Washington Merry Go Round Trade War Inside Detroit Mess
The column outlines the Detroit auto industry labor strike tensions under the NRA, a proposed ten percent wage and hour cut, Henry Ford’s counter move with a $5 minimum wage, and looming battles among the Automobile Chamber of Commerce labor and government. It also notes dealings with Gutzon Borglum, sugar and air mail policy irritants, and a clash over Cuban sugar, highlighting Roosevelt’s political strains.
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Washington
Detroit
NRA
Ford
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
General Johnson
Henry Ford
Automobile Chamber
Franny Ford
Investi
Tang
Industrial Recovery Act
Auto
Zero
National Labor Board
Labor
Government
Washington News and Washington Gangsters in 1930s Shadowed By Markets
Washington diaries note a new type of Washington life with diplomats, congressmen, lobbyists, and dapper gangsters. The piece cites Prime figures such as Felix Frankfurter and J. Ham Lewis, discusses Roosevelt veto risks on bonus legislation, and details the stock market bill battles between Wall Street, the treasury, and the Frankfurter brain trust, ending with limited regulatory gains and margins controlled by the Fed.
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Washington
Justice Department
Philadelphia
Wall Street
Treasury
Brain Trust
Henry Morgenthau
Jim Landis
Federal Trade Commission
Tom Corcoran
RFC
Ben Cohen
PTC
Ferdinand Pecora
Senate Banking Committee
Felix Frankfurter
Harvard Law School
Roosevelt
United States
The
Trade Commission
Landis
Congress
Tom Smith
St. Louis
Eugene Black
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Board
House of Morgan
Coolidge
Masterpieces Left by Jesus Featured in Sunday Sermon
The Rev. H. C. Rice at First Baptist Church described Jesus as creator of a vast treasure of literature music and art. He noted the life as a grand symphony and parables as an art gallery in the four gospels. The sermon titled The Friendly Christ will be followed by the hymn Give Me the Vision Lord by Briggs.
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Jesus
H. C. Rice
First Baptist Church
Christ
Briggs
Board asks resignation of relief director in Black Hawk County
The Black Hawk county board voted 5 to 2 to demand the resignation of county relief director Miss Jane Thompson effective April 2. The action cites failure to turn over certain duties to Mrs Doris Kinion as directed by the board.
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Waterloo
Black Hawk
Jane Thompson
Doris Kinion
Cedar Rapids Woman and Central City Man Wed in License
LaVerne Heyine of Cedar Rapids and Madeline Barnes of Central City obtained a marriage license and announced plans to wed, confirming their forthcoming ceremony.
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LaVerne Heyine
Cedar Rapids
Madeline Barnes
Central City
Spanish War Vets And Auxiliary In District Meeting
Dows camp Cedar Rapids hosted the second district council meeting at Memorial coliseum. Dr W A Suthers was named district chaplain with Albert J Meyer Clinton as president Henry Holtz Dubuque as vice president and G S Wacker Davenport as secretary treasurer. E R Moore of Dows spoke on Patriotism. Department Commander Patterson Des Moines and State Adjutant Carl Smith attended. The district focuses on social exchange of ideas for members. Future eastern Iowa meetings are planned.
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Clinton
Walter Nagel
Davenport
Dows
Cedar Rapids
E. R. Moore
Jane Delano
Patterson
Des Moines
Carl Smith
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the Daily “Washington Merry Is
Mark
Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
Gutzon Borglum
White House
Borglum
George Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Dern
Lindbergh
Air Mail
Agriculture Wallace
Cuba
West
Rte
South America
Madison Square Garden
Hitler
Moley
State Department
Bran- Geis
Ross Collins
Mississippi
Shoemaker
J. Ham Lewis
Tinois
J. Ham
Senate
House
Emma Lyman
North 18Th St
Lincoln
Nebr
Dr. Pierce
Chueet
Dane
Fred Waring
Ford Motor Company
Iowa
Gardner Cowles, Jr
Des Moines Register-Tribune
H. L. Horton
Iowa-Des Moines National Bank and Trust Co
D. W. Morehouse
Drake University
Rude Auto Company
Galyak
Newman
Red Cross
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