Roosevelt Wins First Battle for New Assistants
President Roosevelt secured congressional approval to hire six new assistants as the House passed the reorganization bill 260 to 88 in a rousing session. The vote marks the likely only visible action on the president’s sweeping plan this session amid cross-party opposition and playful taunts from Republicans.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House of Representatives
White House
Harold Knutson
Minn
Donald McLean
N.J
Senate
Everyday Reflections On Thought And Life
A 1937 compendium of pithy lines on thinking memory belief and religion. Contains aphorisms about prejudice conversation time happiness and truth. Notable quotes touch on memory belief prayer and the mystery of life.
Nazis Order Wheat and Rye Reserved for Bread Only
Berlin AP reports Germanys grain harvest faces a possible 10 to 15 percent shortfall. Walter Darre proclaims farmers must deliver all wheat and rye for bread to the government marketing body and keep only enough for family bread. Animal fodder use is banned.
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Berlin
Germany
Walter Darre
Reich Commissioner For Agriculture
Third Reich
Twelve Convicts Killed in Romanian Salt Mine Riot
A Bucharest dispatch reports that 12 inmates were killed when about 300 murderers mutinied in a 3,800 foot deep salt mine at Targul-Ocna Roumania. The riot occurred in the underground prison area.
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London
Targul-Ocna
Roumania
Exchange
Bucharest
Spanish insurgents claim successes on Madrid front
In Salamanca the rebel communique reports heavy gains on the western Madrid front amid Brunete fighting. Loyalist counter-attacks were repulsed and fifty government tanks destroyed. The statement says thousands of government dead on the battlefields.
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Salamanca
Spain
Madrid
Brunete
Hopes New High Court Justice Gets A Fair Trial Like Shakespeare
Arthur Baer comments on the Supreme Court fight and predicts a fair trial for the next justice. He notes political maneuvering during a hot political season and references Justice Van Devanter and the literary comparison to Shakespeare.
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Barrymores
Bill Shakespeare
Senate group approves court measure amid adjournment push
Washington Tuesday ends six months of judiciary controversy as the Senate judiciary committee approves a reform bill aimed at lower court procedures while shunning court enlargement. President Roosevelt weighs a recess appointment issue as vacancies and adjournment timing frame Capitol Hill action.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Pat McCarran
Nevada
Senate
McCarran
High Court Targets Three Iowa Attorneys for Contempt
Des Moines Iowa supreme court Chief Justice W H Hamilton ordered Raymond N Klass of Cedar Rapids and E D Hogan and Frank Less of Cascade to show cause why they should not face contempt charges. The court struck a July 14 petition filed as counsel for Ben Timmer against New York Life Insurance due to being scurrilous and improper.
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Des Moines
W. H. Hamilton
Iowa Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Raymond N. Klass
Cedar Rapids
E. D. Hogan
Frank Less
Cascade
Hamilton
Ben Timmer
New York Life Insurance Company
Wisconsin Supreme Court Case Involving Timmer Policy
Raymond Klass remains in northern Wisconsin and is not expected home before Friday night. Timmer, a Cascade resident, is involved in an insurance policy suit about whether the insured’s death occurred within an extended period. The court had denied a rehearing petition on June 18, and a motion to correct the record followed the objection by the supreme court.
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Raymond Klass
Wisconsin
Klass
Timmer
Cascade
Supreme Court
Baseball scores and standings from the American League
The page lists multiple AL games with box score lines for St Louis Boston Cleveland Philadelphia Chicago Washington Detroit New York Cincinnati Brooklyn and Pittsburgh featuring pitchers batters and run totals. Names such as Keoupa Hemsley Ostermueller Desantels Mar cum Brucker Wade Belton Ruffing Dickey Hubbell Coffman and Danning appear alongside team abbreviations and final tallies.
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St. Lewis
Boston
Keoupa
Hemsley
Marcum
Ostermueller
Desantels
Lover Confesses to Killing Wealthy Jackson Heights Matron
Stanley A. Martin Jr., 29, an unemployed salesman and father of one, confessed to strangling Florence Jackson, 37, during an affair she pursued while married. He drove her body to Flushing Hospital after summoning police, who later learned of her marriage and the couple’s pact to end the relationship. Bert Jackson, her husband, identified the victim at the morgue and declined to comment.
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Jackson Heights
Florence Jackson
Stanley A. Martin, Jr
Alleged Counterfeit Equipment Seized In Cedar Rapids Arrest
Cedar Rapids county and city officers seized counterfeit producing gear and arrested 31 year old Johnson Dean at 515 Fifth Avenue SE about 9 p.m. A true information charging Dean with counterfeiting coin was prepared. Dean is jailed. Detectives found a plaster mold bearing a half dollar impression and metal traces in a kitchen. Old moulds with coin impressions were unearthed in the yard.
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Cedar Rapids
Johnson Dean
Fifth Avenue
James H. Smith
Larry Condon
Bill Kudina
Dean
G. K. Thompson
Lewis to mount third party challenge via CIO led league
John L. Lewis through the Committee for Industrial Organization took control of labor’s nonpartisan league signaling new political alignments and a possible third party. The American Labor party in New York may test Lewis’s strength by backing LaGuardia for mayor and later the 1938 congressional races.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Labor
Nonpartisan
League
Roosevelt
New York City
American Labor Party
New York State
Lewis
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
LaGuardia
Democratic Party
American Federation of Labor
CIO
George L. Berry
Tenn
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
Hillman
Former
Labor Party
Commonwealth Federations of
Northwest
Proclamation Bans Assembly Near Republic Steel Plant
Safety Director Eliot Ness issued a decree prohibiting gatherings within 500 yards of Republic Steel Corrigan McKinney plant in Cleveland. The order allows only permitted entries and authorizes patrolmen to issue oral permits while Republic and CIO respond in court on picketing limits.
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Cleveland
Eliot Ness
Republic
CIO
Salaries For Top Industry Leaders Revealed in 1936
The Securities and Exchange Commission released 1936 annual reports showing Walter P. Chrysler earned 200,700 while Tom M. Girdler received 175,000. Du Pont filed figures noting 2,879,042 in bonuses paid to 47 officers and employees, with vast control over General Motors and GM Securities.
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Girdler
du Ponts
Washington (Lp
Walter P. Chrysler
Tom M. Girdler
Republic Steel Corporation
Securities and Exchange Commission
Commission
Chrysler Corporation
Republic
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
du Pont
General Motors Corporation
Delaware
Pierre S. du Pont
Lamont du Pont
Irenee du Pont
A. Felix du Pont
Eugene.du Pont
Eugene E. du Pont
H. B. du Pont
H. F. du Pont
William du Pont, Jr
Eugene du Pont
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
K. T. Keller
B. E. Hutchinson
General, Motors , Securities Company
Remington Arms Company, Inc
E. I. du Pont
W.S. Carpenter, Jr
T.S. Grasselli
J. Thompson Brown
Former Dean Claims Accuser Has Dual Personality
In Greenfield Massachusetts Thomas E Elder former dean of Mount Herman school testified at his assault trial that S Allen Norton the accuser possessed a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde personality Norton a retired school cashier told Elder he sometimes thought he was crazy Elder faces a murderous assault charge based on Nortons claim that he threatened Norton with a shotgun in his garage on May 25
Demonstration of Dead Man Float Ends in Tragedy
In Long Beach California Rev George Lohr 65 died during a public demonstration of the dead man float the crowd was amused until the lifeguard and inhalator squad were called and he was found dead the physician said death resulted from natural causes
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Long Beach
Calif
George Lohr
Commission Reopens Probe Of Illegal Liquor Delivery
Des Moines AP The liquor delivery case widens as a driver linked to Brady Transfer likely not Indiana resident but Iowa. Driver identifies as J R Stewart. wife says he is a contract hauler for Brady and currently east of town.
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DES Moines
Hartley
Liquor Commission
Indiana
Iowa
Ed Breen
Fort Dodge
Brady Transfer’ and Storage Company
J. R. Stewart
Valley Junction
Brady ‘Company
Stewart
Butler
Ind
Breen
Stuart
Hartley State
Brady
Commission
Ford Lawyer Clashes With NLRB Examiner at Hearing
Louis J. Colombo Sr. accused Trial Examiner John T. Lindsay of bias at a National Labor Relations Board hearing on Ford Motor Co unfair labor practices. Colombo said witnesses were bull-dozed while Lindsay ordered remarks stricken as the foreman testified about discharging Joseph Bailey for alleged inefficiency, not union activity.
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Detroit
Louis J. Colombo
Ford Motor Co
John T. Lindsay
National Labor Relations Board of
Colombo
Lindsay
Ford Company
Dennis E. McKinney
Ford
United Automobile Workers
Laurence A. Knapp
NLRB
McKinney
Joseph V. Bailey
Americans Flee to Legation As War Breaks Out
News of hostilities as Japanese forces strike Peiping after declaring they will take free action. American residents, including hundreds of civilians, flee to the legation quarter while Marine guards establish sandbag barricades. U.S. embassy areas brace for possible bombing as crisis escalates.
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Peiping
Legation
Fengtai
Sung Cheh-Yuan
Sting
China
Japan
U.S. Marine Barracks
Changyimen
Pressure Taxes to Close Loopholes in Tax Bill
The joint congressional tax committee on Tuesday planned loophole closing legislation based mainly on pressure taxes on corporate tax reduction methods. Chairman Robert L. Doughton announced a request to summon Robert H. Jackson, assistant attorney general, to testify Wednesday on the Treasury stance regarding Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt's tax returns amid Republican criticisms.
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Washington
Joint
Congressional Tax Committee
Congress
Robert L. Doughton
Robert H. Jackson
Treasury
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hamilton Fish, Jr
New York
Independents Enter Arkansas Senate Race Against Bailey
A second independent candidate joins the contest for the Arkansas Senate seat left by the death of Joseph T. Robinson. J Rosser Venable of Little Rock, a 48 year old World War II veteran, will run this fall. Robert F. Waters, a 48 year old mountaineer and school teacher humorist, also entered the race. Both have not held elective office.
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Ark
Carl . E. .Bailey
Joseph T. Robinson
J. Rosser’ Venable
Senate
Bailey
Mountaineer
Venable
Robinson
Waters
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