Blacklist targets over forty lawmakers in CIO effort
John L. Lewis and Labor's Non-Partisan League circulate a blacklist naming more than 40 congress members and senators for opposition in the fall elections. The list includes ten of fourteen House Rules members and several Democratic and Republican officials. The purge aims at opponents to the wage hour bill and Roosevelt administration policies.
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Congress
John L. Lewis
E. L. Oliver
Labor
League
Committee For Industrial Organization
Oliver
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
House Rules Committee
John J. O’connor
Democratic Rules Committee
E. E. Gox
Georgia
House
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
James Roosevelt
Thomas G
Tommy the Cork
Massachusetts
Carl E. Mapes
Michigan
J. Will Taylor
Tennessee
Donald H. McLean
New Jersey
Tydings
Maryland
Adams
Colorado
Lonergan
Connecticut
Hatton W. Sumners
Texas
A. P. Lamneck
Ohio
Leo Kocialkowski
Illinois
R. L. Doughton
North Carolina
H. B. Steagall
Alabama
C. F. Lea
California
Fred Cummings
C. L White
Idaho
R. Iu. de Rouen
Louisiana
John Rankin
Will Whittington
Mississippi
H. B. Coffee
Nebraska
Sam McReynolds
J. I. Mansfield
Fritz Lanahan
M H. West
Bland
Joe Smith
West Virginia
California pilot completes secret transatlantic flight
Corrigan, a youth from California and an aviation motor expert, began from Floyd Bennett Field without proper permit and landed at Baldonnel Ireland after 28 hours 13 minutes. He flew a single motored Curtiss Robin without navigation gear radio or parachute and admitted plans to return to California but changed course.
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Duglas P. Corrigan
California
Air Commerce Bureau
Atlantic
Floyd Bennett Field
New York
Baldonnel
Ireland
Corrigan
Dublin
British Monarchs Visit Paris Signals Allied Stance
George VI and Queen Elizabeth traveled to Paris for a four day state visit seen as a significant political gesture. Halifax Daladier and Bonnet held talks on world affairs while France mobilized 100000 police and troops to protect the royal party.
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Ing George VI
Elizabeth
England
Paris
Great Britain
France
Britain
Viscount Halifax
Edouard Daladier
Georges Bonnet
Wheat Allotment Set Under AAA Wheat Plan
R Tolley AAA administrator announced a national wheat allotment of up to 55 million acres for fall and spring plantings under the 1938 act. The order, signed by M L Wilson acting secretary of agriculture, aims to control surpluses with a 30 percent reduction and ties to a 59 to 60 cent a bushel loan.
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R. Tolley
AAA
M. L. Wilson
Agricul
Tolley
Queen Marie Dies at Bucharest Residence
Queen Marie of Romania dies at her Bucharest summer residence after a year of illness. King Carol, her son, is at her bedside. An English princess and Victoria’s granddaughter, she married Ferdinand in 1914 and influenced Romania to join the Allies in World War I. Her 1926 U.S. tour impressed many.
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Marie
Romania
Bucharest
Carol
Victoria
Ferdinand
Leder
United States
Insull Dies in Paris Subways in 1 World News Shock
Samuel Insull once head of a vast American utilities empire collapsed after the stock market crash. He died in a Paris subway. his wife Gladys Wallis Insull accompanied the body to London for burial.
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Insull
Paris
Yeremony Insull
France
Gladys Wallis
Stage
London
United States
England
King
Thomas A. Edison
Chicago
Insulls
Europe
Istanbul
Turkey
Andrews Appointed Industrial Commissioner of New York
President Roosevelt named Elmer F. Andrews, 48, of Flushing, as administrator of the new federal wage hour law. A civil engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he helped draft New York state measures on minimum wage for women and unemployment insurance and opposed federal wage differentials.
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Hile
California
Roosevelt
Elmer F. Andrews
New York State
Andrews
Flushing
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cuba
New York
Primary probe reaches multiple states in senator campaigns
Senator Sheppard's senate campaign committee votes to investigate alleged misuse of federal and state funds in the Democratic primaries in Kentucky and Pennsylvania. The panel also reveals an inquiry into similar charges in Tennessee. The social security board orders Kentucky probe into Barkley pension checks politics.
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Enator Sheppard
Senate
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Social Security Board
Barkley
Hughes completes global flight from Floyd Bennett in record time
Hughes and a four man crew circled the globe landing at Floyd Bennett Field New York after 3 days 19 hours 17 minutes covering 14824 miles with refueling stops in Paris Moscow Omsk Yakutsk Fairbanks and Minneapolis The team shaved over three days from Wiley Post 1933 record and credit the robot navigator and army air corps automatic system for much of the flying The crew included Harry Connor Thomas Thurlow Richard Stoddart and Ed Lund with Hughes at the controls throughout the trip.
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Hipwarp Hughes
Floyd Bennett Airport
New York
Paris
Moscow
Omsk
Yakutsk
Fairbanks
Minneapolis
Wiley Post
Hughes
Post
Atlantic
Lindbergh
Harry Connor
Thomas Thurlow
Richard Stoddart
Ed Lund
Army Air Corps
Japan Cancels 1940 Olympic Games in Tokyo
Tokyo officials cancel the 1940 Olympic Games citing high costs and military opposition to nationalism. The International Olympic Committee was to decide next steps, with London and Helsinki mentioned as possible alternate sites in a tense wartime context.
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Japan
APAN
China
Tokyo
International Committee
London
Helsingfors
Finland
Louis opponents and London liaisons stir boxing and diplomacy
A colorful roundup notes potential Louis foe Tony Galento and lively talk of bareknuckle spectacle. It also profiles Sir Patrick Hastings and Sir Robert Hodgson, prominent London legal and diplomatic figures, with a glimpse of their cases and careers.
National Debt Reaches 41 1/2 Billion Says Washington Column
William Bruckart reports on the U S national debt nearing 41 1/2 billion dollars with per capita obligations rising to about 320 per person. The piece lists state shares, explains repayment via taxes or default, and warns that continued borrowing could raise taxes 33 to 38 percent over decades.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Bureau of the Budget
Uncle Sam
Daniel Bell
Budget Bureau
Treasury
United States
Sen
Carter Glass
Virginia
Senate
National Guard
Western Newspaper Union
Redcoats Guarded Trail of ’98 in Klondyke Boom
A historic description recalls how the Northwest Mounted Police kept order during the Klondike rush of 1898. Despite riots and mass stampede toward the Yukon, a small force at the sixtieth parallel restrained thousands of claimants, earning praise as brave guardians amid chaos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmack
Yukon
Skagway
Alaska
Canada
Yukon Territory
Northwest Mounted Police
Mounted
Farmers Earn Outside Income From Nonfarm Work
A census bureau survey of 3,000 farms in 40 states shows about one third of U S farmers have nonfarm income. For 975 farmers with outside earnings total nonfarm income reached 458,522 dollars averaging 573 dollars per farm, with about one quarter earning under 100 dollars annually.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
William L. Austin
Austin
Grapes Popular in Bulgaria Say Bulgarians Eat Most
Professor Nedelkoff of the University of Sofia confirms Bulgarians are the world’s top grape eaters with an average consumption of 40 pounds per person annually.
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Bulgaria
Nedelkoff
Agricultural Department
The
University of Sofia
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