Farm relief bill faces war time votes and unemployment plan
Congress debates the Presidents farm relief bill with Democrats and Republicans split on its fate as war demands and public works loom. The unemployment program envisages a civilian conservation force and later vast public works, costing about two billion dollars and funded partly by bonds.
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House
Jones
Agriculture Committee
Representative Clarke
New York
Hope
Rep
Kan
Senate
White House
Civilian Conservation Force
Treasury
Congress
Representative Connery
House Labor Committee
Muscle Shoals
U.S. Presses Berlin on Jewish Rights. Beer Law Details
Secretary Hull asked the Berlin embassy for a full report on Jewish mistreatment in Germany after a delegation led by Rabbi Stephen S Wise appealed to the State Department. The note said the embassy would cooperate with consuls to compile a complete situation report. Separately, a new beer law sets 3.2 percent by weight and 4 percent by volume alcohol, with sale limited to 14 states on April 7 and state level regulation to follow.
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Germany
Cordell
Hull
Berlin
State Department
American Jewish Congress
Stephen S. Wise
New York
Wise
House of Representatives
Conference Committee
House
Drys
Supreme Court
Senate
Congress
Supreme Court of the United States
John J. Blaine
Wisconsin
Senator Blaine
World events and banking reform ripple through Europe and America
In Europe Adolf Hitler seizes dictatorial control as Reichstag abdicates, while Mussolini and MacDonald back a four power pact to deter war. In Ohio flood fatalities rise and a Red Cross relief drive aids refugees. Back in Washington the emergency banking act accelerates a shift toward a unified national banking system, with state banks pressured to join the Federal Reserve network and debates over branch banking and veteran benefits continuing.
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MacDonald
Great Britain
John Simon
Mussolini
Italy
France
Germany
Europe
Daladier
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Jugo-Slavia
United States
America
Washington
Federal Reserve System
Glass
Virginia
Senate
Congress
House of Representatives
Federal Reserve
Majority rule and social reform across eras
A columnist muses on history and politics urging majority rule to curb outrages, critiques wartime compulsion, and recalls pension scandals from the Civil War era. The piece cites public figures and echoes World War I veterans concerns, ending with a call to patient civic virtue and a note on gendered governance.
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Nyone
Holy Sepulchre
Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
George E. Lemon
National Tribune
House
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Thomas E. Dewey
United States Attorney
Mr. Mitchell
Homer Cummings
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Marvin Jones
Homer S. Cummings
Cordell Hull
Reichstag
Hitler
Adolph Hitler
Hohenzollern
von Hindenburg
Ohio River
Red Cross
New Richmond
Ohio
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Newport
Bellevue
Dayton
Fort Thomas
Southgate
Covington
Western Newspaper Union
William Bruckart
United
Howe
ED Howe
Stephen Leacock
Mark Twain
H. G. Wells
Genghis Kahn
Ball Syndicate
WNU
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