World News Review Highlights Italo Ethiopian War Drift
The review notes Italian advances in Tigre province with a 70 mile stretch from Adigrat to Aksum as Ethiopians suffer air raids. British Foreign Secretary Hoare urges peace talks without empire war aims while Baldwin backs rearmament. Roosevelt returns to D C praising planned economy and workers program, with Canada forming a Liberal government under King and Bennett resignations.
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Hoare
Stanley Baldwin
Anthony Eden
Geneva
Baldwin
Labor Party
Laval Seeks Peace While Nations Impose Italian Trade Embargo
Fifty two League of Nations members declared a boycott on Italian goods and an embargo on key exports to Italy. The move would affect about two thirds of Italy’s export trade funding the African war. Officials aim to offset losses with aid and credits while Laval pursues a peace solution.
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France
Stiill
Great Britain
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Ethiopia
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Switzerland
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Mussolini
Not Guilty Verdict in ShuShan Tax Case in New Orleans
A federal jury in New Orleans cleared Abraham L. Shushan, associate of the late Senator Long, of owing $71,000 in taxes. The not guilty verdict prompted loud courtroom cheers while some photographers were attacked by former Long bodyguards amid the chaotic postverdict scene in Louisiana.
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Abraham L. Shushan
Senator Long
Long
Townsend plan convention gathered 5000 in Chicago
Early 5,000 men and women from across the United States met in Chicago for a Townsend plan national convention. The plan would grant every person sixty and older a $200 monthly income if they spent it within the month and earned no more than $2,400 a year. The California doctor who devised the plan attended as delegates began formulating a campaign to push Congress to adopt it.
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Chicago
California
New Haven Railroad Seeks Reorganization Under Amended Act
The New York New Haven and Hartford, serving densely populated regions, filed for reorganization under the amended bankruptcy act after failing to meet taxes of 4 million dollars and interest of 2.2 million. An attempted government loan was rejected by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroad drained its treasury of collateral to secure loans totaling 7.699 million from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3.531 million from the Railroad Credit Corporation and 1 million from banks.
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New York
New Haven
Hartford
Interstate Commerce Commission
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
WPA chief urges local aid shift to jobs for unemployed
Aubrey Williams acting WPA administrator asks states and communities to adjust care for the unemployables as federal aid narrows to job provision. He says six states have cut the dole and that relief administrations will liquidate in most remaining states by November, leaving the physically or mentally unable, the aged, and dependent mothers to rely on local efforts.
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WPA
Willams
Magill Warns Congress Over Investigators Rights
R Hugh Magill president of the American Federation of Investors writes to all members of Congress asking if Americans still have the right to express views on pending legislation without harassment. He opposes the death sentence for unnecessary holding companies and notes Senate lobby committee scrutiny. He refused to let committee readers access his private correspondence, calling the federation not a lobbying group.
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Magill
American Federation of Investors
Congress
Federation
Senate Lobby Committee
Death of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely at Ninety One
Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely U S A retired died at ninety one in Walter Reed hospital Washington. He was buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Greely led the 1881 Arctic expedition from which only he and seven others survived. He served with distinction in the Civil War and earned international acclaim for his later scientific work.
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Adolphus W. Greely
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Arlington National Cemetery
General Greely
Arctic
Arthur Henderson dies at 72 in London nursing home
Arthur Henderson long time foe of war and Nobel Peace Prize winner dies at 72 in a London nursing home after long illness. Former Glasgow iron moulder and Labour leader who served as foreign secretary, his disarmament crusade was shaped by his eldest son's World War death.
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Athur Henderson
London
Europe
Glasgow
Labor Party
Earthquake Shocks Tremor Elena Montana Fears
Elena Montana and much of the western region endured days of quake shocks. Two fatalities were reported though most damage involved wrecked or weakened buildings. Hundreds were displaced as temperatures plunged below freezing.
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Elena
Montana
Baron Carson Dies After Stormy Irish Political Career
WDWARD HENRY CARSON born 1854 in Dublin died in London aged 81. Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party opposed Home Rule and led Ulster resistance 1914. He later served in the British cabinet and championed partition of Ireland after World War I.
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Baron Carson of
Duncallin
London
Ulster” Party
France
Carson
Irish Free State
Sic
Farley builds National Machine shaping Roosevelt bid
Washington correspondent notes Jim Farley has forged a nationwide organization since 1930. He mobilizes Democrats on payrolls to register and vote, boosting Roosevelt’s campaigns and challenging Republican machines in Illinois Missouri and beyond.
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New York
Tiger
Republican
Philadelphia
Democratic
Baltimore
Chicago
St. Louis
Rooshan seeks teaching post at Massachusetts prep school
A bulky bearded man enters a Massachusetts headmaster’s office and announces his wish to teach. He claims to know several literatures, including Rooshan and Spanish, plus French and English, and boasts he can chin himself with one arm.
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