Labor Rift Deepens as Roosevelt Signs Tobacco Code
President Roosevelt signs the cigarette industry code amid growing labor tensions. Labor leaders protest Williams as board chairman, seek a prevailing wage clause, and warn of widespread strikes. Separate inquiries probe the Macon dirigible disaster with survivors detailing escape and structural questions.
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Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
S. Clay Williams
Federation Council
Willams
Federation
William Green
Federation of Seventeen
International Unions
Runo Hauptmann to die in electric chair this week
Runo Hauptmann faces execution in Trenton New Jersey during the week of March 18 unless a stay is obtained by appeal. Jurors needed over twelve hours for their verdict. Two women reportedly favored mercy, but the verdict imposed death for the Jindbergh baby murder.
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Runo Hauptmann
Trenton
N. J
Jindbergh
Roosevelt Narrowly Survives Senate Appropriations Fight
President Roosevelt won a tight vote in the senate appropriations committee as a $2 billion cut to the $4.88 billion work relief bill failed 12 to 11. McCarran’s wage payment amendment was adopted in compromise, watchdogs warn it could raise costs by more than $2 billion and thwart the bill’s aim. McCarran plans to push it on the senate floor. The AFL argues the issue will sway several key decisions.
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Roosevelt
Senate Appropriations Committee
Pat McCarran
McCarran
Senate
American Federation of Labor
White House
Morgenthau
Capitol
Congress
Ickes
Stelief
Hopkins
Moffett
Jesse Jones
House
Hauptmann
Capitol Hill
Hitler demands plebiscite on Austria and equal armaments
The article reports Hitler's counter proposals to Franco British plans including a plebiscite to decide Austria’s union with Germany and insistence on equal armaments. He rejects an eastern security pact based on mutual aid and ties disarmament to an air pact while seeking parity with Soviet air power. Britain signals full acceptance or rejection only.
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Hancellor Hitler
der Fuehrer
Austria
Hitler
Poland
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Japan
France
Great Britain
England
Belgium
Italy
der Reichsuehrer
Bolivians Hold Villa Montes as Offensive Pressures Grow
Dispatches from Bolivia claim Bolivian forces defend Villa Montes in the Gran Chaco against General Estigarribia’s Paraguayan campaign. After three days of fierce fighting, Bolivians reportedly repelled attacks in the Nancorainza sector, threatening to blunt the Paraguayan advance and force a northern retreat.
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Bolivia
Villa Montes
Gran Cnaco
Estigarribia
Nancorainza
Estigatribla
National Labor Board Urges Clarification of Section 7 A
Francis Biddle and the National Labor Relations Board propose clarifying section 7 A of the Recovery Act amid a long running dispute with the American Federation of Labor. William Green and AFL leaders demand stronger rights for bargaining and a ban on company unions. The board defends the majority rule after six months of work as the administration seeks to keep 7 A unchanged in the NRA law draft.
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Francis Biddle
National Labor Relations Board
American Federation of Labor
William Green
National Labor Board
NRA
Bonus Payment Clash Tests Roosevelt as Patman Presses Plans
The debate over paying World War I bonus certificates grows sharper with Patman urging immediate action and opposing camps backing bonds or new currency. The American Legion and American Liberty League clash over financing, while a Supreme Court delay on gold clause rulings fuels government caution ahead of a possible Roosevelt response.
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Hether
Roosevelt
Patman
Texas
Frank N. Belgrano
American Legion
American Liberty League
League
Vinson
Congress
United States Supreme Court
Charles C. Cropley
Hughes
Cummings
Rome Set to Award 1944 Olympics to Tokyo
OME and Tokyo emerge as top bidders with Tokyo favored to win. Count Soyoshima of the Japanese Olympic committee met Premier Mussolini in Rome and secured a swap: Japan will back Rome for 1944 to celebrate six hundred years of empire, after initial resistance.
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Ome
Tokyo
Soyoshima
Mussolini
Rome
Japan
Tr Duce
Far East tensions and U S policy under debate
The piece analyzes rising Japanese military moves in north China and their threat to Russia’s Far East supply lines, plus how U S policy under President Roosevelt and the AAA faces pressure from Congress over spending, employment goals, and who directs the brain trust after Chester Davis’s July 1 retirement.
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Washington
Geneva
Tokio
Stimson
Far East
Japan
Russia
China
Janpan
United States
Chester C. Davis
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Davis
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Brain Trust
AAA
Rexford G. Tugwell
Wallace
Are we a tobacco smoking nation
A 1930s analysis cites war influence on U S tobacco use with figures for cigars and cigarettes across 1916 to 1938 and notes per capita consumption. It argues that wartime and depression shaped rising cigarette use while cigar demand fell, presenting a nation clearly heavy with tobacco consumption.
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United States
Howard Florance
Self Punishment and Anger as Personal Retribution
A reflective aphorism notes that feeling anger toward others translates into self-inflicted punishment, framing self-control as restraint from blaming others. The line attributes the insight to Goethe and uses concise moral psychology.
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