Plannned Economy Beavers and Cats in Federal Plan
A Washington dispatch cites a proposed plan to put 1000 beavers on the federal payroll. It envisions costs of eight dollars per beaver and three hundred dollars of work per year, with projections into 1948. The piece mocks the CRC scheme proposing rat and cat farming to pay the national debt, using absurd math and recycled alarmism to critique wartime economic policy.
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Post
Tribune
Tribune Printing Company
Associated Press
Associated Press Ls
Total Newa
Postoffica
Jefferson City
Missouri
Ontario
Washington
Census Bureau
Passamaquoddy Bay
CRC
Joan
Gentle Reminders of Human Limits on Modern Machinery
The article notes how major liners like the Queen Mary and Normandie faced docking and fog delays, despite advanced systems. It suggests readers may feel a mix of satisfaction and humility when nature disrupts highly mechanized plans, echoing a common tension between progress and human limits.
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Cherbourg
Normandie
New York
Washington Daybook on Tabor Green peace plan proposals
In Washington the National Grange and AFL leaders Louis J. Tabor and William Green consider informal, personal talks to avert future farm labor trouble before harvests. The plan relies on mutual trust and market adjustments, but external pressures could complicate any agreement.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Louis J. Tabor
National Grange
William Green
APL
Lou
Bill
Grange
AFL
Blach
Thas
Green
Tabor
How's Your Health Dr Jaze Galdstag
The heart in athletics explains how physical effort taxes the heart and how rest versus extreme exertion changes blood output and heart rate. It notes that healthy hearts endure exercise, while a damaged heart requires physician guidance for permissible activity and recovery.
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Jaze Galdstag
Quotes on nation, art, and politics from historic figures
A collection of brief quotations attributed to Rev. Dr. John S. Bonnell Alexander Troyanovsky Julius Braber Homer Saint Gaudens T M M Girdler Dennis Chavez Rabbi Louis Wolsey Alt M Landon and H G Wells. The remarks touch on patriotism governance culture and health with varying tone and context.
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John S. Bonnell
New York
United States
Dundee's rebirth through Ford village industry
The 1935 Ford village industry transformed Dundee Michigan from a fading small town to a thriving center. A rebuilt grist mill houses a turbo generator and electric furnaces to cast and machine copper electrodes for welding. About 80 local workers earn a steady wage, boosting payroll and commerce while Mayor Frank Wilcox confirms relief needs vanished as business revived. The town remains a quiet, friendly place with its core residents and social fabric intact.
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NEA
Dundee
Henry Ford
Ford
Raisin
America
Central
Michigan
River Rouge
Detroit
Frank Wilcox
Dick Lutz
Utz
Detroits
Epsilanti
Undee
Mich
Railroad salvage fears and rate rethink loom in 1930s study
Washington AP June 15 B H Meyer of the Interstate Commerce Commission warned the United States faces the greatest railroad salvaging crisis in history without fundamental carrier reforms. He dissented from a decision allowing Associated Railways to acquire and break up the bankrupt Minneapolis and St Louis railroad, arguing foreclosures or reorganizations would later force abandonment in multiple states. The ICC also agreed to reconsider an eastern railroad passenger fare hike from two to 2.5 cents per mile amid cautious legislative mood and railroad labor opposition to bailout aid.
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Washington
B. H. Meyer
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
ICO
Ociated Railways Company
Permissi
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
Meyer
St. L
Associated Railways
Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
Commission
Eastern Railroad
Capitol At Close End Of Session Like Final School Day
Washington observers compare the congressional adjournment to the last day of school with summer in the air. Boxes fill offices as lawmakers bid farewells while some return next year and others fade from Washington life. The scene blends mellowness with lingering bitterness as freshmen depart wiser and stories shift to possible future cabinet members and national roles.
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Eddie Gilmore
Washington
Capitol Hill
Capitol
House
Congress
Bill to liberalize RFC loans to carriers stalls in Congress
The bill to liberalize Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans to carriers stalled with no Senate vote. House leaders showed reluctance, though President Roosevelt said it would help if Congress could pass any rail legislation this session.
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Senate
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Slugged pupil earns diploma despite robbery
Sixten-year-old Cornelius Pettinga was slugged and robbed on the way to Holland Christian High School’s commencement, but arrived in time to win a $50 Hope College scholarship, a $3 essay prize, and an honorary science citation, totaling $40 gain after losses. Three men offered a ride, he awoke in a ditch with $15 missing, and the day ended with him being named top student in science.
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Holland
Mich
Cornelius, Petlinga
Pettinga
Hudsonville
Holland Christian High School
Hope College
Pepoon 10 Court To Get Name On Ballot
Percy Pepoon state senator from the thirtieth district said he will seek a court ruling to place his name on the August 2 primary ballot after the election board filed him as not filed. He asserts he filed with the election board and secretary of state and fulfilled all legal requirements. California contains about 12000 Sequoia trees with diameters of 10 feet or more.
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Louis
Percy Pepoon
St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners
Pepoon
Election Board
Secretary of State
California
Plan to Aid Dollar-A-Day Legislators Proposed
Former State Senator A L McCawley unveiled the Qualified Voters Movement for Modernizing the Constitution Through Orderly Amendment, a 12 point program referenced as Q V M i M C T Q O A. It includes paying legislators 1500 over 100 days, easing life on a dollar a day after 70 days, and redrawing districts to reduce gerrymandering in Missouri.
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A. L. Mc Cawley
McCawley
General Assembly
Missouri
State General Assembly
Senate
House
British Labor Law Compared With U S 1920s System
Morgan M Beatty explains how Britain’s 1927 labor law emerged from a history of extensive legislation and collective bargaining, contrasting it with the U S Wagner Act. The piece notes Britain’s uniform application, the prohibition of general strikes, and limits on union political funding, while detailing differing origins and political contexts.
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British Isles
Democratic New Deal
Great Britain
What Congress Is Doing (B37 The Associated Press) DAY
Adjournment leaders seek to end session before midnight as flood control delays prolong senate debate. Senate votes on five amendments to a 3.753 billion relief bill while both chambers act on a final deficiency measure and clean up minor items. Wage-hour bill sent to White House. compromise relief passes in house and partially in senate. House rules rejects John L. Lewis bid to extend wage-hour coverage. $500,000 on trust inquiry approved, radio-industry probe rejected.
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Associated Press
Senate
House
White House
House Rules Committee
John L. Lewis
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Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts
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