Notable aviation deaths and political debates in 1930s era Alaska
Ill Rogers and Wiley Post die in a plane crash en route from Fairbanks to Point Barrow. The page also reports on lobbying investigations led by House and Senate committees, Eden Laval Mussolini diplomacy efforts, and the formation of a new United Methodist Church union, with farm policy changes and a summary of the Social Security bill's pension mechanics.
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Ill Rogers
Wiley Post
Fairbanks
Paolot Barrow
Alaska
Post
Asia
Seattle
Sergi
Stanley R. Aforgan
Signal Corps
Point Barrow
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal
Senate
House
Associated Press
bin Jones
Young Bil
Bill Jones
Federal Treasury
Bl Jones
Bil Jones
Sears
Bui Jones
Jones
Loose
House of Representative
Robert & Wagner
New York
John Lewis
Maryland
Frances Jerking
Tat Slarrison
Wiliam King
Edward BP. Costigan
Tax bill foes fear shift of burden toward mass spending
Earl Godwin Allington reports on Treasury expert Robert H. Jackson's warning that the administration tax proposal targets wealth concentration and would reallocate the tax load toward the consuming mass. The piece critiques the plan, notes corporate wealth control, and discusses TVA and rural electrification efforts along with Rhode Island politics and colonial governance.
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Allington
DED. O
Robert H. Jackson
Treasury
United States
Roosevelt
Ohio Governor Davey Blocks By Election Call
Ohio Governor Martin L. Davey refused to call a statewide by election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative at Large Charles V. Truax. He said no election would occur until next year, citing discretionary power, while court action seeks to force a deadline. President Roosevelt and others criticized the delay as politics.
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Rhode Israed
Washington
Michigan
Congress
Ilisk
Frank E. Condon
Rhode Island
Condon
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
G O Pfenders
Charles V. Truax
Davey
Washbington
Roosevelt
Senate Finance Committee Rewrites Tax Bill After Debate
The Senate Finance Committee altered the House bill to widen taxes and reverse La Follette proposals. It kept Roosevelt’s inheritance tax ideas out, reduced the surtax threshold, and reported a bill with new provisions and an estimated revenue shortfall of about one million dollars. The bill passed the Senate 57 to 22.
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House
Senate
Hervard C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric Utilities System
House Committee
Use Black
Lionson
O'Connor
Uopsen
Chucky Willitles
Associated
Wheeler-Rayburn
Ber
Cox
Georgia
Tiopson
Coz
Jess
Slopéon
Black
Hopson
Hwever
New Yorker
Rankin
Texas
Jack
Slopson
Noboor
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
la Follette
Roosevelt
Burah
Idaho
Norris
Nebraska
Borah
Bris bane This Week Lions Guard Ethiopian Palace Lions Watch Dogs
Several readers offer to be frozen living for science but the AMA calls Willard’s freezing a hoax, saying a frozen monkey would die. New York strike news suggests the nonunion path held. Addis Ababa photo shows Ethiopian emperor’s servants riding lions in the palace garden, used to deter intruders.
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Los Angeles
Ir. Willard
American Medical Association
Mr.Willard
Willard
Fishbein
American Medical Association Journal
Addis Ababa
Chicago stockyards face closures and rising prices
Half the hog pens are shut at Chicago stockyards causing soaring prices and layoffs. The piece notes government past actions that culled farrow sows to prevent oversupply, warning that too many little pigs would yield too many pigs.
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Chicago
Mussolini touts new air weapon as overwhelming
The Italian leader claims Italy has an overwhelmingly powerful air weapon but does not specify it. He also asserts TNT and poison gas are powerful and declares readiness to meet any outside peril, insisting no power on earth can attack us.
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Anthony Eden
England
Terre Laval
France
Baron Pompel Aloisi
Italy
Paris
Aryert
Eden
Laval
Baron Aloisi
Tremler Alussolini
League of Nations
Ethiopia
Mussolini
Great Britain
Iliter
Earth
Understanding money and treasury profits across the U.S. system
The piece notes Uncle Sam’s spending and a treasury profit of about 3.6 billion dollars from money issuing privileges and silver coin value, arguing the policy has not harmed anyone and questions who truly understands money.
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Sam
Tioyself
Treasury
Stock Exchange Boom Shapes Global Trade Mood
The London Daily Mail notes that rising stock prices lift confidence worldwide. It claims a stock exchange boom boosts world trade more than any other factor, while warning that confidence is intangible yet easily destroyed.
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London
Wall Street
London Daily Mail
Stock Exchange
Lovely Woman Seeks Real Desire in Paris Fashion
Dispatches from Paris describe dresses seen as lace transparent and skin tight with daring cut outs from knee to hip and white fur capes with wide slits. One gown is crafted completely of plaited gold braid. The piece ponders when women will settle into lasting commitments like men.
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Paris
Tax on Public Belief Creates Myriad Deductions
The article discusses income tax on public belief, noting if Uncle Sam gives $4 monthly, the tax will reclaim $13.12. The comparison portrays the tax as a burden, akin to a parent giving candy to a child then taking it back, reflecting skepticism about taxation policy.
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Sam
Ft” & Elor
Bendieat
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Western Newspaper Union
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Farmers
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Agricultural Authority of
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L. G. Toiles
Connecticut State Grange
E. V. Wilcox
District of Columbia
Fred L. Crawford
Dorsett
Pennsylvania
Kurt Greenwald
Charles &. Collins
Colorado
American National Live Stock Association
Qucretary
Wallace
Ile
Palley
Iie
AAA
Seely Wallace
Earl Godwin
Wall
Pepie
Administration
United States Steel Corporation
Standard Ui! Companies
American Telephone and Telegraph Campaey
West Virginia
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Ip Bledh
Siyre's
Rocka
TVA
Tennessee Valley
Afuscle Shoaly
Tennessee Electric Power Company
Edison Electric Institute
Tennessee Power Company
The
Electric Farm and Home Authority
Rural Electrification Administration
Morris N. Cooke
Danish West Indies
Virgin Islands
Uncle Sam
Middle West
Investgent Ilgover
Islands
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Tweber Wilson
Toosevele
Boren
Total
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Reooseselt
Brisbane
Arthur Brribane
General Johnson
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