World economic conference opens in London with key currency talks
Leaders from six nations gather as King George inaugurates the world economic and monetary conference in London. Debates focus on currency stabilization and a synchronized move toward gold or a metallic standard, with plans for silver reserves and revised gold coverage.
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Oxer
George
London
Key Pittman
Nevada
Ralph W. Morrison
Texas
United States
Senater Pittman
Pittman
Washington
Illinois and Indiana Vote For Repeal of Prohibition
Illinois approved the repeal by about four to one while Indiana backed repeal by roughly two to one. Analysts cited funds from breweries and distillers and state organizers paying poll workers as key factors in Indiana’s victory.
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Llinois
Indiana
Illinois
L. E. York
Harrison plan for public works tax package advances
Senate finance committee adopts Senator Harrison's plan to fund public works measures. The core is a capital stock tax of one tenth of 1 percent on net worth, expected to raise 80 million. A 5 percent tax on dividends and a gasoline tax add to revenue, with other bills in conference. Sen. Harrison reports the measure for debate.
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Pat Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
House
Senate
Death of prominent Philadelphia publisher YRUS H. K. CURTIS
YRUS H. K. CURTIS of Philadelphia died at eighty three after a heart disease illness that began last May while aboard his yacht near New York. He led Ladies Home Journal Saturday Evening Post and Country Gentleman and headed Curtis Martin Newspapers Inc publishing the Philadelphia Inquirer Public Ledger Evening Public Ledger and New York Evening Post. His charitable gifts totaled millions.
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Yrus H. K. Curtis
Philadelphia
New York
The
Ladies Home Journal
Saturday Evening Post
Country Gentleman
New York Evening Post
Senate probes BeVier toilet kit contract and War Dept bid
The Senate military committee weighs a 200000 kit purchase at 1.40 each, 55 cents above War Department pricing. Howe and Lowery testify they did not influence the decision as Fechner links the matter to the budget. BeVier called a top salesman as lawmakers question motives. The council of the League of Nations urges action against Nazi exploit.
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Wwe
Richard B. BeVier
Conservation Corps
War Department
Senate Military Committee
Louis McHenry Howe
Be-Vier
Robert Fechner
The
Fr. W. Lowery
Douglas
Lowery
Fechner
Be- Vier
Howe
Dickinson
Iowa
Mr. Howe
Robert D. Carey
Wyoming
Mr. BeVier
Princeton to install fifteenth president Dr Harold W Dodds
Princeton's 175 year history will see a new president this fall. Dr Harold Willis Dodds, professor of politics and former chairman of the administrative board at the School of Public and International Affairs, will become the university's fifteenth president at age not quite forty four. He is known as an international authority on electoral methods and municipal government.
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Princeton
Harold Willis Dodds
School of Public and International Affairs
Dodds
Washington
Treasury
Pecora Probes Van Sweringens Morgan Ties in Hearing
The Pecora inquiry exposes the Van Sweringen brothers in Cleveland as financiers using loans from Morgan Co. to expand railroads through holding companies. Witness O P Van Sweringen claims memory gaps while acknowledging two Morgan loans near 40 million dollars on October 21, 1930.
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Pecora
Senate
J. P. Morgan Co
van Sweringen
Morgan
van Sweringens
Morgans
Morgan & Co
Sherwood Returns to Testify in Seabury Inquiry Case
USSELL T SHERWOOD returned from hiding to face a federal grand jury in New York on the Seabury inquiry into Jimmy Walker's affairs. His attorney was not consulted, and Sherwood then fled to New Jersey to avoid state charges, after a $50,000 contempt fine.
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Ussell T. Sherwood
Jimmy Walker
New York
Seabury
Walker
Michael F. Dee
Sherwood
New Jersey
Dee
Roosevelt nominates several U S attorneys and solicitor
President Roosevelt nominated South Trimble Jr of Kentucky as solicitor for the Department of Commerce. He sent to the senate nominations for United States attorneys including John A. Garver Idaho William J Barker New Mexico Carl C Donaugh Oregon and William McClanahan for western Tennessee in 1933.
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Roosevelt
South Trimble, Jr
Kentucky
Department of Commerce
Senate
United States
John A. Garver
Idaho
William J. Barker
New Mexico
Carl C. Donaugh
Oregon
William McClanahan
Western
Tennessee
Western Newspaper Union
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