We Know How to Spend The Electric Chair And Global Rift
A digest of 1930s era economics and crime notes cites a government loan guarantee for tenant farmers, debates over rail nationalization, and a sharp turn in Anglo French relations with Britain leaning toward Germany. It mentions a Peoria murderer who diaries attacks on women, a Monte Carlo gambling rule, and a sheriff using a ghostly loudspeaker to extract a confession.
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Blue Eagle
Sam
King
Theodore Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Peoria
Monte Carlo
Monaco
Mr. Bradley
Palm Beach
Senate backs shipbuilder curbs and broad New Deal plan
Senator Nye committee urges strong laws to curb bidding collusion and protect government costs in naval contracts. Roosevelt pushes wealth taxes and inheritance levies, plus a sweeping social security bill for 30 million beneficiaries by 1960. The Wagner Connery labor bill passes the House with a new independent labor board.
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Enator Nye
North Dakota
Committee On
Supreme Court
Moore
New Jersey
Democrat
Hastings
Delaware
Hale
Maine
Metcalf
Rhode Island
Austin
Vermont
Townsend
White House
House
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Federation
New Labor Board
Department of Labor
Perkins
Wagner-Connery
Britain Accepts German Naval Demands In Anglo German Pact
Britain yields to Hitler's naval demands and signs a bilateral accord allowing Germany up to 35 percent of the British empire's tonnage and in some cases parity in submarine tonnage. France protests. Eden fails to persuade Laval. Mussolini backs France. Italy not consulted. A bomb attack targets the American embassy in Mexico City. no injuries.
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Britain
Europe
Germany
Hitler
Reich
France
Anthony Eden
Paris
Laval
Eden
Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Mexico City
Josephus Daniels
Colonia
Juarez
Legation
Deportation Bill Gains Backing From Mass Organizations
National topics interpreted from Washington report outline a proposed deportation program targeting about 6 million aliens with jobs in relief areas. The plan would bar pioneer immigration, deport illegal entrants, require work permits, and permit family reunification as the economy improves. Frances Perkins outlines six government duties to improve labor standards and cooperation between workers and employers. The piece notes broad support statements from lawmakers and organized groups.
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Martin Dies
Texas
Congress
Dies
United States
Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins
Ioro Ion
Roosevelt Tax Plan Aims At Inheritance And Millionaires
Roosevelt proposes a sweeping tax bill with a gift and inheritance tax to fund a projected billion-dollar annual revenue. The plan would raise rates on incomes above a million dollars and tax large corporations more, while easing or limiting other burdens. Supporters call it a continuation of New Deal reforms. opponents warn of political peril and constitutional questions.
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Huey Long
Roosevelt
Congress
Old Age Reserve Fund
Children's Bureau
Washington
Supreme Court
Senator Long
Louisiana
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt i. Roosevelt
NRA
Robinson
Arkansas
Senate
Byrnes
South Carolina
Henry P. Fletcher
National Committee
Hastings
Delaware
Bolton
Ohio
Golden Giant Treasure Hidden in New Mexico Cave
Two prospectors in New Mexico amid a snowstorm discover gold bars in a rear cave while chasing a legend of the Golden Giant mine near Pinoy Altos. They plan to haul the treasure home and return in spring to seek the mine, but their fate and the mine’s location remain a mystery.
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New Mexico
George
Bill
Pinoy Altos
Here
Santa Rita
Pinos Altos
Hurley
Valhalla
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Brisbane
England
Department of Commerce
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Laura la Plante
Ethiopia
Miller
Martinez
Calif
Anacleto Torrest
Area Cabrera
Torrest
Area
NYE
Edward W. Pickards
Western Newspaper Union
Sen. Wagner
William Bruckart
National Press
Washington, D. C
Ington
United States Patent Office
Patent Office
Commissioner of Patents
Golden Phantoms
Editha L. Watson
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