Roosevelt Vetos Bonus Measure in Joint Session Vote
President Roosevelt publicly denounced and vetoed the veterans bonus measure before a joint session, arguing it would misposture welfare needs and inflate currency risks. Congress overrode the veto 322 to 93, with votes split among parties and factions, signaling a deep split on relief funding and inflation fears amid ongoing debates on works relief projects.
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House
Senate
Toosevelt
White House
Representatives
Garner
Thomas
Fpittrose
Nevada
Pope
Idaho
Coolidge
Massachusetts
Norbeck
South Dakota
Dennis Chavez
New Mexico
Ford Motor reports 1934 earnings and wage increase plan
Ford Motor Company reports a 1934 gain of 3,759,211 dollars, reaching 550,167,301 dollars. It also announces raising the minimum daily wage from 35 to 6 dollars, adding about 2,000,000 dollars monthly to payroll, with a history of wage policy since 1914 and prior boosts in 1919 and 1954.
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Ford
Lincoln
Detroit
Henry Ford
Ite
Jane Addams Remembered As Chicago’s Pioneer Social Reformer
Jane Addams, famed as a social worker and peace advocate, is mourned by thousands she aided. She began work in 1889 on Chicago’s West Side, founded Hull House, expanded to labor reform and child labor, and led the Women’s International Peace Conference at The Hague during wartime.
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Jane Addams
Chicago
West Side
Hell House
Americas
The
Hague
Belliger
Ohio Governor Drops Warrant Against Marty Stepking
Governor Martin L. Davey of Ohio withdrew a warrant charging Federal Relief Administrator Marty Stepking with criminal libel. This allowed Stepking to visit Cleveland and deliver a speech without arrest, the governor stating objectives were achieved and further guerrilla warfare would serve no good purpose.
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Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Marty Stepking
Cleveland
Roosevelt Approves Massive Work Relief Allotments
President gives verbal approval to about a billion dollars in work relief allocations including a ten million Passamaquoddy project and a 100 million Wisconsin program planned by Senator La Follette and Governor La Follette. Allocations target CCO highway work and bridge projects with 25 to 50 percent of funds to states.
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Campobello
Maine
Maj
Philip B. Fleming
Army Engineers Corps
Fleming
PWA
Passamaquoddy
Wisconsin
la Follette
Pay Rates Set Under 4 80 Million Work Relief Plan
The President issues executive order dividing the nation into four regions for regional wages. Unskilled labor in the South earn about 19 to 19? a month while professionals in the East earn around 94 a month. Wages run 20 to 30 percent below the prevailing rate nationwide.
Germany lays out 13 point program for disarmament
Hitler outlines broad proposals to improve international relations and seeks to rejoin the League of Nations with full equality rights after revisions to Versailles. He vows to respect Versailles territorial clauses and negotiates non aggression pacts while hinting at Germany's return to normal arms, labor service, and conscription changes.
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Cichsfulnrer
Reichstag
Europe
League of Nations Council
Germany
League
Great Britain
Slitler
Lithuania
Pacific fleet seaplane crash claims six crew members
Maneuvers of the Pacific fleet were marred by a fatal air plane accident as a seaplane plunged into the ocean 40 miles south of Midway Island. The six crew members lost include Lieut Harry Brandenburger Lieut Charles J Kelly Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate P G Litts Chief Tacioman M Derry First Machinist's Mate P J Froteau and Third Machinist's Mate Q A Sharpe.
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Midway Island
Harry Brandenburger
Charles J. Kelly
P. G. Litts
Tacioman
Senate Faces Protest Over Unseating of Mr Cutting
Senators Johnson Borah Norris Nye and LaFollette among six Liberal members who walked out in protest as efforts to unseat Bronson Cutting continued. Dennis Chavez sworn in to Senate as successor in New Mexico. Maximum tension in a cross party scene.
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Senate
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
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Cutting
Ilram Johnson
California
Wilam EE. Borah
Idaho
George Norris
Nebraska
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Stebert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Progressive
Henrik Shipstead
Minnesota
Farmer-Laborite
Huey Loot
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
United States Senate
Long
Farley
Bla
Borah
Hiram Johnson
Huey
TVA Inquiry Opens Over $1,000,000 in Alleged Irregularities
House Military Affairs Committee hears audit claims that TVA wasted government funds through noncompetitive bids, overpayments, and contracts to nonlow bidders. TVA directors Morgan Lillenthal and Harcourt Morgan deny worst charges and pledge disclosures as administration pushes AAA amendments amid broader farm tax and regulatory changes.
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TCRET
House Military Affairs Committee
Tennessee Valley Authority
Arthur E. Morgan
TVA
David Lillenthal
MT Harcourt
House Committee
Senate
Danish Prince Frederik and Ingrid of Sweden wed in Stockholm
Prince Frederik of Denmark and Princess Ingrid of Sweden married in Stockholm with a brilliant assembly present. A week of activities preceded the ceremony drawing large crowds to the Swedish capital.
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Denmark
Ingrid
Sweden
Stockholm
Roosevelt Addresses Six Thousand Farmers In Washington
President Roosevelt spoke to about six thousand farmers on the White House lawn reaffirming continued support for the AAA and New Deal agriculture. He reiterated that AAA benefits would grow, praised unity against opposition, and noted farm mortgage foreclosures had fallen while prices aimed for balance.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Henry Wallace
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Hle
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SAA
Chester Davis
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Liberty League
Huey Long
Eugene Talmadge
Congress
Senate
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Labor
Isbor
Reality and science pondered in Brisbane this week
Jane Addams is remembered for her work aiding women and children, described as a heroic life and fortune dedicated to welfare. A discussion recalls Einstein and the Podolsky Rosen paper claiming a scientific theory could describe reality, yet critics note quantum theory fails to define reality completely and science approaches the edge of knowledge.
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Misa Jane Addams
Heaven
Ocean of Knowledge
Sciepca
German war leader Ludendorff retires to Bavarian lodge
Chancellor Sfitler elevates Ludwig von Ludendorff to field marshal general but the aging general declines the honor and announces retirement to a Bavarian hunting lodge. The report notes Adolf Hitler, once a corporal in the Austrian army, is not seen as adding to Ludendorff's glory.
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Sfitler
Germany
Ludendorff
von Hindenburg
Bavarian
Hitler
Austria
Inflation Fears Prompted by Government Credit Practices
Princeton financial expert Professor Kemmerer warns of inflation from excess money in circulation. He argues government spending doubles as it pumps banks with artificial credit and then borrows from them, passing interest, a point he finds mildly amusing.
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Kemmerer
Princeton
Eight-year-old girl found after sand cave collapse in New York
In New York an eight-year-old girl missing case triggers a large police and even Bay Scout patrol. Prof Taylor Putney Jr of New York University identified a suspected cave site in the sand where the child was located smothered by fallen sand at a concrete wall.
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New York
Bay Scouta
Taylor Putney, Jr
New York University
New York racketeers extract ten million from poultry dealers
The piece notes racketeers in New York City profiting about 10 million yearly from poultry dealers and mentions violence as persuasion. Commissioner Valentine advises merchants to slug racketeers on sight and to obtain revolvers for shooting, framing vice as costly.
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New York City
Pallea
Valentine
Improbable Sea Tale Rewrites Shark Evidence Saga
In Sydney a dramatic case unfolds as a captured shark regurgitates a tattooed arm from a murdered man. The grisly ordeal branches into a courtroom fate for the presumed killer, amid whispers of even more unlikely sensational twists.
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Samos
Sydney
King Features Symbats, Inc
WAU Dervica
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