Industrial recovery codes drive national policy push
Washington dispatch notes General Johnson and Ira Roosevelt allies pushing codes for industry and agriculture under the recovery act. Officials report strong publicity, farm parity measures, and looming tensions between capital and labor as Secretary Perkins challenges speed of reforms. The piece weighs whether federal codes may become an umpire over private business and whether farmers will cooperate to raise prices.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
Roosevelt
Tra
Congress
United States
Johnson
Ira
Frances Perkins
Labor
Miss Perkins
Department of Commerce
General Johnson
Wallace
George N. Peek
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
White House
Department of Agriculture
Western Newspaper Union
Indians Find Gold in Labrador
A National Geographic bulletin notes reports of gold ore found by Indians in Labrador, a vast Arctic area described with fjords, camps, and fur trapping. The piece outlines Labrador’s size, terrain, and rugged trapper life from blazed trails to tilts, long trips, and hard weather before returning home with pelts and sleep.
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Washington
Labrador
National Geographic Society
Hudson Strait
Blanc Sablon
Strait of Belle Isle
Atlantic
The
Bulletin
Newfoundland
Norway
Newfoundland's Coast Wealth From Sea and Fur Cited
The article describes Newfoundland and Labrador wealth, noting sea harvests like cod as dominant today, with pulpwood and lumber inland. It details seasonal cod fishing camps, fur trade as a winter income, and the presence of Eskimos, Indigenous people, and settlers along the coast. Rich furs such as fox, ermine, mink, otter, beaver, and bear emerge in the narrative.
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Newfoundland
Grand Falls
Niagara
Labrador
Cabot
New Guinea Tribe Bears Twins Almost Exclusively
Doctor For tune of Columbia University reports Monduguma tribe in New Guinea twins nearly every birth. He attributes the trait to a cousin marriage system. Women in the tribe handle most work tasks.
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New Guinea
Brisbane
Australia
Fortune
Columbia University
Movement to Save Historic Buildings Gains Steam
A national survey of historically and architecturally important structures has been launched by the American Institute of Architects. Led by Leicester B. Holland, the institute’s preservation committee is compiling a list of buildings to be subdivided into categories.
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New York
American Institute of Architects
Institute
Committee On the
Leicester B. Holland
Haifa Harbors Reclamation Expands City Limits
Haifa Palestine enhanced by 90 acres through land reclamation for a new harbor nearing completion. The harbor opens in October, costing 6 250 000 dollars. Construction began in October 1929 with a main breakwater about 1.5 miles long and 76 000 square meters of stone.
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Haifa
Palestine
Holy Land
Jesus Christ
Lee
Old Butterfly the Orneriest Rodeo Horse Dies in Shame
Billings Montana news recalls Old Butterfly a famed rodeo horse born nine years old when he began tossing riders. For fifteen years he scattered riders until retirement last fall. At twenty four he died from brood ing over this shame as owner Leo Cremer notes.
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Billings
Mont
Butterfly
Leo Cremer
Preservation of U S Historic Structures Leads National Effort
Doctor Holland outlines criteria for the Atlantic seaboard tabulation requiring buildings at least 100 years old, with no post‑1850 structures included. He says nations preserve monuments by state action, while in the United States architects should lead public interest in safeguarding past landmarks.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Doctor Holland
Not Guilty Declared As Drunk Men Are Jail Remanded
Two men arrested for drunkenness faced Police Judge Turner in Houston. Both pleaded not guilty. One man, upon addressing the court, accidentally embraced the judge’s desk, mistaking it for a lamp post. After brief testimony, both defendants were remanded to jail.
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Houston
Texas
Turner
White Friars Return to England After 400 Years
The Carmelite monks known as White Friars resume an established role in Great Britain after an absence of nearly four centuries. Once powerful in London and granted sanctuary rights, they now operate from Sittingbourne and Faversham under Southwark’s bishopric, distinct from the later Discalced Carmelites founded by St. Teresa.
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London
Great Britain
Fleet Street
the Thames
Temple
Whitefriars Street
Carmelite House
England
Southwark
Sittingbourne
Faversham
Palestine
Mount Carmel
Berthold
St. Teresa
Young Dupont Chooses Airplane Design Career
Richard Dupont heir to the Dupont fortune pursues aircraft design and aeronautical engineering. He begins as a grease monkey at the Curtiss-Wright School of Aeronautical Engineering near Grand Central airport in Los Angeles, gaining hours flying student planes.
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Richard Dupont
Dupont
Richard
Curtiss-Wright School of
Grand Central Airport
Los Angeles
Illinois State News Highlights Losses and Political Shifts
A sequence of Illinois obituaries and notices includes Steve Rapish drowned at Christopher mine pond, J Perrin Wilson heart attack in Danville, and Fred Grundy author and poultry writer dies in Morrisonville. Other items note former Mayor Randall Murdock’s death, Theodore Dickinson’s death at Libertyville estate, and a mountaintop naming for Prof. William Trelease. Also covered are the Graham Gunning dental reform bill passage, veteran care adjustments, tax job figures, Kinney bench warrant, and changes in state commissions and rail line abandonments. Governor Horner’s appointees take charge of education and registration, with several civic and agricultural events slated.
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Steve Rapish
Christopher
J. Perrin Wilson
Vermilion County
Danville
Fred Grundy
Morrisonville
Leaf River
Harley Shenk
Henry Warren Shenk
Randall R. Murdock
Monmouth
Theodore G. Dickinson
Marquette Portland Cement Company
Libertyville
Clear Creek County
Colo
Guy E. Bonney
Division of Veterans’ Service For
Illinois
Hines Memorial Hospital
Chicago
Department of Finance
Springfield
Garrett de Forest Kinney
Methodist Hospital
Peoria
Emmerson
Kinney
Frank W. Lichtweiss
G. Gale Gilbert
Paul Samuels
Philip Collins
Illinois Commerce Commission
Moline
Rock Island
Benjamin F. Lindheimer
Horner
Illinois Traction Company
Illinois Terminal Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hillsboro
Litchfield
Ridge Farm
Georgetown
Hattie BE. Winters
Effingham
Orpheum Theater
Norbert Overbeck
St. Francis Township
Effingham County
Theodore
Cousins
Duquoin
Charles Ude
Carmi
Paris Green
Paul Reynolds
Westville High School
Paul, Jr
Wabash
Richmond Bend
Department of Education and Registration
John J. Hallihan
East St. Louis
Eugene R. Schwartz
Naperville
Senate
Northern Illinois
Cook County
River Road
North Aveue
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William Brackart
Sheila
Sheila Brown
White Friars
Henry VIII
Illinois State News
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