Senate balks at finance bill while Hoover signs relief plan
Eight senators from western states opposed the administration bill creating a reconstruction finance corporation to extend 2 billion dollars in credit to banks insurers railroads and related firms. A key amend ment by Senator Ellison Smith added 50 million for farm loans with drought relief funds redirected. James A Farrell resigns as United States Steel president to be effective April 18 with retirement duties shifting to younger leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NLY
Senate
Creating & Reconstruction’ Finance Corporation
House
Hoover
Ellison D. Smith
South Carolina
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Western States
Norris
Nebraska
Brookhart
Iowa
Blaine
Wisconsin
Bratten
New Mexico
Bulow
South Dakota
Connally
Texas
McGill
Kansas
Thomas
Oklahoma
James A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
Farrell
Senate approves land bank funding and loan relief bills
The senate advanced an economic program with a 3.125 billion increase for federal land banks. Committees began hearings on a 150 million home loan discount bill and a 750 million depositors relief bill. The finance committee continued testimony on foreign securities deals involving international bankers. Notably, Secretary Stimson and Francis White discussed a misunderstanding with Colombia and a National City syndicate. Oliver Townsend was reprimanded for pessimistic Peru loan reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Jn Foreign Securities
Stimson
Francis White
National City Company
Oliver C. Townsend
Peru
United States
Holmes resigns from Supreme Court after thirty years of service
Oliver Wendell Holmes, aged ninety one and increasingly frail, voluntarily ends his thirty year tenure as associate justice. President Hoover accepts the resignation, praising the jurist's devotion. The letter closes with bowing to the inevitable and a note of finality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Han
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Supreme Court of the United States
Hoover
Justice Holmes
Newton D. Baker
Wilson
Curtis D. Wilbur
Coolidge
Navy
William Dewitt Mitchell
John W. Davis
William 8. Kenyon
Eighth District
United States Circuit Court
Robert von Moschzisker
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Nathan
Court of Appeals
New York
Learned Hand
James AL Wilt
Roosevelt Named to Governor General of the Philippine Islands
President Hoover sent Theodore Roosevelt to the Senate as successor to Dwight F. Davis. Roosevelt, 44, has governed Porto Rico since 1929 and earlier served as assistant secretary of the navy. James R. Beverly may become his successor in Porto Rico. House Ways and Means moves to raise taxes while Secretary Mellon faces impeachment charges in the judiciary committee based on alleged violations of law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight FP. Davis
Philippine Islands
New York
A.fe. PF
Roosevelt
Porto Rico
Lkely
James R. Beverly
Congress
House Ways and Means
Mellon
The
Treasury
Department
Judiciary Committee
House
Wright Patman
Texas
Texan
Alexander W. Gregg
Internal Revenue Bureau
State Land Department
United States General l and Office
State College
Bozeman
O. M. Spencer
United States Public Health Service
Montana
North Dakota
W. F. Cogswell
State Board of Health
Montana Dairy Products Manufacturers’ Association
Montana State College
Alfred Atkinson
D. G. Stivers
Butte Gun Club
J. A. Poore
Montana State Normal College
Dillon
Montana Congregational Conference
Livingston
L. B. McMullen
Claton
Montana Wool Growers Association
Murray Stebbins
Montana Experiment Station
Montana Extension Service
Certified Public Accountants
D. E. Richards
M.H. Saunderson
Otto Christianson
Glasgow
Earl Bronson
Havre
Arkansas widow Caraway elected to Senate first woman
Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas has been elected to the Senate, becoming the first woman to hold the post. Despite two independent challengers, her victory was considered assured after the Democratic nomination. She served the Senate temporarily from Governor Harvey Parnell. Democratic critics opposed Franklin D Roosevelt’s presidential nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RS. Hattie
W. Caraway
Arkansas
T. H. Caraway
Senate
Caraway
Washington
Harvey Parnell
French government crisis reshapes cabinet after spring elections
In a tumultuous political episode Laval formed a new French cabinet after Edouard Herriot refused to join the government until after the spring elections. Briand was left out, with no expected change in France’s foreign policy amid ongoing reparations and disarmament talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moe
Offoress
Edouard Herriot
Laval
Briand
France
Chancellor Bruening Faces Political Struggle Over Reparations Plan
Chancellor Bruening failed to win backing from Nationalists and fascists for extending President Von Hindenburg term via the Reichstag and threatened resignation. He sought an "iron front" ahead of the reparations conference but could not mobilize support. Bulgaria also announced it can pay no more reparations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruening
Germany
von Hindenburg
Reichstag
Bulgaria
Moe
Secretary Stimson Reaches Mutes on Mukden Assault
The Secretary of State finds the Mukden attack on Consul Co. B Chamberlain closed with penalties for those involved. Tokyo will discipline Major General Ninomiya and subordinate officers for actions by the military police. The neutral League of Nations commission heads to Manchuria at January end, joined by Gen. Frank R. McCoy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stimson
Japan
Agate
Co. B. Chamberlain
Mukden
Tokyo
Ninomiya
Commission of Investigation
League of Nations
Europe
Manchuria
Frank R. McCoy
Massie case dominates Hawaii crime investigations
Attorney General William D. Mitchell leads a sweeping probe into crime in Hawaii focusing on the killing of a native Hawaiian accused of attacking a naval officer’s wife. Lt. Thomas H. Massie, his mother-in-law, and two enlisted men face murder charges as Gov. Judd convenes a special territorial session to address Honolulu crime. Meanwhile anti-saloon leaders rally in Washington for a nationwide push ahead of 1932 campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ttorney
William D. Mitchell
Hawaii
Honolulu
House Naval Committee
Thomas H. Massie
Granville Tortescue
Joseph Kahahawal
Massie
Navy
Washington
Adams
Lawrence Judd
Eaders
United States
Anti-Saloon League
Tenete
F. Scott McBride
League
W. N. Ainsworth
Birmingham
Ala
William H. Murray
Oklahoma
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Patrick Callahan
Louisville
Ernest H. Cherrington
World League
Montana Inheritance Tax Loss Follows Supreme Court Ruling
Judge J J Greene of the state board of equalization says Montana will lose about 60000 dollars a year from an inheritance tax on transfers of stock in Montana corporations when the decedent resided outside the state. The federal decision tied such tax to residence, affecting holdings like Anaconda Copper. Half the revenue funded the general fund and the other half the school equalization fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Montana
United States Supreme Court
State Board of Equalization
First National Bank of Boston
Maine
Greene
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
United States
State General Fund
State Common School
Sweet Clover Proves Durable Pasture and Soil Aid
The article recounts farmer Freshour sowing a sweet clover field in spring 1926 and using it for hay and pasture. The crop grew tall, yielded seed, and provided ample forage. Despite a dry season in 1920 the clover outperformed other crops, with plans to plant again after plowing.
Standardized Milk Helps Cheese Yield in Trials
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station reports in Bulletin 108 on standardizing milk for Cheddar cheese. Professors Price and Germain detail trials aligning casein to fat at 0.7 ratio, yielding higher product value though cheese per hundred pounds milk slightly lower, notably when milk fat exceeds 85 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station
Sisters of Standardization of
Price and
Germain
Hoard
Dairyman
Build or Remodel for Better Farm Buildings
A Farm Journal note weighs options on whether to build a new dairy barn hog house or poultry house or remodel the existing structure. It cites fundamentals like ventilation insulation light and sanitation and suggests remodeling can add concrete floors more windows new roof ventilating system insulation and paint at lower material costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Journal
Feeding Soy Beans as Cattle Feed Examined
Ohio experiment station notes that soy beans can be used as a protein feed for fattening cattle but cattle fed beans eat less and gain slower than when fed Winseed or cotton seed meal. Whole beans reportedly palatable, but ground beans less effective at keeping cattle on feed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Gerlaugh
Ohio
Profitable Pork via Sanitary Pasture In Agric notes
Agricultural notes highlight pork production profits from good sanitary pasture. A North Carolina farmer, B Lewis of Fountain, Pitt County, produced 8,682 pounds of pork from a litter of 15 pigs at six months, selling at 6 cents a pound, totaling 217.92 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
Fountain
Pitt County
North Carolina
Senator Sorghum Questioned About Article on Rise
In a quoted exchange, Senator Sorghum notes a man who wants to publish a piece about his ascent to a respected position. The private secretary suggests meeting the man to determine if the aim is flattery or blackmail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sorghum
Also Mentioned on This Page
Supreme Court
Edward W. Pickard
E. D. Smith
Justice O. W. Holmes
Col
Theodore
Hose
Franklin
D. Roose
Cc. B. Chamberlain
Hicago
News of Montana
F. Scott Mc-Bride
Lewis & Walker
P. O
North
Wyoming
Butte, Mont
F. H. Bimrose
Richard McCarthy
East Granite
Butte, Montana
Land Office
Paw Wree
Pearl I. Smith
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!