Hoover Seeks Taxes As Senate Debates Budget Plan
President Hoover urged sales and other taxes as the Senate approved a budget bill aimed at balancing the budget. The chamber defeated a 1 cent gasoline tax and a broad sales levy, while adopting a plan including income tax restoration and a 3 percent charge on private electric power sales.
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Hoover—Von Papen
Hoover
Garner
Finance Committee
Theote
Secretary of the Treasury Mills
House
Glenn
Illinois
Senate Appropriations Committee
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Frame wins 500 mile Indy race with new speed mark
Fred Frame of Los Angeles won the Indianapolis 500 mile race and set a new event speed record averaging 104.144 miles per hour.
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Fred Frame
Los Angeles
Indianapolis
Convention host Kelly named chairman of Chicago convention committee
Edward J. Kelly president of the Chicago south park board is named chairman of the committee of entertainment for delegates and visitors to Chicago during the Republican and Democratic conventions.
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Riting
Hoover
James R. Garfield
Ohio
Garfield
Interior
Roosevelt
Resolutions Committee
White House
Borah
Henry W. Peabody
Woman's National Committee For Law Enforcement
Voice of
Congress
Bertrand H. Snell
New York
House
Snell
Crusaders
Republican Citizens’ Committee Against
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
Erbert Hoover
California
Joseph Scott
Los Angeles
Scott
England
University of Notre Dame
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Edward J. Kelly
Chicago South Park Board
Committee of Entertainment
Life's Greatest Lesson on Self Knowledge
A reflective quote on the importance of knowing ourselves, recognizing faults and weaknesses, and the ongoing effort to act on that awareness. It frames self knowledge as crucial to life and personal growth, noting struggle and progress in mastering one's flaws.
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Marine Corps
Middle West
Chicago
Belleau Wood
Maj. C. L. Fordney
Western Newspaper Union
Burgoo King from Kentucky Demonstrates Burgoo Supremacy
J L Looney of Lexington known as the Burgoo King travels to Atlanta to cook burgoo for the Atlanta police department barbecue and prove the dish’s superiority over Brunswick stew. His 500 guest recipe includes 400 pounds potatoes 200 pounds onions a bushel carrots 24 gallons tomatoes 6 gallons tomato puree 48 cans corn 100 pounds cabbage 24 fat hens 100 pounds lean soup meat and a 36 hour cook time.
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J. L. Looney
Lexington
Atlanta
Mr. Looney
Kentucky
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Romania
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London
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Colorado
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Ilinois
Washington Soldiers’ Home
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Ees
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Mary K. Douglass
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Annapolis Naval Academy
Detroit
Philadelphia Country Club
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Grants Pass
Ore
G. W. Cornelius
Burbank
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