Movement to Back to Work Begins Under Roosevelt
President Roosevelt, asserting full powers from Congress, launches a broad national push to restore work. He signs emergency measures, orders public works and railroad reforms, and appoints boards to supervise industrial recovery and public works with $400 million for highways and $238 million for naval construction. Public works and industrial reemployment are touted as the most important legislative effort in history to restore prosperity and end wartime mood.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Wallace
Donald 4. Sawyer
Hugh S. Johnson
Joseph B. Eastman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastman
North Atlantic
Roper
Special Industrial Recovery Board
Ickes
Special Public’ Works Board
Johnson
Cummings
Perkins
Douglas
March
Federal Trade Commission
Boston
Public Works Industrial Control
American Congress
Signing spree marks Roosevelt era policy era achievements
President Roosevelt signs key laws expanding public works and banking reforms. Glass and Steagall pens commemorated, with rail restructuring and veteran compensation measures shaping a broader New Deal framework. Congress approves $600 million independent offices bill and a $3.6 billion appropriations package, plus tax and mail rate measures and district funding actions.
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Senator Glass
Virginia
Glass
Wilson
Steagall
House
Dill and Rayburn
Senate
House Interstate Commerce Committees
Roosevelt
Congress
Arm Credit Administration
District of Columbia
Rich St. Paul Man Held For Ransom
A Rich St. Paul man tied to the Bohn and Boettcher kidnappings is pursued as a fugitive in the United States and Canada. Fern Sankey, wife of the fugitive, was acquitted of complicity in the Bohn case, then re-arrested in connection with Boettcher. Ray Robinson pleaded guilty to kidnapping Bohn and received 25 years, saying Sankey aided plans in Edmonton and the States. Authorities also link Sankey to Canada bank robbery and liquor running in North Dakota and Montana.
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Sankey
United States
Canada
Bohn
Boettcher
Fern
Denver
Ray Robinson
Edmonton
Ala
States
Robinson
North Dakota
Montana
Big Changes in Banking Methods Now
New York June 16 AP report notes Glass Steagall act passage prompts banks to study shifts in practice. Private bankers weigh whether to exit deposit banking or securities, with firms like J P Morgan and Lehman Brothers assessing impact. National banks face forced divestiture of securities within a year, prompting anticipated litigation over constitutional questions and deposit insurance.
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Hiram Hertell
Associated Press
New York
Roosevelt
Wall Street
J. P. Morgan & Company
Kuhn, Loeb & Company
Lehman Brothers
Dillon, Read & Co
Goldman, Sachs & Co
National City Bank
Guaranty Trust Company
First National Bank
National City
National City Company
Guaranty Trust
Furst National Bank
Fenfre
All Roosevelts at Groton School Graduation Day
Groton Massachusetts June 16 AP five Roosevelt family members earned honors as Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt watched. Franklin D Roosevelt won first prize in senior debating society and the Charles Lanier Appleton memorial prize. Cornelius Roosevelt won science and Butler prizes. Archibald Roosevelt Jr won lower grades trading prize and NSCD patriotic essay medal. Kermit Roosevelt Jr won Grotonian prize. Quentin Roosevelt Jr received the choir chalice cup.
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Groton
Mass
Groton School
Otay
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore
Archibald Roosevelt, Jr
National Society of Colonial Dames
Kermit Roosevelt, Jr
Quentin Roosevelt
Theo Gore
Roosevelt anticipated the Congress
President Roosevelt lays groundwork for his New Deal program with foundations set for industry control codes and public works. Johnson named administrator, with $3.3 billion for works, $400 million highway, $238 million naval build, and $28 million for public buildings planned within 45 days. Farm price measures, mortgage refinancing bonds, and conservation corps to employ up to 275,000 forest workers move forward amid relief funds and inflation tools.
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Sam Bledsoe
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Hugh 5. Johnson
Johnson
Wallace
George N. Peek
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Farm Credit Administration
Wisconsin
Roosevelt Conservation Corps
Federal Trade Commissions
Pretty Boy Floyd Kidnaps Sheriff and Escapes
In Oklahoma June 16 AP reports outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd abducted Sheriff Jack Killingsworth at Boliver Missouri with a machine gun, taunted pursuers, and escaped. The exchange with Sheriff Aldridge on June 5 is referenced, noting Floyd’s last contact and local efforts to improve roads by jobless men.
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Pretty Boy
Sheriff
Buver
Floyd
Wewoka
Okla
Charles “Fretty
Jack Killingsworth
Boliver
Frank
Aldridge
Immunization Advances Against Whooping Cough Studied
Dr Louis W Sauer of Evanston reported five year trials showing three injections a week apart can prepare immunity to whooping cough in infants, with effects taking four months and best begun in the second half of the first year. Vaccinated children resisted spread when exposed by sick siblings and outbreaks.
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F. B. Colton
Associated Press
Milwaukee
American Medical Association
Louis W. Sauer
Evanston
Sauer
Saver
Luke W. Hunt
McCormick Institute For Infectious Diseases
Chicago
Hunt
Jury Delivers Ransom Evidence In Buck Kidnapping Case
In Barnstable Mass a courtroom watched Kenneth and Cyril Buck as $60 010 in cash was produced as ransom for 10 year old Peggy McMath kidnapped from Harwich center school. Witnesses testified including General Daniel Needham and teacher Esther Flinkman while crowd gasped at the piles of money.
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Andrew J. Clarke
Associated Press
Barnstable
Mass
Kenneth
Cyril Buck
Peggy McMath
Daniel Needham
Harwich Center Grammar School
Jobless Hope Figures Spark Public Works Plan
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, director of the vast public works program in Washington, announced figures claiming 4,000,000 idle men could be employed by October 1. The image shows Johnson at his desk in the Department of Commerce building.
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Hugh S. Johnson
Public Works Industrial Control Program
Washington
General Johnson
Department of Commerce
Secretary Korn Elected Again In Long Service For Union
Leonard A. Korn, secretary for 30 years of Carpenters and Joiners Union No. 945, elected again after last night’s vote. Established in 1901, Korn has led since with two one year terms interrupted. Other officers named for the coming year include President C. J. Schmidt and Financial Secretary M. Fischer.
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Leonard A. Korn
Carpenters and Joiners Union
L. A. Korn
C. J. Schmidt
C. Conrad
M. Fischer
A. Meyer
H. F. Harfst
C. Opel
Ittner
Guilty Conscience Leads To Arrest In Butter Company Heist
In St Louis on June 18 AP reports two men were arrested after a radio broadcast led to their detention. Police suspect guilt in the Clover Valley Butter Company robbery, totaling 395 dollars, as the manager of the firm identified them at police headquarters.
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ST. Louis
Clover Valley
William Greenspan
Greenspan
Starvation, Cannibalism Reported Across Shensi Province
AP dispatches from Shanghai dated June 16 describe thousands starving to death in Shensi as a long drought since 1928 devastates Central China's former wheat belt. Banditry spreads as famine deepens and reports say wolves take victims from the severely malnourished towns.
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Shanghai
Ching
Shensi
China
Cards Dealt Death to Petitti in Chicago
The card game led to the death of Joe Petitti in Chicago today. Petitti’s family had been deeply involved in the kidnapping of little Billy Ranieri five years ago, authorities say.
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Chicago
Joe Petitti
Tese
Billy Ranieri
Jon
Petritl
Lamson acted strange when law arrived
San Jose California June 16 AP testimony at Lamson preliminary hearing described his exclamation My God Why did I marry her at the moment officers entered the Stanford home where Allene Lamson lay dead May 20. Witnesses testified blood tracked through the residence and a ten inch iron pipe found in ashes was cited as the murder weapon. Lamson denied guilt and showed little interest as the case continued into the night.
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San Jose
Calif
David A. Lamson
Stanford University Press
Allene
John Moore
Stanford Campus
Lamsons
Temark
Moore
Margaret Lamson
Lamson
David
W. Co
Earl Hamilton
Gilkey
Minister seeks no music after sermons in Concord
Rev. Paul Hardin Jr., a Methodist pastor in Concord, says he will request no music in future addresses. He cites a recent sermon ending with a four man quartet singing Now Tedious and Tasteless before a high school baccalaureate, followed by the Glee Club singing Awake Awake.
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Concord
N. C
Paul Hardin, Jr
Glee Club
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