Roosevelt Aims at 7 Billion Plan for Recovery and Reform
President Roosevelt urged Congress to authorize seven billion dollars for a new recovery program. He outlined three groups of measures: vast public works and housing funding, flood control and building programs, and private credit shifts including gold sterilization and reserve reductions. Critics in the Senate warned against overreach while supporting some tax reforms.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
Farm Security Administration
National Youth Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Reconstruction Corporation
United States Housing Authority
Federal Reserve Board
Security Commission
Congress Grapples With Tax Bill Revisions And Roosevelt’s Veto Hint
Congress amid clashes over tax bill versions from the Senate and House. President Roosevelt urged retention of the undistributed profits tax in a long letter to chairmen, signaling a possible veto if the provision is dropped. The move surprised many, especially Senate conferees led by Senator Pat Harrison.
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Finance Committee
Senate
HILE
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Pat Harrison
Daladier Forms New French Government Faces Labor Tension
Edouard Daladier becomes France’s premier succeeding Leon Blum, launching a nonrevolutionary cabinet including Georges Bonnet as foreign minister. He seeks alignment with Britain, negotiates with Mussolini, abandons Spain’s republic in Franco’s war, and uses decree powers to curb strikes with a secret ballot rule and potential army support to keep plants operating.
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France
Edouard Daladier
Leon Blum
Blum
Popular Front
Daladier
Georges Bonnet
United States
Great Britain
Mussolini
Spanish Republic
Franco
Horner Captures Illinois Democratic Primary Victory
Henry Horner won his second major appeal over the Chicago Kelly Nash machine in the Illinois Democratic primaries. Horner’s gains put him in near total control of the state party with State’s Attorney Thomas J. Courtney as his co boss. The victory drew national attention and spurred talk of a 1940 presidential boomlet led by Representative L. F. Arnold.
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Henry Horner
Illinois
Thomas J. Courtney
Chicago
Horner
Democratic Party
Congress
L. F. Arnold
Jones Ready to Lend Vast RFC Funds to Banks
Jesse Jones, head of the RFC, announces 1.5 billion dollars to lend to business men, states and cities. He asks bankers to forward loan applications they cannot meet and says security must be reasonable. He stresses not lending all money but aiming to spur capital investment.
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Jesse Jones
RFC
Jones
Labor unions split over CIO permanence and 1930s plan
John L Lewis announced the CIO would become a permanent organization likely under a new name. A fall convention of 39 Lewis unions is planned. Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman lead a committee to set time and place. CIO leaders warned Congress must enact a full legislative recovery program before adjournment.
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American Federation of Labor
Committee For ‘Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Philip Murray
Sidney Hillman
Congress
Wheat allotments set for 42 states under 1938 program
The agricultural adjustment administration announces 62,500,000 acres allotted to 42 wheat states based on ten year planting. Farmers meeting allotments receive 12 cents per bushel and face a 90 cent tax on excess acreage. no deductions this year if farmers cut other soil depleting crops. State allotments listed include Iowa Kansas Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota.
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HE Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Iowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Will Defend Peace Pan American Day Address
President Roosevelt’s Pan American Day address warned that American republics will not permit aggressor nations to threaten hemispheric peace. He pledged continued good neighbor policy with Central and South America and said peace may require sacrifices, even life, while justice and law replace force.
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Roosevelt
Hitler’s Big Victory in Austrian Plebiscite
More than 465000 Germans and Austrians voted no in the plebiscite on Austria’s annexation, while nearly 49 million voters approved. Hitler hailed the result as a proud hour, signaling unity and plans to expand the Austrian army and tighten frontier defenses. Vienna signaled intensified anti Jewish policy.
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Germany
Austria
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Berlin
Vienna
Orville Wright Honored At Ford Dedication Event
More than 200 aeronautics leaders met in Detroit at Henry and Edsel Ford’s invitation to honor Orville Wright. The ceremony marked the dedication of the restored Wright buildings at Ford’s Greenwich Village and paid tribute to Wilbur Wright who died in 1912. The day featured the dedication of the Wright home and bicycle shop where the first successful man carrying airplane was built.
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America
Detroit
Henry
Edsel Ford
Orville Wright
Wright
Ford
Greenwich Village
Wilbur
Colorful Apron Pattern for Gift or Bazaar
This item offers a tulip pocket apron pattern with applique pieces and transfer design. Includes stitch outlines, color suggestions, and material list. Pattern 1635 ships for 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. New York. include name and address.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Men Love Peppy Girls At Dances And Parties
Three generations note Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helps women feel better by toning the system and easing dis orders. The ad claims over a million testimonials and urges readers to buy from their druggist today.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Nature
Pinkham
Elements of Friendship in Emerson’s Thought
A brief reflective note cites Ralph Waldo Emerson noting two elements of friendship: Truth and Tenderness. The quote underscores honesty and compassion as the core bonds in relationships.
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Emerson
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