Share the Wealth tax bill passes House amid clash
The House approves the President’s share the wealth tax plan amid fierce opposition. It raises rates on high incomes and broadens taxes on inheritances and corporate profits. Senator Barbour criticizes the measure as demagogic and urges delay. A Senate review is expected with opposition from conservatives and some Democrats.
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Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
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Senate Finance Committee
W. W. Barbour
New Jersey
Barbour
League Efforts to Avert Italo-Ethiopian War Stalled
In Geneva APT. Anthony Eden and French Premier Laval push a plan to avert war with Italy and Ethiopia. Italian delegate Baron Aloisi rejects the Eden Laval formula. The league council orders a month long general examination and arbitration for the clash at Walwal with a Septembers deadline. Emperor Haile Selassie warns of war while Mussolini tightens control of imports and ships troops toward Africa.
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Anthony Eden
League of Nations
Geneva
Italy
Ethiopia
Premier Laval
France
League Council
Mussolini
Baron Aloisi
Ualual
Haile Selassie
Adig Ababa
Roosevelt Allocates Funds for American Business Census
President Roosevelt allocates eight million dollars from relief funds for a census of American business. The Census Bureau requested the money and will begin work immediately with canvassing set to start January 2, covering all business activities except agriculture. A separate three hundred ninety three thousand dollar survey of retail trade is included.
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Roosevelt
Census Bureau
British Parliament Grants India a New Government
The India bill becomes law after eight years of work, creating an all India federation with a central parliament and native state legislatures. It separates Burma and Assam from India and grants substantial self governance to these regions and states that choose to join.
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Burma
Assam
Plans for New Pacific Naval Bases by Swanson
Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson announced that strongly fortified bases would be established in the Pacific after the 1937 naval treaty expiration. He cited Pacific fortification as an inevitable result of treaty lapse and noted increased focus since Japan abrogated the treaties. He referenced May fleet maneuvers near Hawaii and the Aleutians that highlighted the need for bases, including an Aleutian site.
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Claude A. Swanson
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Navy Long
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Hawaii
Aleutian Islands
Navy High Command
Aleutian
Great Britain
Absent-Minded Professors and Little Baseball Giants
A nostalgic piece notes sports figures and writers misremembering names at public events. It recalls Babe Ruth nicknamed Kid, the bond between Billy Southworth and a writer, and a pitcher who forgets an opponent’s name. It uplifts small players like Wee Willie Keeler as examples of mind over matter and innovation in baseball history.
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Damon
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St. Louis
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Tilford
Southworth
Hank Greenberg
Ted
John McGraw
Wee Willie
McGraw
Keeler
Orioles
Bill Johnston
Cyril Walker
Bert Metzger
Morris Ely
Bureaucracy Overreach Sparks Alarm Over FCC Action
Washington observers denounce the FCC for asserting new jurisdiction over AT T coaxial cable experiments. The plan to test 100 miles of cable between New York and Philadelphia could curb innovation, with AT T considering withdrawal if licenses can be pulled on short notice. Public benefit from scientific advances hinges on regulatory restraint and practical government support.
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Hoover
New Deal
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