Coronation of George VI Crowned in Westminster Abbey
London celebrated the coronation of George VI and Elizabeth II with a grand two mile procession to Westminster Abbey, a formal recognition rite, and a second procession to Buckingham Palace. The event drew crowds, cost about $2,000,000, and featured modern touches like telephones and loudspeakers in the abbey.
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George
London
George VI
Great Britain
Canterbury
Westminster Abbey
Edward
Elizabeth
Tower of London
Abbey
House of Commons
Queen Mary
King George
Buckingham Palace
Dominions
Buckingham
St. James’ S
British Empire
Tours
France
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
Wallis
Simpson
Mrs
Airship Disaster at Lakehurst Kills 34 Passengers and Crew
Reported explosion on the Hindenburg as it neared Lakehurst New Jersey halted its first transatlantic run this year. Hydrogen ignition and static discharge are among leading theories as flames engulfed the ship, with Capt Ernst Lehmann among the dead and Capt William Pruss severely injured. A new airship is planned to resume North American service in autumn.
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Impo
Lakehurst
N. J
Europe
Navy
Ernst Lehmann
William Pruss
Pruss
Berlin
North America
Hopkins presses large relief sum as relief fight rages
Hopkins tells a House subcommittee that unemployment is permanent and that Congress must appropriate 1.5 billion for relief, while Woodrum vows to cut the appropriation by at least a third. Senator King seeks WPA abolition and an investigation into WPA spending. A forestry bill passes 171 to 153, proposing 2.5 million annually for converting farms to woodlands. Egypt ends foreign capitulations and sets 1937 sunset for foreign influence while allowing American institutes to continue. Italian Col. Marnox Pezzi sets new altitude record at 51,361 feet.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Harry Hopkins
Works Progress
House
Woodrum
Virginia
Hopkins
William H. King
Utah
Senate
Works Progress Administration
King
J. J. Cochran
Missouri
Cochran
Italy
Marnox Pezzi
R. F. D. Swain
England
Pezzi
Iuitaritude
Washington business men and congress clash on economy
A Washington commentary argues that business leaders at the Chamber of Commerce meeting echo congress in advocating budget cuts yet back costly programs like farm tenancy ownership and loan guarantees. It notes debates on gold pricing, a possible forty hour work week, and constitutional hurdles while stressing the need to balance economy with relief and reform measures.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Congress
Chamber of Commerce
United States Chamber
Chamber
Roosevelt- Farley
John H. Bankhead
Alabama
Federal Treasury
Lionel D. Edie
New York
Edie
Treasury
NRA
Supreme Court
New Deal
Roosevelt
Crochet Square Patterns for Tea Cloths and Scarves
Crochet them as shown to create 10 inch squares using cotton, with 6% inch sides. Join squares to make tea cloths, dinner cloths, spreads, or scarves. Pattern 1410 includes directions, charts, stitch illustrations, and material needs. Send 15 cents for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York, NY.
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Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Voyage Advice From Martin F P Tupper
A reflective line urges steady guidance through life’s perilous passage. The author invokes a steadfast tiller and the pole star as symbols of direction and safety in the face of time’s dark tide.
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Martin FP
Tupper
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