President Roosevelt urges housing act changes for economic boost
The president urged Congress to ease credit and unlock idle capital through housing reform. Proposals include lowering FHA loan costs, adjusting mortgage insurance fees, raising insurable values, and easing financing for large rental developments. Representative Celler chairs a 60 member meeting to push emergency action as business cannot wait.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Federal Housing Administration
National Mortgage Associations
Federal
President Roosevelt Goes Fishing on Florida Cruise
President Roosevelt left for Miami to fish after presenting tax and housing legislation to Congress. He was joined by Assistant Attorney General R H Jackson and discussed actions against bad trusts while protecting good ones. Secretary Ickes and WPA Administrator Hopkins accompanied the party.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Miami
Fla
R. H. Jackson
Ickes
WPA
Hopkins
Time for Tax Revision Slips Amid Senate Lead
Senator Barkley says no tax revision bill can be formulated in the remaining days of the extraordinary session. He states it is impossible to pass a tax revision measure, despite President Roosevelt’s support for action when Congress is ready, noting such legislation must originate in the House.
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Barkley
Senate
Congress
Roosevelt
House
Subcommittee
Farm Bill Debate Splits on Constitutional Grounds and Budget
ARVIN JONES of Texas, chair of the House Agricultural Committee, introduces the House farm bill with a majority report urging speedy enactment to curb mounting crop surpluses. A minority report denounces the measure as unconstitutional and harmful to American agriculture, while both chambers face possible modifications due to the President’s veto threat unless the bill follows a pay-as-you-go plan.
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Arvin Jones
Texas
House Agricultural Committee
House
Senate
Duc de Guise Calls for Reclaiming French Throne
Exiled Duc de Guise from Belgium issues a manifesto urging French citizens to resist dictatorship and support his bid to reconquer the throne. He asserts a real plot by the Cagoulards and pledges to restore monarchy for France to regain peace and prosperity.
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Larm
Belgium
Duc de Guise
France
Vinson Nominated for D C Court of Appeals Seat
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Rep Fred M Vinson of Kentucky to fill a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The post pays 10000 dollars yearly and is for life with retirement privileges. Vinson is 47, in his seventh term, and from Ashland Kentucky.
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Roosevelt
Senate
Fred M. Vinson
Kentucky
United States Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Vinson
House
Ashland
D. Lawrence Groner
Virginia
Croner
Henry White Edgerton
New York
Walters of Idaho Dies in Washington at 61
Theodore Walters assistant secretary of the interior died of pneumonia at the Naval hospital in Washington after an emergency gall bladder operation. He was sixty one years old and had been a Caldwell Idaho resident and a prominent figure in Idaho Democratic politics since his 1933 appointment by President Roosevelt.
Desirable Goods Rise With Income in Rural Families
A bureau of home economics study of 46 villages across Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa shows households spend more on food clothes and especially automobiles as income rises. Food outlays climb from 180 to 539 dollars, clothing from 25 to 186, and car expenses from 14 to 315 in income bands 250 to 2499 dollars.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Bureau of Home Economics
Green Opposes Labor Bill Denounces Wage Law
William Green, president of the A F of L, denounces the pending wage and hour bill as unacceptable to labor and calls for it to be sent back to committee for revision. He attacks the national labor relations board and says it is unsafe to allow such a government board to administer labor relations with employers.
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Wililam Green
A. F. of L
Green
National Labor Relations Board
Labor federation proposes six point plan to curb recession
The American Federation of Labor urges a six point program to strengthen mass purchasing power. It calls for maintaining wages and employment, raising wages where feasible, expanding heavy industry, expanding credit access, speeding unemployment benefits next January, boosting business confidence, and improving employer union cooperation to cut costs.
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American Federation of Labor
Federation
Japan's forces slow by rain as Nationalists flee Nanking
In the Yangtze valley advance, Chinese defense systems collapse and the Nationalist government pulls out of Nanking, dispersing ministries. Ambassador Johnson relocates to Hankow while Shanghai falls under Japanese control and pressure to seize key hostages grows. The Far East conference in Brussels adjourns without a solution.
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Japan
Yangtse
Nanking
Johnson
Hankow
Shanghai
International Settlement
T.V. Soong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Brussels
Roosevelt engages utilities in peace talks over expansion
President Roosevelt opens conferences with Wendell Wilkie of Commonwealth & Southern and Floyd Carlisle of Niagara Hudson Power. He seeks conciliation to ease private utilities fears while pushing a New York power authority report accusing utility allies of propaganda against public power and arguing government water power could be cheaper than private steam plants.
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Roosevelt
Wendell Wilkie
Commonwealth & Southern Corporation
Floyd Carlisle
Niagara Hudson Power Corporation
New York State Power Authority
Power Authority
Fred Carlisle
Mr. Roosevelt
How to Be Fair and Other Pieces From a Pithy Column
Anecdotes on fairness in inheritance enrich a Cal ifornia column. The author recalls a regal or judicial ruling: older brother splits and younger chooses first. Also quips about cemetery sales and mint juleps amid satirical riffs on politics, crime, and Western superiority across regions and nations.
Marriage Customs in Japan
The article explains Japanese marriage norms stressing family lineage. It notes the only son must take a wife who moves into his home and shares his family name, while the only daughter must take a husband and join her father’s home, adopting his surname.
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Japan
Much Talk No Action on Business Relief in Congress
A Western Newspaper Union column criticizes Congress for talking more than acting to aid business. It cites tax reform, deregulation, and fewer federal experiments as needed, noting labor pressure and power interests as influencing politics while urging action to reduce taxes and red tape to revive employment and curb relief rolls.
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Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Harrison
Mississippi
Roosevelt
General Motors
Pennsylvania Railroad
Capitol Hill
Wall Street
Brighter Glass and Handy House Tips
The column offers household hints on washing glass bowls with warm soapy water and clear water with vinegar, removing tar stains from carpets with turpentine and fullers earth, and a convenient knee height kitchen table that aids in chores. It also gives a hot luncheon sandwich recipe with butter cheese tomato and bacon baked under a broiler.
The Best Day Quote By Emerson
A quotation attributed to R W Emerson proclaims that every day is the best day in the year. The line invites meditation on daily worth and personal outlook.
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R. W. Emerson
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Herman Oliphant
Secretary of the Treasury
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