Prohibition Vote Fails in House Reform Push Ends
House debate on repealing the Eighteenth Amendment ends with 272 for repeal and 144 against after Rainey moves a rules suspension. Bachmann delivers 108 Republicans, but 2.7 fewer than two thirds blocks passage. Democrats line up against while some lame ducks vote with opposition. President Hoover urges budget cuts and banking reform in state of the union message. Senate shifts with new members Reynolds and Grammer. Huey Long delivers lengthy address on his influence.
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Carcely
Congress
Garner
House
Judiciary Committee
Rainey
Hlinois
Carl G. Bachmann
West Virginia
Ways and Means Committee
James W. Collier
Mississippi
Collier
Freet Roosevelt
Senate
Hoover
Walter Walker
Colonado
Karl Schuyler
Walker
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
ES Grammer
Oregon
Huey
Kingfish" Long
Louisiana
Christmas five Burglar
A fragment notes political shifts in Germany with Kurt von Schleicher as chancellor and Friedrich Syrup joining as labor minister while Nazis seek strategic moves. It also covers hunger marches in Washington led by William Reynolds and Raymond Benjamin, and disarmament talks in Geneva with Norman Davis promoting a five-power plan. The piece mentions Einstein's passport inquiry in Berlin and Britain and France agreeing to war debt installments in Paris.
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Kurt von Schleicher
Germany
Franz von Papen
Friedrich Syrup
Federal Labor Exchange
Washington
Curtis
Garner
White Horse Grounds
William Reynolds
Raymond Benjamin
Geneva
Norman Fi
Davis
France
Great Britain
Berlin
von Neurath
von Schleicher
Rof
Albert Einstein
United States
Wilson Observatory
California
Institute of Advanced Study
Our Fair Land
Woman's Patriot Corporation
Einstein
Communist International
Christmas Heist Plan Fails As He Breaks Onward
Thomas Mare plots to steal six thousand three hundred fifty dollars from Theodore Longman to fund a better Christmas for his family. At the crucial moment Mare cannot lift the money, leaving the scheme and his dignity in ruin, while Longman is promoted and keeps the cash.
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Thomas Mare
Adalia
Atord
Longman
Long Island
Theodore Longman
Mare
Thomas
Marc
Ostmas
Miss Matilda Longman
Curry
McClure
Cwnu. Servi
Roosevelt returns from Warm Springs to steer New York session
Franklin D Roosevelt ends a two week Warm Springs vacation and heads to New York to address the opening of a special legislative session. He receives Augusta Georgia invitation to attend the January 12 opening of the Bobby Jones golf course while Federal Judge Wilkerson asks Hoover to avoid resubmission of his circuit court nomination.
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Ranklin D. Roosevelt
Warm Springs
New York
Roosevelt
Augusta
Augusta National Golf Course
Bobby Jones
Hoover
Senate
James H. Wilkerson
Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Wilkerson
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Farmers Seek Relief as Irregularities Amid Roosevelt Plan Debates
Paragraphs describe a petition demanding Davis be ousted and Rupp seated amid alleged irregularities and fraud. About 70,000 Philadelphia votes, large Farm Bureau and Grange backing, and calls for immediate farmer relief. Roosevelt's domestic allotment plan looms with legislative moves debated by Jones and McNary.
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Ing
Davis
Petitod
Rupp
Philadelphia
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Lem Harris
The
Farmers’ Relief Conference
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Koover
Hitler
Paul von Aindenburg
Special Assembly
League of Nations
Manchuria
Japan
League
Lytton
Manchukuo
Joseph Connolly
Irish Free State
Aime
MacDonald
Herriot
Paris
Great
Britain
Chrismas
Gen. von Schleicher
Baron von Neurath
Fannie
Hurst
Wenty
Thomas Mure
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