Congress Debates Lobby Probe and New Deal Plans
The House advances a $50,000 inquiry into lobbying on legislation while Rep Brewster accuses New Deal lawyer Thomas G Corcoran of pressuring votes. Roosevelt outlines a $4 billion Works program targeting 3.5 million unemployed with rapid, useful jobs across the nation. Commodities and naval programs receive attention as defense preparations and shipbuilding goals expand with 12 destroyers, 6 submarines, 282 replacement planes and 273 new craft planned.
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Rules Committee
Rankin
Mississippi
O'Connor
New York
Brewster
Maine
Thomas G. Corcoran
New Deal
Passamaquoddy
Corcoran
Wheeler
Rayburn
Senate
Secretary of the Navy
Claude Swanson Haa
TVA Edits Boost Admins Power in Utility Bill Fight
The Tennessee Valley Authority provisions are revised to allow eco nomic decisions without strict comptroller oversight and to permit private dam projects. In Washington the confrontation over Ickes Tydings clashes and Virgin Islands corruption probes dominate a heated policy week amid Ethiopian war alarms and League of Nations diplomacy.
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Washington
White House
House
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Comptroller General
Tennessee
Senate
AAA
Torah
Byrd
Tesla Demonstrates Three Scientific Advances in New York
Nikola Tesla celebrated his seventy ninth birthday in New York City by announcing three developments: a method to transmit mechanical energy over any terrestrial distance, a one way induction current passage without a commutator, and a claim that many relativistic precepts are false after observing cusimic rays.
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Ikola Tesla
New York
Floods Sweep Eastern States After Torrential Rains
Flood damage hit several eastern states with about sixty people dead and thousands homeless. New York’s Finger Lakes and Catskill mountains suffered the worst, with forty deaths and extensive property losses as Gov. Lehman ordered immediate rehabilitation funds. Additionally, Ray Longwell, once a notable magazine editor, killed himself at his California home after years of fragile business deals and limited success in recent ventures.
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Finger Lakes
Catsk
New York
Herbert H. Lehman
Oldody
Ray Longwell
Famous Magazine
California
Critics warn of planned crisis to push constitutional changes
The piece argues some Critics believe the Roosevelt administration aims to manufacture a national crisis to justify constitutional amendments in the 1996 campaign. It cites Roosevelt's letter urging the Guffey coal bill and Attorney General Cummings advice to push the bill through congress. It notes the Supreme Court in Schechter NRA limited interstate reach of production, framing local character of mining and other production.
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Ritics
Roosevelt
Samuel B. Hil
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
Cummings
Congress
Supreme Court
Schechter Nra
Treasury Secretary Testifies On Tax Bill Range and Timing
16 secretary of the treasury appeared before the House Waga and Means Committee seeking a new tax bill framework. He warned revenue could vary from 10 000 to 118 000 annually depending on rates. The plan targets inheritance gifts higher rates on million dollar incomes and corporate taxes. Senator Charles L. McNary predicted Congress may recess or delay enactment until January next session.
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Secretary of the Treasury
House
Waga and Means Committee
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Congress
Death of Maj. Gen. Stuart Leintzelman at Army and Navy Hospital
The UK army honors Maj. Gen. Stuart Leintzelman who died at Army and Navy Hospital in Hot Springs Arkansas. He was West Point 180y graduate, served in the Philippines and China, observed in France, held high staff roles in World War I, earned the D S and French decorations, directed federal reclamation in Missouri, and was the son and grandson of army officers.
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Stuart Dleintzelman
Army and Navy
Dot Springs Ark
Leintzelman
West Point
Philippines
China
France
America
D. S
CCC
Heintzelman
Missouri
Uoth
Roosevelt Programs for Youth and Nation’s Debt Debate
The article outlines two New Deal youth measures the CCC camps and a National Youth Administration with a $50 million fund led by Josephine Roche and Aubrey Williams to provide work and education for ages sixteen to twenty five. It also analyzes Roosevelt’s global leadership, debates over power trust regulation, and the growing national debt forecasting $5 billion annual federal outlay while addressing relief for about 20 million people.
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Roosevelt
PWA
Washington
Ashington
CCC
New National Youth Administration
Treasury
Josephine Roche
the Treasury
Aubrey Williams
Itarry Hopkins
FERA
Allss Noche
National Youth Administration
War on the world as imagined in Brisbane weekly
The Brisbane weekly column discusses global conflict anxiously noting a looming war could ignite soon. It references Italy's Abyssinia experiences, Japan, and Britain seeking to influence trade and prevent expansion while framing the world as already on edge.
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Italy
Abyssinia
Japan
Abyssainia
Britain
Transvaal
Italy Ends Grants to United States Amid Trade Rift
Italy previously sent about 500 000 imu grants annually to the United States but has now cut them off. The move comes as tensions rise and affects aid flow. The note hints at broader diplomacy and possible regional implications.
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Italy
United States
Abyssinia
LaGuardia Eyes G Men Aid To Clean Up New York
Mayors of other cities watch New York Mayor LaGuardia confront racketeering and crime. He trains his police to shoot straight and kill while seeking government help from Washington to set an example. If he cleans up crime, a statue may follow near Blerkultes for removing Augeau stables.
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New York
LaGuardia
Rom Washington
Blercultes
Augeau
Irish Girl’s Tragic End Stuns Mount Vernon Police
Margaret Jordan an Irish girl fell in love with a Mount Vernon policeman with eight children. He tried to reform and end the affair, but she took his service revolver from the car and killed herself. The incident unsettled the married officer.
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Margaret Jordan
Mount Vernon
Ile
Fort George Wright Nesting Birds Earn Fort Shielded Care
At Fort George Wright a tiny blue bird built a nest in a cannon mouth while the mother bird laid four blue eggs. Fort heroes protect the nest with sentries keeping distance and cats discouraged under Maj. George Clark orders to watch the birds.
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Fort George Wright
George Clark
Prayer Day in American Churches Urges Peace in Africa
An August 18 Day of Prayer urges peace in Africa amid Ethiopia Italy conflict. The text argues against US interference and endorses Roosevelt's plan to invest four thousand million dollars for better food and long term gains.
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Africa
Ethiopia
Italy
United States
Roosevelt
British Credit At Half Per Cent Yet Taxed At Home
A London financial note remarks credit is plentiful at one half of one per cent interest while America borrows at three and a half per cent. The piece notes the paradox of a government that money manufactures itself and thus increases taxes by one hundred per cent for interest that need not be paid. Queer finance, dearly be loved.
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AAA
Western Newspaper Union
London
Reformers rail at women drinking in saloons in St Louis
Reformers condemn women sitting on high stools with feet on rails and drinking at bars. Saloonkeepers respond Amen acknowledging that saloons were bad but criticize fashion and behavior changes attributed to women. King Features Syndicated.
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St. Louig
King Features
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