Roosevelt Faces Holding Company Act Challenge
The article portrays President Roosevelt's insistence on enforcing the death sentence clause of the Holding Company Act. It contrasts his steadfast stance with criticism from utilities spokesmen and some business leaders, arguing his focus on this crusade may overlook broader national needs and his duties as a public administrator.
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R. Roosevelt
Vibert
Marty
Roosevelt
Isis Nye Namie
Hastory
Ant
Mr. Roosevelt
France Crisis Triggers Government Resignations
France faces a government crisis as radicals resign, Camaille Chautemps and LeBrun depart. The Bank of France suspends all exchange transfers until further notice amid cabinet turmoil and threatened confidence vote. Socialist ministers resign as the Chamber of Deputies weighs action.
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France
Paris
Bank of France
Nothced
Abert
LeBrun
Carly Horning
Conferunves
Perphages
Peuple
Camille Chautamnes
Chautemps
Surly Mrnday
Resigis Patus
Edna Duladier
Pious Chauteinys
People's Brunt
Chamber of Deputies
Neeting
Ba Fe
Albert Lebrun
Chiutemps
Secon People's Front
Leon Blum
Hink Dev Cree
Morgenthau for Economy Not Tax Debate
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau urged tax restraint and economic policy to preserve revenue while avoiding new levies. He testified that the present tax base should be used to weather the fiscal year, warning against stepped up taxation as unemployment fear grows and inflation press?res loom.
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Egon
Morgenthau
Laidlaw Dai Hd
Vrotoney
Flac
Morgenthal
Avery
Fragmented OCR prompts for obscure topics and phrases
The text presents garbled questions about the British Constitution discoveries of bacterium green gold and a bill payment issue. It contains illegible fragments and misread terms, lacking coherent events or identifiable persons or organizations to summarize factually.
Stephen Brundidge Dies at 81 in Arkansas
SEARCY Ark former Canasressmmin Stephen Brundidge dies after a week long illness. A leading Arkansas political figure of the era he authored the state initiated penny election ban and served 12 years in Congress. He retired to private life before returning to politics in 1912 for a Senate bid against Jeff Davis. He was a native of Seary.
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Searcy
Ark
40 Ton Plane to Replace Clipper on Honolula Route
San Francisco. One of the largest and most powerful passenger planes likely will replace the Clipper on the Honolulu to New Zealand route. Boeing built, the new 40-ton plane is under test and will be called the South Seas Clipper. It weighs about 40 tons, nearly double the larger Clipper, and is part of Pan American’s expanded fleet with a 4,450 mile range. The article notes plans and costs in the context of early transoceanic air travel.
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San Francisco
Simenay Chipper
Honolula
Marek
Boeing Aircraft Factory
Seate
Pan Americans
Aergicus
tweHaper
Poo Mindley
Findley
Ruck
Ark
President backs end of holding companies in US
President Roosevelt urged elimination of all holding companies at a Friday press conference. He rejected the death sentence plan in the utility holding company act while opposing mergers, and called for ending remote control of local community banks and similar schemes in utilities and related fields.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wendell L. Wilkie
Commonwealth & Southern Corp
Pny
U S Cruisers Head to Singapore for Naval Events
Three United States cruisers Memphis Milwaukee and Trenton sail from San Pedro to Singapore to attend inauguration of new Hong naval docks and visit Australian ports. The move signals possible cross fleet friendliness, with observers noting strategic signaling for Japan and broader Far East protectorship by Britain.
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Washington
United States
Singapore
Great Britain
Japan
Memphis
Milwaukey
Trenton
Julius C. ‘Townsend
Sanpapore
Shey
Homjodie
Louisville
Sydney
Australia
San Pedro
Cal
Europe
Par
Malaya
Siam
Philippines
Britain
Malayan
Sumatra
du Bastern
Nazis Bring Back Old-Time School Slates
Berlin reports a revival of slate use in German schools due to material shortages and the four year plan. Education Minister Bernhard Rust orders slate slates as exercises for first and second grades from 1934, with possible use in thirds and fourths to supplement books. Slate is plentiful in Thuringia where many villages use slate in roofs and walls.
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Berlin
Bernhard Rust
Thuringia
Thuringian Forest
Lon Polk 58 Killed in Texas Auto Crash
Lon W Polk of Hope died after being struck by a car while crossing a Beaumont street. He moved from Hope to Beaumont a year ago and formerly ran a Front Street grocery. Survived by wife four daughters and two sons. service details not yet set. He was born in Stephens Arkansas and last visited Hope in 1937.
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Lon W. Polk
Hope
Rasr Sutton
Pearl
Rath Palk
Beaumont
Texas
Pot
Mr. Polk
Mape
Union Must Pay Company Damages
The Progressive Miners of America pledged to exhaust all legal avenues to overturn Judge Whain's $117,000 strike damages award to Union Electric Coal. Attorney George Dowell said the ruling targets the right to strike, affecting labor nationwide as seven locals and 66 members were named in the judgment.
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East ST. Louis
Progressive Miners of America
United States
Fred L. Whain
Union Electric Coal Company
George Dowell
Duquoin
Supreme Court
Whain
Where Did Our Cash Go It s Locked Up Now in Savings Jail
John T Flynn explains how relief dollars moved through the economy from workers to grocers and farmers before being saved by a wage earner and eventually lent by banks for housing. The piece argues thrift slows spending and keeps money idle until reinvested, ending with savings continuing to drive lending and production.
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Eam
Sam
John Jones
Jones
George
Brown
Mr. Smith
Stith
Germany protests ex envoy speech in New York
German ambassador Hans Dieckhoff protested to Secretary Hull on Friday over William E. Dodd s address in New York Thursday night in which the former American envoy to Berlin attacked the Hitler regime Dieckhoff called the speech an unheard of insult to a friendly nation
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Washington
Hans Deckhoff
Hall Frday
William E. Dodd
New York
Berlin
Dieckhoff
Dodd
What Would You Do At A Dance Question Card
A vintage manners quiz asks five questions about dance floor etiquette and social grace. It covers timing to cut in, introductions, sandal color norms, discreet nose powder, and handling after dancing with a partner. The quips present sample exchanges and possible polite responses as guidance.
Armies Bog Down in Melting Snow
Infantrymen and armor bog down in Teruel Spain as melting snow turns lowlands to mud. In central China, half a million Chinese and Japanese clash near Lunghai railway with Chiang Kai-Shek influence noted. Japanese bomb near Teruel while Communist forces in North China widen influence, forming Anti-Japanese Defense Corps networks.
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Associated Press
Teruel
Spain
Orion
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Jine
Lunghai Railway
Pieping
North China
ePi
Ret
Eight Route Army
Red Army
Hopeh
Ujyr
Nort
Roosevelt Must Decide on Lynching Bill Position
Washington reports Republicans warn the anti lynching filibuster could force the administration to pick a side amid Southern Democrat opposition. In related talks, five finance industry and labor leaders urged a definite action program to address the current economic situation after a long White House conference led by CIO head John L. Lewis. A coal producer testified that the industry’s downturn stems from Washington policy and called for candor on past mistakes, while J D A Morrow denounced price fixing by the National Bituminous Coal Commission during Senate unemployment hearings.
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Washington
Senate
Finance, Industry and Labor
White House
John L. Lewis
CIO
J. D. A. Morrow
Pittsburgh Coal Company
National
John H. Hipp 55 Dies in New Orleans Hospital
John H. Hipp, 55, former Hope man, died after an operation in a New Orleans hospital. He was moved from Nashville Arkansas to New Orleans in December and died at 2:20 a.m. Friday. Survived by widow, one son in Pennsylvania, two daughters in Hobbs New Mexico and New Orleans, three brothers and three sisters. Funeral and burial planned for Nashville after funeral arrangements.
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John TH. Hipp
Hope
New Orleans
DeRoan Township
Nashville
John H. Hipp
Harry Hipp
Pittsburgh
Iva Pate
Hobbs
N. M
Leonard Davis
Charley
Bingen
Jim
Howard County
Iva Hipp
Mountain Home
Ark
Tom Epton
Arch Epton
Henry Carey
Texas
Cotton production target set at about 1.5 million bales
The congressional farm conference committee backed an annual cotton output near 1.5 million bales, while remaining undecided on making the program elective before 1939. Leaders say the figure matches that in the crop control bills conferees are shaping into a single measure, part of a move to raise farm income via market regulation.
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Ashngton
Congressional Farm Conference Committee
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Smith Denn
S.C
Cotton opens and closes higher as January contracts expire
In New Orleans on Friday January cotton futures opened at 8.60 and closed at 18.65 after January contracts expired. Spot cotton remained steady, with the Foyer reading nine points higher and paddling around 8.72.
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New Orleans
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John T. Flynn
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Mr. Brown
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Germany
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