Wealth Is Wages Most Constant Market
The American Cotton Manufacturers Association at Charlotte New York pledges not to cut wages or lengthen hours, supporting Henry Ford's six dollar a day minimum wage. Wages sustain the vast, constant market of the nation, driving demand and prosperity for all.
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American Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
Charlotte
N. Y
W. J. Cameron
Henry Ford
Mr. Cameron
United States
McMasters
New England
NRA faces personnel cuts amid recovery program evolution
Edward W. W. Pickard reports Roosevelt budget and policy shifts constrain the NRA. An executive order extends the act to April 1 and appoints James L. O’Neill as administrator assisted by Leon C. Marshall Prentiss L. Coonley and George L. Berry. A six member advisory council includes labor and consumer leaders. The plan reduces NRA staff from 5400 to about 1500, retains field reporting, and preserves records from the code era.
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OOR
NRA
Roosevelt
Congress
J Imes L. O'Neill
The
Guarantee Trust Co
New York
Leon C. Marshall
Division of Review
Prentiss L. Coonley
Division of Business
George L. Berry
Labor
Berry
International Pressmen's Union
United States
O'Neill
Marshall
Coonley
Charles Soison
Hewell Cheney
William Green
American Federation of ‘Labor
Andhilip Murray
United Mine Workers
Emily Newell Blair
Walton H. Hamilton
Recovery Administration
Washington
Senator Huey Long Battles to Stall NRA Extension
Huey Long led a nearly 16 hour filibuster against extending the skeletonized NRA until April, opposing the Gore amendment requiring senate confirmation of all executive officials drawing over four thousand dollars a year. The chamber ultimately approved the extension 41 to 13, with Borah proposing one tightening change before returning to the house for concurrence. Wingy Mitchell, once Roosevelt aligned, was appointed assistant secretary of commerce but later ousted after opposing Roper’s policies and the president sought a resignation.
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Huey Long
Senate
Gore
Ofa
Hibuster
Schall
McCarren
Borah
Wingy
Mitchell
Roosevelt
Missouri
Commercce
Roper
Department
Wheat and tobacco programs face indefinite continuation debate
Brookings Institution reports challenge the justification for continuing AAA wheat and tobacco programs. Joseph S. Davis of Stanford warns of political corruption risks while crediting price gains and reduced surplus to two strong years, with tar influence and dollar depreciation as factors. Harold B. Rowe notes growers gain substantial benefits with minimal consumer impact so far, but warns producer gains cannot rise indefinitely.
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Brookings Institution
AAA
Joseph S. Davis
Food Research Institute
Stanford University
Harold B Rowe
Committee Pushes Hard Line On Foulois and War-Era Strikes
House members press to remove Maj. Gen. Foulois over air mail scandal as Secretary Dern defends him. Nebraskan Gov Cochran orders arbitration of Omaha streetcar riots, calling in state troops to enforce peace amid three fatal clashes. Illinois guards help Freeport dispute. wage gains granted. Roosevelt averts coal miners strike. wage talks aimed by June 30. Congress rushes two-year extension of $475 million in tax and fuel-related expenditures.
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Eee
Dern
Benjamin D. Foulois
Army Air-Mai
House Military Affairs Committee
Army Air Corps
William H. Rogers
New Hampshire
Lister Hill
Alabama
House
Foulois
Rogers
War Department
Omaha
K. L. Cochran
Nebraska
Traction Company
Central Labor Union
Cochran
Board of Arbitration
Illinois
Freeport
Stover
Henry Horner
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
Plans to spend four billion relief funds debated in Congress
Representative Mitchell proposes using one billion to aid durable goods factories, aiming to spur eighty billion in durable goods output. War department seeks over seventeen million for thirty six army bases while Labor requests one hundred thousand for employment service research across multiple cities. Obituaries note the deaths of Dwin P. Morrow and Gaar Williams.
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Mitchell
Dem
Tenn
War Department
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Kansas
Labor Department
United States Employment Service
Chicago
Baltimore
Newark
Dwin P. Morrow
Kentucky
Frankfort
Gaar Williams
Italo Ethiopians dispute worsens as war prep rises
Trascist leaders led by Mussolini push for war amid stalled arbitration with Ethiopia. Rome decrees silver seizure to boost government profits as 225000 Italian troops head to Africa and nearly a million have been called to arms. Meanwhile Cardenas survives a cabinet purge in Mexico, Rotary Catholics push for religious liberty, and Japan pushes into North China as Chinese branches of the Kuomintang are shut. A ceasefire begins in the Paraguayan Bolivian clash, with possible Hague court action if talks fail. The British concede German naval gains, provoking a French protest and a planned new naval conference.
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Italy
Mussolini
Italo Ethopian Arbitration Commission
Rome
Africa
UH Duce
Arbitration Commission
Benjamin Pitman Potter
Ethiopia
Taran
China
Nanking
Peiping
Tientsin
Great Wall
Yellow River
Kuomintang
People’s Party
Central Council
Gen
Ho Yingching
Roosevelt faces mounting political and governance hurdles
Washington report outlines two main pressures on President Roosevelt over the 5 billion work relief fund. Governors at Biloxi condemn federal encroachment while intra administration tensions between Hopkins and Ickes slow spending. Republicans rally, signaling growing opposition to New Deal policies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Biloxi
Miss
Washington Administration
Democratic Party
Senate
Aubrey Williams
Williams
Hopkins
Ickes
Frank C. Walker
Mr. Ickes
Mr. Hopkins
Mr. Roosevelt
Dutch Irish Mystery of the Cache la Poudre Gold
A Fort Collins tale recounts Irishman and Dutchman hauling gold, hunted by soldiers and an Indian. The two are killed, but later clues indicate no mine existed. the so called wealth came from murdered travelers’ pockets on the Overland Trail.
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F. Collins
Fort Courne
Cache-la-Poudre
Fort Collins
Billy Melins
Nebraska
Iss
Cache la Poudre
Manhattan
Melvns
Ile
Melins
Overland Trail
California
Colorado
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WNU
J. L. O'Neill
Edward W.W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
G. L. Berry
Commerce Department
United States Lines
Leviathan
P. A
Franklin
John M. Franklin
Vincent Astor
Kermit Roosevelt
Bureau of Air Commerce
Steamship Inspection Service
Cardenas
Mexico
Plutarco Elias Calles
Paraguay
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Gran Chaco
Buenos Aires
Brazil
Argentina
Peru
Chile
Uruguay
World Court
Hague
France
Laval
Germany
William Bruckart
National Press
Washington, D. C
Springfield
Farley
Democratic National Committee
Herbert Hoover
Mr. Hoover
White House
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