Duke and Wallis Marriage in France Sparks UK Crackdown
In Monts France the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Warfield wed in a civil ceremony and a church service. Vicar Jardine conducted the religious rites as Marcel Dupre played the organ. Downing Street ordered publicity curbs and stamps bearing Edward’s likeness destroyed. The couple honeymoon at Wasserleonburg Castle as the government plans wage and hour standards and farm tenant assistance.
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Duke
Wally
England
R. Anderson
Jardine
Darlington
Durham
Chateau de Cande
Monts
France
Edward, Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
Church of England
Wasserleonburg Castle
Lower Austria
Chateau
Mercier
Wallis
Marcel Dupre
Charles Bedaux
New York
Downing Street
Edward
United Kingdom
Plane Wreck Found After Six Months Missing Flight
December 15 1936 pilot S J Samson from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City vanished with four aboard. Wreckage found high in Wasatch mountains 25 miles SE of Salt Lake City, 35 miles off course. All four died. jewelry cargo sparked guard shootings. Four locals discovered plane and sought a $1000 reward.
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S. J. Samson
Western Air Express
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
Milford
Utah
Wasatch Mountains
Roosevelt Foes Split Democrats Face Supreme Court Battle
News notes U S Senate inquiry into tax dodging by wealthy leading to broader reform aims. Also reports Harlow dies at 26, Mussolini shows naval strength, labor moves in Chicago and Ford union rise, Japanese cabinet reshuffle, Nazi church clashes, Rockefeller estate, and new social security board expansions under Altmeyer.
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Senate
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Finance Committee
House
Robert L. Doughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means
Il Duce
von Blomberg
Mediterranean
Tr Duce
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Werner von Bomberg
Naples
Italy
Galeazzo Ciano
Eric Drummond
Spain
Capitol Hill
Supreme Court
PWA
Hugh Stewart
Magill
Chicago
American Federation of Investors
Harold Groves
The
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Groves
Morgenthau
Hyde Park
Columbia
Professor Magill
Brownlow
Treasury
Auburn
Ill
Dartmouth
University of Chicago
Tax Commission of
Porto Rico
Seckless Jerry Simpson
Commonwealth Edison
Tt’s
Social Security Board
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Altmeyer
de Pere
Wis
Wisconsin University
Wisconsin Tax Commission
Wisconsin Industrial Commission
NRA
WNU
Administration pressures House to pass historic relief bill
President Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins pressed through a large work relief bill as House members reluctantly yielded. The chamber defeated restrictive amendments earmarking 505 million for flood control and highways before approving the measure 323 to 44, sending it to the Senate.
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House
Mr. Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Senate
Rhodes Dream of Cape to Cairo Railroad Fades
The piece recalls Cecil Rhodes and the late nineteenth century imperial scramble for Africa. It notes England’s uncompleted grand railroad from Cape to Cairo and attributes the delay to economic factors rather than politics as locomotives face competition from airplanes and motor cars.
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England
Cape
Cairo
Cecil Rhodes
Cee
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