LaGuardia Triumphs in New York Mayor Race Amid Tammany Revolt
Dynamic Republican Fiorello H. LaGuardia wins mayoralty as fusion candidate defeats Joseph McKee and Mayor O'Brien. The result signals a setback for Tammany Hall and Farley, while sparking internal power struggles within the Democratic machine. Across the nation, cities shift as prohibition repeal advances in thirty-seven states, with Maine to ratify soon and other states moving to end the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Fiiorello H. Laguardia
New York
Tammany
Easiily
Joseph Y. McKee
Recovery
John P. O'Brien
Tammany Democrat
McKee
James Farley
Roosevelt
Farley
Tammany Hall
John F. Curry
Edward J. Flynn
Bronx
Alfred E. Smith
O'Brien
Bridgeport
Conn
Leon F. Roberts
Samuel A. Carlson
Pittsburgh
Mellon Republican
William McNair
Roosevelt Democrats
Frank Couzens
James Couzens
Detroit
Cleveland
Harry L. Davis
Boston
Frederick W. Mansfield
Hirty
Maine
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Utah
Kentucky
North
South Carolina
Midwestern Farmers Resume Picketing After Strike Call
Milo Reno of the National Farmers Holiday Association vows not to end the strike until federal demands are met. Protesting farmers disrupt markets as President Roosevelt declines a price fixing plan urged by governors Herring Olson Langer Schmedeman and Berry.
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Milo Reno
National Farmers’ Holiday Association
Middle West
Ateno
Roosevelt
George N. Peek
Agricultural Adjustment ‘Administration
Wallace
Herring
Olson
Langer
Schmedeman
Berry
White House
Ford cuts hours to meet 35 hour code following NRA row
Henry Ford begins layoffs to reduce work hours from 40 to 35 in line with a code limit. Recovery officials question the move while Ford says it complies with the letter of the law. Observers expect later clashes over collective bargaining as Detroit tool and die makers resume work under regional board deals. Swinging relief measures rise with a $400 million Civil Works Administration plan for 4 million on relief. Chicago expo 4 Century of Progress will reopen June 1934 with Dawes announcing renewed success.
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Enry Ford
General Johnson
Ford
Nra-Ford
Detroit
Regional Labor Board
Flint
Roosevelt
Civil Works ‘Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Hicago
Rufus C. Dawes
Harmony Bate Sf. T
Swope Plan and NRA Recovery Debate in 1930s
The column discusses Balbo's resignation as air minister and new Libya governorship, then shifts to the Swope plan for industry control under a national chamber of commerce with government oversight. It notes Roosevelt's flexible recovery stance, rail loans, farm payments, and liquor advertising rules in dry states, highlighting economic policy debates of the era.
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Hengen
Talo Balbo
Rome
Chicago
Mussolini
Balbo
Libya
Africa
Duce
Navy
Aviation
Washington
William Pitt
England
Swope
Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
NRA
Chamber of Commerce
Advisory and Planning Commission
Department of Commerce
Mr. Swope
Roosevelt
Why Children Need a Liquid Laxative
A medical lifestyle note promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe effective liquid laxative for children. It outlines a three step plan to select dose, use it gradually and reduce until regular movement occurs without aid. The piece claims it avoids bowel strain and kidney irritation associated with habit forming cathartics.
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Dr. Caldwell
Handelilor Dollfuss Moves Against Austrian Officials
Dollfuss, angered by officials and employees backing the Nazi movement, orders immediate removal. A federal commissar for personnel reform will identify and purge offenders.
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Handelilor Dollfuss
Soviet envoy Li tvinov in Washington for talks with Roosevelt
Axxim Litvinov met with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull in Washington for several days of productive discussion. Talks centered on an exchange of ambassadors between the United States and the Soviet Union and proceeded smoothly. Some issues may be addressed after Soviet recognition.
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Axim Litvinov
Washington
Roosevelt
Hull
United States
Russia
Florida Senator Seeks Disclosure of Inside Stock Trades
Senator Duncan A. Fletcher of Florida, chairing the senate committee on market and banking investigations, probes preventing insiders from using information for personal gain. He cites Wiggin and Dahl selling large blocks before a dividend and suggests requiring directors to publish stock transactions to inform the public.
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Duncan A. Fletcher
Florida
Senate
Albert H. Wiggin
Chase, National Bank
Gerhard M. Dahl
Brooklyn- Manhattan Transit Company
Fletcher
The Forty as a Symbol in Law and Lore
Pathfinder Magazine notes the number forty recurs in religious, legal, and literary contexts from Moses and Elijah to Magna Carta and the Arabian Nights. It explains quarantine origins, widow’s breathing space, and the phrase forty thieves as symbolic, not strictly numeric.
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Moses
Elijah
St. Louis
France
England
Wall Street
Pathfinder Magazine
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LaGuardia
Prohibition
Edward W. Pickard
F. H. LaGuardia
Midwest
Greek Court of Appeals
Samuel Insull
Athens
State Department
Lincoln MacVeagh
Greece
Maximos
Insull
Cuba
ABC
Ramon Grau San Martin
Havand
Fulgencio Batista
Grau
Machado
Adir Shat Ghazi
Afghanistan
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Nadir Shah
Bacho Sachao
Amanullah
Geo
N. Peek
Henry Ford
Gen
William Brackatt
Public Works Administration
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Department
Towa
Cummings
Big Jim
Bey
Jim” Reed
Missouri
Reed
Sen. Fletcher
Dean
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