Landon accepts Republican nomination at Topeka rally
News review covers Gov. Landon receiving formal GOP nomination in Topeka with 100000+ attendees. It notes his acceptance speech on recovery relief agriculture and labor, plus other political turmoil in the United States and abroad, including labor splits, Rome and Madrid tensions, and civil service changes.
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Landon
Spain
Alf. M. Landon
United States
Kansas Capitol
Topeka
Snell
New York
Cleveland
Landen
Narion
Trelief
Republican Party
Immortal Oration, Prefaces, and the Critics’ Chorus
An Everly Hills columnist riffs on misreadings of famed orations and film reviews, mocks critics, and muses on nobility clubs in America. The piece weaves satire about public pronouncements, journalism bias, and a Tanganyikan court tale ending with a curious $12.50 note.
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Everly Hills
Calif
Edward Everett
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Cosmic rays may mold stars and galaxies, says NAS report
National Academy of Sciences reports that cosmic rays from distant stars travel through interstellar space, breaking atoms and emitting light as they recombine. Dr. Fritz Zwicky notes these high speed particles could influence galaxy formation, stellar evolution, and astronomical hypotheses. They originate unclear.
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Washington
National Academy of Sciences
Fritz Zwicky
California Institute of Technology
The
Academy
Doctor Zwicly
California
Doctor Zwichky
Califoria
Zwicky
Test Tube Doubles Living Body Tissue For Study
Rockefeller Institute reports keeping adult tissue alive in a glass flask for long periods without growth. Dr Raymond C Parker and Dr KK Lendsteiner describe a method using spleen tissue to study antibodies and physiological problems, noting functional survival rather than growth.
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Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Raymond C. Parker
Rockefeller Institute For Medicol Research
New York
Journal
Science
Parker
KK. Lendsteiner
Rockefeller
Rockefeller Institute
Alexis Carrel
Doctor Carrel
Doctor Parker
Robot Balloons May Be Weather Forecasters
Washington scientist Dr. C G Abbot of the Smithsonian proposes using robot balloons to monitor solar radiation and send short wave signals. He says this could enable some two week weather forecasts with a network of additional observatories, contingent on funding.
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Washington
C. GC. Abbot
Smithsonian Institution
Nation's 1935 Fire Loss Near $260,000,000 Mark
Atlantic City reports preliminary estimates by the National Fire Protection Association show the nation’s 1935 fire loss at 260 million dollars. It is the highest on record, about 16.5 million less than in the year to date, with losses rising since September 1935 as business activity grew, confirming prior forecasts.
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Lspor
John L. Lewis
Te United Mine Workers
Lewis
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Tampa
Committee For Industrial Organization
Lewis Group
Federation
Philip Murray
United Mine Workes
CIO
CIO i
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Washington
Rocky Mountains
Montana
Hudson Valley
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Ohio Valley
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Grouth
Morris J. Cooke
Col
Richard C. Moore
The
Army Engineers
John C. Page
Bureau of Reclamation
Frederick I. Fowler
the Nations Resources Committer
Rexford G. Tugwell
Harry L. Hopking
Works Progress
Nanking
Canton
Chen Chuang
Hongkong
Chen
Atlantic City
National Fire Protection Association
Miner Embarrassed As Elephant Falls Into Malaya Mine
In Malaya near the Siamese border an elephant fell into a tin mine shaft. The incident embarrassed a British mining engineer and prompted a note to McGill geology emeritus professor Frank D. Adams, while crocodiles and leopards disturbed workers nearby.
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Montreal
Frank D. Adams
McGill University
Malaya
Aerial Camera Reveals Land Tax Evasion Findings
Lieut. O. S. Heading of the Coast and Geodetic Survey spoke at a science meeting in Rochester New York about aerial surveying. He cited tax equalization surveys of fourteen Connecticut cities using serial photos, which showed substantial unre¬corded property and helped lower tax rates and boost grand lists.
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Rochester
W. Y
S. Reading
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Connecticut
United States
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Edward W. Pickard
Western Newonasee Union
Gov. Landon
Father Couctim
Radio Prise
Townsendie
Roorewell
Pather Caughlin
Vatican
Gallagher
Madrid
Burgos
Segovia
Barcelona
Catalonia
San Sebastian
Claude G. Bowers
Bowers
Francisco Franca
Rock of Gibraltar
Emat of
Gibraltar
Franco
Charles A. Lindbergh
London
Berlin
Nan
Air Ministry
Duptheon
Germany
I. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Secret Service
Treasury Department
Hoover
Treasury
Ue Secret Service
Sey
Wallace
International Baby Chick Association
Kansas City
ML. Cooke
Olympia
Greece
Herlim
Boris
Bulgaria
Peter
Jugoslavia
S. Loues
Loues
Uneess
Poland
Danzig
Arthur Karl Greiser
Fe Cet
Lausanne
Turkey
Dardanelles
Japan
League of Nations
Scl Cobb Z
Oliver Herford
Olie
Cobb
America
Hollywood
Rae
Tanganyka
Africa
Irvin
Iin
Bertice
Irving, Cobb
Rvige
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