Time To Fight Over Canal And Social Security Reforms
Editorials warn that the Beaver Mahoning canal favors Youngstown at national cost, urging resistance from other regions, while arguing for downward Social Security tax revisions to aid small businesses. It cites Senator King and criticizes ongoing deficit financing and the EcclesRoosevelt policy as misaligned with economic realities.
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Ohio River
Lake Erie
Beaver Mahoning
Youngstown
Ohio
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Washington
Grafton
Congress
King
Utah
Simpson Puts Forward Road Funding Proposal in Tucker County
Xen reduce expenses and balance the budget while Road Commissioner Burr H. Simpson faced a Preston Harrison Taylor Marion and Monongalia county delegation over improving route 72 in Tucker county. He suggested other counties waive 1939 allotments to fund the missing link between Parsons and Kingwood, prompting questions about fixed pro rata shares and right of way costs.
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Sivgantown Post
Burr H. Simpson
Monongahela Valley
Tucker County
Parsons
Kingwood
Simpson
West Virginia
Road Commission
Preston, Harrison, Taylor, Marion
Monongalia Couties
Mr. Simpson
Germany's Latest Bootstrap Finance Under Nazi Regime
A Philadelphia Inquirer excerpt critiques Germany's fiscal policy under Hitler. It notes Dr Schacht’s replacement by Dr Funk, rising taxes, doubling revenues, tripling public debt, and 50 percent currency growth signaling inflation risk. The piece warns of tax certificates issued to cover 40 percent of state obligations, their use as future tax payment discounts, and inflationary danger.
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Germany
Philadelphia Inquirer
Schacht
Funk
Reich
Hitler
Senate rebuffs Roberts nomination show Senate independence
The Senate rejected President Roosevelt's recess appointment of Floyd H. Roberts as district judge for West Virginia by 72 to 9. The vote reflected strong Senate independence, with Virginia Senators Glass and Byrd opposing and the President criticising senatorial courtesy after bypassing them.
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Senate
Floyd H. Roberts
Virginia
Roberts
Carter Glass
Harry F. Byrd
Glass
Byrd
Governor Price
Terefore
Robrig
President
Fragmentary organ remarks on war era policy and finance
A garbled organ note questions German rearmament and political finance. It notes the clash of policy slogans like Guns not butter and hints at consequences of international trade tensions and distant political programs. The piece reflects wartime rhetoric about costs and frontiers without clear specifics.
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Gertie Gag
Germany
Pan American Clipper Conducts Routine Atlantic Survey Flight
The Pan American Clipper, with 21 crew and technicians, completed the first leg of a two week Atlantic survey flight from Horta to Lisbon and other ports. Flying at 160 to 175 mph, 6,000 to 8,700 feet, the 2,800 mile Horta leg was the longest yet.
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Atlantic
ES Pan-American
Horta
Lisbon
Portugal
Marseilles
France
Southampton
England
Fornes
Ireland
Harold ‘E. Gray
Baltimore-Horta
Atirplane
You re telling me by Axel Storm
A fragmented cultural column mocks wartime anxieties with satire on debt collectors, small nations rallying to Hitler, Uncle Sam delaying a payoff, theater usher uniforms, a gold digger and bank books, ending with a vague definition of America as a place of independent thinking.
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Axel Storm
Brule Smokeless Coal Mine Suspends Operations After Accident
In Otsego West Virginia on March 27 mine workers halted operations at Brule Smokeless Coal after 42 mine cars derailed down a mountain. Officials expect a one week suspension to repair damage and resume work.
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Otsego
W. Va
Brule
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Fairmont
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Taylor Counties
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Lona
Jim
Sun
Mather
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