Prohibition Ends as States Move to Regulate Liquor Trade
President Roosevelt and officials announce the Eighteenth Amendment is repealed. States react with varied laws from wide open to strict retail controls, while agencies prepare import rules and quotas for foreign spirits. Choate appointed head of federal alcohol control. NRA and AAA powers debated with new NRA coordination.
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Ohio
Utah
Roosevelt
William Phillips
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Montana
Washington
Joseph H. Choate, Jr
New York
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Congress
House Ways and Masons Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Pan American conference opens in Montevideo with aims of economic cooperation
The seventh Pan American conference begins in Montevideo Uruguay with Enrique BE Buero as secretary general and 21 Western Hemisphere nations seeking cooperative measures to boost economic status. President Gabriel Terra opposes high tariffs tied to Roosevelt’s Hawley Smoot critique. The Bolivian Paraguay conflict in the Gran Chaco is noted. Secretary Hull leads the U S delegation with nine other foreign ministers present.
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Uruguay
Enrique BE. Buero
Germany
Gabriel Terra
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Gran Chaco
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Chaco
Western Hemisphere
Hull
United States
Soviet and Italian leaders discuss axis tilt in Rome
Russian foreign commissar Maxim Litvinov, returning from Washington, held talks with Premier Mussolini in Rome. Reportedly they agreed on Soviet Fascist collaboration to improve Europe and support Russia and the United States joining a four power pact. Litvinov was feted with a banquet by Mussolini before departing Rome.
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Secretary Swanson urges United States lead by example in disarmament
The secretary argues the United States should abandon leadership in the disarmament movement, build up treaty strength quickly, and view concessions as dangerous. He contrasts Japan and Britain’s projected fleet tonnage with U S limits, noting Japan’s displeasure with current ratios and forecasting continued naval and fiscal debates into 1934.
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Swanson
United States
Japan
British Empire
Naval Office
Tokio
Sweet Clover to Rise Under Wheat Program say Illinois bulletin
A new bulletin from the College of Agriculture at the University of Illinois notes sweet clover as a premier soil improvement crop for retired wheat acres under the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Since 1905 Illinois has expanded sweet clover from 48 000 to 850 000 acres by 1932.
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Wallace
Agriculture Adjustment Administrative
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
College of Agriculture, University of
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
United States
Corn Belt
Tilola
Ilinois
Illinois
Complex Mineral Feeds Save Farm Costs
A University of Illinois circular titled The Feeding of Mineral Supplements to Livestock argues complex mineral mixtures are usually unnecessary. Minerals should supplement balanced rations, with salt and calcium added, and calcium phosphate advised for dairy cows and pasture-based growing animals on poor soils.
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College of Agriculture, University Oflinois
H. B. Mitchell
Agricultural Trends and Crop Reports Across Regions
Insects threaten a tenth of world crops and oats are a top US cereal. Rice land in Hawaii shifts to potatoes while tobacco exports average forty percent. Montana hail losses peak since 1917, Minnesota tests rate peat soil crops with corn highest value. Garbanzo beans introduced in the lower Rio Grande valley of Texas. This year dairy profitability rises with favorable conditions.
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University of Minnesota Agriculturists
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