New Zealand Guests Discuss Socialist State They Live In
Mr and Mrs Hilton Richards of Burlington New Zealand describe life under a labor party led system with government licensed imports and spending high taxes and a public works driven economy. They note universal employment through the PWD and that doctors have not joined the medical program.
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Hilton Richards
Burlington
New Zealand
Richards
PWD
Public Works Department
C. R
Wellington
Curtailed foreign market weighs on U S farmers in new crop season
Washington reports foreign sales of farm products down 21 percent in value for ten months, led by a 44 percent drop in cotton exports. Wheat subsidies kept some volumes rising. overall imports fell 19 percent while exports by class show cotton, wheat, and tobacco values.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Foreign Service
Service
Europe
Orient
United States
Congress
Ford Didn't Meet Rulers. Wife Entertained Club
Detroit Times reports Henry Ford and wife did not dine with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Washington. Mrs. Ford stayed home to display flowers to members of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association while the Poker club was hosted at their house.
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Detroit
INS
Henry Ford
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Washington
White House
Blackett Named G. O. P. Committeeman From Illinois
Hill Blackett, Chicago advertising executive, was selected by the state Republican central committee as national committeeman to replace the late George F. Harding. He won on the twenty seventh ballot after nine ballots on April 29 failed to yield a winner. Other candidates included Charles R. Walgreen, Thomas J. Houston, and Charles B. Goodspeed.
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Ill
INS
Hill Blackett
Chicago
Republican Central Committee
George F. Harding
Blackett
Alf M. Landon
Charles R. Walgreen
Thomas J. Houston
State Committee
Charles B. Goodspeed
CCC'er Who Shook Hands With King Heads To New York
John Draganza a 24 year old CCC camper from Rochester Pennsylvania will travel to New York to share with Broadway celebrities his reception by King George VI in Fort Hunt Virginia He was the only enrollee honored with a handshake during the royal inspection of 187 CCC boys and will stay four or five days as a guest of the Ambassador hotel manager.
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Fort Hunt
John Draganza
Rochester
New York
George VI
CCC
Draganza
Pennsylvania
Ambassador Oe
State control of relief sidetracked as WPA bill advances
Washington report says opposition to shifting relief to states is faltering as the House prepares to take up a new WPA bill. The measure would keep funds, impose new restrictions, cut Roosevelt’s request to about 1.75 billion, and restructure administration from a single head to a three member board. The bill also proposes theater program elimination and pay based on security wages with a 60 day layoff rule for extended relief cases.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
WPA
F. C. Harrington
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Workers’ Alliance
America
Works Project Administration
Federal Works Agency
Public Works Administration
Windsors Accept Nazi Invitation Dinner at German Embassy
Paris AP reporting that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will dine at the German Embassy on June 22 with Graf von Welczeck and other prominent Germans. It marks the first German invitation accepted since the duke helped secure Louis Rothschild’s release after Austria’s annexation.
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Paris
Duchess of Windsor
Graf von Welczeck
Adolf Hitler
Louis Rothschild
Austria
Hitler Seen At Vienna Opera Amid Diplomatic Rumors
Paris reports indicate Hitler may be drafting a plan for world appeasement to offer the United States France and Britain next month. Berlin sources express surprise, while Hitler attends Strauss Friedens tag in Vienna and plans to return to Obersalzberg after the performance.
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Paris
Germany
Viscount Halifax
Hitler
Vienna
Strauss
Judge affirms minors rights to deliver newspapers
In Indianapolis Judge Russell J. Ryan ruled that minors may deliver newspapers after school. He issued a permanent injunction preventing the state from interfering with the contract between the Indianapolis News and its young carriers citing healthful and moral benefits.
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Indianapolis
Ind
INS
Russell J. Ryan
Marion County Superior Court
Ryan
Indianapolis News
Press association urges RFC order rescindment in Arkansas
At the annual convention in Hot Springs Arkansas the Arkansas Press Association adopted a resolution urging Jesse H Jones chairman of the reconstruction finance corporation to rescind an order that bars newspapers from borrowing from the RFC.
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Hot Springs, Ark
Arkansas Press Association
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
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