World turmoil deepens as Britain Japan clash grows
Edward W. Pickard surveys escalating tensions in Britain and Japan over Shanghai fighting and Shanghai shelling. He notes Japanese demands, American naval positions, and a possible shift toward a Brussels parley while Morocco uprisings spark French unrest and Italy’s alleged meddling. The piece also covers British reaction to piracy claims and U S budget talks with Eccles planning corn loans and the flawed ever normal granary proposal.
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Italy
Shanghai
Chapei
Soochow Creek
International Settlement
Augusta
Yarnell
Japan
Britain
China
Tokio
London
Council
Beaumont
Brussels
Roche resigns Treasury post to lead Rocky Mountain Fuel
Josephine Roche resigns as assistant secretary of the Treasury after three years in the post and returns to preside over Rocky Mountain Fuel in Denver. The administration plans to let the position stand vacant for now hoping she resumes later. She was appointed by President Roosevelt.
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Miss Roche
Treasury
Josephine Roche
The
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
Denver
Roosevelt
Duke and Duchess of Windsor visit plans outlined in Paris
George Link Jr. of New York coordinates American visit for Charles E. Bedaux associate. Duke may back a new international philanthropic foundation to study working living conditions, avoiding wage and hour issues. Roosevelt requests name Krum Elbow moved to east bank Hyde Park estate. Interior accedes.
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Windsor
Duchess of Windsor
George Link, Jr
New York
Charles E. Bedaux
Harold Sims
Prince of Wales
Sims
Link
Duke
Bedaux
Anglo- American Press Association
Paris
Roosevelt
Krum Elbow
Hudson River
Hyde Park
N. Y
Howard Spencer
Ickes
Interior Department
Committee On Geographical Names
Crooks’ Paradise
Labor Parley Deadlocked Over Peace Conference
Leaders of the American Federation of Labor and the CIO failed to agree in Washington and adjourned with little chance of resumption. George M. Harrison warned there was no peace unless the CIO attitude changed as both sides rejected offers. Philip Murray denounced the AFL plan as desertion while CIO proposals called for a CIO autonomous department within the federation.
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Eaders
American Federation of Labor
Washington
George M. Harrison
Federation
A. F. of L
Philip Murray
Tenman
C. I. O. Peace Committee
Government action cuts stock margin and short sale rules
After a market slump the Federal Reserve Board lowered stock purchase margins from 55 to 40 percent and set a 50 percent margin on short sales. Effective November 1, the move aims to fit margins to current market conditions with no retroactive effect. The 50 percent short sale margin is an exchange rule providing 10 point protection.
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Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Stock Exchange
Types of candidates and crop control debate in 1937
Irvin Cobb surveys the wide variety of political candidates and humor, then shifts to Washington's crop control battle. He outlines compulsory versus voluntary schemes, past potato and cotton laws, and Secretary Wallace’s ever normal granary plan, noting rivalries and lobbies shaping farm policy.
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Wallace
Cash Grain Association of Chicago
Senate
Springfield
AAA
Department of Agriculture
Chairman Jones
House Agricultural Committee
Jones
Washington
Smith
Senate Agricultural Committee
South Carolina
Capitol
Henry Wallace
Congress
Roosevelt
San Marino A Brief Chronicle Of Its Founding And Rise
San Marino on Italy s eastern shore claims founding in the fourth century by St Marinus of Dalmatia. Its area totals 38 square miles and its history begins around 885 AD with the rise of a republic under protection of the Montefeltro family and the papacy.
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San Marino
Upper
Italy
Marinus
Dalmatia
Montefeltro
Papacy
Caesar Borgia
Napoleon
Garibaldi
Climb the Mountains and Find Nature's Peace
A poetic meditation urges ascent to mountains to receive tidings from nature. It describes sunshine entering trees, fresh winds energizing the world, and caves fading as autumn leaves fall away, imparting a serene, elemental transformation.
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John
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Duke of Windsor
Edward VIII
Mr. Sims
Edward W. Pickard
World's Week “Patern Newspaper
Morocco
Casablanca
Fez
Medina
Moulay Allal el Fassi
Taly
Jean Weems
Mediterranean
London Daily Herald
Barcelona
Bruno Mussolini
Hood
Palma
Majorca
David Lloyd George
Lloyd George
International Committee On
Spain
M. S. Eccles
HILE
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve System
Morgenthau
Bell
Eccles
Commodity Credit Corporation
RFC
Krum
Cobb ‘Nake
Anta Monica
Calif
Irvin
Cobb
Los Angeles
Nahum
Sam Whittemore
West
Kentucky
Uncle Sum
Confederacy
America
Hollywood
Billy Gaxton
Bob Montgomery
Bob
Bing Crosby
Irvine. Cobb
WNU Service
Greestagtere Ag
House
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Mussolini
Stalin
Walace
Western Newspaper Union
William Bruckart
National Press
Washington, D
Cicero
Lydia E. Pinkham
Milton
Blackman
Blackman Stock Medicine CO
Chattanooga, Tenn
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