Senate Defies Long in Deficiency Bill Standoff
Senate opposition to Huey Long's seven hour filibuster over the third deficiency appropriation bill collapses amid clashes over social security funding. A compromise on cotton loans is adopted while wheat support is abandoned, triggering discontent among southern and wheat-state senators.
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Brisbane This Week Or in the Mountains
Arthur Brisbane sketches a remote mountain post and telegraph workers resisting owner control. He notes a San Francisco colleague and a nationwide wire service reach while poking at Communist stereotypes and the lumber industry town’s social dynamics.
Paper mill funding sparks protest over press freedom
Jesse Jones of the REC argues government loans to pulp and paper industries threaten press freedom and defer to Congress to decide, noting imports of pauper pulp and RFC support to Crossett Lumber in Alabama. He cites House rejection of an amendment to extend SEC funding.
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Crossett Lumber Company
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SEC
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Ifoo
Mussolini Threatens War If Sanctions Are Imposed by League
In a London Daily Mail interview Mussolini warned that sanctions against Italy would be met with armed hostility and Italy would leave the League if sanctions were voted. Laval proposed treating Ethiopia as a colonial expedition to avoid a League clash, while Mussolini insisted Ethiopia must yield or face conflict.
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Winant Named Chairman of Social Security Board
President nominates J G Winant former New Hampshire governor as head of the social security board with four year associates Arthur J Altmeyer and Vincent Morgan Miles each earning ten thousand dollars yearly. Terms set on six four and one year durations with appointments effective from last August fifteenth.
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Altmeyer
Miles
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New National Labor Relations Board
Warner Act
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Pittsburgh
John A. Carmoeds
New York
Enlwin S Smith
Massachusetts
J. D. Nass
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Genjamin Cohen
Government orders set bids by Sept 12 for $4 billion relief works
President issues executive orders directing all federal state and municipal agencies to prepare bids or start works operations by Oct 22. Aimed to launch the relief program on Nov 1 to remove the unemployed from relief rolls and push the works program into high gear.
Moffett resigns as federal housing commissioner
Ames A Moffett resigns from the federal housing commissioner post to return to private business. Stewart AleDonald anticipated as successor. In his letter he notes delays in starting the housing program but reports monthly construction and repair loan activity at 30 million dollars. He cites Labor Department data showing July residential permits up 214 percent from 1934, nonresidential up 18.1 percent, and alterations up 35.9 percent.
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Washington
Stewart AleDonald
Malet
Housing Administration
Bureaut of Labor Statistics
Congress Returns Home for Holiday Recess
The passage notes Congress has finally gone home to stay, with wishes for a long recess until early next year.
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Congress fire and staggering billions spent
The Examiners note that Congress has burned through ten billion two hundred fifty six million two hundred fifty eight thousand nine hundred twenty eight dollars and six cents in its short life. The speaker flirts with questions about who earned the final six cents.
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San Francisco Examiner
Congress Defies President Over World Court and Neutrality
The piece notes Congress ignored the President twice this session. It cites a refused World Court option amid a suggested Ethiopian expedition. It mentions Congress passing a neutrality resolution to forbid arms shipments to warring nations, with geopolitical chatter about Italy and Ethiopia and European reactions.
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Mussolini warns nations over Africa clash and Europe war
Mussolini tells other nations to keep hands off Europe and let Italy fight in Africa. He argues France wants no war and Britain cannot spare troops, noting England’s reluctance after the last conflict. He asserts Italy is ready for a real war if needed and recalls assembling nearly a half million troops.
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Africa
France
England
Afussolini
Mount Shasta Promises Awe and Industry Contrast
The passage extols Mount Shasta as a towering northern landmark near the Oregon line, rising above snow and pines. It contrasts the scenic massif with a vast sawmill employing 1,200 workers that harvests trees by the hundreds of thousands each year.
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Eling Features Byndicers, Inc
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Roosevelt’s New Deal clash shapes 1936 political future
A veteran observer analyzes how the Roosevelt administration and Congress since 1934 have merged politics with policy. He notes gains for Roosevelt, looming constitutional questions, and the likely clash lines with Republicans ahead of the 1936 campaign, including Republican strategy and Democratic sentiment.
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