Roosevelt's reorganization bill passes Senate amid fierce fight
The Roosevelt plan sailed through the Senate 49 to 42 after a heated showdown. A recommit vote 48 to 43 failed, signaling strong opposition fears of dictatorship as the bill moves toward the House. The measure would empower executive orders to reorganize or abolish many government bureaus with few exceptions.
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Roosevelt
Senate
United States
House
O’connor
Rules Committee
Federal Reserve Board
Corps of Engineers
United States Army
Senate to Probe TVA with Ten Senators and Five Representatives
A Senate vote adopted a resolution for a joint committee inquiry into the Tennessee Valley Authority. Senator Alben W. Barkley introduced the measure, and it cites eight of Bridges and King’s initial charges, seeks scrutiny of private utility suits against TVA, and follows President Roosevelt’s removal of A. E. Morgan as TVA chairman. The move faces passage in the House amid debate over legality and the administration’s motives.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Senate
House
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
A. E. Morgan
Bridges
King
TVA
H. Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Republican
Lister B. Hill
Alabama
Roosevelt
Chairman Morgan
Morgan
Jackson
Congress
Harcourt Morgan
White House
Supreme court upholds Wheel er Rayburn act registration ruling
The Supreme Court in a six to one decision upheld the acts registration provisions requiring Electric Bond and Share Co and 14 related utility holding companies to register with the SEC or face denial of mail and interstate facilities. The court did not rule on other parts of the law including the death sentence for holding companies. Chief Justice Hughes delivered the opinion. Justice McReynolds dissented. Justice Cardozo was ill and Justice Reed did not participate.
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United States Supreme Court
Wheeler-Rayburn Public Utility
McReynolds
Justice Cardozo
Justice Reed
Col. Ed Ward House Dies After Long Illness
Col. Ed ward M. House dies in New York at seventy nine, ending a famous World War era career. He stayed out of the limelight yet shaped national and international policy, advising Woodrow Wilson and serving as Wilson's representative at Versailles. The later rift with Wilson ended their close partnership.
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Col
Edward M. House
New York
House
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Europe
Versailles
Franco forces blast into Catalonia near Barcelona
Franco's insurgent army broke loyalist lines advancing through Catalonia toward Barcelona. About 100 towns fell in a day as villages were demolished by bombardment from a 200-strong bomber fleet allegedly aided by Italy and Germany. Italy warned France against intervention, with Informazione Diplomatica stating Rome watches the campaign closely.
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Franco
Catalonia
Barcelona
Italy
Germany
France
Spain
Informazione Diplomatica
United States halts Mexican silver purchases
Treasury secretary Morgenthau announced a suspension of buying Mexican silver until further notice. The move follows Mexico’s expropriation of foreign oil properties, seen as a setback to Hulls good neighbor policy. Silver price slipped one cent per ounce while US imports totaled 5 million ounces monthly at about 2.5 million dollars.
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Morgenthau
United States
Mexico
Hull
United States Treasury
New York
Japan's Regime in China Promotes Puppet Government
APAN announced the inauguration of the reformed Government of the Republic of China in Nanjing. The puppet state aims to replace Chiang Kai-shek's regime and will be headed by Liang Hung-Tze as chairman of the new executive yu an. Chinese forces reported heavy fighting along the Peiping Hankow railway with Japanese forces suffering losses.
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APAN
Republic of China
Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
Liang Hung-Tze
Executive Yuan
Peiping-Hankow
Harrison Bill Alters Revenue Plan in Senate Panel
Senate finance committee votes 17 to 4 to drop the undistributed profits tax and replace it with a flat corporation income tax of XB percent. They also set a 15 percent flat rate on capital gains for assets held over 18 months and remove tax processing on major crops to speed enactment of relief measures funding $200 million a year in farmer bounties.
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Harrison
House
Senate Finance Committee
Goering Announces Vienna Jews Must Leave within Four Years
Field Marshal Goering announces in Vienna that 300,000 Jews must quit the city within four years as part of Austria’s economic reconstruction. He orders removal under legal, quiet, merciful means and assigns Seyss Inquart to carry it out. Cardinal Innes urges Austrians to vote for union with Germany, boosting Nazi hopes for Vatican accord.
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Vienna
Field Marshal
Goering
Hitler
Austria
Seyss- Inquart
Germany
Cardinal Innetzer
Vatican
Britain Ready to Fight to Defend France and Belgium
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons Britain will honor treaty obligations to France and Belgium and may go to war if German aggression threatens them. He expressed belief peace will hold but warned Britain could be drawn in if events in Europe make war likely. He rejected Soviet calls for consultation.
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Britain
Czechoslovakia
France
Belgium
Hitler
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Europe
Central
Russia
Wheat Crop Forecast From Agriculture Bureau
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics projects this year's wheat harvest at 830 million bushels, 160 million above the 1932 to 1936 average, with a 300 million bushel carryover expected in 1939. If planting and yields hold, spring wheat including durum could reach 200 million bushels, plus about 630 million from winter crops, totaling near 839 million bushels.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Department of Agriculture
Art therapy through drawn expression aids mental health
Dr. Edward Liss notes paintings by children and the mentally unsettled reveal inner attitudes via size and ego, pattern balance, and color choices. Finished works are interpreted like dreams, with subject preferences exposing emotional impasses and suppression in artists.
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Marjorie van DE Water
New York
Edward Liss
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Liss
Supercharging Diesels Boosts Power for Ships and Trains
E. D. Newell of the Navy bureau of engineering says supercharging giant Diesel engines expands power for naval emergencies, allows smaller engines for ships to keep cargo or speed, and raises continuous power by about 50 percent on streamlined railroad locomotives. He notes gains in aircraft engine performance at high altitudes as well.
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Washington
E. D. Newell
Bureau of Engineering
Navy Department
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society of Automotive Engineers
Newell
Fire Ants Destroy Quail in Southeastern States
Bernard V. Travis of the USDA reports fire ants as major quail predators in the Southeast. These ants attack eggs and newly hatched chicks, causing 4 to 16 percent hatch losses annually, and also threaten citrus trees. Control remains difficult though dry sodium cyanide shows promise.
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Baltimore
Bernard V. Travis
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
United States Department of Agriculture
Vitamins Discoveries and Vitamin A and B Roles
The article recounts Casimir Funk's 1912 naming of vitamins and outlines vitamin A sources such as milk and fortified margarine as well as vitamin B benefits for appetite and digestion. It notes vitamins support growth, energy use, and resistance to infections.
The Vitamin Story and Its Global Research Effort
Biochemists worldwide including Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Hart Humphrey Babcock Steen beck McCollum traced vitamins from body effects to food sources. Early experiments showed deficiency harms lab animals and humans, leading to six identified vitamins. Vitamin A boosts growth and disease resistance.
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
England
Hart, Humphrey
Babcock
Steenbeck
McCollum
United States
Funk
Building and Maintaining Family Health
The article outlines how foods in four main groups—proteins carbohydrates fats and mineral salts—fuel mental and physical power and build bones nerves and blood. It invites housewives to collect and reference these readable, nontechnical discussions and to request missing installments for their family health scrapbook.
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C. Houston Goudiss
Food Authority
Vitamin C Benefits for Teeth and Gums
Vitamin C regulates body processes and prevents scurvy. A deficiency alters teeth and gums and may cause hemorrhages and muscle degeneration. It is abundant in green leafy vegetables, onions, potatoes, oranges, tomatoes, peppers, bananas, and strawberries. Heat destroys most of it, so include fresh raw foods daily.
Vitamins D G and their role in health and nutrition
The article explains vitamin D as the sunshine vitamin crucial for calcium use and bone formation, with sources in fish liver oil and egg yolk and notes on rickets. It discusses vitamin G supporting growth, skin health, eye health, and possible links to broader health, stressing homemakers' duty to provide vitamins.
Have You a Question Ask C Houston Goudiss
C Houston Goudiss offers readers access to his Experimental Kitchen Laboratory in New York City. He will answer questions on foods diet nutrition and health and personal hygiene. Postcard inquiries are welcome. Address 6 East 39th Street New York City.
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Houston Goudiss
New York City
C. Houston Goodiss
East 39Th Street
Vitamins for All Household Members urged by Houston Goudiss
A 1938 PSA by Houston Goudiss urges ensuring every household member receives enough vitamins to secure health and happiness. The message stresses enabling access to science’s health advances for children, workers, middle aged, and elderly.
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WNU
C. Houston Goudiss
What Is the Cause of Spider Web Check in Furniture
The article explains spider web check as fine cracking on finish from starving wood. It warns this pattern results from polish neglect or cheap polish and advocates periodic use of a reputable light oil polish to feed the wood and prevent checking.
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Mississippi
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China
Gen
Neville Chamberlain
Ay Scfante Service
Science Service
Houston Good
East 39Th St
Casimir Funk
Ferry-Morse
Ferry
Ferry’s
Ferry-Morse Seed Co
Detroit
San Francisco
Ferry's
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