President Acts To Plug Gold Plan Loopholes
President Roosevelt urged Congress to fortify the treasury against gold clause suits and ensure dollar value parity. He seeks authority to pay holders of $10 trillion in gold securities in devalued dollars, bar suits against currency and gold clauses, and reaffirm dollar for dollar equality.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
Senate
Cummings
White House
Justice Department
Jetcher
Senate Banking Committee
U. S
Panama
Panama Canal
Scouts Cook in Rain as Comrades Play Music
The report notes Forney Johnston a Birmingham attorney and ReprER HN Alabama operators arguing the bill is unconstitutional and suggesting a market plan extension. Henry T. Debardeleben of Birmingham coal interests warned Alabama operators the proposed law would harm coal and iron steel industries and affect southern employment.
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Forney «Johnston
Birmingham
Reprer
Alabama
Henry T. Debardeleben
Debardeleben Coal Corporation
South
Rain Doesn’t Dampen Kanawha Scouts Camp Opening
Rainy start for 150 Kanawha County Boy Scouts as Camparall opens a three day encampment at Four H Fairgrounds. The camp guides under William J. Graham with Paul McKinney and Charles Wharton directing Troops 2, 100 and 46. Tents line the racetrack while units prepare meals and storage.
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Camparall
Kanawha County
Harvard Classwork To Be Held in Wilds
Harvard students will spend the summer at study camps in the Mohawk valley Adirondacks in New York and at Squam Lake in New Hampshire. The Adirondack site will draw geologists nationwide to a program on glacial deposits, while the New Hampshire camp trains engineers in field mapping and practice. Students will live in tents and sleep on folding cots.
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Universal Service
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Mohawk Valley
Adirondack Mountains
New York
Squam Lake
New Hampshire
Adirondack
Farmer builds wind mill from barrels in Colorado Springs
Lowell Wilcox, a Colorado Springs farmer, assembled a windmill from two castoff oil barrels and car parts. He claims the homemade device outperforms a bought model and pumps 40 gallons of water per minute from a 40 foot well at no cost.
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Colorado Springs
Colon
Lowell Wilcox
Wilcox
Weather Bureau
Scouts Swim Amid Rain At Camp Pageant Night
The camp sought pioneer cooking in the rain as Director Graham urged the Scouts to swim. One hundred fifty boys rushed to the racetrack gate for a half hour swim while the camp stayed orderly. The pageant will reflect the Ten Year Program begun in 1932 with a goal of enrolling one in four boys at age 12 for four years of training.
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Graham
Racetrack
Trade Herring and Apples in Copenhagen Bargain
Copenhagen reports a new company weighing bartering Icelandic herring for American apples. The plan aims to net enough herring to purchase fifty thousand dollars worth of apples, with Danish dealers pursuing the deal.
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Copenhagen
Radio Studies Show Lasting Musical Edge From Early Training
Minneapolis June 27 The radio may make American children more musical says John S. Anderson of the University of Minnesota. Tests found that while training boosted skill, most gains faded after practice stopped except in a musical program where two and a half to four year olds trained in pitch and intervals retained the advantage for six months and beyond two years. The finding suggests musical ability may endure with limited ongoing practice.
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Howard Blakesles
Minneapolis
American Association For the Advanpepient of Science
Toay
John 5. Anderson
Institute of Child Welfare
University of Minnesota
Anderson
Dr. Anderson
Radio exposure shapes child musical stimulation claims
A fragment notes that many children today are exposed to music via radio and receive substantial individual practice. The line reflects 1930s concern with radio driven cultural influence on youth.
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