Eye lens aging and social headlines spark scattered thoughts
Dr. Felix Bernstein links eye lens hardening to physical age in a Chicago NAS talk. A fatal fright incident in Poplar Bluff leads to manslaughter penalties. Critics of public figures lash at Ickes Long and Wallace. Earthquake victims in Formosa suffer hardship. Mars seen as blue by observers, while war antiwar sentiment grows in youth.
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Chicago
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Carl McMurty
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Red Cross
Social security bill advances in Congress amid global tensions
The administration's social security plan passes the House 372 to 33 as debate shifts to the Senate. Provisions include 50 50 state grants for old age aid, monthly pensions from 15 to 85, payroll and unemployment taxes rising to 6 and 3 percent respectively by 1949.
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Johnsons Ear Nest Appeal Spurs NRA Extension Debate
Hugh Johnson and supporters push for continuing the Blue Eagle recovery act as the Senate Finance Committee leans toward extending the program with changes. Three Democratic members oppose prolongation, while most members favor action pending bill revisions. The fierce Senate battle looms on the floor.
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NRA
Senate Finance Committee
Blue Eagle Organization
Pat Harrison
Senate
Hitler Celebrates Birthday With Defiant Note and War Planes
Hitler marked his forty sixth birthday with a defiant German note to the League of Nations over rearmament and a show of strength. About sixty war planes funded by storm troopers were presented as the Führer’s followers cheered. The note denounces the League’s April 17 deliberations and promises to reveal Germanys position on disputed questions.
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Beaker Becket? Actually Mrs Becker Wins A R Victory
Pp Adse ters of the American Revolution held a convention in Washington to elect a president general. Mrs William A Becker of New Jersey defeated Mrs Flora Myers Gillentine of Tennessee by 1436 to 619 amid controversy over her endorsement of The Red Network. Becker urged unity tolerance and charity as guiding thoughts.
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William A. Becker
New Jersey
Flora Myers Gillentine
Tennessee
Republicans Rally to Attack New Deal Fallacies in Lunch Meeting
Washington luncheon attendees including William Allen White pressed Republicans to openly combat the New Deal. White outlined a regional Midwest meeting in Kansas to draft a constructive platform and energize voters. A large East Central rally in Cleveland was announced for late May.
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William Allen White
Kansas
Republican Party
White
Cleveland
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Plans for relief program purchases under way
Washington sources say the material purchases for the relief program will absorb about 1.7 billion dollars. Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples, procurement officer in the treasury, will supervise the purchasing system with states and cooperating agencies handling most buys. Cement and other large quantities may be bought centrally. The piece also notes Father Coughlin receiving official endorsement from Detroit’s bishop and Michigan unit discussions of mobilizing National Union for Social Justice members.
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C. J. Peoples
Treasury
Peoples
Navy Supply Corps
Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Coughlin
Detroit
Michael Gallagher
Father Coughlin
Michigan
National Union For Social Justice
Amelia Earhart flies to Mexico City after insect in eye
Melia Earhart completes a Los Angeles to Mexico City flight despite an insect entry near her destination. Ten thousand greet the aviator in the capital. She hopes to fly nonstop to New York next. The piece also notes a push for anti communism in universities and state senate investigations into alleged subversive teaching.
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Melia Earhart
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Amelia
Mexico
New York
University of Chicago
Marx
Lenin
Tnnois Senate
Senate
House
Lobbying in Washington tests Roosevelt era power balance
Washington observers note a surge in lobbyists surpassing Roosevelt era norms. The rise, strong with labor and farm groups plus rail and banking interests, coincides with stalled advisory planning for a $4.88 billion relief fund and signals weaker White House influence despite vast political capital.
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Senate
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Agriculture
American Legion
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Association of American Railroads
Face on the Coin and the Flight of Louis XVI
In 1791 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette fled Paris by coach to Varennes to escape the Revolution. Postmaster Drouet identified the king from a coin bearing his image at a roadside window, leading to the royal arrest and return to Paris for execution by guillotine.
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France
Tuileries
Pal‘ce
Ste. Menehould
Menehould
Forchiit
Drouet
Argonne Forest
Varennes
The Needle That Shaped a Century Singer’s Breakthrough Recalled
The text recounts Isaac Merritt Singer’s early struggles after bankruptcy and a decisive moment in Boston when a sewing machine failed to sew tight stitches until a key tension fix allowed it to work. It highlights his persistence, a $40 loan, and a single night of renewed effort.
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Isaac Merrit Singer
New York
Boston
Singer
Western Newspaper Union
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