Farm Blog Is Victorious In Farm Credits Debate
Edward W. Pickard surveys the last session of the Sixty seventh Congress noting the farm credits bill as a major achievement while other measures, including army and harbor provisions, are criticized as insufficient. He highlights resistance to intermediate credit banks and debates over War Finance Corporation extension amid broader postwar international tension.
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Congress
Woaver
Wallace
Mellon
House Banking and Currency Committee
House
War Finance Corporation
Burton
Ohio
Lenroot-Anderson
White House
Harding’s Subsidy Bill Dies as Senate Acts
The ship subsidy bill died Wednesday after the Senate rejected recommitting it. The body advanced the house filled milk bill, killing the subsidy measure. Senator Caraway proposed shipping ships to states and municipalities to spur port trade, alleging punitive tactics against subsidy supporters. President urges Senate to authorize U S participation in the permanent court of international justice, citing longstanding U S role and public support.
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Harding
Senate
Ladd
North Dakota
Caraway
Arkansas
Shipping Board
United States
Permanent Court of International Justice
League of Nations
Political maneuver to force a vote before adjournment
The group declared they would endeavor to force a vote on the matter before adjournment in order to put the senators on record.
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pSor Sportman
Senate Likely to Reject Several President Nominations
The Senate seems poised to reject multiple presidential appointments including James G. McNuary as controller of the currency. Mondell of Wyoming and Towner of Iowa appear set for other posts. Cabinet changes see Work as interior secretary and New succeeding him as postmaster general.
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Senate
James G. McNuary
Mondell
Wyoming
War Finance Corporation
Towner
Iowa
Porto Rico
Frank T. Jines
Veterans’ Bureau
Richard M. Tobin
San Francisco
Netherlands
Mr. Warding
Cvostmaster
Work
Interior
Fall
Harry S. New
Indiana
Germany’s Cuno Faces Domestic Strife Over Ruhr Crisis
The German chancellor fears revolution if resistance to the French in the Ruhr continues and considers possible U S intervention. Nationalists led by Ludendorff and backed by von Hindenburg push for a stronger stance and a national army while Prince Wilhelm Lippe is arrested in Düsseldorf on secret-organizer charges.
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Hwancellor Cuno
Germany
Ruhr
Cuno
Berlin
United States
Ludendorf
von Hindenburg
Hanover Agricultural League
Wilhelm Friedrich von Lippe
Dusseldorf
Green
Zeciloslovakia Plans Early Debts Payment To US
Zeciloslovakia moves to settle its wartime debt to the United States. Its 1923 budget lists nearly 4.6 million dollars toward the debt, part of an estimated 100 million. Forces Minister Benes says a Washington mission will fix discrepancies and seek favorable terms. Finland also signals payment willingness, with preliminary talks between Finnish minister Axel Leonard and Secretary Mellon on refunding a debt over 30 million plus 1.15 million in interest.
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Zeciloslovakia
United States
Benes
Washington
America
Finland
Axel Leonard
Wage rise for 65,000 railway workers restored eight hour day
The federal railroad labor board on Wednesday ordered a two cent per hour wage increase for 65,000 railway freight handlers and laborers and restored the eight hour day for 321,000 members of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks Express and Station Employees. The decision ends a long wage dispute and mirrors a prior restoration for railway signalmen.
Governor Blaine Defends Wisconsin National Guard
Governor Blaine sends a special message to the legislature praising the Wisconsin National Guard and urging its continuation at a strength meeting national needs. Senator La Follette opposes the bill abolishing the guard while Mrs La Follette supports the measure.
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Overnor Blaine
Wisconsin
Senator la Follette
W Bourke Cockran Dies After Stroke
W Bourke Cockran of New York congressman and noted orator died suddenly from apoplexy. He had spoken in a debate on the farm credits bill the night before his sixty ninth birthday. A longtime Democrat leader, he shaped party councils and aided the Irish freedom cause.
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W Bourke Cockran
New York
Cockran
Congress
Doctor in Public Health Service Arrested in California Murder
Dr Louis L Jacobs a young captain in the United States Public Health Service was arrested in San Diego California on a charge of murdering Fritzi Mann a dancer whose body was found on the beach at Torrey Pines near San Diego a month ago.
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Louis L. Jacobs
United States Public Health Service
San Diego
Cal
Fritzi Mann
Torrey Pines
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Miraflores Lock
Panama Canal
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Edward W. Pickard
Lodge
Foreign Relations Committee
Borah
Bochum
Degoutte
Holland
Switzerland
Amid
Lithuania
East Prussia
Memel
Lloty Wadsworth
Rhine
Fin Cral
King Tut
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Luxor
Egypt
Joseph Gurney Cannen
Representatives
Wankington
Europe
Spain
Duke
Ursula Grosvenor
Duke of Westminster
Constance Edwina Cornwallis-West
London
Jack Anthony
Lady Ursula
Purple Hood
Ignace Paderewski
International
Rufus B. von Kliensmid
University of Southern California
Dynamitieg
Grimsville
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