US delegates head to London for economic conference
Edward W. Pickard reports that Secretary Cordell Hull leads a U S delegation to the London economic conference with James M Cox Key Pittman James Couzens Samuel D McReynolds and Ralph Morrison among members The brain trust includes William C Bullitt James Warburg Fred Nielsen and Herbert Feis The aim is limited progress on monetary policy exchange and trade barriers with no immediate tariff cuts or currency stabilization expected.
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Texas
William C. Bullitt
James P. Warburg
Fred K. Nielsen
Herbert Feis
Brain Trust
McReynolds
House Committee On Foreign Relations
Couzens
Congress
Raymond Moley
Hull
Moley
Geneva
London
United States
Argentina
Australia
Canada
Economic Conference
Debt talks at London economic conference intensify
Britain and allied nations seek debt cancellation or drastic cuts, while the Roosevelt administration argues debts are not the key to the mood or cure. Dispatches say Roosevelt offered ten million as part payment on a seventy five million due, aided by dollar devaluation. Fletcher-Steagall moves to abrogate the gold clause pass the House 283 to 57 with cross party support.
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France
Italy
United States
Roosevelt
London
Congress
Washington
Hampions
House
Senate
Fletcher-Steagall
Farmer-Laborites
Luce
Massachusetts
Steagall
Banking Committee
Investigation resumes on J. P. Morgan & Co banking house
The Senate Banking Committee resumed its inquiry into the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co outlining questions on practices and financial dealings in the ongoing investigation.
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J. P. Morgan & Co
Senate Banking Com
Brookhart named agricultural ambassador to Soviet Russia
Mith Wildman Brookhart former Iowa senator Receives appointment as agricultural ambassador to Soviet Russia tasked with exploring markets for cotton and livestock The move aims at trade talks with a non recognized government Brookhart underscored no link to diplomatic relations while hoping for recognition Talks with Soviet official Boris Skvirsky noted He is not Amtorg or trade representative.
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Mith Wildman Brookhart
Iowa
Wallace
Soviet
Russia
Washington
Brookhart
Agricultural Administration
George N. Peek
Boris Skvirsky
Skvirsky
Amtorg Corporation
America
Soviet Foreign Office
Germany Rejects League Report on Jewish Treatment
Germany refused to accept an unfavorable League of Nations report on its treatment of Jews and signaled that the affair is none of the league’s business. The league council referred juridical aspects of the issue to a committee of jurists for a full airing.
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League of Nations
League
League Council
Roosevelt names Morgan to TVA post amid skepticism
President Roosevelt selected Arthur E. Morgan, Antioch College president in Yellow Springs Ohio, as director of the Tennessee Valley conservation project. Morgan has led about seventy five water control projects since 1902, including St Francis valley reclamation in Arkansas and the Miami project in Dayton Ohio, and has served as chief engineer in Colorado and other states. He is familiar with Tennessee Valley conditions.
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Arthur E. Morgan
Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Morgan
St. Francis Valley
Arkansas
Miami
Dayton
Pueblo
Colo.) Conservancy District
Minnesota
Mississippi
Colorado
New Mexico
Tennessee Valley
U S Denounced Over Gold Standard at International Congress
Vienna dispatches report Charles Boisse vain of Holland denouncing the United States for abandoning the gold standard and repudiating the gold clause. Ira Campbell of New York defends US shipping amid calls to abolish subsidies while Britain’s W L Runciman disputes defense arguments in a commercial forum. War debts are urged to be settled before global economic recovery.
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Everting
Vienna
International Chamber of Commerce
United States
Charles Boissevain
Holland
Ira Campbell
New York
W. L. Runciman
Great Britain
W. H. Coates
Armistice Signed in North China at Tangku
Military representatives of Japan and China sign a local truce demilitarizing the area bounded by the Great Wall and two railways. The ceasefire allows resumed Peiping Shanhaikwan rail traffic and dissolves local Chinese volunteer forces. Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Chiang Kai-shek are cited amid factional tensions and Russian arms rumors. National government calls the Tangku truce temporary and local, not a surrender or wider policy shift.
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Feng Yu-hsiang
Tientsin
Feng
Mongolia
Urga
Peiping
Prohibition politics heat up as Farley drives repeal drive
In Washington the repeal movement gains momentum as Postmaster General Farley presses for repeal to end extra taxes tied to the Eighteenth Amendment. Dry and wet factions rally with church conventions, senate probes, and tax arguments shaping a high-stakes political battle.
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Washington
Jim” Farley
Farley
Roosevelt
Congress
Democratic Party
Aviation era chaos and outlaw escapes stun Midwest towns
The report describes an escape at Leavenworth penitentiary led by Wilbur Underhill with 11 convicts seizing guards during a baseball game and fleeing to Oklahoma. The tale also covers Culver Indiana bandits, vigilante capture, a massive Indianapolis 500 with Louis Meyer winning in a record 4:48 at 104.162 mph, and multiple fatal wrecks and prize money totaling $13,150.
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Iansing
State Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kan
Wilbur Underhill
Southwest
Prather
Oklahoma
Pleasanton
Kans
Louis Meyer
California
Indianapolis Speedway
Mark Billman
Indianapolis
Elmer Lombard
Malcomb Fox
New Jersey
Lester Spangler
Los Angeles
Spangler
G. I. Jordan
Bert Cook
Fox
William Denver
Robert Hurst
Meyer
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