War talk and graft fears across Europe and Britain
A column surveys looming conflict, diplomacy, and social issues across Europe and Britain. It notes Lloyd George denying imminent war, French troop movements, potential German aggression, and Eden’s Moscow mission. It recalls a hanging protest against the death penalty, Archimedes and ancient graft, and curiosities from Baluchiterium to sterilization cases in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd George
Europe
Mussolini
France
England
Germany
L’ars
Britain
Eden
Moscow
Stalin
Russia
Japan
European security pact advances as Eden tours Moscow
Western Newspaper Union reports Captain Eden's Moscow talks with Stalin and Litvinov push for a collective security system in Europe. Germany and Poland may join but the plan proceeds without them, while Japan signals cautious support and Polish rulers resist binding pacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gover
Russia
Great Britain
France
Italy
England
Moscow
Anthony Eden
Privy Seal
Josef Stalin
Maxim Litvinov
Europe
League of Nations
Germany
Poland
Eden
Warsaw
Michael Tukhachevsky
Pravda
Hitler
Tukhachevsky
Journal de Moscou
Oland
Biden
Sir John Simon
Berlin
Tugwell’s new crop control agency eyed for soil program
The article describes a planned Department of Agriculture reorganization under Rexford G. Tugwell consolidating soil erosion agencies. It forecasts a billion dollars in public works funds for the public land program and a shift away from AAA tax cuts toward retirement of marginal lands to curb overproduction, with changes unlikely soon due to program timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AAA
Department of Agriculture
Rexford G. Tugwell
Tugwell
Dust storms and political shifts across multiple states
Dust storms rattle the plateau region as farmers in western Kansas build earthwork defenses awaiting a possible 250 million dollar federal aid. Illinois faces a constitutional challenge to a state recovery act. Belgium backs Rooseveltian policy, and Belgium’s Van Zeeland cushions gold doubts. Virgin Islands administration inquiry set with $12,000 funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Illinois
Horner
Homer W. Hall
Bloomington
Director of Codes
Hitler’s Demands and Roosevelt’s Must Legislation Outlined
The report details Hitler’s push for a larger army a bigger air force parity with Britain and return of colonies while Germany seeks a navy equal to one third of Britain. Roosevelt lists must pass legislation including NRA social security anti holding company measures and expanded merchant marine plus a push to curb war profits and settle labor disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir John Simon
Hitler
Sir John
Germany
Great Britain
Britain
Simon
England
MacDonald
King George
Ais
Russia
Czechoslovakia
London
Poland
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Senate
National Recovery Administration
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Wagner
New York
AAA
Wild Steer and Cliff Rescue at Ancient City Canyon
Pat Lynch ropes a wild steer in a Colorado canyon and is dragged over a rim. He frees himself after the rope breaks, surviving on a shelf among ruins of ancient cliff houses. The area, later opened as Yampa Canyon National Monument in 1933, holds a forgotten city awaiting discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynch
Yampa Canyon National Monument
Pat Lynch
From wagon trails to speedometers in American history
The piece traces early travel and invention from Brigham Young’s 1846 Mormon trek and William Clayton’s wheel mile marker to the modern speedometer. It then surveys presidential slogans from Tippecanoe and Tyler Too to Keep Cool with Coolidge, See America First, and other campaign motifs shaping U.S. political life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brigham Young
Plains
Utah
Nebraska
William Clayton
Tippecanoe
Tyler
William Henry Harrison
White House
England
Oregon
James K. Polk
Washington
Grant
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
Warren G. Harding
America
Sloan
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Brisbane
Violet Vandereist
Hiero
Archimedes
Michiel Angelo
St. Peter’s
Rome
Michael Angelo
St. Peter's
Republic
American Museum of Natural History
Baluchiterium
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Wniu Service
Arther
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Tokyo
Eiji Aman
Foreign Office
Aman
Pius
Holy Father
Thomas More
Henry VIII
John Fisher
Henry
Anne Boleyn
Beying
Florida
Ickes
Buchanan
Georgia
Dole
Robert Bacon
Ep. N. Y
Bertrand Snell
Rep
N. Y
Tanley Reed
Supreme Court
Belcher Lumber Code
National Industrial Recovery Act
Belcher
W. L Grubb
Federal District Court
Birmingham
Grubb
NRA
M. Litvinov
Eiji Amau
United States Supreme Court
Scottsboro
Alabama
Democratic Party
Donald Richberg
NIRB
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Richberg
R. G. Tugwell
Elgium
Paul van Zeeland
Chamber of Deputies
van Zeeland
Belgium
The
Virgin Islands
Paul Pearson
Pearson
Hoover
Paul Yates
Hopkins
Wallace
Davis
Senate Committee
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Carter Glass
Virginia
House Banking Committee
William Bruckart
National Press
Washington, D. C
Elmo Scott Watson
Western Newspaper
Union
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