Constitution Drive Sparks Campaign Debate In 1935
The piece notes a $200000 appropriation to distribute Constitution copies to one room schools as part of New Deal efforts. It warns that court fights over the New Deal will shape the campaign and cites Every Week critiques of the Supreme Court. It also covers WPA wage policy and land bank sales signaling shifting farm economics.
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Supreme Court
Congress
Congressional
Messrs
Tugwell
Wallace
Ezekiel
Cedar Rapids
America
Supreme
Roosevelt
Farley to Take Payless Leave From Postmaster Job
President Roosevelt announced James A Farley will take a payless, unpaid leave of absence from August 1 to focus on keeping the New Deal in power. William W Howes will run the Post Office Department in Farley’s absence. Critics, including Senator Norris, question the dual role while Farley remains Democratic national chairman.
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Washington
James A Farley
Roosevelt
Post Office Department
New Deal
Farley
Democratic National Committee
New York State Democratic Committee
William W. Howes
South Dakota
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Farm Credit Administration
Treasury
William H. Woodin
Woodin
Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Hoffman Refuses Extradition Of Ellis Parker Sr
Governor Hoffman in Trenton denies New York's request to extradite Ellis H Parker Sr a Burlington County detective accused in the Wendel kidnapping case Parker is said to be more credible than Paul Wendel and Murray Bleefeld Bleefeld faces his own indictments and disbarment in New Jersey while Wendel retracted his confession in the Luther Hauptmann inquiry
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Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
New York
Ellis H. Parker, Sr
Brooklyn
Paul H. Wendel
Wendel
Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hoffman
Parker
Burlington County
Murray Bleefeld
Bleefeld
New Jersey
Radio Station KGBZ Goes Off Air After Ten Years
York Nebraska station KGBZ ends a decade of broadcasting as the FCC allocates its air time to KMA Shenandoah Iowa effective immediately. The move affects local listeners and the regional radio landscape.
Treaties and world order amid broken pledges in 1936
The essay argues that nations repeatedly break treaties and pledge commitments, from loans and disarmament to defend alliances and demilitarized zones. It urges realism in making or remaking treaties, stressing that world law and civilization depend on confidence and wisdom.
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United States
Germany
China
Japan
Abyssinia
Italy
Rhine
Cadman Clergyman In Critical Condition After Emergency Surgery
Dr L G Barton Jr said Rev Dr S Parkes Cadman 71 remains in very critical condition after an emergency operation for a ruptured appendix at Champlain Valley hospital Plattsburgh AP Cadman delivered a peace address Sunday night before collapsing and insisting on finishing his talk.
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Plattsburgh
N. Y
L. G. Barton, Jr
S. Parkes Cadman
Brooklyn
Barton
Cadman
Champlain Valley Hospital
French Government Drops Plan to Nationalize Bank
Paris reports Premier Leon Blum’s socialist government withdraws a bill to nationalize the Bank of France. A milder measure will nominally nationalize the bank while preserving regent prerogatives to retain control by Rothschild and de Wendel families. The plan also shifts on munitions industry nationalization to avoid outright plant purchase and ensure production and profits control.
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Paris
INS
Leon Blum
Bank of France
Rothschilds
de Wendels
Landon urges Kansas lawmakers to draft social security grant
Gov. Landon called a special session to draft a constitutional amendment enabling Kansas to participate in federal social security plans. He urged a simple grant of power, leaving details to be determined later, and noted the state’s current care duties rest with counties.
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Topeka
Kan
All M
Landon
Kansas
Assembly
Republican ‘Party
Congress
CO . Landon
Steiner Named Vice Chairman of G O P Senate Committee
Senator Frederick W Steiner of Oregon, keynoter at the Cleveland convention, will direct the GOP campaign to win senate seats in the west this fall. He is appointed vice chairman of the Republican Senate Committee, with Senator John G Townsend of Delaware as chairman. A Dickinson critique faults New Deal relief in the drought area as politically volatile, forecasting Republican gains in the west.
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Chicago
Frederick W. Steiner
Oregon
Senate
West
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Steiner
John G. Townsend
Delaware
Northwest
L. J. Dickinson
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
South Dakota
Jacobsen's Son Seeks Democratic Nomination in Iowa
Clinton Iowa W S Jacobsen son of late Congressman B M Jacobsen announced Tuesday his bid for the Democratic nomination for the office once held by his father in the second Iowa district. He follows his father's expressed wishes before death last week.
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Clinton
W. S. Jacobsen
B. M. Jacobsen
Iowa
Rockefeller Jr. Turns 97 Amid Gracious Birthday Cheer
John D. Rockefeller Jr. plans a low key 97th birthday at his Lakewood New Jersey estate. He says his health is a miracle and thanks well wishers for their messages. The day includes prayers golf and a flower garden inspection followed by a birthday cake and visits from family and friends.
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Lakewood
N. J
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
King
Rockefeller
Fannie A. Evans
E. Parmalee Prentice
Madeline Prentice
Laurance. Rockefeller
Cedar Rapids Heat Wave Reaches 107 Degrees
The Cedar Rapids area endures a scorching heat wave with the temperature hitting 107 at 2 45 pm after an earlier 104 at 1 pm. A light breeze offers slight relief but forecasts show no relief for at least two days and crops and lawns face increased danger.
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Mercury
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Second Siamese Twin Girl Dies in Michigan City
The second of Siamese twin girls born to 23 year old Mrs. Wesley Glick died late Tuesday after birth. The first twin lived 15 minutes. Doctors said poisoning by the dead sister's blood and lack of separate brain prevented surgery. Mrs. Glick refused consent due to fears of subnormal survival.
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Michigan City
Ind
Wesley Glick
H. L. Brooks
Medford
Mass
AFL Bosses Clash Over Steel Drive and One Big Union
President William Green denounces ten rebel leaders directing the C I O steel organizing campaign urging AFL to stay out of the drive. The executive council meets July 8 to decide the fate of John L Lewis and nine other leaders and whether the AFL will back the plan or oppose it. Green warns of division and a potential showdown as tensions rise within the federation.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
William Green
John’ L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Committee For Industrial Organization
I. O
Committee For Industrial’ Organization
United
Lewis
Green
Executive Council
American Iron and Steel Institute
Forest Fires Threaten Wyoming and Montana Fronts
Gray smoke covered northern Wyoming and southeastern Montana as over a thousand firefighters battled multiple fires sparked by lightning. Ten new fires ignited in the Ashland division of the Custer national forest near Absarokee Montana, where 100 firefighters had extinguished a blaze that charred eighty acres of timber.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Wyoming
Montana
Powder Dry
Ashland
Custer National Forest
Absarokee
Mont
Cash believed part of Hamm ransom seized in Illinois
Deputy Sheriff Jack Froelick recovered $6,000 from a safe deposit box in Waukegan as part of the $200,000 Hamm kidnaping ransom. Bank officials would not disclose the renter's name, but reports tied the money to Charles Fitzgerald, arrested in Los Angeles last April and awaiting trial in St. Paul.
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Waukegan, Ill
Jack Froelick
Lake County
William Hamm, Jr
St. Paul
First National Bank
Charles Fitzgerald
Los Angeles
Hamm
Treasure Case Sparks Court Action Over Will on Bachelor Iwers Farm
In Cedar County Iowa a probate petition seeks to set aside the will of elderly bachelor Henry Iwers amid a dispute with cousins Louis and Margaret Voss. Officials delay autopsy and treasure-related plans hinge on the case as security funds valued at 203 500 dollars were found on the farm.
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Tipton
Henry
Iwers
State Attorney ‘General's Office
Louis
Margaret Voss
General's Office
Dean Wilber
J. Teeters
Cedar County
Board of Supervisors
Shaw
a_Davenport
Tin
Voss
Farmer
Des. ‘ Moines
Edward L
O'Connor
Walter Maley
G-Mclaren
Heart Department
Glen Schmidt
Istate
Yinvestigation Bureau
Soviet constitution not change basic state character
Moscow reports that adoption of the new constitution will not alter the fundamental nature of the Soviet government. Observers say it will grant a slightly more liberal and formal appearance while remaining under Communist Party control led by Secretary General Josef Stalin.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Josef Stalin
All Union Congress of Soviets
Russia
Madame Minister to Denmark Betrothal Shocks Copenhagen
Mrs Ruth Bryan Owen America's first woman minister plenipotentiary becomes engaged to Kammerjunker Captain Borge Rohde, Denmark's royal squire. The ceremony expected in New York at Mrs Owen's daughter’s Long Island estate, midweek. Rohde to visit New York, permission granted by the foreign office.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Christian
Ruth Bryan Owen
America
Borge Rohde
New York
Long Island
Owen
Robert Lehman
William Jennings Bryan
United States
Roosevelt
Rohde
Foreign Office
Grass Fire Spreads Over 40 Mile Area
A large grass fire scorching 40 miles along the Milwaukee railroad right of way from Bassett to Calmar burned telephone poles fences and grass. Sparks sparked the blaze from tinder dry grass officials said.
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New Hampton
Milwaukee Railroad
Bassett
Calmar
Cebar Rapids Auto Toll Record for 1936
The 1936 auto toll in Cebar Rapids reports 251 accidents with 169 injuries and fatalities. The brief notes counts of accidents injuries and deaths for the year.
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Cebar Rapids
Roosevelt outlines $170000 drought relief plan for northwest farms
President Roosevelt announced a comprehensive federal plan to aid 170000 of 204000 drought struck farm families with immediate cash relief. He said 50000 farmers will get WPA jobs at $15 weekly while relief expands to others, with counties designated for relief focus and a long term drought mitigation effort spanning three states.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Northwest
Tagriculture
Wyoming
Wheat
Rexford” Tugwell
WPA
Jesse Tapp
Federal Surplus Commodity Corporation
Great Plains
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Land Bank
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L. S. Hill
Uncle Sam
Jim Farley
Howes
Ellis Parker, Sr
de, Newton
Sen. Steiner
Jacobsen
Berlin
Walter Scheve
Down Turse
John D
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William’ Green
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