Oil cartel verdict in Madison taps six firms and executives
A federal jury convicted six oil companies and thirty individuals in Madison Wisconsin of conspiring to fix prices in violation of the Sherman Act. Notable defendants include Henry M. Dawes E G Seubert Jacob France I A Shaughnessy Dan Moran and Frank Phillips. A new trial motion is pending while appeal may reach the Supreme Court.
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Ncle Sam
Stone
Madison
Wis
Middle West States
Henry M. Dawes
Pure Oil
Standard Oil
Indiana
Jacob France
Mid-Continent Petroleum
I. A. Shaughnessy
Globe Oil and Refining
Dan Moran
Continental Oil
Frank Phillips
Phillips Petroleum
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Relief Expenditures Plunge in First Eleven Months 1937
Government agencies spent 2.16 billion dollars on public relief through November 1937, down 251.8 million from the same period in 1936. November payments to relief recipients totaled 189.7 million, 36 million less than November 1936 but 15 million higher than October 1937. The figures cover all public assistance types. Tennessee Valley Authority chairman Arthur E. Morgan opposed broader regional agencies and urged state water control districts instead of expanding unified water power programs. George H. Davis of the U S Chamber urged Senate unemployment committee to act.
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Ocial Securities Board
Athur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
TVA
Roosvelt
Morgan
White House Meets Commerce Advisory Council on Slump Action
Business leaders from the Commerce Department advisory council met the President at the White House to press for a clear policy to end the recession. They urged wage hour limits a utility truce no broad purges or currency tinkering and welcomed a new task force to craft an admin and legislative plan.
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Department of Commerce
White House
Roosevelt
W. Averill
Council
Cadet Flying Class Vacancies At Randolph Texas
The War Department seeks 232 unfilled spots for the March aviation cadet class at Randolph Field Texas. Only 12 qualified applicants have been authorized from a total class size of 344. Officers must purchase blue dress uniforms before October 1, costing about $100.
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Mac
War Department
Air Corps Training Center
Randolph Field
Texas
Portland Mayor Blames CIO Chief for West Coast Losses
Mayor J K Carson of Portland says the CIO and leader Harry Bridges have cost the Pacific coast more than a billion dollars in three years through strikes and port tie ups. He calls Bridges unnaturalized, a Communist, and says deportation is sought but blocked by Frances Perkins.
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C.I.O
J. K. Carson
Portland
Ore
Senate
Joint Committee On Commerce and Labor
Harry Bridges
Carson
Argentina
South Africa
Secretary Perkins Reports One in Ten Workers Unemployed
Statistics show ten percent of the U S workforce without jobs as the Senate unemployment and relief committee calls state and local relief admins to testify on rising aid demand during recession. About 1 162 million filing unemployment claims in early January as 21 states and DC start a new plan. Camille Chautemps returns as France prime minister amid a radical socialist dominated cabinet and plans social reforms while preserving armament programs.
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Perkins
Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee
District of Columbia
Chautemps
Rance
Camille Chautemps
Popular Front
France
Yvon Delbos
Edouard Deladier
Emigration Fears Spread as Romania Tightens Policy
In Romania Premier Octavian Goga’s anti Semitic government thousands of Jews seek escape routes abroad with visits to foreign consulates in Bucharest asking about emigration to Brazil Ethiopia Madagascar Mexico or Australia. Intermarriage prohibitions and other acts worsen Jewish conditions. In Ecuador aliens face 30 day expulsion. Egypt’s King Farouk marries Miss Fraida Zulfikar in Cairo as clergy bar the bride from attending the ceremony.
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Umania
Octavian Goga
Bucharest
Brazil
Ethiopia
Madagascar
Mexico
Australia
Ecuador
Alberto Eriquez
Egypt
Wedi Arouk
Cairo
Fraida Zulfikar
Abdine
Stalin Checks the Purge Ends Expulsion Trend
The first session of the new Soviet parliament produced no legislative work but featured extensive speeches and anti Japanese denunciations. Stalin via the central committee ordered a halt to mass expulsions of Communist members, a practice often leading to death banishment or job loss. Pravda praised the purge while labeling opponents as Fascist agents.
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Stalin
Russia
Japan
Josef Stalin
Central Committee
Communist Party
Pravda
January at the White House and Congress in review
The piece surveys January 1938 at the White House and Congress, noting closed doors at conferences with the President, a lack of a clear program in both houses, and filibusters over anti lynching. It critiques Roosevelt leadership, calls out independence in Congress, and discusses housing and installment debt concerns.
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Washington
White House
Congress
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Around the House Food Tips and Household Hints
A collection of practical tips for quick baking halved potatoes with butter, ironing advice for ecru linens, a winter salad of cabbage apples and raisins with mayonnaise, oysters lightened with baking powder, a nut cake recipe with almonds and icing ideas, hanging clothes in freezing weather, judging cod by gill redness flesh firmness and eye clarity for freshness.
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Mr. Clark
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House Appropriations Committee
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Stardust
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Warner Brothers
Margaret Sullavan
Universal Company
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Jean Arthur
Columbia
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RKO
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Distant Fields
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University of California
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Lone Ranger
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