House rejects death sentence in utility bill vote
The House voted 258 to 148 to substitute the house bill over the senate measure and 322 to 81 to pass the revised utility holding company act. Investigations into lobbying by supporters and opponents followed amid charges of influence and threats surrounding the Passamaquoddy dam project.
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Congress
House
Senate
Securities and Exchange Commission
Capitol
John H. Hoeppel
California
Hoeppel
Ralph ©. Brewster
Maine
Thomas G. Corcoran
Passamaquoddy
Brewster
Rankin
Mississippi
Moran
Roosevelt
Charles West
Farley
Emil Hurja
Attorney General Cummings Opens Police Training School
On July 29 the department will open a Washington school to train state county and city police in law enforcement theory and practice. A twelve weeks course will be free for selected officers.
Hoover not running in 1936 GOP race and aims for private life
Republican senators were told former President Herbert Hoover will not seek the 1936 Republican nomination. He plans a formal announcement this summer and will stay out of public life while shaping his future career. Officials say he may support the party’s candidate and enter the campaign to back a unified Republican effort as prospects brighten.
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Epublican
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Veterans from Allied and Central Powers meet in Paris
World war veterans from Allied and Central Powers met in Paris under Fidac to discuss war prevention. They denounced enemies of their countries and passed a resolution affirming that respect for treaties and international accords is essential for durable peace. American delegates included S. S. Bailey of Winona Minnesota Julian W. Thomas of Salt Lake City Bernhard Ragner of McKeesport Pennsylvania and Harold L. Smith of Coatesville Pennsylvania.
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Paris
Fidac
P. Bailey
Winona
Minn
Julian W. Thomas
Salt Lake City
Bernhard Ragner
McKeesport
Harold L. Smith
Coatesville
Young attorney Boz T. Ansell confronts Huey Long in Washington hotel brawl
Boz T. Ansell, son of Gen. S. T. Ansell who sues Huey Long for libel, clashed with the senator at a Washington hotel party. Long allegedly swung at Ansell, a companion restrained Ansell, and Long reportedly fled the scene.
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Boz T. Ansbell
Gen
S. T. Ansell
Huey Long
Long
Washington
Ansell
Lloyd George Returns to Politics Amid Global Tension
AVID LLOYD GEORGE, whose New Deal program drew mixed reviews, resumed political activity reluctantly yet with resolve. The Welsh statesman spoke to a national convention of the peace and reconstruction movement, warning that threats to peace and worldwide economic confusion are intensifying.
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Avid Lloyd George
Disaster in Inland Sea Claims 104 Lives on Midori Maru
A fogbound collision between the steamer Midori Maru and a freighter in Japan's Inland Sea sinks the passenger liner. Of 166 passengers and 56 crew, 91 passengers and 56 crew are rescued. 104 people die, all Japanese.
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Japan
Rye growers map AAA adjustment program for 1985
Secretary Wallace announced an AAA adjustment program for the 1985 rye crop with undisclosed benefit payments. Representatives from 16 rye states met in Washington to outline operations. Farmers from wheat states backed a tentative flexible plan to pay wheat growers.
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Ecretary OF Agriculture
Wallace
AAA
Washington
NDRB Citroën founder dies as budget plans loom
The crash of a major old era is noted as NDRB Citroën, dubbed the Henry Ford of France, passes away. In the same issue President Roosevelt announces a new budget for the coming year totaling 8.52 billion with 4.582 billion for recovery and relief and a projected deficit of 4.528 billion, while debt rises to 28.665 billion. Also reported is the Detroit homicide of Howard Carter Dickinson, the New York attorney linked to Chief Justice Hughes, killed in Rouge Park with accomplices confessing to a plot to rob him, yielding 134 dollars in loot.
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Treasury
Congress
Detroit
Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
Charles Evans Hughes
Rouge Park Road
Dickinson
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr
William H. Yawkey
Rouge Park
William Schweitzer
Motor City
Fort Wayne
Ind
Rob Dickinson
Sweitzer
Endurance record flight lands after 653 hours aloft
Fred and Al Key, endurance fliers, broke the world time aloft record by staying in the air 653 hours. They landed in Meridian, Mississippi, surpassing the 647 hours 28 minutes 80 seconds set in 1980 by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien in St. Louis.
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Fred
al Key
Meridan
Miss
Dale Jackson
Forest O’brien
St. Louis
New Deal NYA Aims Aid For Youth In Five Billion Fund
Washington columns critique slow public works rollout under Roosevelt. NYA receives fifty million to aid youths aged sixteen to twenty five, with eligibility for non relief and relief cases. Local volunteer committees will select 2.5 million youths for employment training schooling and work projects amid WPA efforts and Alaska colonization concerns.
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Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps
Congress
Ickes
Harry Hopkins
Mr. Ickes
Mr. Hopkins
Mr. Hopkins Long
National Youth Administration
NYA
Perkins
Labor Department
Children’s Bureau
Josephine Roche
the Treasury
Aubrey W. Willams
Hopkins
Miss Roche
Sartorial Evolution and Body Hair in Aboriginal Customs
The piece traces how aboriginal peoples used hair and skins as protection before clothing became a social custom. It notes modesty led to the gradual solidification of clothes and that body hair shifted from practical utility to contributing to beauty for both genders.
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N.Y
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