World's busy man Norman H. Davis wins tariff truce acceptances
Norman H. Davis, U S ambassador at large in Europe, secures Britain’s acceptance of President Roosevelt’s proposed international tariff truce during the London conference. France and Italy also agree, with reservations, while Japan Germany Holland and China expected to respond favorably to monetization of silver. The wheat conference opens in Geneva with Morgenthau Haas and Murphy present as the farm bill price fixing amendment is rejected by the House 283 to 109. Senate approves conference committee report and broadens the secretary of agriculture’s power to license and regulate marketing of all agricultural products.
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Norman H. Davis
Europe
Roosevelt
London
MacDonald
House of Commons
Great Britain
Britain
Davis
Washington
France
Italy
Belgium
Japan
Germany
Holland
China
Te Simpson
House
Jones
Agriculture Committee
Burns
Senate
Conference Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Peter
Paul
United States
MacDonald Pushes War Debts and World Disarmament Talks
Prime Minister MacDonald in parliament links war debt solutions to success of the world economic conference. He says US participation in a consultative disarmament pact is needed to secure Europe, with an imminent Washington announcement. Roosevelt seeks authority to negotiate debt issues while keeping them separate from the conference. France discusses a moratorium on June 15 payments. Soong and Ishii agendas in Washington focus on Sino Japanese tensions and Kellogg Briand pact. Senate advances securities regulation with Johnson amendment aiding defaulted foreign bond holders.
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Prve
MacDonald
Roosevelt
United States
France
Herriot
Washington
Congress
T. V. Soong
China
Alfred Sze
Peiping
Viscount Kikujiro Ishii
Japan
Far East
Manchuria
Manchukuo
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Albert J. Pani
Mexico
Davis and Rosenberg in London discuss world disarmament
Norman Davis met in London with Dr Alfred Rosenberg Hitler’s foreign policy adviser. Davis conveyed U S opposition to armament growth and warned that Germany’s push for a larger army could hinder the disarmament conference. Rosenberg denied intent to disturb peace but urged equality of arms, preferring disarmament of others to Germany’s level.
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Norman Davis
London
Alfred Rosenberg
Hitler
United States
America
Germany
Rosenberg
Senate approves Wheeler resolution on silver remonetization
The senate approved a Wheeler resolution urging American delegates to the world economic conference to pursue an agreement to remonetize silver at 16 to 1 with gold. The measure calls on delegates to work unceasingly toward this goal.
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Senate
Paraguay Declares War On Bolivia In Gran Chaco Fight
President Eusebio Ayala of Paraguay formally declares war as peace talks by neutral South American nations fail. Since June 1932 the conflict has raged unofficially with neither side yielding. Paraguayans cheer the move while Bolivians vow to continue fighting.
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Wek
Bolivia
Gran Chaco
Eusebio Ayala
Paraguay
Amner Welles Arrives in Havana as Cuba Hope Rises
Amner Welles the new American ambassador to Cuba is welcomed at Havana harbor by officials and about 100 onlookers while thousands cheer along the seawall. He pledges to foster trade and regenerate healthy commerce, and reiterates the Platt amendment restraint on U.S. interference in Cuban affairs.
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Amner Welles
Cuba
Havana
Island Republic
United States
Welles
Farm Holiday backs nationwide strike against Roosevelt plan
Des Moines reports show the National Farmers Holiday Association ignored Roosevelt emergency relief plans to avert city food shortages. Milo Reno cites Simpson amendment defeat as ending hopes to cancel the strike while Minnesota and Oklahoma groups pledge to withhold products. The 4000 delegates seek mortgage relief, tax cuts, free silver, veteran bonuses, bank nationalization, and foreclosure moratoriums.
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Montevideo
Minn
Minnesota Farm Holiday Association
Wallace
R. L. Rickard
Oklahoma Holiday Association
Oklahoma
Navy Plans Major Budget Cut and Fleet Downgrade
Budget bureau driven plan cuts Navy expenses by 53 million dollars in the next fiscal year with about one third of the fleet to be placed on the rotating inactive plan. Training and recruiting at Norfolk San Diego Newport and Great Lakes stations will halt temporarily and about 1000 officers may be removed.
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Budget Bureau
Navy
Norfolk
San Diego
Newport
Great Lakes
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Geneva
Henry Morgenthau, Sr
George C. Haas
Federal Farm Board
Frederick BE. Murphy
Minneapolis Tribune
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Hiram Johnson
California
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Sumner Welles
Feysee
James Bryant Conant
A. Lawrence Lowell
Sheldon Emery
Dorchester
Mass
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Jennett Bryant Conant
Harvard College
Roxbury Latin School
Enator Glass
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Federal Reserve
Tennessee River Valley
Muscle Shoals
Senator Norris
Nebraska
Tennessee River
President Wilson
Norris
Tennessee Valley
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Union
Howe
ED Howe
Silerius
Samuel Insull
Abyssinia
Mark Twain
Bell Syndicate
WNU
J.B. Conant
Western Newspaper Union
William Bruckart
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