Roosevelt policies and politics described in national briefing
A 1984 Washington briefing portrays President Roosevelt as courageous in policy gambles, with insiders noting confusion over recent decisions and a belief he balances views from conservatives and liberals. It highlights his illness and absence of confidant Louis Howe, and discusses NRA, CWA, and export policy while detailing weather and legislative margins affecting stock legislation.
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Washington, D.C
White House
Louis Howe
Roosevelt
Howe
Washington
New York
NRA
CWA
Warren
US Auto Exports Rise 43 Percent in 1933
Commerce figures show US automotive exports valued at 93.97 million dollars in 1933 up from 82.19 million in 1932. The gain marks a strong rebound in a year of economic strain.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Weather Outlook for Alabama and Tennessee Tonight
Fair tonight and Thursday with mild warmth. In Alabama and extreme Northwest Florida conditions stay fair with a slight rise in temperatures. Tennessee regions expect fair skies and warmer readings tonight and on Thursday, especially in the east and central areas.
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Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Tompkins Calls for Beer Protest Mass Meeting
Dothan attorney Oscar L Tompkins urged Houston County residents to attend a mass meeting at Foster Street Methodist Church to demand strict enforcement of the liquor laws. He posted a $1000 law enforcement fund and cited reports of slot machines and beer sales in drug stores and businesses.
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Oscar L Tompkins
Dothan
Foster Street Methodist Church
Tompkins
Grand Jury
H. A. Pearce
Houston County
Global dollar steady while Greece delays Insull decision
The dollar held near stability in London Paris and New York markets with a premium of over 1 percent on the French franc and pound. In Athens a blizzard delays a ruling on Samuel Insull Sr. and Metaxas returns to Plea Pon nessus. Hitler’s government abolishes the Reichsrat. In Greenwood Mississippi DA Jordan introduces letters in murder case against Dr Sarah Ruth Dean to show motive in the death of Dr John Kennedy.
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London
Paris
New York
Greenwood
Miss
Arthur Jordan
Sarah Ruth Dean
John Preston Kennedy
Jordan
Kennedy
Abolishment Of Lindbergh’s O R C Ranking Sought
Arthur W. McMahon of New York asks the Army to revoke Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s Officers Reserve Corps commission for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman after he sent a telegram to President Roosevelt protesting air mail contract cancellations. McMahon seeks a board review, while General Nolan decides action, if any. General Nolan is in Tonawanda, N Y, due to his mother’s death.
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New York
Army
Charles A. Lindbergh
Arthur ,W. McMahon
Col. Lindbergh
Roosevelt
McMahon
Naval Reserve Air Force
Dennis E. Nolan
Second Corps
Goverfee's Island
Lindbergh
Governor's Island
Nolan
Tonawanda
N. Y
Swann Employees Adopt 36 Hour Week in Alabama
Swann Chemical Co plants in Alabama switch to a 36 hour work week with wage increases to maintain total payroll. Theodore Swann says the plan spreads work without cutting pay, aiming for broader industry adoption and daytime shifts to balance the schedule.
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Birmingham
Swann Chemical Co
Alabama
Theodore Swann
Swann
Anniston
Bibb Graves Opens Campaign with Montgomery Speech
Col Bibb Graves of Montgomery announced his campaign kickoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He will speak at 5 p m Tuesday February 20 in Montgomery with the address broadcast over a radio hook-up to Birmingham Mobile Dothan Huntsville and Gadsden. No other engagements were announced.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bibb Graves
Birmingham
Mobile
Dothan
Huntsville
Gadsden
Largest Gold Shipment Started for America
Cherbourg France February 14 AP about 42 million dollars worth of gold the biggest shipment of its kind on a single liner since the present gold rush began started for America in the holds of the Majestic today Part of the cargo seven million pounds from Southampton and one hundred million francs on board here The English insurance and reinsurance rates on the cargo ranged up to 11 shillings per 100 pounds 1 1 2 per cent
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Cherbourg
France
America
Majestic
Southampton
Bombs Hit Birmingham During Laundry Strike Quarrel
Explosions in two Birmingham neighborhoods tied to a laundry workers strike. A bomb damaged Sam Filippo’s home, and another hit a Negro residence. no injuries. Police linked the Negro blast to strikers who had worked at the local plant, as picketing continued and tensions rose amid wage demands of 10 to 15 percent for inside staff and drivers.
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Birmingham
Sam Filippo
Filipo
Filippo
Filppo
Soviet icebreaker Cheliuskin sinks in Be ring Strait
The Soviet icebreaker Cheliuskin sank after being crushed in ice in Be ring Strait. One crew member died while five women and a child and others landed on the ice with emergency supplies. the radio message from Professor Otto Schmidt described the expedition from Davidoff Island.
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Moscow
Cheliuskin
Bering Strait
Otto Schmidt
Davidoff Island
Arctic
Air pilots as alarm clock for baby breakfast
Los Angeles report a strange order on the grand central air terminal bulletin board directs air pilots to flash their landing lights each morning as they pass Round Top Mountain in Arizona. The request comes from Mrs McKinley who with her husband and five months old baby sought an earlier wake up due to a broken alarm clock.
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Los Angeles
Arizona
Baby McKinley
Grand Central Air Terminal
Round Top Mountain
McKinley
Production of power climbs for second week
Electric power output last week reached 1 651 533 000 kilowatt hours, up from 1 636 275 000 the prior week and 1 482 509 000 a year earlier, the Edison Electric Institute reported. The gain since late January marks an 11.4 percent rise over the same week last year, following a 12.5 percent increase in the prior week.
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New York
Edison Electrics Institute
Toy-Toy the Pekinese Starves to Death as Mistress Travels
Evansville Indiana February 14 AP The hunger strike of Toy Toy a Pekinese dog run by the absence of his owner ended in death The dog had previously fasted for five days when Mrs Ray Rothlein was in Chicago and began eating again on her return This time she left for Miami for six weeks and Toy Toy refused food until his death yesterday
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Evansville
Ind
Toy-Toy
Ray Rothlei
Chicago
Miami
Fla
CWA in Houston County to End Work Thursday
Senate action on a 950 million dollar appropriation leaves the Civil Works Administration in Houston County poised to cease operations by tomorrow night. Administrator J A Cullen says 1 540 workers will lose their jobs and payrolls of about 16 000 weekly will stop. The discontinuance ends the CWA function here unless new orders and funds arrive.
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Civil Works Administration
Houston County
J. A. Cullen
CWA
Cullen
Associated Friesa
Eagie
Senate
White House
Ponzi Seeks New Deal After Prison Term End
Boston reports Charles Ponzi, infamous swindler, finishes his sentence and pleads for a new deal. He expresses remorse and says he wants to be freed to seek forgiveness, but immigration agents hold a deportation warrant toward his return to Parma, Italy, where he was born 52 years ago.
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Boston
Charles Ponzi
Wallingford
Ponzi
Italy
Parma
Appendix Removal Is Castor Oil Substitute
Memphis Tennessee February 14 Dr Frederick A Collings professor of surgery University of Michigan says large doses of castor oil are not approved for abdominal pains He notes dietary indiscretions are rarely to blame and suggests appendicitis as a potential cause He advocates surgical removal in the first stage as a brilliant mortality free cure.
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Memphis
Tenn
Frederick A. Collings
University of Michigan
Ex Soldiers to Hold Meeting at Athletic Arena Friday
A meeting of all ex soldiers is called for Friday night at 7 30 by C W Cox vice chairman of the local organization at the athletic arena.
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C. W. Cox
Subsidy Favored by F. D. For Ocean Mail Contracts
President Roosevelt indicates support for an outright subsidy to replace government aid for shipping and to reorganize ocean mail contracts. He weighs air mail policy, with Postmaster General Farley guiding related Senate discussions, while a cabinet panel studies internal development including flood control and transportation.
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Washington
Stars and Stripes
Roosevelt
Whch
Farley
Senate Committee
Bankhead Cotton Bill Opposed By Expert At Hearing
Omaer Johnston a AAA cotton expert told the House Agriculture Committee that enforcing the Bankhead plan would need 14 000 new tax collectors and would be nearly unenforceable. He urged amending the Agriculture Adjustment Act to grant prewar parity for rental and benefit payments to cooperating cotton producers and to share parity payments between landlord and tenant.
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Washington
Omaer Johnston
AAA
House Agriculture Committee
Johnston
Tri-motored plane to arrive here on Friday
A tri motor Ford aircraft will reach Jacthan Friday for the weekend, piloted by Capt W W Cary and Fr Hartman, long associated with aviation. The $56000 craft seats 14, spans 76 feet, weighs 10000 pounds loaded, and uses three 300 horsepower engines cruising at 125 mph. It will land five miles from town on the Montgomery highway.
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Jacthan
W. W. Cary
Fr. Hartman
Montgomery
Mob storms market seizing meat and vegetables in Madrid
A mob in Madridpressured a market seizing meat and vegetables before civil guards dispersed the crowd. One communist was arrested.
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Madrid
Larwill family tragedy ends in deaths by gas pact
In Fort Wayne Indiana Kenneth Larwill attorney 54 his wife Mary 52 and daughters Louise 27 and Florence nine died in a gas leak pact after Florence succumbed to scarlet fever. Louise survived but critical while a note said the family would die together.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Larwills
Kenneth Larwill
Mary
Louise
Florence
Larwill
Sinters
Thresd
Louise Saiid
Sheriff Dies Before Hanging Three Negroes
Sheriff W. M. Kirmingham of DeSoto County, linked to the planned hangings for three Black men convicted of attacking a Holly Springs girl, died of a heart attack at his home. The executions were scheduled for March 16 as 359 National Guardsmen kept a furious crowd in check.
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Hernando
Mass
W. M. Isspmingham
DeSoto County
Kirmingham
Ernest McGesee
Johnny Joncas
Isaac Howard
Holly Springs
National
Jackson
Sherif Wsirmingham
Court House Yard
Negro carpetbagger senator to be guest of S C legislature
The South Carolina Senate welcomes Green Coleman a Negro former carpetbagger to visit as a guest of the upper house. Coleman, once York County's 1874 senator, is now an inmate of Charlotte alms house. A letter from a Charlotte reader explains he left the state when Wade Hampton rose to power.
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S. C
Columbia
Green Coleman
South Carolina
York County
Senate
Dunlap
York
Charlotte, N. C
Charlotte
Coleman
Wade Hampton
Reorganization of Cabinet Advocated in Austria
In Vienna during the civil war era the government firmed its stance against Socialist resistance. Unofficial casualty estimates reach 1000 to 1500 with women and children among the dead. A government decree closed Austrian schools and advised keeping children off streets as fighting continues near Floridsdorf. The regime plans cabinet changes and banned 36 socialist groups while a court martial hanged Karl Menschreiter, a shoemaker, in a marked escalation of the conflict.
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Wade Werner
Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Floridsdorf
Florkdsdorf
D. Kurl Buresch
Richard Schmitz
Hubert Kerbert
Engebert Dollfuss
Viena
Danhbue
Karl Menschreiter
Muenschreiter
Automobile steel demand rises as ingot capacity grows
Heavy tin plate specifications boosting automobile steel demand. ingot capacity up to 41 percent with further gains expected. Ingot output rose in Pittsburgh by five points, Chicago by two, the valleys by three, Cleveland by one, and in Wheeling with other gains noted.
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New York
Iron Age
Pittsburgh
Chicagoy
Cleveland
Wheeling
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