Fair Trade Practices and Labor Standards Reform
A discussion on lower labor standards since the NRA era notes FTC action backing voluntary fair trade agreements led by a tobacco trade group. The plan relies on collective bargaining protections, voluntary codes, and Major George L. Berry in a bid to enhance industrial cooperation. Optimists expect labor justice to improve as the economy revives and competition for workers intensifies.
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NRA
Federal Trade Commission
George L. Berry
Fragmented OCR reveals a chaotic treasury to department chatter
A garbled Washington note reports a Dutch burglary in Rotterdam with cash missing and a suspect arrested, alongside comical department tension as a cooling system test in the treasury, plus quirky statistics on butter cheese and ice cream production from the agriculture department and a boll weevil mention in cotton contracts.
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United Frese
Washington
Department of State
Rotterdam
Holland
Brett
State Department
Department of the Treasury
Cayse
Department of Agriculture
Lie Department of Agriculture
Cotton Division
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Book and novel reviews aired in mixed fashion
A mixed review roundup critiques Lin Yutang’s My Country and My People as lacking objectivity and offering a Western-centered view of China while praising his art and literature writing. It also evaluates John Hargrave’s Summer Time Ends as experimental but uneven, James Cronin’s The Stars Look Down as a powerful social novel, and notes The Star Lock Down as Cronin’s strong craft. Also listed is a for sale parlor grate and Van’s Automobiles service ad in Cary, Pa.
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Pearl Buék
China
John Day
Lin Yutang
Orient
Shanghai
Ching
Bobbs Merrill
John Hargrave
England
Hargrave
Ulysses
James Joyce
B. E. Cummings
Tive
Cronin
Stonin
Little Brown
A. J. Cronin
New
Van
Cary
The Ugly Truth on Curbing Redless Driving
A write up discusses using graphic realism to curb reckless driving. It cites J C Furnas and a Readers Digest piece urging vivid depictions of crash horrors to influence drivers and judges, through magazines, newspapers, and even court selections.
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J. C. Furnas
New York
Industrializing China Eyes New Buffers and Change
A North China expansion by Japan is described as absorbing Hope Shantung and Shensi, with Peiping and Tientsin, dominating the Yellow Sea. The piece argues China will be swallowed piecemeal and Japan may industrialize China, reshaping life as labor shifts from manpower to machine power, citing US mission notes. It notes 60 million in Sichuan facing adjustment and warns of unemployment as Asia industrializes.
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Japan
China
Russia
Hope
Shaitung
Shensi
Peiping
Tientsin
Yellow Sea
New England
New Yor
Fat Nanking
Perhapis
Louis c Jones
Americas Economic Mission
Ching
Yanglao
Chungking
Szech‘wan
Asia
Nature and humans in dialogue with birds and animals
Canadian poet naturalist Haya-Jock Robb discusses how nature is perceived only when humans meet it halfway in sympathy. He argues Mortals and birds show individual temperaments and intelligence, citing robins as examples and noting people often underestimate animal complexity.
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Haya
Jock Robb
Robb
Purple brown leads fall and winter fashion shades
Paris styles highlight a blended color palette for fall and winter. Purples reds blues browns and greens compete with black and white. Sportswear appears brighter with wines and greens and smoky blues while purple brown emerges as a top shade for evening wear coats and dresses.
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Paris
Opt
Evenine
Birthdate reads for late December to late January stars
Today signals energy and philosophical leanings for those born December 21 through January 21. Morning hours bring bad fortune while afternoon offers good outlook and evening remains bad. Health should be watched in February 1936 and finances look strongest in December 1939 and January 1956. Danger period spans March 5 through 10, 1936 with social luck favored March 1 through 4, 1938.
Begging Fines Ordered by Vigo Mayor
Vigo Spain imposed a citywide ban on beggars receiving alms and warned that anyone caught sticking money to beggars will be fined. The measure targets curb the spread of begging in public spaces and street solicitations.
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Vigo
Spain
Lily Pons plans farm retirement after eight more years
Hollywood reports soprano Lily Pons aims to retire from film and opera to run a farm in the eastern United States once she leaves the stage. She says she wants life as a private person, free from schedules, while continuing work if the public desires. The piece notes past singers like Marion Talley who swapped fame for rural life and hints at a return to cinema.
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Hollywood
Birdaike
Lily Pons
Im & Calico Apron
Gannut
Ainger
United States
Marion Talley
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Bader Do Rio
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the Grand Union Company
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New Deal Optical
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Lincoln
Main & Center
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Sprint
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Corry, Penna
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