Smith Campaign Wins Massachusetts Delegates At Large
Massachusetts voters pledged 35 delegates to Alfred E. Smith at the 1932 Democratic convention, sweeping Roosevelt in a decisive primary. Key figures include Governor Ely and Senators Walsh and Coolidge leading the Smith slate, with Curley headlining the Roosevelt effort in a bitter rivalry that reduced turnout and highlighted party divisions.
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Massachusetts
Alfred E. Smith
Smith
Franklin Develt
Joseph B. Ely
United States
David I. Walsh
Marcus A. Coolidge
Roosevelt
James M. Curley
Tne
Hoover
William F. Whiting
Holyoke
Calvin Coolidge
Commerce
Coolidge
Weis
Ory
Hovasi
Sinclair Weeks
Newton
John W. Weeks
Albert F. Bigelow
Greater
Curley
Ely
Frank J. Donahue
Campaiga
James Roosevelt
Senator Walsh
Joan F. Fitzgerald
William J. Foley
Suffolk County
Gurley
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
William B. Whiting
John F. Costello
District of Columbia
Congress in Session Sets Bank Heid Heflin Contests
Senate continues consideration of the Bank Heid Heflin contest in Alabama. Banking Committee maps stock market inquiry path. Foreign Relations panel discusses the World Court. House opens debate on a special segregation program. Secretary Mills testifies on bonus payments before Ways and Means, with merger issues and road holding reviewed by Commerce.
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Senate
Alamada
Banking Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
House
Mills
Commerce
Hoover at library dedication honors Shakespearean shrine
The White marble Shakespeare shrine in Washington was dedicated with international celebrities present. Mrs J Polger, widow of the donor, handed over keys to the city for a monument valued at 1,509,000 dollars housing Folger’s rare Shakespeare and Elizabethan volumes. President Hoover attended with Prof George Arthur Plimpton as part of the ceremony.
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Washington
J. Polger
PD Cr Folger
Speare
Elizabethorn
Shakespeare
Inset
Hoover
George Arthur Plimpton
Amherst College
Becker's Call for Deep State Budget Cuts in 1913-14 Echo
Becker argues prohibition is secondary to trimming government spending. He cites Missouri's 1913-14 $18 million budget versus $40 million now, urging heavy retrenchment and nationwide reach to pressure the party. He pledges to lead a fiscally focused push to restore prosperity and fiscal soundness.
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Becker
Missouri
South St. Louis
Ozarks
Agriculture Program Mapped by Farm Board Chair
Washington April 27 Chairman Stone of the Farm Board proposed a fourpoint program to the Senate Agriculture Committee. He urged continuation of Federal Reserve Board open market operations to expand credit and spending power, funding to finance sale of surplus wheat and cotton abroad, and intensified cooperative marketing. He warned that a credit expansion would help restore confidence, boost business and employment, and lift prices, urging banks to extend credit more freely. Stone urged appropriations to finance export sales of surpluses, noting the need to reduce carryover for the next crop year to raise farmers’ prices. He cited foreign demand possibilities of 13,000,090 to 25,606,000 bushels of wheat and 300,000 to 900,000 bales of cotton from stock возмож.
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Senate
Asticulture Committee
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Board
Financial News Reports Cautious Market With Steady Rails Rally
New York trading opened modestly higher then pared gains as U S Steel and General Motors faced mixed reactions amid beer market law chatter. Rail stocks rallied after midday on dividend news, while electric power output fell 12 3 percent for the week. Pennsylvania Railroad postponed a dividend decision, five decades after cutting quarterly payouts.
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General Motors
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Union Pacific
Chesapeake and Ohio
Pennsylvania
American Telephone
North American
Pacific Gas
Aled Chemical
American Tobacco
Liggett and Myers
Borden
Standard
M. J
American Can
Delaware and Hudson
A. S. Steel
Extradition Papers Issued for Jack Tracy
Acting Governor E H Winter issued extradition papers for Jack Tracy wanted in Macon Missouri on automobile theft. Tracy is under arrest at Princeton Kentucky.
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E. H. Winter
Jack Tracy
Macon
Princeton
Stimson ends talks to sail May 4 from Cannes
Geneva dispatch reports U S Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson will depart for the United States aboard the Vulcania from Cannes on May 4. He failed to unite the big five in disarmament talks at the Geneva conference as French Premier Tardieu cancels due to laryngitis and German and French elections add uncertainty.
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Switzerland
Henry L. Stimson
United States
Cannes
France
Vulcania
New York
Genevia
Tardieu
Beinrich Bruening
Germany
Royal Engagement Reported Broken in Europe
Paris reports that the engagement of former Princess Beatrice of Spain daughter of ex king Alfonso XI and her second cousin Don Antonio Alvaro D Orléans has been definitively broken off a spa source said authoritative ro. Simultaneously the Duke of Spoleto cousin of the King of Italy was reportedly seeking the hand of the Bourbon monarchs first daughter.
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Beatrice of Spain
Alfonso XI
Antonio Alvaro D'Orleans
Spa
Duke
Spoleto
Italy
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