Roosevelt court ruling blocks new push for relief measures
The Nine Old Men uphold the social security act, enabling unemployment and old age benefits funding and permitting taxes to fund deficits. President Roosevelt presses ahead with plans to pack the court, push for a 35 to 40 hour work week and a 40 cent minimum wage, and cites widespread hunger and undernourishment while urging census of the unemployed.
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Supreme Court
Federal Treasury
Roosevelt
Washington
Basque Loyalists Trapped, 800 Slaughtered Near Bilbao
Loyalist Basques in five battalions were cornered between Arroutia and Durango rivers near Lemona as Gen Emilio Mola sent 100 rebel aircraft to pound the area. About 2,500 soldiers of the five Lost Battalions were killed or captured after an aerial onslaught and encirclement.
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Hendaye
Yost
Bilbao
Emilio Mola
Arroutia
Durango
Mola
Lemona
Wagner Sees Government Changed By Welfare Aim
Senator Robert F. Wagner told the National Conference of Social Work in Indianapolis that unemployment is the era’s chief problem and that a large scale housing and slum abolition program is the first step. He said there has been a permanent change in the character of American government with the main goal becoming protection and advancement of the welfare of the common people.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Robert F. Wagner
New York
National Conference of Social Work
Wagner
Guffey Act Start Date Delayed to June 21
The national bituminous coal commission announces the Guffey coal act tax provisions will begin June 21 instead of June 1 due to time needed to complete preliminary organization. J. C. Lewis of Iowa sits on the commission and Chairman Charles M. Hosford explains the extension.
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Washington
National Bituminous Coal Commission
J. C. Lewis
Iowa
Charles M. Hosford
Montana Rep Questions Costs of Irrigation Projects
Representative Thurston argues a proposed irrigation project would cost about 85 dollars per acre. He says good land in Illinois Iowa and the Mississippi valley costs 85 dollars an acre and is closer to markets. He urges saving farms foreclosure threatened regions and questions bringing more lands into cultivation. He asks Iowa farmers to explain why they should help fund reclamation projects.
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Loyd Thurston
Iowa
Congress
Congressional Record
Montana
Thurston
Illinois
Mississippi Valley
Remembering a Life of Memories and Gratitude
Alexander Black, former editor of the Sunday New York World, shares a memoir of shrewd wit and kind daily wisdom. He reflects on memory as treasure, noting that even faded loves and youth retain value in the rock-box of memory.
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Alexander Black
Black
Sunday
New York World
Haldane
Endurance Sitdown Strike Keeps Miners Underground
Miners at mine No 4 in Wilsonville 111 refuse to leave after talks on a new contract. PMA leaders condemn the strike as unauthorized, while the group endures 330 feet below ground with bedding, food, a ventilation system, a radio, and a self-made band as negotiations stall.
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Wilsonville
111
Superior Coal Company
Progressive Miners of America
John Fisher
PMA
Fisher
Ottumwa Man Killed in Wyoming Highway Crash
W A Weyrauch, 50, of Ottumwa Iowa was killed when his car skidded on the Lincoln Highway fifteen miles west of Cheyenne Wyoming and overturned. His wife was seriously injured and rushed to a hospital for treatment.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
W. A Weyrauch
Ottumwa
Lincoln Highway
Here
Flexible wage and hour law urged by FDR in message
President Roosevelt asked Congress to enact a flexible labor law to guarantee fair pay for a fair day’s work. A bill was introduced to implement the proposal with a 40 cent minimum wage and a 35 to 40 hour week, later revised to leave wage and hours blank for congressional setting. The plan would bar child labor and substandard conditions from interstate commerce, administered by a five member standards board. States would be urged to enact their own regulations where federal reach is limited.
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High Court
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Henry Ford
John L. Lewis
CIO
Ford Motor Co
Model Hershey
Pennsylvania
Model Kohler
Wisconsin
Mr. Lewis
Mr. Ford
Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol
Connery
Mass
House Labor Committee
Black
Ala
Senate Labor Committee
States
Baseball Scores From United Press American and National Leagues
American League games saw Chicago, Boston, New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Washington rack up various scores with pitchers and lineups listed. National League results feature New York, Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia, with game notes and upcoming schedules.
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American League
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Boston
Rigney
Dietrich
Sewell
Rensa
Walberg
Desautels
New York
Pittsburgh
Hubbell
Melton
Coffman
Mancuso
Brandt
Bowman
Todd
Russians Drift From Pole On Isolated Floe
Thirteen Russian explorers drift away from the North Pole on an isolated ice floe amid a snowstorm. The party reports drift at half a mile per hour with sun obscured, three supply planes unable to reach Rudolf Island base 560 miles away. Leader Prof Otto Schmidt notes all 13 men remain aboard and active in studies despite harsh conditions. Sigismund Levanevsky’s polar base aims to support a trans polar flight to San Francisco, contingent on data and a suitable airfield.
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Moscow
North Pole
Pole
Rudolf Island
Otto J. Schmidt
Sigismund Levanevsky
Arctic
United States
San Francisco
Josef Stalin
Polar Party
Tiffin Man Hurt When Car Hits Mule
Joe Madden of Tiffin sustained facial cuts at 1.25 am Monday when his car struck a mule on highway 161 south near Ely avenue. Kenneth Smith of Iowa City drove the car. the mule suffered a head wound and both animals were rounded up by patrolmen Moore and Funcke.
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Joe Madden
Tiffin
Kenneth Smith
Iowa City
Highway 161
Ely Avenue
Madden
Moore
Funcke
Reckless Lady serial opens in Cedar Rapids Gazette
Vera Brown presents a vivid scene of youth in the new novel Reckless Lady. Karen Mallory, a spoiled heiress, argues with a stern judge and faces a five day jail term a $50 fine and license revocation. The Cedar Rapids Gazette will serialize the opening chapters tomorrow.
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Karen Mallory
Vera Brown
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Rockefeller Body Sped Home for Final Rest
The body of John D. Rockefeller Jr. was sent from Ormond Beach Florida to New York for a resting place. A special brown mahogany casket carriage conveyed the funeral train with hymns sung at the Casements. Services planned at Pocantico Hills and a Cleveland interment followed.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Ormond Beach
Fla
Florida
Casements
Rockefeller
Halifax River
John
Rockefeller Estate
Pocantico Hills
Tarrytown
N. Y
Cleveland
Rockefeller Jr. dies at 97 after long philanthropy
John D. Rockefeller Jr., founder of a vast fortune and famed as the money titan, died at The Casements in Ormond Beach. He was 97, just short of his 98th birthday, with death caused by sclerotic myocarditis. His son increased total gifts to more than 700 million, while the elder Rockefeller left a small, liquid estate. Fosdick to preach the funeral at Pocantico Hills estate in New York Wednesday.
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Ormond Beach
Fla
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Harry L. Merryday
Croesus
Plains Cattle Need 7 Acres Per Head
The agriculture department says cattle on continuously used northern Great Plains pastures require at least seven acres per head during summer grazing to ensure satisfactory gains. The guidance applies to ongoing grazing systems and affects ranchers in the region.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Plains
Oil Croesus Tells Of Amazing Career In His Own Words
The lengthy reminiscence by John D Rockefeller outlines his private approach to wealth and philanthropy. The informal autobiography promises insights into his rise, key associates, and personal philosophy as he reflects on a life in business and public life.
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Croesus
John D. Rockefeller
Sun
Mr. Rockefeller
Doubleday
Lfe
Rockefeller
Acelesa
John PD. Rockefeller
Universal Service
Doubleday Doran and Company
United States
Minnie Hines Sentenced Twenty Years In Murder Case
Mrs Minnie Hines one of five convicted in the Dan Shine murder at Littleport receives a twenty year term in the state reformatory for women at Rockwell City Iowa Judge W L Eichendorf overrules a new trial motion She is the last of the five convicted to be sentenced Pearl Shine Lenox Maynard Jim Hines and Albert Cornwall receive lengthy sentences for their roles in the Hillbilly slaying on May 5 1936.
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Minnie Hines
Dan Shine
Littleport
State Reformatory For Women
Rockwell City
W. L. Eichendorf
Hines
Dan
Pearl Hines
Pearl Hines Shine
Maynard Lenox
Jim Hines
Minnie
Albert Cornwall
Wally Should Do The Knitting Even If She Learns From Edward
A playful 1937 cartoonish item notes Wally might learn knitting, humorously arguing it would be fitting if she took lessons from the Duke of Windsor. The piece pokes at rumors spread by Broadway columnists and treats knitting as a light social gag.
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Wally
Edward
Duke
Supreme Court Backing For Social Security Act
The Supreme Court upheld federal old age pensions unemployment insurance and the Social Security Act in a 1936 term. The 7 to 2 ruling favored old age pensions, 5 to 4 for unemployment insurance, and 5 to 4 for state unemployment measures. Justice Cardozo delivered key opinions urging national coordination over state limits.
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Supreme Court
Monay
Washington
Roosevelt
Robinson
Justice Stone
District of Columbia
Benjamin N. Cardozo
High Tribunal
New York
van Devanter
Sutherland
Butler
McReynolds
Abandon Tanker After Blast Off California Coast
The tanker American Fisher, 4759 tons, was abandoned fifteen miles off the southern California coast after an explosion and fire aboard. Coast guardsmen found pump man Bruce Raber dead in his bunk. others were rescued by the tanker Reaper. Radio reports said the fire was under control.
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San Pedro
Calif
California
Bruce Raber
Texas Oil Company
Reaper
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