Roosevelt weighs shifts as Baruch testimony stirs politics
Washington dispatch notes President Roosevelt wavering between business comfort and New Deal pressure after Bernard Baruch’s Senate testimony. Baruch’s critique spurred talk of a Roosevelt recession label, tax worries, and possible shifts toward more aggressive New Deal spending and candidate changes in upcoming primaries. James H. McGill critiques economic literature, and officials eye a steadier unemployment curve through policy changes.
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Lead Through Strength and the World Bridge Olympic
An old whist maxim about leading through strength is debated as contract players face exceptions in the World Bridge Olympic. The event, run by the American Contract Bridge League, runs on April 20 with hundreds of cities joining to compare rubber bridge bidding and play on a world scale. The 16 hands were preselected by top experts, and the contest tests the plays that yield high scores in real play.
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Bridge hands yield 4 no trump on tricky play
A bridge problem from a former Olympic session shows South can force a four no trump contract with precise play. The defense wins key tricks but South can count all four hands with correct trump and suit management, while North must lead to spade strength to avoid East making all clubs and trumps.
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Unemployment chart to 13 million feared as 1933 low nears
The Social Security era chart tracks employment after the 1933 peak of 15,000,000 unemployed. It shows a fall to under 8.5 million by September and hints at nearly 13 million by early March, with economists unsure if the peak will rise. Navy dirigible program gains $3 million despite Roosevelt. House Naval Affairs backs new lighter-than-air craft and cites industry sites Goodyear Zeppelin Akron Lakehurst Sunnyvale. A UC extension class teaches household electricity and plumbing for couples, noting beavers clean and muskrats dirty homes.
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Fragmentary note on Star-Spangled Banner origin payment
In Baltimore on March 9 a partially legible receipt shows Mrs Mary Packersgull acknowledging payment of $40.590 for waking the flag that inspired Frances Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner. The old papers collection includes the yellow sheet and other documents.
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Star Spangled Banner Flag Creation and Baltimore Siege
Historian Arthur B Bibb notes the large 40 by 32 foot flag was made for Fort McHenry defense in 1813 with 405.90 dollars paid and a smaller flag for 168.54 dollars. In 1814 during the British bombardment Key witnessed the flag, inspiring the national anthem.
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