World's Week Summary Highlights Debt, Politics and War
The weekly digest notes a 1937 US deficit of 2.71 billion and a public debt of 36.42 billion, with receipts at a 16-year high. It covers Rev Niemoeller in Germany, Ford UAW hearings, a Senate Supreme Court compromise, infantile paralysis germ isolation, steel industry mediation, and France–Spain tensions amid nonintervention efforts.
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Uncle Sam
Ncle Sam
Roosevelt
United States Treasury
Experta
Germany
Martin Niemoeller
Niemoeller
Berlin
Avcret
Niewpoeller
Ford
Labor Board
HE Nations Labor Relations Board
Detroit
United Automobile Workers’ Union
Ford Motor Company
C. LO
Opiacs
United States Supreme Court
NLRB
Washington
Roosevelt third term in doubt and party realignments
Washington observers see Roosevelt risking a third term run years before the midterms while Earle and other leaders face backlash over martial law. The article compares Coolidge’s stance and notes shifts in tariff talks with the Philippines, possible permanent extension of reciprocal powers, and debates among Republicans about dissolving a national party structure to favor independent or local battles.
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Washington
George H. Harle
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Ike
Hoover
Coolidge
Black Hills
South Dakota
Harding
Earle
Congress
Democratic Party
Madison Square Garden
Jefferson Island Club
Pennsylvania
Johnstown
Frank Avewal
White House
State Department
United States
Philippines
National Republican Organization
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
House
Vermont
Maine
Robert M. la Follette
Henrik Shipstead
Dos Antonio de Ulloa
Tibet
Ulloa
Alloa
Baghdad
Tigris
Bosta
Mosul
Tleris
Nineveh
Jonah
An Najat
Karbala
Alcantara
Tagus
Spain
Brazil
Atlantic Ocean
Santa Catharina
Florianopolis
American Bridge Company
Alaska
Ecuador
Peru
Latin America
India
Waa
Bridges shaping history across ages and continents
National Geographic notes how bridges from early iron spans to modern steel creations guided engineering progress worldwide. It recalls Thomas Telford’s Severn works, Viking rafts, and the shift from rope and boat crossings to standardized, shipped bridge kits enabling rapid erection abroad.
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National Geographic Society
Washington
WSU
Golden Gate
England
Abraham Darby
Coalbrookdale Ironworks
Severn
Thomas Telford
Highlands
Scotland
Menai
Wales
Carnarvonshire
Island of
Anglesey
Brooklyn Bridge
Telford
Vicar
Rhone
Roebling
Niagara Falls
Cincinnati
Europe
America
Newcastle and Berwick
Firth of Tay
Dundee
Siemens-Martin
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Treasury
Rlote
Billi
W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Ford Company
M. M. Logan
Kentucky
Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
Willis van Devanter
Burton K. Wheeler
Democrat
Montana
Edward R. Burke
Nebraska
Edward Carl Rosenow
Glendale
Calif
Rosepow
Mayo Foundation
Rochester
Los Angeles General Hospital
Rascaow
Federal Mediation Board
Frances Perkins
C. I. O.-affiliated
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Tom Girdler
Republic Steel
Fight
Charles P. Taft
Lloyd K. Garrison
Edward F. McGrady
Cambria Works
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Cambria
John L. Lewis
F.D.R. Waxes
Italy
Committee of 27 Nations For
Britain
France
Bilbao
Santander
Almirante Cervera
Tregastel
Seruaeds
Santandes
Jersey
Parkers
Paul H. Wendel
Trennon
N. J
Brune
Richard Hauptmann
Ellis Parker
Burlington County
Ellis, Jr
God
Feders
Penitentiar
Wilhem Clarke
Newark
Wendel
Sen. Eobinsos
Gov
Sarital
Carter Field
Aguinaldo
William Jennings Bryan
Manuel Quezon
Bertrand H. Snell
New Yor
Potsdam
Empire State
Allen T. Treadway
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Snell
Pork House
Serine
Sydney
Australia
Washington Bridge
George Homer
Darius
Cyrus
Xernes
Alexander the Great
Hudson
New York
Virginia
George Washington Bridge
China
Joseph Rock
Dr. Rock
South America
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