International bank idea prompts U S oversight debates
The Indianapolis Times discusses the Bank for International Settlements and its prospective scope under the Young plan. Thomas Lamont and J P Morgan see a permanent supreme economic council with central bank representation, while concerns arise over private control and government power. McFadden urges clarity on U S relations amid possible federal laws to curb interstate fraud.
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Lamont
Supreme Economic Council
International Bank
Congress
McFadden
House Banking Committee
United States
Gates W. McGarrah
New York Federal Reserve Bank
International Financial Organization
Capone Returns to Spotlight in Chicago Detention Office
A lengthy return to public life unfolds as Al Capone appears in Chicago to discuss his case with detectives after his Philadelphia jail release. The mobster’s every move captivates the nation, with reporters and photographers trailing him and the public watching with renewed fascination.
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al Capone
Capone
Philadelphia
Chicago
Indiana
Florida
A Better Way On Mexican Immigration Policy
The piece argues against the Johnson bill to impose strict quotas on Mexican and Western Hemisphere immigration. It cites State Department estimates of fewer than 15,000 Mexicans entering the U.S. this year and notes that enforcement of literacy tests has limited immigration. It urges keeping current law and delaying new quotas.
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House Immigration Committee
Mexico
Department of State
United States
Susie
Colonel Mannering
Long Island
Not So Dry Senator Brookhart Clashes Over Prohibition Tone
In debate with Clarence Darrow Brookhart predicts New York will be set on the dry path like Iowa. The annual report shows federal officers in 1929 Iowa arrests 314 for liquor violations and aided state arrests of 627, with 29 distilleries and 88 stills seized. Town courts closed 219 liquor prosecutions amid widespread confiscations.
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Brookhart
Clarence Darrow
New York
Iowa
Commissioner of Prohibition
Catching Up With Crime Inventions Reach Mail Fraud
Edward S Silver warns that federal statutes lag behind modern criminal methods in mail fraud cases. He notes crooks use the telephone telegraph and rapid transportation to further schemes while the law struggles to keep pace.
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Silver
Congress
Edward S Silver
United States
Southern District of
New York
Edison’s 83rd year and a note on rubber from goldenrod
The writer extols Thomas A. Edison as a great genius and insists his ongoing work benefits the nation. He imagines farm relief through rubber from goldenrod and mocks efficiency experts seeking to reduce older workers.
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Thomas A. Edison
Grundy Prohibitive Tariff Analyzed By Reichstag Action
The German reichstag raised wheat tariffs to a possible $28.50 a ton and expanded duties on barley flour and sugar to curb foreign dumping. A corn monopoly now governs domestic and imported grain. The piece notes America’s exports equal about 10 percent of production and warns against relying on embargoes. Bricks up to house-size are now feasible for Irish builders, per the report.
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Reichstag
United States
Berlin
America
Congress
Castles in the Air and Modern Idolatry Across Worlds
M E Tracy laments humanity's habit of building castles in the air since consciousness began. He contrasts visionary dreams with rigid dogma, critiques Russian Communism and Western idolatry, and notes the rise of secular deities in America such as prosperity and law.
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Russia
America
Prohibition Myth Breaks ROHIBITION And The Peace Myth
The piece argues prohibition failed by appealing to women and youth as saloon myths collapsed. It notes Harvard Princeton Yale Michigan and other students educated on speakeasies are wetter and more opposed to old John Barleycorn. It also asserts the London naval conference collapses for similar reasons with peace as promises not to act and sovereign restraint.
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America
John Barleycorn
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Michigan
London
All Bars Are Down and the New Superstition
An essay argues that easy shortcuts and push button systems threaten education work and self discipline. It condemns youth conformity and social taboos around hair, smoking, books, petting, and drinking. It links anti old morality to free love and portrays society as both machine and capable of will.
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Lizzie
Birth of Konrad von Rontgen Inventor of the X ray
Konrad von Rontgen born March 27 1845 in Lennep Germany became a leading German physicist. He studied in Holland and at Zurich and taught at several universities before becoming professor at Wurzburg where he discovered the X ray by accident using a vacuum tube and a photographic plate. He named the mysterious light X ray after observing the key image on the plate.
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Konrad von Rontgen
Lennep
Germany
Holland
Zurich
Wurzburg
Rentgen
Heredity at Bottom of Asthma
Dr George W Bray of the London hospital for sick children studied 4152 relatives of 200 asthmatic children under 12 to test heredity of sensitivity to hay fever eczema hives and migraine The study found transmission twice as frequent through females and earlier onset of symptoms in children with family sensitivity The inheritance is of susceptibility to various sensitizing substances rather than a specific anatomical defect
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George W. Bray
Hospital For
London
It Seems to Me Heywood Broun on Labor And Art
The column argues white collar workers need organization to defend jobs and wages amid slack demand. It contrasts stenographers with unions, stage hands, and painters, noting training value and the perils of unemployment while musing on the artist’s shift to marine subjects and broad sea colors.
Ocean Memories and Painted Marine Scenes
A speaker recalls memories of the sea and marine paintings kept safe from salt water. They contemplate visiting the ocean to verify the accuracy of their pictures, considering altering the works if the real scene differs. The idea of a distant, perfect patch of water resembling the art lingers.
Fellowship of Prayer and Charity for Others
A meditation on Galatians 6:1 to 6:10 urges self knowledge to foster charity. It notes everyone errs and longs for magnanimous judgments while seeking mercy for shortcomings and asks for guidance to practice gentle judgment toward others.
Ancient Greeks Began Arctic Exploration Says Science
The article traces Arctic exploration to Pytheas of Massilia, an ancient Greek likely contemporary of Alexander the Great. It notes his voyage toward Thule, the uncertainty of its location, and early Norse and Viking travels shaping Arctic knowledge through centuries.
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Thule
Pytheas
Massilia
Alexander the Great
Epeayenes
Strabo
B. C
University of Sheffield
Norway
Iceland
Orkney Or Shetland Islands
Scotland
Othing
North Sea
Novaya Zemlya
European Russia
Spitzbergen
North Pole
Ottar
North Cape
Europe
Barents
White Seas
White Sea
Greenland
Svalbard
Gunnbjorn Ulfsson
Eric, the Red
Gunnbjorn
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