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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1936
Page
2
A jumble of 1930s items covers the Supreme Court rejection of the agricultural adjustment act impacting tax revenue and farmer promises. The piece contrasts President Roosevelt's budget aims with deficits, notes large incomes and taxes, and includes international and domestic snippets on politics, crime, and public life.
Farmers groups urge Congress to pass a new program replacing the AAA, proposing production control with subsidized soil conservation and cash grants for acreage shifts. Administration officials seek funding via excise taxes while retaining AAA provisions and creating farm cooperatives under the Capper Volstead act.
The Supreme Court case involves a tax refund and restraining actions on tax payments. It references Bankhead cotton case, district court review, and potential rulings on state actions amid references to Georgia policy and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Harry L. Hopkins, WPA administrator, sent regulations to state administrators to protect WPA workers from chiseling employers. The policy requires WPA workers avoid private permanent or temporary jobs unless full-time, pay at standard wages, no conflict with unions, and offer return to WPA after temporary work.
Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont react angrily as the government files with the board of tax appeals a brief charging that the two gentlemen agreed to create fictitious arrangements to evade taxes.
The Democratic National Committee sold the 1986 convention site to Philadelphia for 200000 with prizes and concessions. Chicago and San Francisco bid, Littell offered 140000, California elites raised to 202500. After a brief recess, Chairman Farley and Vice President Garner urged Philadelphia, and the city won. The opening was set for June 23, two weeks after the Republican gathering in Cleveland.
Nye press session targets J P Morgan Thomas W Lamont and allies to show US entry into WWI via loans to the Allies. Morgan and partners defend their actions amid documents and sharp exchanges. The hearing highlighted financial influence in foreign policy and concluded with Morgan’s calm rebuttals.
Interior Secretary Ickes told sugar interests in Puerto Rico that the great estates will be broken up for violating a law forbidding corporate ownership of more than five acres. Lands will be homesteaded to place thousands of landless people on the soil amid Puerto Rico policy dissatisfaction with some government representatives.
Miguel Mariano Gomez, coalition candidate, defeats former president Gen. Mario G. Menocal by a slim margin to become president of Cuba. Gomez, age forty-five and former Havana mayor, is backed by the army, with women voting for the first time contributing to the orderly process.
Heavy rains halt Italian advances in Ethiopia for weeks as roads flood and landslides threaten terrain. Ethiopian chieftains heed the emperor to stall battles, while Mussolini sends fresh troops and the League weighs an oil embargo. Red Cross warns it may withdraw if Italy refuses protection.
A States Ine freighter named Iowa with a crew of 34 officers and men perished when it broke up on Peacock spit at the Columbia River mouth. Coast guard vessels from Astoria and Cape Disappointment failed to reach the steamer in time due to high seas. The launch to New York was blocked. commanded by Capt. Edgar Le Yates of Portland.
New York honors former mayor John F. Hylan eight years in office with official mourning and half mast flags. Hylan, then a justice of the children's court, dies as the city recalls his public service. Samuel L. Rothafel, known as Roxy, a noted motion picture producer, is also reported dead in bed.
Delegates at the London naval conference resume talks as Admiral Osami Nagano reiterates Japan demands parity from Britain and the United States before any agreement. His stance halts discussion of allied information exchange on naval building plans and threatens early breakdown of talks.
Bernard F. Engelberger, a New York City construction boss, survived being buried in a deep foundation pit when a granite slab toppled the side. Rain flooded the hole as he dug with a leveling spike, using the tool as a lever to free himself after 14 hours. O win service.
A Philadelphia Record writer notes the brutal history of slavery in the New World, with harsh treatment in the West Indies and vast African imports to early colonies. Descriptions recount crowded holds, chained captives, disease, starvation, and the deaths of many enslaved people aboard slave ships.
Three new signs will indicate crossings in Germany. The first disk shows three red stripes placed 240 yards from the crossing. The second sign, two stripes, will be 100 yards away. The third sign carries one stripe and will be only 8 yards from the crossing.
The text portrays Nauru as a modern paradise, noting its small eight and a half square mile area and claiming it is free of debt and maternal mortality.
Household questions offer quick tips for indoor gardening and housekeeping. Tips cover maintaining room temperature for plants, cake icing prevention, cleaning methods for fur robes, broiling bread aids, soaking colored fabrics before first wash, using cranberry juice to color gelatin, removing lemon marks from walls, fern care with ammonia solution, winter label making, stain removal with borax, and separating wedged glasses with cold and warm water.
An anonymous exhortation urges generous acts today not to delay kindnesses to friends and loved ones. It stresses simple pleasures come from making others happy and loving actively while health and time allow.
An evocative quote notes how goodness emanates from the soul and shines through the eyes while a guilty heart hides in crime. The passage emphasizes eye testimony as a window to inner truth, attributed to F Saunders.
Advice urges consulting a family doctor about authentic Bayer Aspirin for headaches and related pains. It notes pre Bayer remedies were often harsh on stomachs and hearts and promotes Bayer as fast relief used by millions.
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