Senate and House Clash Over Finance Measure
In Washington on January 16 AP reports the Senate and House are at odds over the Reconstruction Finance Corporation plan. President Hoover presses ahead to implement next week with Eugene Meyer likely as head. Debates center on rediscounting, loans to financial institutions, and farmer credit while a second relief bill for recapitalizing Federal land banks nears approval.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
Hoover
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve Board
War Finance Corporation
Blaine
Wisconsin
House
Reconstruction Corporation
Walcott
Connecticut
Federal Reserve System
National Credit Association
Smith
South Carolina
Federal Land Banks
White House
Thomas
Idaho
Glass
Virginia
Representative Snell
Tennessee River
Edsel Ford
W. B. Bell
American Cyanamid Company
Snell
Alabama
Tennessee
New Yorker
Tryon and Goodwin to Meet at Miami
Howard Tryon of El mira New York defeated J F Ryerson Cooperstown New York one up to reach the 36 hole final of the Miami Biltmore invitation amateur golf tournament. Tommy Goodwin of Monroe New York and Palm Beach advanced with a 4 and 3 victory over F M Hehlfelder of Cleveland to join him in the final.
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Coral Gables
Fla
Howard Tryon
Elmira
N. Y
J. F. Ryerson
Cooperstown
Miami
F. M. Hehlfelder
Cleveland
Tennessee noise as politicians eye governor race
Tennessee politics heat up with Judge Albert Williams's surprise bid for governor and Rufus Campbell Lewis Pope and others weighing Democratic nominations. East Tennessee talks include A. Broadbent and Pat Quinn as possible contenders while officials debate Muscle Shoals leasing.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Albert Williams
Finance and Taxation
Rufus Campbell
Ripley
Campbell
Lauderdale County
Lewis S. Pope
Peay
Pope
McAlister
Horton
Signs of Spring Flee as Winter Reawakens Across Nation
The east sees a retreat of spring signs as a sudden cold snap hits the region while flood warnings persist in the south and snow lingers in the west. Army planes aid Navajo snowbound communities in Arizona and New Mexico as Mississippi floods force 1,000 families from nine counties.
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Associated Press
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Lake Placid
N. Y
New York City
Arizona
New Mexico
Red Cross
Mississippi
Stimpson Johnson clash over leak in Senate session
In an executive session of the Senate Finance Committee Secretary Stimson accused of leaking state department files sparking a sharp clash with Senator Johnson of California. Stimson offered to provide publishable excerpts while opposing full disclosure of correspondence on Barco oil concessions and Colombia loans linked by testimony to a $4 million loan to Colombia.
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Washington
Stimson
State Department
Johnson
Republican
California
Senate Finance Committee
Barco
Colombia
National City Company
Gulf Oil Company
Prohibition Battle Roils Senate On Its Twelfth Anniversary
Washington January 16 Prohibition's twelfth anniversary spurred a senate debate between Democrats Tydings of Maryland and Sheppard of Texas. Sheppard warned of no compromise against beer and state control, while Tydings urged states to run their own governments and criticized federal enforcement. The Anti Saloon League attended the session as part of its biennial convention with speakers stressing constitutional issues and law enforcement challenges.
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Washington
Senate
Tydings
Maryland
Sheppard
Texas
Anti-Saloon League
Capitol
Seattle
al Capone
Chicago
The
Crusaders
Anti-Prohibition Organization
United States
Prince Edward Island
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Canada
Soviet Russia
Seth Richardson
Justice Department
Hawaii
Department
Mitchell
Richardson
McKellar
Islands
Territories Committee
Adams
Hurley
Wilbur
Prohibition Leaders Laud Dry Years At Anti Saloon League Meet
The biennial Anti Saloon League convention heard praise for prohibition from Bishop Thomas Nicholson and Rev. H. H. Russell as they reviewed 12 years of the dry crusade. A Cru saders map touted 1920 prohibition progress, while Mrs. Ella A. Boole urged jobs over beer and a dry platform for elections and laws. The group criticized beer legalization and favored continued strict enforcement and education of law observance.
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Washington
Anti-Saloon League
Thomas Nicholson
Detroit
America
H. H. Russell
Westerville
Ohio
Ella A. Boole
National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Antisaloon League
Paradise Purge of Crime Moves in Hawaii Legislature
Hawaii aims to purge its so called paradise of high crime with a special legislative program rushed by Governor Judd. Bills for death or life imprisonment for attackers of women and police reforms are being drafted as trials progress in the Massie Fortescue case.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Paradise
Lawrence M. Judd
Washington
Navy
Pacific
Territorial
Granville R. Fortescue
Thomas H. Massie
Joseph Kahahawai
Massie
James F. Gilliland
Fortescue
Seth W. Richardson
United States Attorney General
United States Senate
Gilliland
Richardson
Sanford B. D. Wood
United States
Dikes fall as Mississippi flood spreads across six counties
Flood waters from the Tallahatchie and connected rivers inundate 20,000 acres of lowlands and force 200 families, many Black, to flee. Levees crack along the Tallahatchie. refugees crowd roofs and box cars become shelters as relief crews race to save more.
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Glendora
Miss
Tallahatchie
Yallabusha
Yazoo
Mississippi
Louisiana
Ouachita
Monroe
West Monroe
Shreveport
Red River
Gilliam
Cado Parish
Cado Lake
Black Bayou
Bossier City
Bossier Parish
Docheat Bayou
Minden
Alexandria
Tallahatchie River
Tippo Basin
Charleston
Tippo
Tallahatchie County
E. P. Krick
Red Cross National Disaster Relief
Leflore
Quitman
Panola
Grenada
Swan Lake
Webb
Memphis
Tenn
Bingham
Red
Pritchard Labels North Carolina Election Laws Fraud Framed
George M. Pritchard told a senate committee that North Carolina election laws were framed for fraud while protesting Josiah W. Bailey's 1930 Senate victory. Bailey countered the contest lacked good faith as two Pritchard lawyers argued the complaint was stronger than the Heflin Bankhead case.
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Washington
North Carolina
Senate
George M. Pritchard
Josiah W. Bailey
Bailey
Elections Committee
Pritchard
Alabama
Shortridge
California
Robert H. MacNeil
McNeil
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Goodwin
Harlan County
Kentucky
William Hightower
Evarts Coal Mine Union
Mt. Sterling, Ky
Hightower
Knoxeville
Muscle Shoals
Williams
A. B. Broadbent
Clarksville
State Senate
Broadbent
Austin Peay
A. W. Chambliss
Supreme Court
Chambliss
East Tennessee
Quinn
Hill McAlister
H. C. Anderson
Jackson
Oklahoma
Los Angeles
Rocky Mountain
North Dakota
Minnesota
Watertown
S. D
Omaha
Nebraska
Iowa
Midwest
Kansas City
Secretary of State
ANT
Anti- Saloon League
U. S
Eva Novakowski
New York
Antonette Savamowski
Louise Vogelsgang
Long Island City
N. C
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