Congress Closes Second Session with Roosevelt Wins
The Seventy third congress ends its second session with major New Deal laws and funding approved while President Roosevelt maintains influence. Key acts include the deficiency appropriation bill, a billion dollar housing bill, and farm relief measures amid debates over the NRA and other reforms.
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Seventy-third Congress
Roosevelt
Congress
Ickes
AAA
Britten
Chicago
Langer and associates convicted in federal defraud case
North Dakota governor Langer and four associates were found guilty in Bismarck federal court of conspiring to defraud the United States by allegedly collecting campaign funds. They face up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine or both. The governor, a re election candidate, suspended his campaign to fight the case. A second item notes a Department of Agriculture rejuvenation process for seeds using longer wavelength light to wake seeds from dormancy, aiding germination tests and seed lot differentiation.
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Langer
North Dakota
Bismarck
United States
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Debt note to Britain and failed payments loom for Europe
Secretary of State Hull sent a note to Great Britain refuting the British stance on war debts and suggesting partial payment in goods might be possible. June 15 installments yielded only 166,538 dollars. major debtors defaulted. Berlin’s Reichsbank declared a six month moratorium on foreign obligations including Dawes and Young loans, with no cash transfers from July 1 to December 31, 1934.
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Ecretary
Hull
Great Britain
Uncle Sam
Finland
Berlin
Reichsbank
Dawes and Young
Venice Talks Between Hitler and Mussolini Signify European Realignments
Observers cite possible outcomes from the Venice meeting with Mussolini and Hitler. Austria’s independence is favored. Mussolini may tolerate a Nazi chancellor in Italy. No disarmament deal firm. Italy seeks wider League and peace moves. Litvinov’s Eastern Locarno plea rejected. Hitler pledges peace and internal reforms.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Venice
Italy
Austria
Germany
Europe
Maxim Litvinov
Russia
France
Nazi Party
Tugwell hearing and Roosevelt reform program debate
Testimony before the Senate agriculture committee on Tugwell’s fitness for undersecretary spot erupts in farce and frequent clashes. The piece outlines Roosevelt’s broad social reform plan, anticipated political impact, and debates over economic controls and labor tensions amid a shifting regulatory landscape.
Moral contrasts in religion and politics discussed by Mencken
The author contrasts Christianity and Communism, praising Christian ethical aims and condemning Communism as violent. He offense Mencken and Huxley debates, lauds Nietzsche and Mencken's writings, critiques religious sensationalism, and notes Edison and Rousseau as examples of public perception and moral risk.
Inflation Fear Follows Silver Purchase Plan Across Nation
The article surveys a looming move to acquire fourteen hundred million ounces of silver funded by a fifteen hundred million dollar issue of paper money backed by silver. It argues the shift from gold to silver backing, noting bonds would be repaid with green paper, and highlights the scale of government borrowing to lift the economy. It also reports a plane crash in the Catskills killing all aboard and critiques aviation safety standards. It mentions Roosevelt’s message to Congress and Harvard President Conant on technology and jobs, plus a travel anecdote about Ben Smith’s around-the-world flight and a cat-less ship Leviathan superstition.
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Illiam Green
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Johnson
Steel Workers’ Unions
Pittsburgh
Earl J. Forbeck
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Ular
Mr. Roosevelt
Stock Exchange of
Wall Street
Professors of the Brain Trust
Eman Commission
General Accounting Office
J. R MecCarl
United States
McCarl
Civil Service
China
Mexico
India
Ben Smith
Java
England
New York
California
British Columbia
San Francisco
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Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
National Recovery Review Board
Clarence Darrow
NRA
Dern
Benjamin D. Foulois
Army Air Crops
Foulois
Army Air Corps
Air Corps
Cuba
Mendieta
Havana
ABC
Fulgencio Batista
Nother
Anna Dall
Curtis Dall
Dalls
Anna
Sissie
Buzzie
White House
Duke of Wellington
Ewehurst
Waterloo
Napoleon
Prince of
Netherlands
Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo
Spain
Duque da Victoria and
Marquez de Torres
Gen
Exford
Guy Tugwell
Senate Agriculture Committee
Tugwell
America
Ed” Smith
South Carolina
Henry D. Hatfield
West
Virginia
Ate
R. G. Tugwell
William E
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Howe
ED Howe
Ers
Prince of Peace
Caesar
H. L. Mencken
Huxley
Mencken
Menckeh
Neitzsche
Mark Twain
Gladstone
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau
Brisbane
John D. Rockefeller
American Air Lines
Catskill Mountains
James Bryant Conant
Harvard University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Nalentn, Smt
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