To Unite Or Fight in Labor's Row with Perkins
Frances Perkins pressed labor unity amid AFL CIO rifts. Negotiations with Roose velt leaders followed as AFL CIO factions debated a joint Congress of Labor plan. Unity efforts faced vetoes and counter proposals, while other notes covered U S labor disputes and Portland pickets.
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Frances Perkins
Labor
Miss Perkins
AFL
Matthew Woll
Harry C. Bates
T. A. Rickert
CIO
John L. Lewis
Sidney
Lewis
Daniel J. Tobin
Teamsters
Secretary of Labor
New York
Gandhi renounces Mahatma title after long hunger strike
Mohandas K. Gandhi, 69, rejects the title Mahatma and is called Mahatmaji by followers. His 9814 hour fast pressured Rajkot to release political prisoners, with Bombay markets closing and protests across British India as the Viceroy intervened.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mahatma
Mahatmaji
Rajkot
Bombay
India
Gandhi
Romanian premier Cristea dies. Calinescu succeeds
Cristea died this week and King Carol appointed Armand Calinescu premier, after a crackdown on the Iron Guard. Calinescu, 46, is a French educated lawyer and former holdover from Goga’s cabinet. Washington socialites seek royal access while Canada’s Papa Dionne quips about a royal family visit to Toronto.
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Miron Cristea
Romania
Armand Calinescu
France
Goga
Cristea
Carol
Calinescu
Washington Society
America
Canada
Papa Dionne
Toronto
Madrid Rebels Fall, Franco’s Ultimatum Spurs New Clash
The Madrid government fails to surrender as six caballeros form a defense council. Gen. Casado and Gen. Miaja push for a quick peace with terms allowing exile of leaders and avoidance of Italian triumph. Loyalist forces regroup as Franco tightens blockade and Britain weighs possible cross-Channel action.
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Spain
Francisco Franco
Madrid
Caballeros
National Defense Council
Juan Negrin
Negrin
la Pasionaria
Dolores
Barruri
Sparkplug
France
Diego Martinez Barrio
Manuel Azana
Segismundo Casado
Jose Miaja
Miaja
Mediterranean
Tunis
Gandia
Franco
New Madrid
Defense Council
Nine named indicted for fake passports to European spies
Indictments accuse nine individuals of supplying counterfeit U.S. passports to espionage networks in Europe. Separate items note a naval officer executed in France and a naval employee in Italy for spying duties. Other notes cover a new Descendants of the American Revolution chapter opposing prejudice and various high level appointments and deaths.
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France
Italy
Descendants
American Revolution Organization
Barbara Hutton
Lance
Count Haugwitz-Reventlow
U. S
Peru
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Russia
Edwin M. Watson
James Roosevelt
Daniel W. Bell
Treasury
Harold D. Smith
John G. Sargent
Delaware
Robert P. Robinson
Maryland
William P. Jackson
Frank W Stearns
Calvin Coolidge
Leroy W. Baldwin
Tracy D. Drake
Chicago
Herbert Mundin
Bob Hague
Samuel T. Bledsoe
Santa Fe Railroad
Bomb box found in Chicago safe deposit vault
A Chicago safe deposit vault held a box containing four bombs in a case involving Reinhold Faust a 74 year old German born man. Faust claimed wartime fanaticism but now dismissed charges were dropped while authorities noted he kept paying rent to guard his secret. The broader wire notes cover marriages deaths and political and wartime issues including U S debt and neutrality law.
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Chicago
Gaunt
Reinhold Faust
Faust
Notable Dates Ahead This Month in 1939
Upcoming events include the coronation of Pope Pius XX on Sunday March 12 and the start of Girl Scout Week. March 14 sees a Senate labor committee meeting. St Patrick’s Day arrives Friday March 17. Also noted are Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler’s 73rd birthday and President and Mrs Roosevelt’s 34th wedding anniversary.
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U. S
Congress
New York
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Hughes
Senate
McNary
Pius XX
Senate Labor Committee
St. Patrick's Day
Pierce Butler
Mrs. Roosevelt
Ashurst Quip and Canns Celebrate Golden Anniversary
Senator Henry F. Ashurst asks what words amount to while Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cann of Buffalo celebrate 50 years of marriage. They joke that lasting happiness comes from keeping two bears in the house bear and forebear.
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Henry F. Ashurst
Samuel Cann
Buffalo
Quiz Based on The World This Week Questions
Questions test recall from last week’s page about Supreme Court sit-down bans independence timing for the Philippines an empress birth Arab Jewish populations in Palestine and a New York senator proposing a national health program Answers were in the text of last week’s page.
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Supreme Court
Philippines
Palestine
New York
Political battle over government reorganization rages on
The Senate voted 49 to 42 for reorganization while the House failed 204 to 196. A renewed push in the House won 246 to 153, parts left from last year were trimmed, and the plan would merge and reshuffle federal departments if not blocked by both houses within 60 days. Roosevelt faces intra administration splits as economists debate spending and tax changes amid debt talks and calls for greater public expenditures.
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House
New Deal
Congress
U. S. Navy
Roosevelt
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Senate Finance Committee
Harrison
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Garner
Bernard Baruch
Congressional
Treasury
Ksoanetkaal
Commerce
Hopkins
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