Inflation victory and looming debt talks shape early 1930s policy
The Thomas inflation amendment to the farm relief bill wins in the Senate with administration backing, while anti inflationists led by Senator Reed fight the measure. Debate centers on devaluation powers, gold standard, and possible gold clause changes. In White House talks, Roosevelt, MacDonald, and Herriot discuss debt settlements, disarmament, and a plan to reopen talks to reduce war debts and stabilize world currencies.
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Senate
Roosevelt
Herriot
Backeo
House
David A. Reed
Pennsylvania
Reed
Tydings
Maryland
Thomas
Oklahoma
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Mellon-Mills-Reed” Group
Hoover
White House
MacDonald
Edouard Herriot
France
Wis 1
Great ‘Britain
M.jerriot
Congress
World leaders gather as Bennett and others push talks
Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bennett arrived in Washington to meet the president and discuss closer US-Canada trade. Italian Finance Minister Guido Jung, German Hjalmar Schacht, and Viscount Ishii of Japan were en route, with Canada signaling openness to proposals that could enhance commercial ties with the United States.
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NIME
Richard B. Bennett
Canada
Washington
Guido Jung
Italy
Hjalmar Schach
Germany
Japan
Kikujiro Ishii
Bennett
United States
Ottawa
Rhodes
Currency Crisis Rewrites U S Financial Rules Under Roosevelt
William Brickite analyzes the shift away from the gold standard initiated by President Roosevelt in 1933. He explains the banking holiday, the embargo on gold exports, and the new authorities granted to the President to issue currency. The piece details potential inflationary measures, Federal Reserve actions, and the role of silver as foreign payments, outlining implications for dollar value, prices, and bank lending.
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66 Epublican Federal Associates
Walter Yr. Brown
Ogden Mills
Treasury
Hoover
Arch Coleman
Washington
W. Irving Glover
Roosevelt
Ernest Lee Jahncke
Mills, Brown
Roy D. Chapin
Arthur M. Hyde
William N. Doak
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Walter E. Hope
the Treasury
James J. Patchell
Union City
Ind
Longworth
Castle
Maos
St. Paul
Jahneke
Harry Culver
Culfer
Calif
Coleman
Glaser
John Richardson
Boston
Ferry K. Heath
Albert G. Sims
New Mexico
America
United States
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Banks
Senate
Ife
Reserve Banks
Reserve Institutions
Federal Reserve
Payniens Ste
Montana Outlook Casts Light On Beans Wheat And Potatoes
Montana extension economist Paul Carpenter notes three crops, beans, wheat and potatoes, show varied prospects in 1933. Beans see reduced production and stable demand, wheat faces a clouded outlook with drought and tight markets, while potatoes hint at limited price gains and decreased acreage across regions.
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Bozeman
Montana
Paul Carpenter
Carpenter
Montana groups plan meetings and projects across the state
The annual Montana Woman's Christian Temperance Union meet rolls into Missoula September 12 to 14. Wool clips from Charles M. Bair at Martinsdale and Lewistown sold for 16 cents a pound to Silberman & Sons of Chicago. Montana Masons dedicate Three Forks temple with 250 delegates. Intermountain Union college gym work resumes after funding delay. Central Montana fair decision due June 2. Gallatin farmers to plant malt barley seed from Wisconsin. Miles City summer normal opens June 12. Montana licenses tally near 90 thousand with fees over 179 thousand last year. Five million wall-eyed pike to be planted in Tongue and surrounding rivers. Michigan grayling eggs exchanged. Montana wheat stocks reach 20.6 million bushels on April 1.
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Montana Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Missoula
Charles M. Bair
Martinsdale
Lewistown
Silberman & Sons
Chicago
Montana
American Waterworks Association
Havre
H. 8. Thane
Billings
M. D. Rowland
Libby
Montana Masons
Masonic Temple
Three Forks
Intermountain
Union College
Board of
Central Montana
Fergus County
Eastern Montana Normal School
R. H. Wollin
Custer County High School
State Game Department
Tongue
Yellowstone
Marias
Great Falls
Missouri River
Michigan
Montana Department
Michigan Department of Conservation
Boundaries and alliances reshaped by rising Europe tensions
Edouard Benes warned Prague that altering Czechoslovakia's borders requires war, condemning Mussolini's plan as a backward step. Russia nears a Japan clash over China’s eastern railway, aligning with France as Pan Germanism faces Pan Slavic forces in a shifting European balance.
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Poland
Czechoslovakia
Edouard’ Benes
Prague
Russia
Japan
France
Germany
Italy
Far East clashes and Nazi anti Jewish drive reported
Continued Chinese resistance near Kupeikow pass threatens Peiping as Japan launches a southward push toward the Great Wall and Old Beijing. In Germany Goebbels rails at Jews while May 1 is hailed as a national labor day. Romania enforces a ten day Jewish shop boycott in Bukovina. Nellie Ross named director of the mint, citing her Democratic leadership roles.
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Kupeikow Pass
Peiping
North China
Great Wall
Japan
Germany
Joseph Goebbels
Cologne
Goebbels
Kiel University
Romania
Bukovina
Ormer
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Wyoming
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Massigli
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R. B. Bennett
William Brickite
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