Sit down strikes spark nationwide political clashes and labor actions
The piece reports on Robinson blocking a Roosevelt position by pushing a concurrent condemnation of sit-down strikes while condemning the practice as illegal. It covers Ford refusing to recognize the UAW, Chrysler and Reo settlements, CIO actions in Canada, the Hershey incident, Minnesota protests against Governor Benson, wage talks in mining, and Texas anti sit-down strikes with Allred promising strong action.
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Guffey
Senate
Joe Robinson
McNary
Robinson
Mr. Roosevelt
Enry Ford
Detroit
Ways
Ford Motor Company
United Automobile Workers of America
Ford
John L. Lewis
Henry Ford
Kansas City
United Automobile Workers
Henry
Chrysler Company
W. P. Chrysler
John Lewis
Murphy
Chrysler
Reo Company
Hudson Company
Canada
General Motors Company of Canada
Oshawa
Ont
Elmer A. Benson
Farmer-Labor
Minnesota
People's Lobby
St. Paul
Benson
Atlantic air service to start after Canadian route deal
Assistant Secretary J. Monroe Johnson said two routes through Canada are now open for trans Atlantic flying craft, bringing total weekly crossings to four. Routes through Shediac N B and Montreal will be used with Bottwood N F as hop off and landfall points. British and U S planes will each make two crossings weekly.
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United States
Great Britain
Canada
Dominion
J. Monroe Johnson
Shediac
N. B
Montreal
Ocean
Bottwood
N. F
Johnson
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Consumers’ Guide
Agriculture Adjustment Administration
Electrification News
Rural Electrification Administration
Senator Hamilton Pushes Peace Conference to Revise Versailles
Illinois Senator James Hamilton Lewis urges President Roosevelt to convene an international peace conference to revise the Versailles treaty. He argues a new disposition could calm nations in revolt and conflict caused by the treaty terms, and cites Roosevelt's popularity abroad as aiding success.
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Enator
James Hamilton
Lewis
Illinois
Senate
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
France and Russia Accused of Violating Spanish Civil War Neutrality
Virginio Gayda asserts France and Russia aid Madrid loyalists, detailing 25 French general staff officers mapping loyalist strategy, wartime shipments through France, Daladier reports on 155 mm guns, and the Mar Negro en route from Odessa with munitions to Valencia.
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Tmt
France
Russia
Madrid
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
Italy
Gayda
United States
Edouard Daladier
Spain
Guadalajara
Valencia
Odessa
House Approves Measure To Speed Supreme Court Rulings
The House approved by 122 to 14 a reform aimed at speeding Supreme Court decisions on constitutionality of congressional acts. It allows the attorney general to appear and argue for the government when a federal suit challenges a law. The AG would have rights akin to a party in the suit.
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House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Wreckage of Skyliner Found in Arizona Mountains
Persistent search in northern Arizona revealed the missing skyliner wreck. Eight occupants' bodies were found in the wreckage, six burned beyond recognition. The plane, sold and bound from Burbank to New York, struck a mountain side. cause of the disaster is unknown.
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Arizona
Burbank
Calif
New York
Federal Reserve Plans Open Market Purchases to Stabilize Money Market
President Roosevelt Morgenthau and Eccles agreed to open market purchases of government securities by the Federal Reserve to ease the money market and aid banks adjusting to May 1 1937 reserve requirements. The President warned that durable goods like steel and copper were overpriced and called for shifting federal spending to spread income more evenly.
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Open Market Committee
Federal Reserve System
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Eccles
Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Banks
Army Day Observed Across Nation Marks 20th WWI Entry
The President Congress and all governors proclaimed Army Day on April 6 commemorating the 20th anniversary of America's entry into World War I. Rear Admiral Reginald Belknap urged peace through preparedness urging a strong trained army and navy under the 1920 National Defense Act to deter aggression.
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Congress
America
Reginald R. Belknap
Florida ship canal project revives in Congress debate
Two reports on the Florida ship canal favor and oppose the plan. Major General Edward Markham urges completion at about 197.9 million dollars for an Atlantic Gulf waterway 33 feet deep and 400 feet wide. The river and harbor board calls the canal economically unsound.
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Florida
Congress
Edward M. Markham
Army
River and Harbor Board
War Department
Markham
Economy Act repeal marks end of flawed law and critique of federal spending
Senator McKellar argues the marriage clause repeal signals the decline of the 1933 Economy Act. He notes ongoing, hidden federal expenses from government publications and franking, urging scrutiny of small line-item costs while condemning politics-driven spending amid calls for economy and reform.
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Washington
Senator McKellar
Senate
Lilly Law
McKellar
New Deal
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
House
Taber
New York
Att Ntion
Happy Hulda Tees Up Seven Tea Towels Pattern
Happy Hulda invites crafters to cross stitch seven tea towels using a transfer pattern from Pattern 1383. Each motif covers about 6 by 6 inches with full color suggestions and stitching instructions. Send 15 cents for pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York NY.
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Happy Hulda
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York, N. Y
Fire Damage Mostly Contained in Colorado Forests
A 1986 wildfire in Colorado burned 71 acres within national forests, the best record since 1925 as officials report only slight damage across about 100 acres of affected forest land.
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Colorado
Quotations on life, art, and progress from notable figures
A compilation of aphorisms by Nicholas Murray Butler Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt and Andre Maurois. The quotes discuss the value of universities as life sources the creative act the balance between advancing and restraint and the need for safe driving habits.
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Nicholas Murrayer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Andre Maurois
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Charles O'Neill
United Eastern Coal Sales Corporation
Texas
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International Association of Oil Field
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