Hoover Seeks Farm Relief Through Tariff Strength
Hoover argues farm relief relies on adequate tariffs and a strong distribution system. He says farmers should achieve income parity with other occupations and stresses inland waterways modernization to aid midwest agriculture across twenty interior states.
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Hoover Addresses Farm Relief as Urgent National Issue
Herbert Hoover in a Stanford University acceptance speech frames farm relief as the nation’s most urgent problem, pledging farmer controlled federal aid, a federal farm board and tariff protections, and calls for modernization of transportation and marketing to lift farm income and prosperity nationwide.
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Federal Farm Board of Representative
Construction and progress under President Coolidge
The speech cites seven years of national growth including an 8 percent population rise and 45 percent income increase. It notes 3.5 million new or better homes and 9 million more electrified homes, plus 6 million more telephones and 14 million more automobiles. Federal expenses cut by two billion annually and the national debt reduced by six and a half billion.
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Coolidge
Hoover Speech Outlines Honest Campaign and Merit Based Appointments
In a speech, Hoover pledges an honest campaign with public accounting of funds, vows merit based appointments across the country, supports women’s political participation, and promotes religious tolerance. He argues workers can buy more bread than European wage earners and states foreign policy seeks peace while government avoids competing with citizens.
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Europe
News Review of Current Events
Edward W. Pickard notes Democratic nominee Smith defends self after Stratton attacks. Smith challenges the preacher to repeat his claim in public. Smith confronts strategist questions then tackles state duties and a Chicago Brennan funeral. Hoover secures nomination at Stanford with national reception and radio coverage.
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Dval Smiavh
John Reach Stratun
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George E. Brennan
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al Smith
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Senate
Unclear excerpts from multiple events and figures
Reports from observers at Kansas City and Houston conventions condemn Governor Smith on liquor policy. Missouri primaries yield wins for Drys and Patterson Caulfield. Kansas GOP nominates Reed. Democrats back Little. Polish airmen rescued after crash near Cape Finisterre. Nationalists’ seizure claim sparks global reaction and U.S. disappointment.
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Drys
Missouri
Roscoe C. Patterson
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United States
Trenry S. Caulfield
St. Louis
Florida tropical storm leaves extensive damage across state
A fierce tropic storm struck Florida's east coast towns first then crossed to the gulf causing widespread damage in the south central area. Homes lost roofs, orchards ruined, roads blocked, yet no fatalities were reported. In the Dutch East Indies Paloe nen island was destroyed by Rokatindo volcano eruption, earthquake and tsunami killing about a thousand in six villages.
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Italian submarine sunk in Adriatic disaster during maneuvers
UBMARINID 1 4 from the Italian navy was sunk after a collision in the Adriatic. Rescue crews labored 84 hours to raise the craft and save its crew of two officers and twenty five men. Communications with salvagers by telephone ceased. hoisting revealed all hands dead from chlorine gas released when salt water flooded storage batteries.
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Adriatic
Engagement of Gene Tunney and Mary Lauder Reported
Mrs George Lauder Jr announces the engagement of her daughter Mary Josephine Lauder to Gene Tunney of New York with a wedding likely in New York in late autumn or winter Tunney, a Greenwich resident, plans a walking tour to Europe with Thornton Wilder departing August 16 Miss Lauder is heir to a large fortune and educated in top schools in the United States and France The couple attend different faiths Episcoaps Catholic
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George Lauder, Jr
Greenwich
New York
Mary Josephine Lauder
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France
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Thornton Wilder
Croatian Peasant Leader Die. Yugoslavia Tensions Rise
Raditch, leader of the Croatian peasants, has died from shooting wounds suffered in Belgrade. Observers worry civil war in Yugo-Slavia unless outside influence curbs. Croats resent Serbian dominance, recently creating a separate parliament in Zagreb.
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Raditch
Jeader
Belgrade
Chamber of Deputies
Central Europe
Yugo-Slavia
Zagreb
Peace Pilgrims mark WWI outbreak anniversary in France
Thousands of British men and women journeyed to battlefields in France and Belgium to observe the fourteenth anniversary of the war. Led by the Prince of Wales and Lord Jellicoe, along with Lady Isaig and other dignitaries, the pilgrimage honored the memory of the conflict.
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France
Belgium
Prince of Wales
Lord Jellicoe
Isaig
British secretary Austen Chamberlain misses Paris signing
Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, has been ill and cannot attend the August 27 Kellogg anti war treaty signing in Paris. Lord Cushendun will act in his stead, appointment made by the king. Germany, unsettled by Chamberlain's illness, hopes Stresemann can push Rhineland questions at Paris and Geneva. The German press criticizes Cushendun's appointment.
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Austen Chamberlain
Paris
Lord Cushendun
Germany
Chamberlain
Rhineland
Stresemann
Geneva
Cushendun
Obregon party disbands as Calles gains free rein
The Obregonist party dissolves with its general secretary backing President Calles, enabling his reconstruction program including agrarian reforms, hacienda rehabilitation, agrarian credit and banks, and promotion of foreign capital and immigration. Congress backs Calles. Aaron Saenz may run for president. Bishop Miguel de la Mora defends clergy amid murder allegations, naming mental illness in Mother Superior Concepcion Acebeda de la Llata’s family.
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Mexico
Calles
Congress
Aaron Saenz
Nueva Leon
Miguel de la Mora
Mexico City
General Obregon
Concepcion Acebeda de la Llata
President Coolidge's Camera Talk at Cedar Lodge
President Coolidge and Gen. Herbert Lord discuss government department estimates at Cedar Lodge on the Brule. Focused on the anticipated Post Office deficit, forecast by Postmaster General New after the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered higher payments to roads carrying mail. President blames postal laws enacted by the last Congress over his vetoes.
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Brule Vay
Herbert Lord
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Congress
United States wins at Amsterdam Olympics with 173 points
The United States tops the Amsterdam track and field meet with 173 points, followed by Finland 102 and Great Britain 46. In women’s events Canada leads with 34 points, the United States 28. The marathon winner is El Quail of Paris, Mexico? Actually El Quail, an Algerian metal worker, with Manuel Plaza of Santiago second. Jose Ray places fifth.
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Canada
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Paris
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Santiago
Chile
Jose Ray
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