Ickes foes face grand jury probe of PWA graft
Harold Ickes defends Public Works Administration as a special grand jury is summoned in Washington to probe alleged graft in the Texas canal project worth 4 million dollars. Assistant U.S. Attorney Fidelly leads the case as evidence of a large conspiracy surfaces among federal officials.
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Gonest
Harold" Ickes
Public Works Administration
Washington
PWA
United States
John W. Fidelly
Texas
Ickes
Public Works Administration Investigation Division
Texas Project
War Department
Belcher
Supreme Court
NRA
Alabama
Federal District Court
Court of Appeals
Bolshevik Defense Speech Highlights Strengthened Russian Army
In Moscow the vice commissar for defense reports the Red Army has grown from 600000 to 940000 in four years and pledges increased defense spending in 1935 amid fears of the growing military power. Fortifications on eastern and western fronts are reinforced.
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Russia
Moscow
Red Army
Treasury bill would broaden bond issuing for $9 billion
Debate in the house centered on increasing long term securities to fund public works and social security. Morgenthau said funds could be scarce without expanded authority. The measure creates a revolving bond fund totaling $20 billion and allows ten year bonds as low as $25 with no interest and 2 percent annual value growth. Meanwhile Japanese forces push in Manchukuo with towns captured amid border disputes and Sino Japanese tensions persist as Chiang Kai-shek leadership shows no accord.
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Senate
Roosevelt
Senate Finance Committee
House
Treasury
Reed
New York
Morgenthau
Congress
Treasury Department
Manchuk
Hailar
Manchukou
Outer Mongolia
Far
Eest
Japan
Chiang Kai-shek
Far East
R Hard Washburn Child Dies in New York
Former ambassador to Italy and editor of Collier's Weekly, R Hard Washburn-Child died of pneumonia at his New York home. He left Collier's post in 1921 to serve as ambassador, led U S at Genoa and Lausanne in 1922, authored several works and coauthored Mussolini's autobiography in 1927.
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R Hard Washburn - Child
Italy
Atetorney
New York
Pdst
Collier’s Weekly
United States
Genoa
Lausanne
Benito Mussolini
Government plan offers bond buyout for railroads
A proposed package with administration support would let the RFC purchase railroad bonds at market prices to ease bankruptcy led restructuring. Two thirds of bondholders must consent for court action, enabling a reorganization funded by exchanged or new government bonds.
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Washington
House
Senate
RVC
REO
REC
R&c
RFC
New York Cripple Creek
Two of the Best of Pie Family Recipes Featured
This fragment presents two pie recipes: Chocolate Custard Pie and Peach Pie. It lists crust and filling steps with eggs milk vanilla and chocolate for the Custard, and peach juice, peaches, and gelatin for the Peach Pie, plus oven temps and times. An advertisement for Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription appears at the end.
Great Men Stand Like Solitary Towers in the City
Poetic verse line reflects on nobility and isolation within a divine cityscape. The quotation evokes enduring stature and quiet strength in a spiritual metropolis, hinting at moral prominence without specific narrative.
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City of God
Form over brand in laxatives for safe dosage
A health note urges using liquid laxatives for easy measurement and avoiding overdose. It promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Peps with senna and cascara as a pleasant option to regulate bowels and relieve bilious sluggishness. It ends with a quote about a good book opening with expectation.
Pimples on Face Find Relief with Cuticura Soap
A Birmingham man reports a three year face and arm eruption causing itching and inability to shave. After trying many remedies he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, buying four cakes and one and a half boxes, and says he is completely healed. The ad notes prices and free sample offer from Collcura Laboratories in Malden, Massachusetts.
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Harry R. Hall
14Th Ave
Birmingham
Ala
Cura Laboratories
Dept. R. Malden
Mass
Adv
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