Governors view on corporations and responsibility in 1930s campaign
Governor Harmon of Ohio argues in an Outlook interview that corporations are neither inherently good nor bad, with guilt lying with individuals. He stresses punishment should target responsible people, not the corporate entity, and clarifies his stance on class relations and the initiative refer endum debate.
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New York
Harmon
Ohio
Outlook
Out
Gridiron Club
Violence in Colorado coal fields after miners strike
Denver reports renewed violence in northern Colorado coal camps. Authorities note broken switches on Colorado and Southern lines and sabotage aimed at hindering coal shipments. Governor Safroth opposed recall efforts and lauded Ohio’s nonpartisan judicial nomination system as a model for appointing independent judges.
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Denver
Colo
Atrike
Colorado
Eld
Safroth
Boulder
Louisville
Marshall
Superior
Colorado & Southern
Ohio
Missouri Republicans Choose St. Louis for State Convention
Kansas City Mo Jan 26 The Republican state central committee met in executive session and selected St. Louis April 25 as the site for the state convention to choose delegates to the National convention in Chicago. The session adjourned without mention of factional troubles.
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Kansas City
Republican State Central Committee
St. Louis
Chicago
Taft heads to Ohio for fence fix and tariff clash
President Taft plans a five day swing through New York Cleveland Columbus and Akron Ohio with three days in his home state and more than a dozen speeches as the tariff revision fight opens in the House. Democratic charges of pledge-breaking and harm to labor spark a five hour debate led by Chairman Underwood who defends the metal schedule.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
New York
Cleveland
Columbus
Akron
Ohio
White House
Congress
Underwood
Ways and Means Committee
Eight Nations At War Or In Widespread Trouble
A summary of global unrest lists eight nations in turmoil or at war. Ecuador reports General Montero shot and burned. Paraguay severes Argentine ties after rebels fire on ships. Montenegro moves to topple the dynasty with Montenegrins in the U.S. sending funds. Brazil sees street fighting and looting, Britain faces Irish unrest, China launches a revolutionary expedition from Wu Chang toward Pekin, and Italy-Turkey warn that peace has failed and wider conflict could follow.
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Earth
Alexander
Praga
Ecuador
Montero
Guayaquil
Paraguay
Montenegro
United States
Brazil
Great Britain
Ireland
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Helfakt
China
Wu Chang
Pekin
Italy
Turkey
Porte
Beachey Wins Rain Drenched International Aviation Meet
In Los Angeles the sixth day of the third International aviation meet featured a speed race and an altitude duel between Lincoln Beachey and Phil Parmalee. Beachey won the race after dramatic climbs near three thousand feet. Parmalee flew a Wright girder despite rain, reaching eighty four feet in a motorbase bi plane towed by an automobile, while Frank Stites was injured by a broken cylinder in mid air.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Lincoln Beachey
Phil Parmalee
Beachey
Parmalee
Frank Stites
Eee Parmalee
Royal Bank Heist and Downtown Blaze Claim Big Loss
In Walla Walla on January 26 a downtown fire killed Assistant Fire Chief Wolfe and injured a firefighter, with an estimated total loss around two hundred thousand dollars as the blaze source remains under investigation. In Vancouver, two masked robbers at the Royal Bank of Canada Hill Crest branch took two thousand dollars after forcing staff into a vault. the incident marks the fourth hold up at this branch in two years.
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Vancouver
B. C
Hill Crest
Royal Bank of Canada
Steaves
Royal Bank
Nagel Denounces Recall and Referendum Law
Kansas City January 26 Charles Nagel secretary of commerce and labor criticizes the referendum and recall. He says he cannot believe the people can better their conditions by referendum and recalls and challenges the association to cite a Republican president who has fulfilled party pledges better than Taft.
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Kansas City, Mo
Critelaing
Missouri Republican
Charles Nagel
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Card
United States
Nagel
Taft
Denver Railroad Plans Expansion to Wyoming Coal Field
The Denver, Laramie and Northwestern railway will resume construction this summer to complete its line to Wyoming coal and iron properties, about 150 miles long, at a cost slightly over 6 million dollars. Bonds to fund the project have not yet sold, but directors are confident they will be placed as money markets improve. The line now reaches Greeley and boosts northern Colorado agriculture, with the extension expected to unlock more land and coal and iron resources. Eastern bankers have visited Denver to assess the company, and find it solvent while seeking influence.
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Denver, Colo
Denver, Laramie and Northwestern Railroad
Wyoming
Grealey
Colorado
Eastern Bankera
Denver
Califor n juror in Conners case pledges focus next week
Los Angeles January 26. The jury foreman Charles Cahoon of Pomona is remanded today to continue deliberations in the Bert H. Connors alleged dynamite plot case. Key developments noted as the trial advances toward Monday morning session.
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Thial TS
Los Angeles
Charles Cahoon
Pomona
Bert H. Conners
Supreme Court Hearing Over Railroad Land Claim
Washington D C Jan 26 The Southern Pacific Railroad fights for several million dollars worth of California land as oral arguments conclude before the Supreme Court. The railroad bases its claim on congressional grants while the government opposes the claim.
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Washington, D. C
Southern Pacific Raily Road Company
California
Supreme Court of the United States
Shuster Credits Persians with Foiling Cabinet Massacre
Paris Jan 26 W Morgan Shuster former American treasurer-general of Persia says thirty five officers of the guard planned to slaughter the ministry but he persuaded them to abandon the plan after four hours of argument He denies being placed in Persia for the interests of J Pierpont Morgan and says he went to aid the Persian people not any business interest.
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Ministry
Paris
W. Morgan Shuster
Persia
Shuster
United States
Guard
Fersin
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mev Morgan
Priest Accused In Miraculous Black Virgin Robbery
In Creastochowa Polish lands a robbery of jewels from the Miraculous Black Virgin statue is tied to a jeweler Adler in Lubin and a recovery near Lemberg. Father Macoch, monk at St Paul monastery, is charged with murdering his brother for allegedly planning to reveal the theft. The czar has given two diamond crowns worth 40,000 to the shrine since the robbery.
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Creastochowa
Russian Poland
St. Paul
Adler
Lubin
Poland
Lemberg
Austrian
Galicia
Father Macoch
Dynamite and fuse found in Salt Lake storage case
Salt Lake City detectives unearthed a case containing fifteen pounds of dynamite a box of Caps and one hundred fifty feet of fuse in a storage house. Records show the suitcase was stored in October 1900 by H. G. Betts, with one package removed. Authorities believe the dynamite was used in a 1909 hotel bombing attempt.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Earl Ripley
George Cleveland
H. G
Betts
Hotts
Methodist Increase Larger Than Usual
New York note on Dr. H. K. Carroll census findings shows 1911 church membership up 694,366 with Catholics gaining 250,665 and Methodists 204,289. Net minister and church growth rise, but overall rate under 1.6 percent. Methodist Episcopal north reports near 48,000 increase yet still below average. Presbyterian north and Protestant Episcopal barely reach 1 and 2 percent respectively.
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New York
United States
H. K. Carroll
Carroll
Methodist Episcopal Church
Northern
Presbyterian Church
Protestant Episcopal Church
Baltimore flyer injured in 950 foot glide crash
Howard Gill of Baltimore suffered two broken ribs and other injuries when his aeroplane struck a fence during a glide from a height of 950 feet in Los Angeles. He was found unconscious and the aircraft wrecked.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Howard Gill
Baltimore
Armistice Likely Extended as Yuan Shi Kai Named Marquis
Peking reports the armistice between the government and the Republican forces will likely be extended beyond Monday. An imperial edict has proclaimed Yuan Shi Kai a Marquis, a move perceived to complicate negotiations. Yuan favors abdication while Chinese leaders anticipate it without renewed fighting though tensions rise with increased guard strength.
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Yuan Shi Kai
Peking
The
Republicane
Yuan
Taft appeals for famine relief in China
President Taft in his role with the American Red Cross appeals to the U S public for aid to famine stricken provinces of China after Yangtze floods. He cites destitution and hunger, outlines relief work by the Central China famine relief committee and asks for contributions through Red Cross channels.
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Ashington
Taft
American Red Cross
China
American National Redress
United States
Central China
Red Crouse
Red Crow
Amerian National Red Cross
War Department
Wallington, L
Staned
William HH
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Bick
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Wu Ting Pang
National Assembly
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