Hatch Bill Defeats Spur Anti White House Mood in Congress
In a rapid session the Senate passed the Hatch bill limiting political work by federal officials while the House defeated key lend spend and deficiency measures. Analysts say Congress became permanently obstreperous toward the White House with attempts to restrain social and wage amendments stalled.
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Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
House Banking Committee
Rules Committee
Carl R. Mapes
Rep
Mich
Banking Committee
Jesse Walcott
Adolph J. Sabath
Illinois
Joseph Martin
Massachusetts
Labor Board
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Export-Import Bank
Rural Electrification Administration
Farm Security Administration
Froosevelt
Miss Alice Marble Versatile Star Shines Across Sports
Miss Alice Marble, famed Wimbledon and American champion, contemplates a Hollywood move after tennis season. Her early life in San Francisco included baseball, basketball, and track, with a family sport heritage and a donor’s gift of a tennis racquet steering her toward tennis.
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York
Alice Marble
Jene McCormack
Hollywood
Miss Marble
Polytechnic High
San Francisco
Harry
Tim) Marble
Pacific Coast League Missions
Marble Pete
Plumas County
Calif
San Francisco Seals
Pacific Coast League
Ingenious Fur Trimmings Set Fall Woolens Fashion Pace
Cherie Nicholas notes an inventive push in fall fashion with fur trimmed wools. Designers preview dramatic fur accents such as bow-knot appliques, fur borders, cuff muffs, and fur yokes enhancing wool ensembles. Plaids return strong with luxurious textures and bold contrasts as school outfits feature wood plaid capes with navy wool suits.
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Gaston of
Paris
Western Newspaper Union
Record Flight and Speed Honors in U S Air Corps
The report details U S Air Corps milestones including a 11 023 pound bomb load at 33 400 feet surpassing Germany and a bomber speed record of 259 398 mph overtaking Italy. It notes a Burbank to New York flight record of OM hours and a 219 hour 43 minute endurance flight by Hunter and Moody. Col Anglo of Italy reportedly traveled 7 763 miles in a Keen Former record.
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U. S. Air Corps
Germany
Italy
Burbank
Calif
New York
Hunter
Humphrey Moody
Springfield
Col. Anglo
Lace-Top Dress Draws rave at Chicago fashion revue
The lace-top dress is highlighted as a top fashion of the season. Shown by the Style Creators of Chicago the model appeals for its versatility with a jacket allowing wear through midseason into fall. Navy corset with white lace toplines the look.
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Style Creators of
Chicago
Warm Honey Beige Smart Tan Shade Fashion Trends
The season favors a warm honey beige tan with minimal makeup, using rouge, matte powder, and colored lip stick. Hats range from peaked hoods to wide hats and fishnet turbans accessorized by large hairpins. Cork clogs and raffia sandals appear, while beach bags grow bigger and carry cosmetics for the pretty look.
Costume Description in White and Blue Sailor Style
The outfit combines white and deep blue linen for a natty costume. A Sailor motif appears on the jacket and bodice with a white embroidered anchor on the dress shoulder and a blue outlined anchor on the jacket sleeve. Pearl buttons finish the look.
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Bruyere
Gray fashions to feature in fall coats and suits
Gray woolen fabrics and gray furs dominate this fall collection. Designers highlight muted tones for coats and suits, stressing a refined gray vogue for the season.
French designer crafts hats with stars sewn between fabrics
A French milliner creates imaginative headpieces by stitching small fabric stars between layers of marine blue fabric. The showpiece blends whimsy with refined craft, highlighting handwork and delicate detailing for a couture audience.
Death completes strange cycle of coincidences
In Santa Rosa California Mrs Sidney M Pyle mother of C C Cash and Carry Pyle promoter of bunion derbies died at 81 completing a 28 year cycle of deaths in her family. She her husband and her parents all died at 81 at 7 year intervals each death at 6 10 a m on a Sunday was noted as a coincidence.
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Sacramento
Calif
Santa Rosa
Sidney M. Pyle
C. C
Pyle
Los Angeles
London Moves to Protect Children in Event of War
The article notes Frank Pick, head of London transport, is poised to lead mass evacuation in wartime. He will supervise rail and road movement of about half the population, prioritizing children and patients, with evacuees sent on first day and vehicles redirected to avoid congestion.
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London
Fleet Street
Frank Pick
Pick
London Omnibuses
London Passenger Transport Board
Lord Ashfield
Henry Stanley
Detroit
Detroit United Railways
Public Service Railways
New Jersey
Stamps! Whats Them Oldtimer Wants to Know
Carl Pittman of Henderson Texas, an amateur stamp collector, visits a remote hillside farmhouse and asks about ancient stamps. The farmer, puzzled, repeats What’s them and finally says he has never heard of such items.
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Oldtimer
Henderson
Texas
Carl Pittman
Pittman
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