Statistical Worries Surround Roosevelt Relief Job Plan
The piece discusses the four billion dollar relief program and its aim to create 314 million jobs, with Hopkins facing the challenge of maximizing jobs within material limits. It notes the split of funds, youth administration allocations, and the likely shift toward labor intensive, low material cost work to avoid costly steel and concrete projects, questioning lasting value vs canceled checks.
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Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
National Youth Administration
Owen Scott
United States News
Washington, D. C
Mr. Hopkins
Pioneering Spirit Questions in Alaska Colony
The Matanuska Valley colonists from Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota face shortages sanitation and roads as government aided Alaska venture prompts debate in the senate. The piece argues that despite complaints most settlers persevere and that pioneers never had a picnic.
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Alaska
Matanuska Valley
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Senate
America
Sound as a dollar remark sparks political joke in Iowa
A Kansas man told by his doctor he was sound as a dollar now probes if the physician is a Republican or a new dealer to see if the praise masks political bias. The remark from the Oske loosa Daily Herald reflects a humor column tone on partisan labels.
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Kansas
Oskaloosa
House
Treasury
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Tariff Commission
Morgenthau
Shall
United States Supreme Court
Friedrich Smetana
Beethoven
National Theatre
Prague
Smetana
Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Palo Alto
Roosevelt
White House
James McMullin
Federation of Labor
New York
Supreme Court
Bill Green
Louis Waldman
American Federation
Waldman
New York State
Socialist Party
Organized Labor
Green
FDR
Respectable Repudiation and Gold Bond Promises
The Kewanee Star-Courier argues that a presidential call to halt suits for gold payments signals a move to normalize repudiation. It contends the New Deal cannot both revalue currency and honor government bond promises, warning Congress faces opposition from Glass and Borah on honoring debts.
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Supreme Court
United States
Congress
Glass
Borah
Kewanee Star-Courier
National Whirligig column on labor bills and diplomacy
Ray Tucker surveys AFL labor pressure on the Wagner coal bill and O'Connor’s committee votes, plus Nye committee probes into bankers and allies loans. Secretary Hull’s cautious handling of banking disclosures and future liquor control politics also loom in this era of policy pressure.
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Ray Tucker
A. F
Green
Rules
O'Connor
New York
O’connor
Mr. Green
AFL
New Yorker
Strange and provenances echo through Liberty Bell and markets
Prophetic words cast on the Liberty Bell long before Independence. The bell rang for the Declaration’s adoption but not for its signing. It cracked again at John Marshall’s funeral. The piece also surveys securities rules, curb brokers, and bond trading pressures, with notes on Morgenthau silver purchases and steel industry discipline signaling a broader economic recovery.
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Berty Bell
England
Pennsylvania
State Assembly
Philadelphia
John Mar
Securities Commission
Richard Whitney
Stock Exchange
Famous Inventor Puzzle Clue Grid
A cryptic style puzzle lists across and down clues about an inventor who revolutionized rubber. The grid references Akron and various wordplay hints relate to terms like war god stir beer and other short answers. The puzzle asks to solve interconnected clues and identify the inventor behind the rubber breakthrough.
Complex World War of Trade and GOP 1936 Outlook
The piece surveys Hull Wallace trade talks with Canada and fears over tariff shifts. It notes Hoover’s political standing, Roosevelt’s reform program, labor law disputes, potential labor party ties, and the NY curb exchange shifts as major 1936 implications unfold.
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State Department
Canada
Hull
David Harum
Mary A Mathewson Leaves Muscatine for Providence
As you were fifty years ago today Miss Mary A Mathewson of Muscatine departed for Providence Rhode Island for a visit. Twenty five years ago today Miss Hattie McCormick of Illinois was painfully injured in a runaway. Five persons were injured in early Fourth of July celebrations in the city. Ten years ago today Muscatine city fathers modified the city limits law relating to leaving the city.
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Mary A. Mathewson
Muscatine
Providence
R. IL
Hattie McCormick
Illinois
Sima Apaines
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Nye Munitions Committee
Great Britain
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Ufte
John Hix
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Journal
Wes
Rene Pugnetwater
M A. Flanagan
Kate
Westchester
Friedrich Smetan
Akron
Aurora
Persia
Orient
High Mountain
George OF
Greece
Ways
General Johnson
Syria
New York Curb Exchange
Greyhound Corporation
Mesta Machine
National Aviation
Standard Oil of
Indiana
Walgreen
George Clarke
NEA Service Inc
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