agreed to finance private home construction with about 2 billion dollars, more if needed, to deploy 66 2 3 percent mortgages at 5 percent interest over 15 to 20 years. The plan aims to spur a mass production boom, with steel, lumber, cement and fixtures makers capped to hold prices from the 1920s. Homes would be sold by sample before construction to allow buyer changes during blueprint stages.
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Washington
INS
America
New York
Washington Herald
Roosevelt
Federal Housing Administration
Prudential Insurance Company
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Equitable Life Insurance Company
New York Life Insurance Company
Home Life Insurance Company
Travelers Insurance Company
Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
Lincoln Life Insurance Company
Builders of America
Home and Community Builders National Association
Insurance Group
New Deal Seeks Jackson as New York Governor Candidate
The Roosevelt administration aims to nominate Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson for New York governor. Postmaster General Farley and Senator Wagner oppose the nomination, seeking Jackson’s support instead. Wagner to back Jackson at the New York Jackson Day dinner, where Jackson may hint at a run against Herbert Lehman.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Robert H. Jackson
New York
James A. Farley
Robert F. Wagner
Jackson
Wagner
Herbert H. Lehman
Roosevelt nominates George A. Cook to mediation board
President Roosevelt nominates George A. Cook of Illinois to the national mediation board to succeed the late James W. Carmalt. Cook, currently board secretary, joins the body in Washington.
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Washington
Roosevelt
George A. Cook
Illinois
National Mediation Board
James W. Carmalt
Cook
Things I Would Have Missed Had I Died at Twenty One
Dr Newton urges readers to crack down on the secret schisms draining daily life. He reflects on unemployment, long factory shifts, dwindling savings, and stalled futures while urging resilience and forward effort despite harsh economic conditions.
Italy Sets Massive Naval Build Up Under Mussolini
Rome AP reports Italy will start immediate construction of two 35 000 ton battleships twelve destroyers and a significant number of submarines as Premier Mussolini pushes to strengthen the fleet amid unsettled European tensions.
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Rome
Italy
Europe
Mussolini
Italy Expands Battleship Plans Amid Allied Naval Push
The Italian press cites President Roosevelt's call for a bigger navy and allied British French naval programs as factors behind Italy's enlarged battleship project.
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Rome
Roosevelt
Italy
Italy to name Roma and Impero battleships in new order
A wartime Paris dispatch notes Italy will build two 35 000 ton battleships named Roma and Impero to be assembled in Trieste and Genoa. The plan raises Italy to four battleships of 35 000 tons and more than 100 submarines, boosting navy totals toward 500 000 tons and expanding Mediterranean influence. France holds two such battleships in response to Italy’s earlier ships.
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Roma
Impero
Trieste
Genoa
Italy
France
Mediterranean
Mussolini
Littorio
Vittorio Véneto
Economic Policy Group Formed to Back Hull
An American policy group formed The Economic Policy Committee to back Cordell Hulls foreign trade program. Fifty members from diverse sectors will meet January 16 in Des Moines to discuss international relations and domestic prosperity, without lobbying Washington.
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Hull
DES Moines
Cordell Hull
Waymack
Cordel Hull
Washington
Lewis Hints It Is Time Communism Is Granted Trial Here
John L. Lewis of the CIO spoke in Tucson expressing that democracy is on trial and suggesting a communal form of living as an alternative to current business and government systems. He arrived for a rest and offered his first public statement since the trip began.
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Lewis
Tucson
Ariz
INS
America
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organizations
Mercury Plunges To 2 But Sky Clear
Winter delivered a frosty Cedar Rapids punch as the temperature tumbled from 18 at 3 p.m. Thursday to 2 by 6 a.m. Friday, with a 2 p.m. reading of 8 above and a bright sky above. Chambers Inskeep readings recorded the frigid drop.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Three Changes In Quaker Oats Personnel Named
Cedar Rapids announces three executive moves at Quaker Oats involving H Earle Muzzy Edward Sheehy and Douglas Kirk Muzzy becomes vice president in charge of export sales in Chicago Sheehy returns to Cedar Rapids as operating superintendent replacing Muzzy Kirk advances to St Joseph as assistant superintendent of operations The changes mark long service for Muzzy who has been with Quaker Oats since 1915 and includes time in Akron London and Cedar Rapids
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Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
St. Joseph
Chicago
George Laird
H. Earle Muzzy
Edward Sheehy
Douglas Kirk
Muzzy
Sheehy
Muzzy Myr Kirk
St Joseph
Akron
Fort Dodge
London
England
Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank
Chamber
British Protest After Beating of Two Britons in Shanghai
Two British officials Inspector F G West and Proba tionary Sergeant A R Turner were severely beaten by Japanese soldiers in Shanghai while protesting alleged mal treatment of Chinese hawkers. Col A P D Telfer Smollett lodged a sharp protest with Lt Col Harada and warned of grave consequences if such acts repeat. The incident, near Brenan road, raised tensions over the British defense sector and cross boundary clashes.
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Shanghai
INS
International Settlement Police Force
F. G. West
A. R. Turner
A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett
Harada
Telfer-Smollett
Turner
West
Brenan Road
Turner Re
Swing music to stay says Phil Harris
Hollywood AP reports Bandman Phil Harris believes swing music will be more popular than ever this year and will endure until something catchier and more danceable appears.
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Hollywood
Phil Harris
Green Oilers 7 Point Plan For Recovery
President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers told a Senate unemployment inquiry that auto industry employment is off 50 percent and Chrysler has shed 65 000 workers since peak production last year. William Green of the AFL urged maximum hour legislation and testified on unemployment. Sears Roebuck President Robert E Wood said consumer goods employment would rise by spring. Green proposed a seven point program including shorter hours, keeping wage standards, public works, housing relief, home building, expanded social security, and more relief funding.
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Washington
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers of America
Senate
Chrysler Corporation
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Green
Robert E. Wood
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Consumers Goods
Robert H. Jackson
Ickes
Roosevelt
A. F. of L
Roosevelt Signals Secret Nomination Tactics for Court
President Roosevelt said no successor to Justice Sutherland had been selected and warned reporters they would learn the name only when submitted to the Senate. He noted his Black nomination followed the same stealth method, with even his secretaries unaware until noon.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
George Sutherland
Supreme Court
Senate
Hugo Black
Kennedy and Davies Named Emissaries in Roosevelt Shuffle
President Roosevelt announced a wide diplomatic reshuffle naming Joseph P. Kennedy chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission as ambassador to Great Britain and Joseph E. Davies ambassador to Belgium. Hugh R Wilson becomes ambassador to Germany and Norman H Armour moves to Chile. Charles W. McLaughlin is named assistant secretary of labor.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph P Kennedy
Federal Maritime Commission
Great Britain
Robert W. Bingham
Kentucky
Kennedy
Joseph E. Davies
Russia
Belgium
Davies
Hugh Gibson
Senate
Hugh R Wilson
Germany
Wilson
William E. Dodd
Norman H. Armour
Canada
Chile
Hoffman Philip
Charles W. McLaughlin
Omaha
Neb
McLaughlin
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Edward F. McGrady
Radio Corporation of America
McLaughlins
Airliner Forced Down in Swamp Near Newark Airport
An American Airlines transport plane with five passengers and a three person crew was forced to land in a swamp near Newark airport by a low ceiling and rainstorm. Pilot Asher Rousch led a rescue party back to the ship. all aboard survived with Roush slightly injured.
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N. J
American Airlines
Newark Airport
Asher Rousch
New York
Rouseh
Jack Ryan
William Ogilvie
A R Watkins
Chicago
Mike Lunder
Boston
Herbert Shapiro
Newton
Mass
Rousch
Stanley Gerding
Veronica Lalley
Dynamite Kills 3 Gouge Children in Tennessee Home
In Elizabethown, Tennessee, a dynamite blast at the Gouge home killed Sonia 9, Luena 7, Roma Jean 6 as the family slept. Har mon Gouge, linked to the Tollett case, fled to a hospital under $10,000 bond while four suspects were detained for questioning.
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Elizabethtown
Tenn
Harmon Gouge
Arnold Tollett
Gouge
Hampton
J. M. Moreland
Tollett
Sonia Gouge
Luena Gouge
Roma Jean Gouge
Johnson City
Liberty
Moreland
U S Airman Shot Down In China Report
Hong Kong dispatch reports the death of Frederick Kruesberg an American World War II aviator. He was shot down near Hankow on Wednesday while engaging six Japanese planes his body said to be riddled with bullets.
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Hong Kong
INS
Frederick Kruesberg
Hankow
M Kruesberg
US Asks Soviet for charges in Rubens disappearance case
The United States embassy delivered a formal note to the Soviet foreign office asking if Ruth Marie Rubens of New York is under arrest in Russia and, if so, the charges. The note seeks full details about Rubens disappearance from a Moscow hotel Dec 9 after arriving Nov 6 with Donald L. Robinson who vanished Dec 2.
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Moscow
United States
Ruth Marie Rubens
New York
Russia
Washington
Rubens
Donald L. Robinson
State Department
Robinson
Mystery Passport Fraud Ties Egypt Clerk to Robins Case
Federal agents identify Aaron Sharfin a Bronx resident born in Russia as a clerk at the Egyptian consulate who aided in obtaining passports for the Robins and Adolph Ruben through Staten Island Clerk Albert Martenelli. Sharfin described as a trusted “office boy” who stamped passports and handled funds. Dahab confirms his late 20s background and silence after hours of questioning.
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New York
Donald L. Robinson
Mooscow
Aaron Snartin
Bronx
the Robinsons
Adolph Arnold Rubens
Tammans County
Albert Martenelli
Dahab
Sharfin
American Freighter Saccarappa Forced Aground In Fog
The American freighter Saccarappa, a 4965 ton vessel owned by South Atlantic Steamship of Delaware and registered at Savannah, was heavily damaged and driven aground off the Brake Weser river after a fog collision with the German tanker Mowinkel. Crew members were reported safe.
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Bremen
Germany
INS
Brake Weser
Mowinkel
Yessel
South Atlantic Steamship Company of
Delacware
Savannah
Budget Balances Like Floor Lamp After Quake Says Bugs
Arthur Baer uses a playful metaphor to describe a balanced budget amid the 1936 economic strains. He notes the appropriations committee raiding the surplus and cites Morgenthau as frustrated by fiscal predictions. The piece casts a dim view of austerity and recession-era finance.
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Appropriations Committee
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