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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1936
Page
2
In a collage of letters and observations from diverse voices, the piece surveys ethics of fashion with humane furs, praise for generous donors like Edward S. Harkness to Lawrenceville School and Yale, Harvard steps, and critiques of dictatorships. It highlights the tension between wealth philanthropy and political power.
Forty three Democrats from twenty states convened in Detroit to denounce the New Deal and to establish the National Jeffersonian Democrats with James A. Reed as national chair. They plan headquarters in St Louis and state chapters while urging anti Roosevelt action ahead of the coming election.
Federal grand jury in Madison Wisconsin indicts 58 persons 23 petroleum firms and three publishers for conspiring to dominate oil purchasing in Texas Louisiana Oklahoma and to fix gasoline prices in the Midwest. Notable defendants include Edward G Seubert Henry M Dawes and executives from Standard Oil Pure Oil Deep Rock and related firms.
Washington dispatch reports ten CIO unions face suspension from the A F of L if John L. Lewis and the Committee for Industrial Organization do not abandon what the federation calls rebellion by September 5. The measure followed charges of insurrection by CIO leadership. David Dubinsky cast the sole dissent.
The piece notes a diplo matic curiosity as Mussolini elevates King Victor Emmanuel to emperor of Ethiopia while Italy claims rule. It contrasts official recognition gaps, citing the U S stance and other nations opposing territorial conquest, except for El Salvador.
A WNU Service piece on rickshas in Peiping contrasts luxury and hardship. It notes 44,000 rubber-tired cabs, costs in Mexican dollars, and values of endurance, with migrants aged mostly under 25 and wages from 35 cents to 20 dollars a month.
In the Spanish Civil War fierce fighting around Guadarrama passes north of Madrid pits government forces against rebels. Loyalists rush to the region as Madrid reports some victories while fascist positions near the capital threaten a vigorous advance.
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