Hull claims farm exports have risen
Secretary Cordell Hull defended trade treaties against Governor Landon amid a Kansas City speech. He cited a rise in agricultural exports from 1932 to 1935 and projected continued gains, insisting losses occurred under Hoover, not Roosevelt. He noted tariff reductions up to 60 percent and increased farm exports to Cuba and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Cordell Hull
Alf M. Landon
Landon
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
Hull
United States
France
Italy
Switzerland
Cuba
Canada
Alice Longworth on Prohibition Politics in 1936 Campaign
Alice Longworth argues political maneuvering around prohibition muddies the 1936 campaign. The piece notes Roosevelt and Landon deny or downplay national prohibition as a federal issue, urging states to decide and hoping the 18th amendment battle stays buried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Landon
Alice Longworth
Hull Defends Trade Policy Amid Depression Criticism
Hull said 1935 totals reached 247 million with 75 million in noncompetitive imports like coffee and bananas. Of the rest, excluding sugar, only 13 million came from commodities under trade deals, while drought ravaged the rest. feedstuffs were imported to save livestock, described as temporary. He urged critics not to push Smoot Hawley policies that would undo recent gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
Pleads Not Guilty In Torture Slaying Of Elderly Recluse
Marvin Irish Hogan O Shaughnessy pleads not guilty to first degree murder in the torture slaying of John Parker a 70 year old recluse in Rockwell City. Parker died days after an attack during a $4 50 robbery. Fingerprints on a trunk tied O Shaughnessy to the crime and police accuse his accomplice Robert Avery now a fugitive. O Shaughnessy has a prior reformitory record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockwell City
Marvin “Irish Hogan
O’shaughnessy
John Parker
Robert Avery
Parker
Life magazine sold to Time. publication to end next week
Life, the 52 year old humorous weekly, was sold to Time magazine at an unannounced price. The Life editors declined to say if the two magazines would be merged and promised an announcement. The sale was disclosed from Life's New York office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Life
Time
Gillette Attacks Slogans Under Economic Crisis
Clinton AP report quotes Guy M. Gillette a Democratic short term Senate candidate criticizing slogans during a speech in Clinton. He says slogans will be useless until economic life is purified and rid of impurities and that talk of rugged individualism and free enterprise is nonsense amid monopolies and unemployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Guy M. Gillette
Senate
Gillette
Radio Schedule Tide Brings Evening Program Mix
A dense NBC CBS WABC WJZ schedule lists 6:00 to 11:45 broadcasts featuring Ted Husing, Kate Smith, Rudy Vallee, Ray Noble, Eddy Duchin, Sherlock Holmes, and Guy Lombardo. Programs span music, drama, and variety with multiple station chains and city links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NBC
WEAF
William Hard
CBS
WABC
WBBM
WJZ Chain
Ted Husing
WGST
Hal
Wee Lawnhurst
the Charioteers
KMOX
WCCO
Terri Franconi
Barry McKinley
WJZ
Rudy Vallee Orch
Kate Smith
Major Bowes
Bob Burns
Weaf Chain
John Boles
Merion Claire
WOC
Roosevelt Progress
Lee Wiley
Dance Orch
Jay Freeman Orch
Ray Noble Orch
Eddy Duchin Orch
Wwcco
Eae Crawford
Ere Norris Orch
Weaf Ain
ABC
Mrs. Wiggs
Monein
Josh Higgins
Finchville
Herman and
Banta
Vic and Sade
White
Tenor
Frank Dailey Orch
Weecco
Jimmy Farrell
The
Rhythmaires
Jack
WAC
Edward Davies
Columbia's Concert Hall
Max Perkins
Radio Guild
the Onen
Billy Mills Orch
Hickory
Orchestra
Tito
Jack Armstrong
Buddy Clark
Ae Williams
Lowell Thomas
Mary Small
Senes
Roy Campbell
Lum and Abner
Goose Creek Parson
Charles Sears
TG Seeenan Bourdon Orch
Irene Rich
Victor Arden Orch
Singin
Sam
Alf M. Landon
Josef Bonime Orch
Col. Frank Knox
Aes and Hare
Mark Warnow Orch
Red” Grange
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Process (Cs) Wabc Wbbm Kmox Wgst
Ses Symphony
Earl Browder
Er Busse
Phil’’ Levant Orch
Jesse Crawford
Navara Orch
Jene Goodman
Guy Lombardo Orch
Bobby Grayson Orch
Alfred Barr Orch
Labor tensions over wages and collective bargaining
The speaker condemns attempts to block living wages and better working conditions. He argues freedom of contract does not justify coercive conditions or exploitation of workers by low wages, and supports Americans’ right to bargain collectively.
Six More Iowa Counties Assume Full Relief Load
Des Moines AP report says six additional Iowa counties bore the entire cost of relief for unemployed workers as of Oct 1, bringing to 59 the number of counties self supporting. The counties are Dallas Crawford Carroll Jasper Poweshiek and Keokuk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
State Emergency Relief Administration
Dallas
Crawford
Carroll
Jasper
Poweshiek
Keokuk
Roosevelt Opposed Restoration of Railroad Wage Cut
The Republican national committee’s labor division accuses President Roosevelt of opposing restoring a 10 percent railroad wage cut. It says Daniel Tobin spread propaganda about the wage cut and pension bill, and asserts the wage cut was voluntary after talks between railroad executives and workers. The President allegedly asked that the cut not be restored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
Daniel J. Tobin
Democratic Labor Bureau
Landlubber Builds 33Foot Cabin Cruiser At Home
Peter Bak of Woonsocket Rhode Island built a 33 foot cabin cruiser in his backyard after two years. The vessel named Ann Weron carries sleeping quarters for four plus deck house bunks for four more and a 75 horsepower engine with pantry and refrigerator. It was launched at Pawtuxet Cove after transport from land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woonsocket, R. I
Peter Bak
Ann Weron
Pawtuxet Cove
Slam Defense Misread in Expert Rubber Bridge Hand
In a rubber bridge game with four experts a slam contract appeared safe yet was defeated by a misread defense. West should have pursued a diamond lead signal, but chose a heart shift that let the slam go down, illustrating that even pros can err in snap judgments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North-South
West
East
Gether
Declarer
South
Italian Girl Thrice Wed Within Three Months
Lyallpur, India reports a local custom where parents arrange marriages without consulting the children. A girl in Lyallpur married three times in three months, illustrating how parental control leads to rapid successive weddings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyallpur
India
Girl Saidan's Matrimonial Tangle Triggers Abduction Trial
Saidan wed thrice in as many months leading to a raid on her father and 19 others. After a quarrel, her father first joined her to Khan, then instead married her to a second youth. She later eloped with a third, prompting her father to arrange the abduction while her husband was attacked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saidan
Khan
Halden Blames New Deal Policies for Market Destruction
Berry F. Halden a Republican candidate for U S senator told an audience in Le Mars that crop reduction acreage curtailment and crop loan calls have destroyed domestic and foreign markets for corn belt farmers He argued New Deal experiments ruined both foreign and domestic corn markets and harmed American farmers.
Also Mentioned on This Page
J.G. den
First Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Ee Moines
Arnold
UNION
Amation
ColumbIa Coast-to-CoAst Network
Plymouth
Dodge DE Soto
Chrysler Dealers
Willie Willis
Charge Roosevelt
Landlubber
Josephine Culbertson
Halden
Luberger CO
Tellus
Magic Voice Radio
Third Avenue
Roa Viele
RCA Victor
Players
NBC Blue
U. S
Checker Electric Supply, Inc
Second
Ave. SE
Bertram P. Puckett
Magic Voice
Checker Electric Supply
Iowa City
Cranston Furniture Co
Marengo
Chansky Drug Co
Solon
Richard Eye Palo
Foster & Lyman Victor
Glendorf Radio and Refrigeration Co
Williamsburg
Earl Holst Keystone
C. N. Hayden Furniture Co
Oxford Junction
T. A. Manuel Anamosa
R. D. Minehart Central City
Oxford Battery Co
Oxford
Spencer’s Harmony Hall
Es Aoe Usic Co., Inc
1St St. SE
Stettler’s
Belle Plaine
Strickler Electric Co
Kalona
F. A. Work North Liberty
Roy Zigler Kostza
Checker Electric Supply Inc
2Nd Ave
RA Viele
RCA
Newman
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!