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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1937
Page
2
The World’s Week reports a pact troubling Britain as Hitler Mussolini and Konoye celebrate the agreement. The trio may push for restoration of Germany’s lost colonies, triggering a global clamor and diplomatic tension.
The new farm measure drafted for an extraordinary session of Congress by the house committee on agriculture envisions voluntary crop controls for wheat corn rice and cotton and compulsory limits on tobacco production. It includes Secretary Wallace's ever normal granary concept and tariff equalizing taxes revived from unconstitutional processing taxes. Benefits in the plan go only to participating producers and are based on land use changes and domestic consumption, with a $10000 cap per producer. If prices exceed parity by 10 percent the secretary would call in commodity loans to release stored stocks and curb prices.
The article reports Italy joining Germany and Japan in a pact to combat communism, with Rome and Berlin signaling the alliance aims at shared goals rather than against any single nation. Observers foresee a three camp world fascist, communist, democratic and note Ribbentrop as a leading figure in the bloc.
Reports from Paris indicate the duke and duchess tentatively plan a February trip to the United States to pursue their stated investigations. Labor groups initially opposed the tour due to Charles E. Bedaux’s controversial speed-up system, but A F L president Green said American labor would welcome them and cooperate. If they come, Mrs. Roosevelt may adjust lecture dates to attend a luncheon for the visitors.
Secretary Swanson announced the navy is stronger than in war days and moving toward full strength under treaty limits. The replacement program includes two battleships and funding for 85 ships: three aircraft carriers, one heavy cruiser, nine light cruisers, fifty-five destroyers, and seventeen submarines.
President Roosevelt uses his fifty fifth birthday January 30 to promote the nationwide drive for infantile paralysis. Funds from the celebrations will go to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, not local agencies. A committee headed by Keith Morgan of New York will organize events in many cities.
Levitt pressed President Roosevelt to initiate quo warranto proceedings to challenge Hugo L. Black's right to hold the Supreme Court seat. The move came as the court prepared to consider whether to hear another test of Black's eligibility.
Eminent Shakespearean actor Johnston Forbes Robertson dies at age 84 in St. Margarets Bay England. Renowned on both American and British stages he last performed in 1927 in London in Twelfth Night and had film appearances. Knighted in 1913 by King George V upon retirement.
Fiorello La Guardia wins New York mayoralty in a fusionist landslide by 454,425 votes, with Jeremiah T. Mahoney defeated. The result shifts power to the Republican and reform coalition. Dewey elected district attorney at 35, pledging reform. GOP gains in state assembly and upstate cities.
The CIO’s first political venture flopped as Patrick H. O'Brien’s labor seize-the-reins pledge triggered a conservative landslide. Richard W. Reading with AFL backing won Detroit mayoralty by 106,907 votes. five CIO backed council candidates were crushed. In New Jersey, Sen. A. Harry Moore won a third nonconsecutive term governor amid Hudson County support. Curley failed in Boston. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh swung Democratic with Mayor Scully and Tobin winning re elections.
United States Davis denounces force and urges peaceful settlement between Japan and China. Eden and Delbos back the push for friendship and fair play. A committee will appeal to Japan to begin peace negotiations with China and Germany is asked to reconsider its nonparticipation.
In this opinion piece from Anta Monica, Irvin B. Cobb critiques how parades, propaganda, and flag waving cultivate a lasting war mindset. He targets 1940 electoral fears, references Dewey, and sketches a satirical scene of racial tensions and political pretenses. The column frames looming national ruin as a slow, profitable harvest for crooks.
The article discusses President Roosevelt appointing his eldest son James to meet weekly with heads of eighteen government agencies to coordinate policy and relay directions. It notes benefits and risks, including potential bypass of presidential oversight, and laments rising production costs and tax burdens affecting farmers and industry amid a looming 1938 downturn.
The passage notes 1936 England saw three kings George V Edward VIII and George VI. It recalls earlier wartime reigns with Ed IV's death in 1483 leading to Edward V's murder by Richard III and 1553 Jane Grey's brief reign ending with imprisonment and beheading under Mary I's faction.
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