Mussolini Crisis Deepens as Europe Confronts Italy
In Geneva the Italian cabinet vows no retreat from its East Africa course amid Libya troop reinforcements and potential sanctions. Britain projects naval show of force as France backs hard line, while observers weigh League action and Roosevelt's stance on trade restrictions.
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John Bull
Liberty League says Wagner Connery act violates liberties
The American Liberty League committee of 58 lawyers declares the Wagner Connery labor relations act unconstitutional. The brief argues the statute unjustly infringes employer and employee liberties, labeling it invalid. The first in a series of opinions was prepared by subcommittee chair Earl F. Reed and members from Chicago New York Buffalo Cleveland Detroit Los Angeles Richmond. Copies went to all committee members.
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Desvernine
New York
James M. Beck
The
United States
Bainbridge Colby
Wilson
John W. Davis
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Ralph M. Shaw
Chicago
Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment
James A. Reed
Missouri
George W. Wickersham
Hoover
Commission On Law Enforcement
American Liberty League
Committee of Lawyers
Earl F. Reed
Pittsburgh
Harold Beacon
Harold Beacon, Chicagos-Harold’j. Gallagher, New York; D. .J. Kenefick
Buffalo
Harrison" B. McGraw
Cleveland
Gurney FE. Newlin
Los Angeles
Hal H. Smith
Detroit
E. Randolph. Williams
Richmond
Leonard
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Federation
Potatoes and Policy Stir Debate Over Federal Control
E Mercker now heads the AAA potato section amid ongoing fights over potato crop control. Porter R Chandler of Geneseo opposes the act and plans to grow and sell potatoes in defiance. Norman C Norman, a New York jeweler, joined Chandler by ordering six or more bushels of strictly ilegal potatoes to route via New Jersey, joking about a second purchase threatening penitentiary exposure.
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Interstate Early Potato Committee
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Wallace
Porter R. Chandler
Geneseo
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Chandler
Norman C. Norman
New York
Norman
New Jersey
Large turnout as Pa voters reject constitutional convention
Across the nation and Pennsylvania voters oppose a constitutional convention to modernize the state charter adopted 61 years ago. New Mexico voters also reject raising property exemptions to 2500 and four other amendments. In Manila the Philippine commonwealth is born with Manuel Quezon as first president and Sergio Osmena as vice president, Quezon to serve a six year term with a 15000 dollar salary.
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Pennsylvania
Earle
State Democratic Organization
Organized Labor
New Mexico
Phillippines Commonwealth
Manila
John M. Garner
Manuel Quezon
Emilio Aguinaldo
Gregorio Aglipay
Sergio Osmena
Manuel Roxas
Quintin Paredes
Camillo Oslas
National Assembly
Quezon
Commonwealth
United States
Washington
Eccles Reappointed Head of Federal Reserve System
The President reappoints Eccles to head the Federal Reserve Board to implement the new banking reform law. He advocates national monetary control, government spending in recessions, and tax in booms to curb debt. Treasury ads push baby bonds with $18.75 purchase and $25 maturity in 10 years.
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Federal Reserve System
The
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Nazi laws bar Jews from marriage to Germans and restrict citizenship
In Nuremberg a Nazi majority passed two laws penalizing Jewish marriages to German citizens and extramarital relations. Jews face bans on employing women under forty five and flag restrictions. A third law makes the Swastika Germany’s national emblem and limits citizenship to those of “German or kindred blood.” Hitler claimed these acts strike a blow against communism and Jewry.
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Jewish Delegations Appeal to League Over German Jews
The Committee of Jewish Delegations appeals to the League of Nations on behalf of German Jews, stating that the conscience of mankind will not tolerate Jews being degraded as pariahs in this century.
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Committee of
League of Nations
Germany
Smetona warns Memel defense over legality and justice
President Antanas Smetona grants a six year interview in which he defends Lithuania’s Memel position as lawful and essential. He warns that if force is used to override legality, Lithuania will defend Memel with all means. He stresses Memel as Lithuania’s economic necessity and seaport.
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Memel
Antanas Smetona
Lithuania
Permanent Court of International Justice
Smetona
Elder French statesman Jules Cambon dies at ninety
IDe4t 8 came to Jules Cambon, an elder statesman of France, in Vervey Switzerland. He was ninety years old and had lived in retirement since the end of World War I, though consulted by high French officials. His diplomatic career spanned nearly fifty years including a five year term as ambassador to Washington.
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Jules Cambon
France
Vervey
Switzerland
Washington
McCarl Finds No Federal Funding Authorization for Reedsville Furniture Plant
Comptroller General McCarl states there is no legal basis for using federal funds to build a furniture factory in Reedsville West Virginia. The project favored by Mrs. Roosevelt aimed to supply government offices and employ transplanted coal miners. Congress opposed, citing private industry discrimination, yet Interior proceeded with contracts and the building is about 60 percent completed.
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McCarl
Reedsville
W. Va
Roosevelt
McCarn
Congress
Department of the Interior
Iowa Farmers Union Demands Wallance Dismissal at Des Moines
The Iowa Farmers Union adopted resolutions in Des Moines calling for President Roosevelt to dismiss Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and to halt the AAA program. The group denounced the AAA as infamous, worthless and vicious and urged policy change amid hunger concerns.
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Iowa Farmers’ Union
Des Moines
Roosevelt
Wallace
AAA
Latin America policy shocks investors across the region
The article surveys how U.S. administration policies on utilities prompt Latin American nationalization fears and bond payments in bonds, with Britain and Italy shaping risk. It notes Colombia and Chile tensions, Cuban debt doubts, and potential Monroe doctrine implications amid a bleak outlook for American investors.
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Cordell Hull
United States
Great Britain
Mexico
Italy
Ethiopia
Britain
Peasant Cottage Pot Holder Set by Grandmother Clark
A vintage craft offer advertises a peasant cottage pot holder set with a fence scene. It includes stamped materials for potholder and container, binding for the fence, and simple instructions, available for 15 cents postpaid from Home Craft Co, St. Louis.
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Address Home Craft CO
Dept. A
Nineteenth and
ST. Louis Ave
ST. Louis
The Art of the Tooth Brush by Dr David W McLean
Hygeia urges deeper brushing habit and proper technique. Three minutes per session three times daily at rising lunch and bedtime is advised with emphasis on brushing as cleaning action not medication. Dentifrices are cleaning agents rather than cures.
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David W. McLean
D.D.S
Lark Hatches Eggs Under Oss Railway Day
A lark nests and hatches its eggs beneath the Oss railway in Holland as trains thunder over the line on Star day, drawing quiet observations from nearby observers.
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Oss
Holland
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