Business leaders meet with Roosevelt to map path from recession
White House hosts GDP: The nation's top business council discusses anti recession steps with President Roosevelt. They urge wage hour limits, utilities truce, no purge of holding companies, and currency tinkering stop. W Averill states re employment in private industry is critical and urges democracy and unity.
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IFTY
Business Advisory Council
Department of Commerce
White House
Roosevelt
W. Averill
Council
West Coast shipping and fruit industries harmed by Bridges ties
Portland Mayor J. K. Carson told a Senate commerce and labor panel that the CIO and its Pacific coast leader Harry Bridges have caused over a billion dollars in losses in three years due to strikes and maritime tie ups. Bridges, an Australian immigrant and alleged communist, faces deportation requests though a warrant was blocked by Frances Perkins.
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J. K. Carson
Portland
Ore
Senate
Joint Committee On Commerce and Labor
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Australia
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Frances Perkins
Carson
West Coast
Reed Viewed Favorably for Supreme Court Seat
Reed of Kentucky solicitor general receives broad support for associate justice nomination to replace Justice Sutherland. At 53 he has never served on the bench, but has defended New Deal cases before the court with a strong win loss record and holds past roles as general counsel for the farm board and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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Stanley Formen Reed
Kentucky
Supreme Court
Washington
Senate
Ashurst
Judiciary Committee
Reed
George Sutherland
Herbert Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Roosevelt
Soviet Parliament Sees Little Lawmaking Yet Faces Purge Fallout
After first session in Soviet Russia, lawmakers spoke against Japan while Stalin via the central committee halted mass expulsions of Communist members. Pravda praised party results but attacked “rotten leaders” blamed for aiding fascist foes.
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Russia
Japan
Josef Stalin
Central Committee
Communist Party
Pravda
King Arouk Weds Miss Farida Zul Fikar in Cairo
In Cairo King Arouk married Miss Farida Zul fikar amid a 100 cannon salute. The city’s natives could not glimpse the bride as Moslem clergy barred her from the ceremony. A semi public reception followed at the Abdine palace where the seventeen year old queen appeared.
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Arouk
Egypt
Cairo
Farida Zulfikar
Abdine
Fire Overtakes Sacred Heart College Near Quebec
A devastating blaze at the College of the Sacred Heart in St Hyacinthe near Quebec killed at least 47 people and wounded many others. The four story building contained fourteen drums of gasoline that accelerated the flames.
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College of the Sacred Heart
St. Hyacithe
Quebec
Social Security Funds Run Higher Than Tax Receipts
The Security Fund under the Social Security and Railroad Retirement acts stood $294,681,344 above tax receipts as of January 1, 1938. Treasury officials said this surplus would not last, noting social security taxes are building a reserve for old age pensions that began January 1. Much spending funded grants to states to establish social security machinery.
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Treasury
Kidnaping of Charles Ross Ended by U S Agents
Ross case solved as Peter Anders confesses to abducting Charles Ross of Chicago and killing him and a fellow conspirator after receiving $50 000 ransom from Mrs Ross. Anders arrested at Santa Anita race track near Los Angeles where ransom funds were being laundered. Full confession details released later.
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J. Edgar” Hoover
Charles Ross
Chicago
Ross
Secretary Perkins Reports National Unemployment Rate
Statistics released by Secretary of Labor Perkins show one in ten workers unemployed as she testifies to the Senate unemployment and relief committee. She notes about 1,162,000 filed unemployment claims in the first week of January as 21 states and the District of Columbia start a new aid plan.
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Perkins
Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee
District of Columbia
Mexico Imposes Prohibitive Tariffs Aiming to Curtail Imports
Mexico enacts steep tariffs to level balance on international payments and limit imports except machinery. The move targets United States exporters and draws criticism from Secretary Hull, who warns it contravenes liberalizing trade aims from the Buenos Aires 1936 inter American peace conference. Camille Chautemps returns as French premier amid cabinet reshuffle and plans social reforms while maintaining a large armament program.
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Mexico
Finance Department
United States
Hull
Buenos Aires
Rance
Camille Chautemps
Popular Front
Chautemps
France
Yvon Delbos
Edouard Deladier
Jews seek emigration as Romania’s Goga regime tightens
The article notes thousands of Jews fleeing anti Semitic Romania under Premier Octavian Goga. It cites consular inquiries about emigration to Brazil Ethiopia Madagascar Mexico or Australia and reports moves to limit intermarriage. It also covers Ecuador expelling alien Jews and a separate U S legislative debate on tax changes and relief for small firms.
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Umania
Octavian Goga
Bucharest
Brazil
Ethiopia
Madagascar
Mexico
Australia
Ecuador
Alberto Eriquez
Europe
Daven Port Slipcover Seams Shaped Inside for Fit
The upper left sketch shows the slipcover with wrong side out and welt seams pinned for stitching from inside. Gather arm seam edges at A and B to ensure a snug fit while leaving just enough fabric. The bias cut cable cord cover and bias fabric are attached with a cording foot for proper stitching.
Crafting tips and odd reading from a 1940s ad page
The clipping lists quirky misread sign phrases and a sewing guide promotion. It includes misprints about candy, calves, and ducks, plus instructions for baste stitching cords, seam cushions, and leaving back openings for snaps. It advertises Mrs Spears Sewings book with 48 pages and a 25 cent request form.
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Spears
S. Desplaines St
Chicago
Cabinet Meetings Describe Informal Presidential Deliberations
The cabinet sessions are informal with no debate rules. Free opinion exchange occurs, votes are rare, and no minutes are kept. Decisions are recommendations, and the president may submit or reject subjects and make final choices.
Pepsodent with Irium Promoted as Safe Dentifrice
Public notice-style promotion touts Pepsodent containing Irium as a modern dentifrice. It claims no grit no pumice and no bleach with rapid natural radiance and a refreshed tingling mouth.
Foibles and finance in a sharp social quip column
The writer lampoons gender roles and finances, noting that a sow's ear cannot be made silk, sales resistance, and the woes of a missing host. It argues men with talent can earn, while crime persists with faulty intellects, and criticizes boastful speakers who share pity with their own woes.
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Waterbuster
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Heye Foundation
Museum of the American Indian
George G. Heye
Western Newspaper Union
Labor
Argentina
South Africa
C.I.O
Stanley F. Reed
Stalin
Wedi
Canada
Hairman Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Fred Vinson
Christ
Jesus
God
Jesus Christ
Harold. L. Lundquist
Moody Bible Institute ,of
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Coon Am Aluminum
Camden Tityits
Phil
Spaghett
Franklin
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