NRA Resolution Extends Recovery Act to 1936
Senate finance committee reports a simple resolution extending the National Recovery Act to April 1 1936 with conditions. The plan limits price fixing except for minerals, bans intrastate codes, and gives the President time to review codes. Roosevelt and Richberg opposed the extension. Harrison notes likely Senate passage. Fireside chat projects optimism, pledges works relief for 3.5 million and new Deal legislation. Morgenthau outlines a steep inheritance tax plan to fund relief, while Interior Department gains an undersecretary role.
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Senate
Donald Richberg
NRA
Senate Finance Committee
Clark
Missouri
Pat Harrison
White House
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Harrison
Senator Long
Father Coughlin
Talmadge
America
Treasury
Morgenthau
Mr. Morgenthau
Huey Long
President urges immediate enactment of key New Deal bills
The president warns Congress to pass the old age and unemployment insurance, NRA extension, public utility holding company, transportation control, and banking bills without delay. Business leaders push to delay unemployment, banking, holding company and other reforms to avoid further disruption.
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NRA
Henry I. Harriman
Congress
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National Association of Manufacturers
United States
Parker dam ruling shocks New Deal supporters
The Supreme Court held that Secretary Ickes lacked authority to dam navigable rivers without congressional authorization, nullifying PWA support for Parker dam and signaling possible challenges to other large reclamation projects funded by the agency. Ickes pledged to seek explicit congressional authorization for Parker dam.
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Parker Dam
Supreme Court
Secretary Ickes
Congress
PWA
Ickes
House military affairs chair apologizes to President over leakage
Chairman John J. M Swain of the House Military Affairs Committee sent a letter of apology to the President for disclosing defense plans outlined in executive sessions. He assumed full responsibility for the incident after the publication in a House document of possible plans against Canada and Atlantic Caribbean targets. Brig. Generals F. M. Andrews and Charles E Kilbourne had outlined the program before a secret committee meeting.
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John J. M’swain
House
Transcontinental flight and policy shifts stir observers
A TWA test plane set a new record by flying from Burbank to New York in 11 hours 5 minutes with robot guidance for most of the route, while figures discuss prohibition votes in Exans and strains in Franco German naval talks. The piece also notes Italian trade talks and looming corn and cotton policy storms affecting political prospects in the Midwest.
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Burbank
Calif
New York
D. W. Tominson
Harold Snead
Peter Redpath
Tomlinson
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Durango
Colo
Floyd Bennett Field
Allegheny Mountains
Towa
Illinois
Indiana
Mid-West
House
Georgia
Department of Agriculture
Department
South
Middle West
New England
Southern
AAA
Washington
Iowa
Final Night of Theft Ends in Betrayal on Quiet Street
A man and a servant woman conspire to steal seven hundred dollars meant for his birthday. After the exchange, a second man assaults the conspirator and flees, leaving the victim shaken and missing an envelope containing a necktie tied to a future marriage.
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Harry
Short
Third Party Move Emerges From Des Moines Meeting
Senator Long of Louisiana and allies in Des Moines Iowa advocate forming a third national political party. Milo Reno national president clashes with alleged Communists during a session. Reno denounces them as Wall Street racketeers and Soviet Mussia allies, orders them out.
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Senator Long
Louisiana
National Farmers’ Holiday Association
Des Moines
Iowa
Milo Reno
AAA
Reno
Wall Street
Republicans plan grass roots conference in Springfield
Nine midwestern state Republicans met at Excelsior Springs Missouri to set a Springfield venue for a grass roots conference. A June date is expected to be chosen later to rejuvenate the party and launch a campaign to restore popular government.
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Excelsior Springs
Springfield
Havana police crack Morro Castle fire mystery arrest three Spaniards
Police in Havana arrest three men from Catalan province accused of possessing letters ordering an act to precipitate a disaster similar to the Morro Castle. Authorities label the prisoners as well known anarchists amid recent marine calamities and the Magallanes ship threat.
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Morro Castle
Catalan
Spain
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