Roosevelt faces congressional fight over relief program
The president returns from Hyde Park to Washington amid a brewing clash with Congress over his five billion dollar work relief plan. Secret conferences cited pork in the measure. Ickes testimony raises questions on naval funding and executive discretion.
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Gree
Congress
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McCarran
Appropriations Committee
Robert F. Wagner
Ickes
Senate
Navy
Rosevelt
House
Senate Sends Works Relief Back to Committee Amid Clash
The administration faces an uncertain fate for the President’s relief program as the McCarran amendment sparks a Senate fight. Senator Byrnes predicts the measure’s death while the committee may report a smaller appropriation for six to twelve months. Long pushes a $2.5 billion highway focus as part of the relief plan. Hitler halts an anti Semitic campaign under economic pressure and Saarland rejoins Germany with denationalization completed.
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Senate
Nye-McCarran
Finance Committee
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Harrison
McCarran
Nye
Judiciary Committee
McCarran Federation of Labor
Byrnes
South Carolina
Huey Long
Robinson
Glass
Long
Hancellor Hitler
der Fuehrer
Reich
Soviet Union Celebrates Seventeenth Anniversary of Army
Soviet Russia marked the seventeenth anniversary of its army of 960000 men with nationwide fetes and speeches decrying imperialist nations. Leaders praised Red warriors while attacking Germany and Japan across the country.
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Soviet Russia
Germany
Japan
British talk with Austria on Austria policy in London
Chancelior Kurt Schuschnigg met Ramsay MacDonald in London. Britain said Austria must stay independent and not restore the Hapsburgs or seek more loans. Britain hinted Austria could gain favor by being gentler to Socialists and unions, while Austrians left London with a friendly, social but uninvited visit.
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Kurt Schusch
4NIGG
Austria
Ramsay MacDonald
Britain
London
Mussolini Declares Eight Million Army Ready for War
Premier Mussolini announced that Italy can mobilize eight million men from thirty seven classes ages eighteen to fifty five and warned Nazi Germany against interfering with Austria. Five thousand volunteers have shipped to Italian Somaliland as Britain’s Simon says Ethiopia territorial rights bound by treaty.
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Ethiopia
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Naples
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Humbert
Mussolini
Italy
Germany
Austria
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Brenner Pass
Britain
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House of Commons
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France
Great Britain
Italian Somaliland
Europe
Reich
Hitler
Africa
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Messina
Sicily
Arabia
Prize winner named for Mount Rushmore inscription
John Edward Bradley of Altadena Calif is shown after winning a prize for the best inscription for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Officials say the monument with Washington Jefferson and the other two presidents will be completed in 1937 as Congress considers funds and private contributions near the $250000 goal.
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Altadena
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
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National Parks
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Thomas Jefferson
Interior Department
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