Prohibition Ends as States Move to Regulate Liquor
President Roosevelt announces repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and states that liquor laws will vary across now-legal states. Choate arrives to lead federal alcohol controls as imports are curtailed and quotas set. Congress to consider higher liquor taxes and permanent traffic control in 1935.
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Ohio
Utah
Roosevelt
William Phillips
Nevada
Montana
Washington
Joseph H. Choate, Jr
New York
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Mr. Choate
Congress
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Mr. Douglas
RFC
Ickes
Public Works Fund
Civil Works Administration
Public Works Funds
Relief Fund
The
Industrialist Alexan der Legge dies at 68 in Illinois home
D 418 came suddenly to Alexander Legge president of International Harvester at his suburban Chicago area home. He was nearly sixty eight and had been in good health. Legge was the first Hoover farm board chairman resigning in 1929 to serve at twelve thousand dollar annual post. He later funded Farm Foundation with four hundred thousand dollars and left five hundred thousand in his will to support rural life improvement. Frank O Lowden announced the foundation and Legge recruited twenty trustees from industry education and farming.
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Alexander Legge
International Harvester Company
Chicago
Legge
Federal Farm Board
Hoover
The
Harvester Company
Farm Foundation
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Lowden
Pan American Conference Opens in Montevideo
National Topics Interpreted by William Bruc discusses the opening of the seventh Pan American conference in Montevideo Uruguay with Secretary General Enrique B Buero, President Gabriel Terra urging tariff reductions and cooperation amid regional tensions. It also covers Litvinov Mussolini talks, U S naval strength, and looming debates on liquor taxes and farm programs.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Enrique B. Buero
Germany
Gabriel Terra
Roosevelt
Gran Chaco
Bolivia
Paraguay
Chaco
Western Hemisphere
Hull
United States
Study Finds Children Fear Supernatural and Crime Themed Monsters
A Columbia university report based on 400 children aged five to twelve shows 21 percent fear occult and death, with younger kids more afraid of animals and seven percent fearing robbers and kidnapping. The research notes kidnaping fear rose after high profile cases including the Lindbergh incident in 1932.
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Arthur T. Jersild
Child Labor Development Institute
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Doctor Jersild
New York
Jersild
Cosmetics for Men Topic Divides Thinkers Around the World
An New York expert argued for legitimate cosmetic aids to enhance the male face while a London shop director notes men have grown more fastidious since a decade ago. The era of the he man is questioned as cosmetic talk draws little controversy today.
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New York
London
Boston Post
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Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
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