How To Get The Money For Government Spending
The Ways and Means Committee seeks 19 billion in new revenue for the next fiscal year via two thirds from taxes and one third from borrowing. Proposals include steep increases in income taxes on low and middle earners, higher corporate taxes, excise hikes on cigarettes and other goods, revival of WWI era levies, and a possible general sales tax despite Roosevelt’s opposition.
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House Ways and Means Committee
House
Dour
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Labor and coal talks stall amid wage clashes and mediation
In Washington and New York Southern coal operators and CIO officials clashed over wage demands as defense plants faced shortages. Secretary Perkins urged resumed northern production and prompt talks with unions, while Roosevelt pressed for quick resolution. Mediation boards and a Vinson bill sought to curb walkouts, drawing opposition from CIO President Murray and War Secretary Stimson during shifting mediation efforts.
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CIO
Washington
New York
John L. Lewis
Perkins
Roosevelt
Miss Perkins
UMW
National Defense Mediation Board
Aluminum Company of America
Aluminum Workers of America
Rep
Vinson
D-Ga
Phil Murray
House
Naval Affairs Committee
War Stimson
Scientists Test Virus Transfer In Monkey Rodent Chain
Columbia researchers Dr Claus Jungeblut and Dr Murray Sanders report a multi species transmission experiment showing mouse derived virus can pass to monkeys and rats and back to mice, with protection observed when monkeys received prior virus. The work notes it covers only one virus strain and remains early stage. Diabetes energy insight from Dr William Stadie proposes ketone bodies provide much of diabetic energy as liver fats break down into acids.
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Columbia University
Claus Jungeblut
Murray Sanders
William Stadie
University of Pennsylvania
American College of Physicians
Boston
Washingtons Senate Crises Echo WWII Politics
The piece surveys Senate debates over convoying U S warships, Reynolds aging on Military Affairs, Nye criticisms of aid to Yugoslavia, and FDR appeals as looming war tension rises. It notes LaGuardia and Nye pushing restraint, Tobey opposing convoying, and Lindbergh predicting Britain’s last plan amid U S European war concerns.
Britain Keeps Watch On Iraq Oil Triangle Risks
The article traces Iraq’s oil-rich Mosul Basra region, guarded by British interests since a League mandate, and notes a strategic triangle from Mosul to Basra via Suez and Syria. It discusses British troop redeployments after Hashimi’s overthrow, Lawrence of Arabia’s influence, and possible German or Russian moves through Syria, Turkey, or Iraq as tensions rise in the Middle East.
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Babylon
B.C
Tigris
Euphrates
Iraq
League of Nations
Mosul
Nineveh
England
Basra
Persian Gulf
Alexandria
Egypt
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Nile
Syria
Palestine
Lawrence
Turkey
Sinbad the Sailor
Taha al Hashimi
Rashid Ali al Gailani
Gailani
Arabian Peninsula
Britain
Middle East
Russia
Upcoming Dates and Events Listed for April and May
Daily time changes on Sunday April 27. Conference and associations meet near week of April 28. Notable names include Princess Juliana and Haile Selassie with regional events in Canal Zone and Philippine Islands. Army housing program aims for 1,418,000 personnel. Feisal referenced in context of Ethiopian history.
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American Surgical Association
White Sulphur Springs
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Princess Juliana of Holland
Canal Zone
Philippine Islands
Air weaponry promise from Lovett and farm critique from Wickard
Robert Lovett, newly appointed assistant secretary of war for air, predicts in four months American equipment in the air unmatched anywhere. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard notes a debit side to Hitler's Balkan victories, as Nazis rely on Balkans for wheat fats and other foods with planting time under way while farmers are in the armies.
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Robert Lovett
Air
Wickard
Hitler
Balkan
Balkans
Britain’s Prince of Wales and other brief items
In Short Commissioned: Britain's 35,000ton battleship Prince of Wales. Reelected: Robert McLean of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, as president of the Associated Press. Suspended: The Boston Evening Transcript, one of New England's outstanding newspapers during its all-year history, effective April 30. Told: The American Newspaper Publishers Association, that Ameri ca must rely on publishers to move the country fast enough to perform the gigantic total defense job, by Social Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt. Jumped Bond: Franz von Werra, Nazi war flier who escaped to this country from Canada three months ago. His $15,000 bond was posted by the German consulate in New York. When he slipped off to Peru, Attorney General Jackson ordered that in the future such escaped pris oners may not be released to the custody of consular officials.
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Britain
Robert McLean
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Associated Press
Boston Evening Transcript
New England
American Newspaper Publishers Association
America
Paul V. McNutt
Franz von Werra
Canada
New York
Peru
Jackson
Roosevelt Hosts Mackenzie King in Hyde Park Talks
President Roosevelt met with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King at Hyde Park to discuss a large scale barter of war materials between the United States and Canada. Officials said each country would supply defense articles it could produce quickly, aiming to bolster continental mobilization.
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Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Mackenzie King
Canada
U.S
Fdr
King
Greece and Yugoslavia under Axis pressure in WWII campaign
The London News Chronicle reports Britons debating Greece intervention as Axis gains press Greece and Libya. German moves threaten Suez and Gibraltar while Turkish diplomacy heats up. Greece fights on despite a government crisis and Crete relocation. Yugoslavia’s fate shifts as troops reportedly resist in central Serbia.
Abroad notes on bombings and WWII diplomacy
A bomb hit the crypt of St Pauls as RAF planes bomb Berlin in the heaviest raid yet. Lon don staff of AP evacuated for a third time by a time bomb. Churchill warned Rome would be attacked if Athens or Cairo are harmed. Pravda calls Russia Japan pact a blow to U.S. and British interests. Geneva proceedings shrink from 60 to 30 nations as the French announce their withdrawal.
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St. Paul’s Cathedral
RAF
Berlin
London
Churchill
Italy
Rome
Athens
Cairo
Vatican City
Pravda
Communist Party
Russia
Japan
United States
British
Germany
League of Nations
Geneva
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Jensen
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Bob Reynolds
Morris Sheppard
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Reynolds
South Carolina Bar Association
Sheppard
Tobey
U. S
Leutenant
Barkley
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Harold R. Stark
Stark
Nye
F. H. LaGuardia
Yugoslavia
Europe
Charles Lindbergh
ABC of the Near
Lawrence of Arabia
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Feisal
Hungerford
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Harper In
Birmingham Age-Herald
April
Atlantic Seaboard States
Marshfield
Mass
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Lakewood
London News Chronicle
Greece
Libya
Australia
Advisory War Council
Dunkerque
Spain
Adolf Hitler
Franz von Papen
Istanbul
London Daily Herald
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Dardanelles
Thrace
Samothrake
Gibraltar
Vichy
France
Generalissimo
Franco
Madrid
North Africa
Suez
Tripoli
Thermopylae Pass
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Crete
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Emmanuel Tsouderos
Serbia
Peter
Jerusalem
Simovic
Macek
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