Huey Long Fails to Stop NRA Extension Vote
Huey Long mounts a 16 hour filibuster to block extending the NRA skeleton for a new term. Garners clashes with senators as he attacks Roosevelt and reads aloud while the vote ends 41 to 13 in favor of extension. The measure preserves the New Deal framework with voluntary business accords and antitrust tweaks.
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Enator
Huey Long
Louisiana
Senate
Gore
Huey
Schall
McCarren
NRA
National
Racketeers’ Association
Victor Hugo
Borah
House
White House
Donald Richberg
Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
Old Brain Trust
Borah Support Grows In Idaho Ahead Of Presidential Bid
Idaho groups form Borah for President clubs as Ralph Brashears of Boise endorses the candidate calling Borah to emancipate people from a vast bureaucratic government. The article also notes James J Braddock defeating AX-BAER in a heavyweight title bout with a close 1 round decision.
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William E. Borah
Idaho
Ralph Brashears
Boise
Mr. Borah
AX - Baer
James J. Braddock
Long
Ipland
City
Man
China Faces Japanese Demands as Peiping and Tientsin Move
In the shifting crisis, Japan presses demands on the Nanking government while troops advance toward Peiping and Tientsin. Kuomintang branches close as central authority weakens. Ho Ying-ching prepares for contingencies amid rising tension. An armistice ends the Gran Chaco war between Paraguay and Bolivia, with U S and six nations mediating. In Essen, Germany a munitions plant explosion destroys the town, killing 52 and injuring many amid strict censorship.
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North Chi
Nanking
Peiping
Tientsin
Great Wall
Yellow River
Kuomintang
People's Party
Central Council
Gen
Ho Yingching
Paraguay
Bolivia
Gran Chaco
Buenos Aires
United States
Brazil
Argentina
Peru
Chile
Uruguay
World Court
Hague
Mussolini defies critics as Britain Ethiopia clash escalates in Europe
Mussolini denounces Britain over Ethiopia and headlines a harsher Italian stance from Cagliari. The article notes rising British interference boosting Italian support for war plans, while devolution in the U.S. realm pursues railway and transport regulation. Kidnapping case in Tacoma widens with Waley couple arrested in Salt Lake City. Shriners’ convention in Washington boosts Imperial leadership in Seattle.
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Reat
Britain
East Africa
Italy
England
Mussolini
Rome
Il Duce
Cagliari
Sardinia
Ethiopia
Gusher Tale and Oil History Highlight 300 Years
A Chicago Daily News summary recalls the first American oil gusher at Burksville Kentucky in 1820 and Dr. Gustav Egloff’s talk on Three Hundred Years of Oil A Story of Conservation. It notes early refining methods and a rise in oil chemists from 8891 to 25274, with annual research spend over 200 million dollars.
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Hell
Cumberland River
Burksville
America
Satan
American Chemical Society
Gustav Epgloff
Cuba
New York
Chicago Daily News
Sign Language Link Seen Between Indians and Caucasus Tribes
Professor Marr of Moscow's Institute of Anthropology alleges similarities between North American Indian sign language and Caucasus sign systems in Russia. The study, aided by Archibald Phinney in Moscow, aims to trace Asiatic homeland origins of American Indian ancestors, a hypothesis supported by many anthropologists.
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North America
Caucasus Mountains
Russia
N. J. Marr
Russian Institute of Anthropology
Moscow
Baltimore Sun
Deal
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Marr
Archibald Phinney
Caucasus
Asia
Time Zone Boundaries Explained Across Regions
The eastern time belt runs from the Atlantic to a line roughly through Toledo Nortonton Johnson City Ashe ville Atlanta Macon and Apalachicola. The central zone extends to a line through Mandan Pierre McCook Dodge City and along western Oklahoma and Texas. The mountain Pacific boundary runs along Montana Salmon river western Idaho Idaho boundaries Ogden Salt Lake City Parker Yuma.
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Atlantic Ocean
Toledo
Ohio
Norton
Johnson City
Tenn
Ashaville
N. C
Atlanta
Macon
Apalachicola
Fla
Mandan
N. D
Pierre
S. D
McCook
Neb
Dodge City
Kan
Oklahoma
Texas
Montana
Salmon River
Idaho
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Utah
Parker and
Yuma
Ariz
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Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Senator Long
Mitchell
Tennessee
War Department
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Kansas
Labor Department
United States Employment Service
Middle West
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Union
New Salem State Park
Lincoln
Fair Grounds Coliseum
George W.bunn
Lock Committee
Harrizon E. Spangler
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Spangler
Frank C. Lowden
Tilmots
Frank Q. Lowden
Lowden
Congress
Robinson
Arkansas’harmaceutical Association
France
Lava
Germany
London
Einsdorf
Berlin
Ong
Interstate Commerce Commission
Office of Federal Co
Joseph B. Eastman
George Weyerhaeuser
Tacoma
Harmon M. Waley
Margaret
William Mahan
Butte
Mont
Waley
Ashington
Leonard P. Steuart
G. Arnold
Fargo
Seattle
Indianapolis Speedway
Firestone
Kelly Petillo
Wilbur Shaw
Fistone Aeakk
Richard Coicnet
Suertbont
Meratset
San 5
Orion
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