Government Now Is Biggest Banker and Real Estate
The article surveys the federal government’s growing role as a business, arguing it has become the nation’s largest banker via the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and a major real estate operator through land sales, federal buildings, and parks, with the Treasury acting as a holding company for various agencies. It notes RFC assets totaling over 11.8 billion and links government corporate structure to private finance parallels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis Thornton
NEA
Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover
Federal
RFC
U. S. Treasury
Commodity Credit Corporation
Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Inland Waterways Corp
Insull
West
Mill Demand for Cotton Very Heavy
Domestic mills opened the new cotton season with the largest August consumption on record, 634,380 running bales of lint, exceeded only by August 1927 when 637,520 bales were used, according to the Bureau of the Census reported Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of the Census
Piracy Pact and the Fight Against Ocean Raiders
The article traces a piracy pact from a past era, noting how captives and ships, including the Philadelphia, featured in violent acts. It recalls a five-year return of a fleet, pirates swearing off American vessels, and a 20-year fluctuation in piracy ending around 1830 as English sailors adapted to new threats and tactics including underwater piracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Government in business grows across the economy
A critique traces rising federal involvement in housing, shipping, rail, and energy programs. It cites HOLC foreclosures, MARITIME COMMISSION aid ships, Alaska rail profits, TVA dam projects, and TVA power sales as signs government acts as a major market player. The article ponders how far public enterprise should extend and how it should run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HOLC
U. S. Maritime Commission
Alaska
Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation
Matruska
Tennessee Valley Authority
Arthur E. Morgan
Stata It
TVA
Dr. Morgan
Aluminum Co
Alton
Funeral at Arkadelphia for Mrs W C Davidson
Mrs W C Davidson aged 73 died at home in Arkadelphia Mississippi born. She moved to Arkansas after the Civil War and married W C Davidson in 1891 who later became a Methodist minister. Surviving are her husband two daughters Mrs John Vesey of Hope and Mrs W H Hall of San Antonio Texas and two sons W P of Fort Worth Texas and C H Davidson of Hugo Oklahoma. Funeral services were held at First Methodist Church with Rev H B Vaught officiating. Burial followed at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Arkadelphia
Ark
W. C. Davidson
Mississippi
Arkansas
John Vesey
Hope
W. H. Hall
San Antonio
Texas
W. P
Fort Worth
C. H. Davidson
Hugo
Oklo
First Methodist Church
H. B. Vaught
Rose Hill Cemetery
Anarchists Seize Gijon Declares Asturian Dictatorship
Rebels say anarchists seized Gijon the northern coastal stronghold and set up an Asturian dictatorship, with insurgent officials announcing the coup on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gijon
Hendaye
Bear Population Doubles in Rocky Mountain Park
Estes Park reports a sudden birth rate rise at Rocky Mountain National Park. Rangers estimate the bear population has doubled from about 30 to roughly 60, with mother bears seen in two areas carrying triplet cubs. Summer residents and innkeepers corroborate the spike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estes Park
Colo
Rocky Mountain National Park
Home Made Home conference plans span districts
Agents from 10 southwestern counties attended the conference and will meet in Hot Springs Wednesday for campaign discussions. Additional district meetings are scheduled at Russellville and Harrison this week, with future gatherings at Jonesboro Blytheville Pine Bluff and Monticello next week.
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Hot Springs
Russellville
Harrison
Jonesboro
Blytheville
Piné Bluff
Monticello
Kiwanians Tour Bruner Ivory Handle Plant
Kiwanis members toured the Bruner Ivory Handle company plant manufacturer of hickory and ash handles. Carl Bruner and A. Allbriton guided the group explaining manufacture and the plant employs about 150 people. About 30 percent of products are exported to Australia New Zealand and other foreign countries. Souvenir hammer handles and walking canes were presented. Delegates and guests attended the luncheon at New Capital hotel with plans to send hempstead county watermelons to the McKan Ark convention in Wichita Kansas next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruner- Ivory Handle Company
Kiwanis Club
Carl Bruner
A. Allbriton
Bruner-Ivory Handle Company
Australia
New Zealand
New Capital
Hempstead County
Wichita
Kansas
R. V. Herndon
Sid Bundy
John P. Cox
Lawrence Martin
Hope High School
Prescott
McCaskill
G. T. Cross
Cult Apples and Hay Make a Fine Silage
Washington State College dairy trials show 80 percent culled apples mixed with 20 percent alfalfa hay silage boosts cow production and butterfat carotene. Alaska territory note claims a hypothetical division would yield 10.7 square miles per person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pullman
Washington State College
College Experiment Station
Alaska
White man sought after Arkansas police fatal shooting
Gray Albright of the state police said four suspects including Duncan Fisher Pique, 24, told investigators that an unnamed white man killed Marshall Robert Bennett of Lonoke during questioning last Saturday. A search for the white suspect is under way at Texarkana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Litile Rock
Gray Albright
State Police
Duncan Fisher Pique
Marshall Robert Bennett
Lonoke
Texarkana
Rise of Chinese Communists and Russian Aid
A historical account traces the early China Communist movement from Sun Yat-sen’s failed Western ties to Russia, the Whampoa Academy with Blucher, and Chiang Kai-shek’s rise. It details the 1927 split, Li Li-san’s radical plans, the white terror, and Mao Tse-tung’s underground army forming in Hunan and retreating to the Chingkanshan peak seeking Soviet state foundations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Communist Party
Sun Yat-sen
China
England
America
Sun
Kuomintang
Michael Borodin
Whampoa Military Academy
Vassily Blucher
Chiang Kaishek
Chiang
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Nanking
Li Li-san
Chinese Communist Party
Nanchang
Mao Tse-tung
Hunan
Quip on Communists and Squash Amid Harbor Dredge Note
Fragments place a quip about Chinese Communists saying Down with capitalism and eat squash. A harbor note mentions main ship channels in New York kept clear by dredges. Another fragment recalls early baseball games lasting two to three days with many runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Harbor
Catholics in New German Warning
Vatican reporting warns that Catholics view developments in Germany may spark another Spain style crisis. The papal newspaper asserts conservative church positions face pressure amid political shifts, prompting concerns over religious freedom and social stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reich
Spain
Vatican warns of blood shed if Nazi paganism grows
Osserva editorial cites Romano warning that the blood of priests may be shed in Germany as it was in Spain if Nazi paganism continues. The piece follows reports of Indian governance and dining preferences on trains with coffee favored by eighty-five per cent of diners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
Osservatore Romano
Germany
Span
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Hamilton Trust Fund
Hamilton Depositors Corp
Tol-E-Tex Oil Co
East Ord, Hope
Prongey Life Insurance
Donald V. Moore
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance CO
Mene
Cobb
RCA
Eveready
Harry W. Shiver
Herndon-Cornelius Burial Association
Hope Furniture Company
Hope, Ark
Pink W. Taylor First National Bank
Tope
Piracy
London
QO. K
M. M
Morgan Maty
Handle Factory
WiLliam
Eegison
NID
O AI Gare
Milky Way Galaxy
Ste Copa
NEA Service, Inc
McCormick Observatory
Durin
Piet van de Kamp
Alexander N. Vyssotsky
Japan
Chingkanshan Iotuntain
Eongeisht
Edgar Snow
Mao Frees
Rome
Italy
Penney’s the
Penney
al Penneys
Sunny Tucker
Childrens
Plains
Rondo
Cit
Lesa
Growing Girls School
Oxfords
Boys School
Ennis
Boy’s New School
Dad
Penney's
Mirra
Petey
Penney Company
Postoffice
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