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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1936
Page
2
The Chancellor Hitler has demolished the remaining Versailles Treaty fragments and reasserted German control over the Rhine Elbe Oder and Danube rivers. France urges protests but gains little in European diplomacy, echoing lessons from the Ethiopian war.
Mr Tugwell calls for a five hundred million dollar appropriation to relocate poverty stricken farmers from worthless farms to usable land with barns houses and outbuildings. He estimates fifty million dollars annually for ten years to accomplish the plan and to vacate nine million acres deemed worthless.
The text notes that expert guidance in England is transforming poor soil into excellent pasture. It suggests the government could study this process to reduce human misery, acknowledging some incompetency as a partial cause of trouble.
General Markham proposes placing an air base in Midway’s harbor as a Pacific defense asset. The War Department notes it would be a commercial development with potential defensive use and says no treaty blocks such a base. The piece mocks European and Asian opinions and cites treaty cancellations in extremis.
A new spy monocle is described as a disguised single eyeglass with a rear mirror allowing the wearer to look behind and detect listeners. German police discourage suggestions that the Nazi government is imperfect.
The Bay Bridge opening unites San Francisco and Oakland and ends bay ferries, seen as a major engineering feat for the nation. The program cites a looming clash between Mr. Green’s AFL and Mr. Lewis’ CIO over organizing 30 million workers, with potential industry-wide conflict and uncertain outcome.
The piece reports a surge in tool demand and widespread wage increases. Twenty three firms raise pay for 28,000 workers, averaging $130 annually, under 50 cents daily, translating to about 130 million more dollars in annual spending by one million workers.
Sir Samuel Hoare says England will not pledge troops abroad if war comes. The nation plans to protect itself and may focus on home defense and air defense while assisting allies as it did in earlier wars, prioritizing independence over commitments.
In a flurry of diplomatic moves Mussolini and Hitler shift to support Franco by recognizing his government and removing diplomats from Madrid. Britain France and Russia react with concern as blockades and potential aid to loyalists prompt tense shifts across Europe.
The article notes a rumored Germany Japan alliance to fight communism with Italy possibly joining and Central European nations suspected of alignment. It cites military cooperation eastward and exchange of orders, while Moscow warns of a growing threat as 23 Germans are arrested in Russia on sabotage charges.
Exford Guy Tugwell resigns as undersecretary of agriculture and resettlement administrator to become executive vice president of the American Molasses company. He will join a 38 member presidential farm tenancy study panel and may be recalled for further service. W. W. Alexander becomes the new resettlement administrator. John G. Winant resumes leadership of the social security board at Roosevelt's urging.
President Roosevelt aboard the Indianapolis announces future federal spending on work relief through July 1 1938 with a possible 1.5 billion dollar relief request. He notes private industry has not absorbed unemployed workers and many remain on relief payrolls. Mayors hear PWA and WPA leaders urge continued emergency programs.
The American government finishes World War I memorials on French and Belgian battlefields and in eight American military cemeteries in France Belgium and England. The American Battle Monuments Commission chaired by General Pershing recommends dedicating the structures next July as the nation marks twenty years since entry into the war, pending presidential and congressional approval.
Me Ernestine Schumann Heine, renowned contralto, dies in Hollywood. A German by birth she cherished America. Her family was torn by war with a son killed as a German soldier and another dying in action with American forces.
The piece notes Roosevelt campaign spending figures and party support while describing a rising mood in business and labor. It cites Hopkins and WPA data, argues credit for recovery is shared among government, business, and labor, and discusses wage increases, dividends, and tax effects shaping this optimistic period.
The National Labor Relations Board ruled the Industrial Council plan at the International Harvester Fort Wayne plant must be dissolved. The decision notes the same plan exists in 14 other Harvester plants in the United States and Canada and could influence future factory rulings nationwide.
Dolf Hitler proclaims Germany resumes sovereignty over all shared waterways. The move challenges the treaty designed to grant Czechoslovakia sea access, prompting a formal protest from Czechoslovakia and Belgium. British Foreign Minister Eden offered a mild rebuke.
A compact list of Latin and French phrases with English glosses. Entries include Damnum absque injuria loss without legal injury and Locum tenens meaning one holding another's place. Also notes on parer words like Enfants perdus a forlorn hope and In propria persona in one's own person.
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