General strike in San Francisco collapses under guard action
The San Francisco general strike fails as 8000 National Guard members assist police. Officials pledge to expel Communists and resume food shipments. Arbitration offered, Bridges blocks it. longshoremen seek control of hiring halls, while nationwide unrest grows with strikes in Portland and Alabama.
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NCE
United States
San Francisco
Raicars
Merriam
Rossi
Lfe
Johnson
NIRA
Federal Maritime Dispute Board
Pacific Coast
West
Marine Workers
Teamsters
Phen Joseph I’. Ryan
Longshoreniwa
Roosevelt
Harry Bridges
Angelo J. Rossi
Portland
Ore
Minneapolis
United Textile Workers
Alabama
Textile Workers
NRA
Walter J. Kohler
Kohler Village
Wisconsin
Langer Defies Court Over North Dakota Governorship
North Dakota faces political upheaval as Gov Ole Olson moves to remove William H Langer after a Supreme Court ruling found him no longer eligible due to a conspiracy conviction. Langer calls on the National Guard and spurs a legislative session while Olson counters and unrest grows among farmers heading to the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orth Dakota
Nations Guard
William H. Langer
State Supreme Court
Ole H. Olson
Langer
National Guard
Olson
Adjt
Earle R. Sarles
Bismarck
Supreme Court
McAdoo Divorce Granted in Los Angeles in 42 Minutes
Eleanor Wilson McAdoo obtained an interlocutory divorce from Senator William G. McAdoo in Los Angeles after alleging mental cruelty. The couple, separated since December, shared custody of two children. a private property settlement was decided, with no contest from the senator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. McAdoo
California
Eleanor Wilson
Los Angeles
McAdoo
McAdoos
President creates committee on national electric policy
President Roosevelt forms a special committee headed by Secretary Ickes to plan closer cooperation in electric power supply and regulation. Members include Elwood Mead, Frank McNinenh, Morris Cocke, and others as states and federal agencies weigh interstate power policy. AMMANY HALL taps James J. Dooling to restore harmony and shift Tamany outlook.
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Marvin Mintyre
Washington
Ickes
Roosevelt
Ame
Elwood Mead
Bureau of Reclamation
Frank K McNineh
Federal Power Commission
Morris L. Cocke
PWA Mississippi Valley Committee
Adward M Marloam
Army Engineers
Robert EF. Healy
Federal Stock Exchaunge Commission
David Lillienthal
Tennessee Valley Ainority
T. W Norcross
Forest Service
Earthquakes rattle Central America. Panama canal unharmed
The tremors hit Panama and Costa Rica with David, Puerto Armuelles, and nearby towns suffering damage and injuries. One American soldier died after a barracks fall. Hitler justified purging the Nazi party in a Berlin Reichstag speech. MG George opened the Mersey tunnel, the longest underwater highway. Prose reflections on marriage, crime, and personal rights follow.
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Panama
Costa Rica
Panama Canal
David
Puerto Armouelles
United Fruit Company
Pacific Side
MG George
England
Mersey
Liverpool
Birkenhead
Holland Tunnel
New York
Mersey River
Constitutionality of Bankhead Cotton Act To Be Tested
Gaston Therrell of Columbus Mississippi announces a suit filed in the U S district court at Meridian challenging the Bankhead Cotton Act. He names Henry A Wallace secretary of agriculture and internal revenue and extension officials as defendants over the act's enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaston Therrell
Columbus
Miss
United States
Meridian
Henry A. Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Internal Revenue and Extension
Hitler and Dalai Lama news and 1934 finance notes
A mixed column notes Hitler’s grip on Germany and the Reichstag scene, Tibetan lama reincarnation in Lhasa to be raised by priests, and James J. Dooling leading Tammany Hall warning public opinion is always right. It contrasts China’s heat and famine with U S telephony profits and Astor’s NY return amid detectives.
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Hitler
Lama
Clarence Darrow
NRA
Mr. Darrow
Germany
Berlin
Dalai Lama
Truibet
Lhasa
James J. Dooling
Tammany Hall
NRA questions loom as Congress eyes restraint in recovery act
Washington observers expect debates on limiting the recovery act and NRA powers to hours and wages while curbing price fixing and production controls. Johnson tours to sell the blue eagle and controversy over code signing raises legal questions about voluntary actions and constitutional rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Industrial Recovery Act
Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
Johnson
United States
Department of Justice
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North Dakota
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
American Bar Association
Poland
Ammany Hall
Farley
Tammany
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
Reich
Reichstag
Nis Lot
Supreme Court of the
Land
Howe
ED Howe
Alice
Guardian
Stalin
Brisbane
Russia
China
Bertrand Russell
India
John Jacob. Astor
Newport
Grand Central Terminal
Datetsioee Ig Syndicate
Agi Wagut
William Bruckart
General Johnson
Republican National Committee
Commission For
Western Nawazaner Union
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