Tax plans loom as Morgenthau eyes Ways and Means hearing
Washington reports Treasury plans for a flat manufacturers tax and a major income tax overhaul. The draft would raise rates, reduce exemptions, and broaden surtaxes, with political risk ahead before any bill could pass. FDIC moves to broaden bank support and calls for agency consolidation surface amid budget pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury Department
Morgenthau
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
Senator la Follette
Roosevelt
al Smith
Liberty League
Jesus Answers John's Questions
The lesson notes John the Baptist as a great, perplexed figure. Jesus defends John, explains his doubt was not faithless but a mind in confusion about the messianic timeline, and answers with signs and testimony to validate John. The text links Luke 7 19 28 and Matthew 11 7 11, stressing meeting doubts with clear facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
John
L. John
Christ
The
Jordan
Divide and Rule and the Eye Color of Great Men
Brisbane warns miners’ union against splits while Arthur Brisbane urges unity. A tale invokes Divide et impera to urge solidarity. A lonely English soldier seeks a bride with hazel eyes as history’s great figures are noted for blue or gray eyes. Washington Jefferson Lincoln Roosevelt Edison Ford are listed among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
American Federation of Labor
Miners’ Union
Mr. Lewis
Mr. Green
Louis XI
Goethe
Indian Ocean
Napoleon
Corsica
Caesar
Rome
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Edison
Henry Ford
Grounded schooner near Tampa sparks nudist colony tale
A schooner carrying a mixed group to establish a Virgin Islands nudist colony ran aground near Tampa Florida. Navigators refused to sign for the nudist enterprise citing fear and prudence as winds pushed the ship ashore. The narrative ends with a note on lighter-than-air craft delivering food to Tangier Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tampa
Fla
Virgin Islands
Garden of Eden
Tangier
Mussolini Threatens Exit Over Oil Ban in Sanctions
Mussolini warns Italy may quit the league if oil is banned in sanctions. He argues no oil means no war and considers buying old American ships to convert into floating gasoline storage tanks. He notes there were costly steel ships worth about a billion dollars built during World War I era ready to be recycled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
League
Litvinoff’s blunt remark mars Anglo Russian relations
At the king’s funeral the Russian envoy Litvinoff told the new king Edward VIII he found him only a mediocre young Englishman. He repeated a remark the king had made to him, a move considered not done and diplomatically damaging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Russia
Litvinoff
Edward VIII
Socialist critic warns of New Deal drift toward fascism
Mr Norman Thomas of the Socialist left wing runs for President and argues the New Deal echoes dictatorship. He notes Mussolini rose in Italy with radicalism and even oil casts a cautionary tale. He warns radicals may someday miss free speech if a dictatorship arrives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Thomas
Italy
Mussolini
New Jersey Cold Weather Aids Fruit Growers Pests
One man's frostbite is good news for New Jersey fruit growers as extreme cold freezes the ground two feet deep and is expected to destroy orchard pests including gypsy moths and coddling moths. The cold has not harmed trees but may discourage Japanese beetle larvae.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Birthday Harbor of Fame for Lindbergh in Wales
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh marked his thirty fourth birthday in Wales with his wife and one son. The famed aviator, now in the public eye, may have wished to return to quieter airmail days and dodge the constant limelight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Lindbergh
Wales
The Future Must Be Up to Our Faculties
The passage extols trust in the Creator and envisions a future aligned with our faculties memory hope imagination and reason. It asserts Providence will prepare something large and generous in the grand style of divine works for humanity.
Doctors Advise Gentle Liquid Laxative Dose Reduction
Physicians urge using a liquid laxative such as Syrup Pepsin and gradually reducing the dose to aid natural bowel regularity. If no relief is found, Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin offers a money back guarantee for biliousness from constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Caldwell
Select Products, Inc
23Rd St
Long Island City
N. Y
Ethiopian vengeance practice shifts from relatives
The article notes a change from the customary practice in Addis Ababa where convicted murderers were handed to victims' relatives for execution, a system that had long prevailed but is described as recently altered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addis Ababa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Columbus
Levine Brothers
J.C. Penney CO
Boyd How. CO
Daniel
KODAK
BH. J. Williams
Boady’s Store
Evert Bros., Inc
W. H. Luers
Delco
Res
Osceola Record
Carter Field
Congress
Treasury
Smith
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
FDIC
Bethlehem
Tasy Street
Federal Reserve System
Reserve System
Crowley
RFC
Department
Secret Service
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Miss Perkins
American Liberty League
Frances Perkins
Capitol Hill
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Joseph W. Byrns
Tennessee
John J. O'Connor
New York
House Rules Committee
O’connor
James J. Dooling
Tammany
James A. Farley
John the Baptist
Tammany Hall
Philadelphia
Perkins
WNN
Herod
P. B. Fitzwater
D. D
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Brisbane
Ieee
Doan
Doans
Montaza
Magnesia
Ree Milnesia
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!