Global arms spend climbs as nations plan 1939 boosts
World leaders forecast higher military outlays for 1939 with Russia Germany Japan Britain and the U S all ready to spend more on arms in the coming year. Congressional panels study the defense push while Roosevelt seeks 875 million for WPA funding amid partisan debate.
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Japan
China
U. S
Congress
Roosevelt
Congressional
House
Senate
Europe
London
Paris
FDR
House Appropriations Committee
Democrats Eat Too Much at Dinners on Jackson Anniversary
Across states except Maryland dinner fundraisers hiked prices to as high as 100 dollars a plate at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington while Roosevelt urged unity within the party. Elsewhere a trucker strike halted 3 million dollars of food trade. end came as Gov. Saltonstall brokered a compromise. Landlord tenant disputes shift to day laborers as Missouri sharecroppers protest. Positive signs appear in industry with higher packing plant output and a WPA rolls decline, while factory and mine output rise by over a third in late 1930s data.
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Maryland
Andrew Jackson
New Orleans
Capital
Mayflower
Roosevelt
Washington
WPA
Perkins
Quiz from The World This Week Answers
Questions prompt recall of names such as Morris Sheppard and Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma as featured in last week's page. It asks when the U S acquired Alaska and from whom, the statutory debt limit, current Michigan governor, and submarine allowances for Germany under Versailles.
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Morris Sheppard
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma
U. S
Alaska
Michigan
Germany
Mooney Pardoned as California Governor Frees Campaigner
The piece recounts Tom Mooney’s 1916 labor bombing case, his long notoriety, and his 56 year path to pardon by Governor Culbert Olson. It notes Warren K. Billings’s life sentence and Mooney’s vow to seek justice for Billings while highlighting prior ganglia of anti union sentiment and delayed clemency.
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America
San Francisco
Warren K. Billings
Thomas J. Mooney
Mooney
Wilson
Tom Mooney
California
Culbert L. Olson
Vienna award trim leaves Czech Hungarian border tense
The Vienna accord reduced Czechoslovakia to 38 031 square miles as Hungary, Poland and Germany gained land in 1938. Border clashes persist with casualties on both sides amid unanswered questions over the final map while the Red Fleet urged Russian sailors to improve in 1939.
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Munich
Germany
Poland
Vienna
Hungary
International Boundary Commission
Red Fleet
Notable Clergy and Political Quotes on Law and Disease
Former Czecho Slovak minister Jan Masaryk remarks on the global reach of the influenza outbreak noting its quick spread. Archbishop John T. McNicholas contends that an absurd ordinance cannot be the essence of a law and many laws violate common sense.
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Jan Masaryk
London
Spain
John T. McNicholas
Cincinnati
Government figures reveal 1938 labor, health, and trade shifts
NLRB handled 8,851 labor cases affecting 1,845,818 workers in the year ending June 30. Only 5 percent required board decisions with most withdrawn or settled. Other items note Americans healthier, deaths per thousand down, and commerce data on farm questionnaires, retail sales, and munitions exports. Congressional directory shows birthplaces of 211 lawmakers.
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NLRB
Madden
Sen. Burke
AFL
CIO
Thomas Parran
U.S. Surgeonere
Congress
Central Statistical Board
Statistical Coordinating Agency
Department of Commerce
National Munitions Control Board
Senate
Great Britain
The
Netherlands Indies
Japan
Congressional
76Th Congress
Cosmopolitan convict linked to smuggling case shocks court
Albert N. Chaperau an ex convict posed as a Nicaraguan consul and faced a jury over a conspiracy with Elma N. Lauer to dodge customs on Paris gowns. George Burns and Jack Benny faced related jewelry and smuggling charges while Joe Arridy, deemed mentally ill, faced execution after a murder trial.
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Suave
Albert N. Chaperau
Manhattan
Hollywood
Elma N. Lauer
New York
Paris
Radio Funnymen
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Jack Benny
Mary Livingston
Week of International Meetings and Anniversaries Flag Week
A list of events spans January from Monday the 16th to Saturday the 21st. Tin Can Tourists convention in Tampa. U S Olympic skating trials. Oconomowoc naval games in the South Atlantic. Supreme Court dinner at the White House. Yugoslav parliament session marking Robert E Lee’s birth anniversary. Japanese parliament convenes. 3rd anniversary of King George V’s death. American Motorcycle Association races in Daytona Beach. 15th anniversary of Nikolai Lenin’s death.
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Tin Can
Tampa
Fla
U. S
Oconomowoc
Wis
South Atlantic
Supreme Court
White House
Robert E. Lee
King George V
American Motorcycle Association
Daytona Beach
Nikolai Lenin
Aviation strides mark 1938 civilian pilot growth
Civil Aeronautics Authority reports over 5 000 more civilian pilots earned federal certificates in 1938. Of 22 983 registered Jan 1, 675 were women. Over 1 000 travelled to Miami for the 11th All American Air Maneuvers, driven by Roosevelt's push for civilian flying to prep for defense.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Hollywood
Max Constant
New York-to-Miami
Russell Holderman
Rochester
N. Y
Notable 1930s Washington Miscellany Highlights
A rapid digest of political and public life items: John Sloan elevated to president of the National Association of State Racing Commissioners. Three brothers of the late Donald F. Custer-Music charged with violations of the federal securities act. Homer Martin ousted as editor of the CIO United Auto Workers weekly by the union’s executive board. Al Capone relocated from Alcatraz to Terminal Island federal prison. Martin Snyder sentenced to up to 20 years for attempted murder of Ruth Etting. David L. Lawrence indicted on statutory blackmail conspiracy and election-law charges. Multiple marriages and notable deaths populate this broad roundup of figures in politics crime labor and society.
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John Sloan
New York
National Association of State Racing Commissioners
Donald F. Custer-Musica
Homer Martin
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW
al Capone
Chicago
Alcatraz Island
Federal Correctional Institution
Terminal Island
San Pedro
Martin
Col
Gimp) Snyder
Ruth Etting
California
Myrl Alderman
David L. Lawrence
Pennsylvania
The
Commonwealth
Wayne Morris
Leonora Schinasi
Jane Alva Johnson
St. Louis
John H. Hemingway
Manhattan
Alexis Obolensky I
Jane Wheeler Irby
Miami
Louis Serre
John P. Gray
Walter C. Kelly
Kirtland I. Perky
U. S
Idaho
Charles E. Miller
Herman Oliphant
Treasury
Charles M. Schwab
Europe s appeasement notes gather as Rome and London meet
Travel notes recount Chamberlain and Mussolini meeting in Rome as Britain and France pursue appeasement with Italy over Ethiopia and Mediterranean concerns. They note post Munich pacts, Francoist Spain developments, and looming tensions from Germany and Japan while Loyalist advances in Spain and Italian ambitions in Africa shape the week.
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Rome
Anthony Eden
League of Nations
Italy
Ethiopia
Boyce
George VI
Britain
Chamber
Solini
Spain
House of Commons
Mussolini
Barcelona
I Duce
Nich
Europe
Chamberlain
Hitler
Nidh
France
Paris
Count Halifax
Chambers
Dier
Suez Canal
Tunisia
Djibouti
Aden
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TVA Board of Directors
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Beibel
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Boston
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Missouri
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Milwaukee
Freed
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