Bulkley toll road plan aims to build ten superhighways
With the President's approval Senator Bulkley of Ohio proposes a federal program to construct ten superhighways across the nation financed by tolls and land leases. The plan allocates 8 billion dollars, separate passenger and freight pavements, and tolls of 25 and 50 cents with per mile charges. It also includes acreage allotments, marketing quotas, an ever normal granary, and loans to store surpluses to stabilize prices during lean years.
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Bulkley
Ohio
Senate
Roosevelt urges $250 million more for relief funds
In a special message President Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate 250 million dollars to supplement a 1.5 billion relief fund. He said three million people were left jobless in the last three months. A bill to carry out the suggestions was introduced in the House and quickly moved toward passage.
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Roosevelt
Congress
House
Steel Price Cut Passes Without Wage Reduction
United States Steel extended indefinitely its working agreements with the CIO maintaining current wages and eight hour day. At the same time cold rolled sheets used by the auto industry saw a $4 per ton price drop, marking the first cut in the steel price structure.
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Roosevelt
United States Steel
Committee For Industrial Organization
Hull Denies Any US Alliance Over War Moves
Secretary of State Hull writes to Senator Key Pittman denying any alliance with Great Britain or any power regarding war operations or navy policies. The letter, read in the Senate, answers questions from opposition senators seeking a definition of the administration’s foreign policy.
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Hull
United States
Great Britain
Key Pittman
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate
House Approves Crop Control Bill with Soil Aid
The House adopted the conference report on the administration’s crop control bill by 963 to 135 and sent it to the Senate. The measure, in revised form, maintains the soil conservation program providing benefit payments to cooperating farmers.
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House
Senate
Capone Under Observation at Alcatraz Hospital
Capone, once America’s top prohibition era gang boss, remains under observation at Alcatraz’s hospital. Reports say he has lost his mind and his attorney warns of a habeas corpus request if doctors confirm insanity. He faces release eligibility January 19, 1939, with a remaining sentence of one year and a $20,000 fine.
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L Capone
America
Alcatraz
the Rock
Capone
Hitler Seizes Full Power in Germany Clash with Army
Hitler proclaims himself head of national defense and absolute ruler. Field Marshal Blomberg is removed as war minister. Goering becomes general field marshal. Brauchitsch replaces Fritsch as army chief. Dozens of generals dismissed. Riembentrop recalled as foreign minister. Secret speech by a general sparks monarchist talk of ex Kaiser Wilhelm restoration.
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Dolf Hitler
Germany
Reich
Werner von Blomberg
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Walter von Brauchitsch
Werner von Fritsch
London Daily Herald
Joachim von Ribentrop
London
Wilhelm Keitel
Supreme Command
Hitler
Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm
Eitel Friedrich
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Secret Police
Small Business Delegates Present 23 Proposals to Roosevelt
Twelve delegates from a lively small business conference in Washington delivered a 23 point plan to President Roosevelt. The proposals call for easier small business credit, repeal of the undivided profits tax, capital gains tax modification, shared labor agreement responsibility, local relief restoration, and investigations of the Wagner board. The White House signaled many ideas appear constructive though some seem impractical. The administration does not seek full repeal of the profits tax or return of relief to local governments nor abandoning wage and hour laws or Wagner board interference.
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Little Business
Washington
Roosevelt
Wagner Labor Relations Board
Hie
New West Point Chief Benedict Promoted to Superintendent
Big. Gen. Jay L Benedict assumes command as the new superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point succeeding General Connors who is nearing retirement. Benedict, aged fifty five, began his military career as an enlisted National Guard member in 1898.
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Jay L. Benedict
West Point
General Benedict
Military Academy
Big
United States Military Academy
General Connors
National Guard
Union expulsions rock Miami convention
President Green of the A. F. L. announced in Miami that the United Mine Workers of America the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers and the Federation of Flat Glass Workers were expelled from the federation. John L. Lewis leads the miners union and looms as a C. I. O. nucleus.
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Green
A. F. of L
Miami
United Mine Workers of America
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
The
Federation of Flat Glass Workers
Miners’ Union
John L. Lewis
Perkins Defies Kennedy on Labor Mediation Debate
Secretary of Labor Perkins testified before the Senate Commerce Committee defending mediation in merchant marine labor disputes. Kennedy and C I O leader Ralph Emerson challenged the policy, while Kennedy threatened a showdown with the White House over the administration and the court at St James. Also fashion writes note spring patterns and sewing patterns with prices and sizes.
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Madame Perkins
Kins
Harry Bridges
Pacific Coast
Joseph Kennedy
Maritime Commission
Great Britain
Senate Commerce Committee
Ralph Emerson
Maritime Union
Emerson
Longshoremen Leader Links C I O to Communists
Joseph Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen's Association, testified before the senate commerce committee accusing the C I O of ties to the Communist party of America and presenting supporting facts. He also charged Elinor Herrick, NY regional director of the NLRB, with using power to wreck AFL maritime unions to aim for labor secretary post under John L. Lewis. The committee adopted a resolution to fund a $50,000 Senate inquiry into subversive influences in the merchant marine.
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Oseph Ryan
International Longshoremen’s Association
A. F. of L
Senate Commerce Committee
Communist Party of America
Elinor M. Herrick
New York
National Labor Relations Board
A. F. of L. Maritime
John L. Lewis
Ryan
Copeland
Senate
Fear on Borah O Mahoney bill sparks NAM protest
The National Association of Manufacturers warns President Roosevelt may back the Borah O Mahoney bill to impose a federal licensing system. NAM says the measure would allow the federal government to shut any business for minor license violations, eroding home rule over business.
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National Association of Manufacturers
Roosevelt
Association
Absent Student Inquiry Reaches Father in Humorous Tale
A teacher asks a pupil's mother why William was absent and receives a reply noting the boy kept time for his father. The father explains Willie, not a man, returned with an example about walking speed and field size, prompting the need to send his dad instead.
Mayo Carillon at Mayo Clinic Tower Details
The Mayo Clinic tower houses a 23 bell carillon with the largest bell at four tons and the smallest at 168 pounds. The clapper weighs one sixteenth the bell. James J. Drummond administers Worrell hospital as carillionneur. Concerts occur thrice weekly for 30 minutes. Six bells can be played simultaneously, two per hand and two with the feet.
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Mayo Clinic
James J. Drummond
Worrell Hospital
Carillionneur
Pep and charm in a Pinkham advertisement
A 1920s style ad extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a world famous cure. It claims the product helps tone the system and relieve functional disorders, urging women to use it to stay peppy and appealing to men. It emphasizes smiling through discomfort and promises widespread reported benefits.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Nature
Pinkham
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O'Mahoney
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Mayo Carillon
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Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation
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Prince Albert
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