Butler warns of plot to seize U S government
General Butler testifies to Congress on a supposed Wall Street backed movement to form a half million man force to take over the government and ally with Mussolini. MacGuire and Col. Clark deny the plan and call it a joke while noting libel threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smedley D. Butler
Congressional Committee
Wall Street
United States
John W. McCormack
New York
General Butler
New York Evening Post
Butler
Gerald P. MacGuire
Stock Exchange
Grayson M. P. Murphy and Company
Washington
MacGuire
Roosevelt
Mussolini
Italy
American Legion
Douglas Mace-Arthur
United States Army
Hanford MacNider
MacArthur
MacNider
Mr. Murphy
Col
Robert S. Clark
New Yorker
Clark
Chicago
France
Murphy
McCormack
Roosevelts Geographical Quiz Fights St Lawrence Pact
The St Lawrence seaway treaty faces a two thirds Senate hurdle with regional interests shaping votes. Massachusetts Rhode Island New York and other states fear port and railroad impacts on local economies, while the president pushes power benefits and inland freight relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Massachusetts
David I. Walsh
James A. Farley
Congress
Farley
Marcus A. Coolidge
Bay State
Boston
St. Lawrence
Europe
St. Lawrence Seaway
Washington
Rhode Island
Providence
Maine
Portland
New York
Erie Canal
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Louisiana
New Orleans
Joe Guffey
Pennsylvania Railroad
George L. Radcliffe
Baltimore
Mr. Roosevelt
Middle West
Northwest
Tennessee Valley Project
New England
Reconstruction of Skeletons Solves Italian Double Murder
In September 1916 in New York a contractor unearthed two skeletons at Hegemann Avenue and Powell Street. Detectives identified Hos sarlo Passerelle and Dominic La Rosa, victims linked to the Black Hand. They reconstructed La Rosa’s likeness to spot suspects Giovanni Romana and Victor Picciatta, who were arrested for homicide. Lieut Grant Williams and Dr Pecchini led the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abrahim Sagalowitz
Hegemann Avenue
Powell Street
New York
Police Department
Hossarlo Passerelle
Passerelle
Dominic la Rosa
la Rosa
Italy
New York City
Santa Maria
Doaminte la Rosa
Giovanni Romana
Victor “Picciatta
Grant Williams
New York Police
Dr. Pecchini
City
WNU Service
New Federal Body Proposed to Regulate Trade Actions
Ronald J. Richberg executive director of the national emergency council urged at the Associated Grocers of America convention in New York the creation of a federal body combining NRA and FTC powers to regulate concerted trade action in the twilight zone under antitrust law. He backed permanent NRA legislation and opposed price and production controls while praising minimum wage and maximum hour rules as curbing unfair competition against employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onald J. Richberg
National Emergency Council
Associated Grocers of America
New York
NRA
Federal Trade Commission
Biddle to chair National Labor Board in Roosevelt plan
Francis Biddle, Philadelphia lawyer from Barnes Biddle and Meyers, named by President Roosevelt as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board succeeding Lloyd K. Garrison. Biddle will handle settling labor disputes under the recovery act, especially those involving collective bargaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nousevelt
United States Steel Corporation
American Federation of Labor
William Green
U. S. of L
National Lator Relations Board
Monde
Federation of Labor
Green
White House
Brereton
National Labor Relations Board
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
B. F. Goodrich Company
Akron
Ohio
America Federation of Labor
NRA
Labor Board
Goodyear Rubber Company
Goodyear
Firestone
Goodrich
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Francis Biddle
Familly
Lloyd K. Garrison
Law School
University of Wisconsin
Barnes, Biddle, and Meyers
Eastern District of
Pennsylvania
Buttons on sleeves a fashion ornament origin tale
A field of sleeve buttons traces a fashion ornament with unknown origin. One tale credits Prussian king Frederick the Great who supposedly ordered a row of buttons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick the Great
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Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Gen. Smedley D. Butler
National
J. R
Carl
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
District of Columbia
Afr
McCarl
FERA
Henry J. Harriman
United States Chamber of Commerce
Silas Strawn
Chamber
National Association of Manufacturers
Unite States
National Economy League
Tupelo
Miss
TVA
Birmingham
WRTY
Huey Louz
Civil “Service Commission
Amin
By Carter Field
London
Japan
Britain
America
Amieticasy
American State Department
Charles Ivans Hughes
Albion
Nippon
New Zealand
Great Britain
Dominions
Rance
Germany
Victor Denaln
Reich
Chamber of Deputies
Ugh R. ‘Wilson
Switzerland
Geneva
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