Britain abandons gold standard amid financial crisis
The British government suspended the gold standard for six months as reserves dipped, funds moved abroad, and the London market faced strain. Chancellor Snowden defended the move citing balance of trade, unemployment costs, and foreign sentiment while J P Morgan called the action hopeful for restoring trade.
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Britain
Bank of England
America
France
London Stock Exchange
Snowden
House of Commons
Germany
London
Dole
League armaments talks invite U.S. participation
The League of Nations armaments committee invited the United States to take part in consultations on military build up. Secretary of State Stimson announced that Hugh R. Wilson was named to a role in the consultative discussions.
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Ican
Switzerland
United States
Wilson
Washington
Premier Laval
France
Hoover
Lans
League of Nations Armaments Committee
Uncle Sam
Stimson
Hugh R. Wilson
Amer
Mexican envoy recalled as Dr Puig Casauranc to succeed
Senor Don Manuel Tellez ambassador to Washington and dean of the diplomatic corps is recalled to Mexico City where a foreign office post or European assignment is rumored. Dr Puig Casauranc will replace him. Tellez served since 1920 and led diplomacy through Calles Ortiz Rubio eras. Dr David Starr Jordan dies at eighty. Stanford chancellor emeritus was a noted ichthyologist and world peace advocate.
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Ashington
Senor
Don Manuel Tellez
Mexico
Mexico City
Foreign Office
Puig Casauranc
Senor Teller
Washington
Bonillas
Calles
Pascual Ortiz-Rubio
Tellez
Ortiz-Rubio
David Starr Jordan
Stanford University
Jordan
Union
Rockefeller plan for rooftop gardens atop Radio City New York
Rockefeller interests reveal details of a $250 million roof garden transformation at Radio City New York. Three main units include a 66 story office block, an 81 story counterpart, and a sound motion picture theater, with seven acres of landscaping, waterfalls, pools, and ivy cladding planned across roof terraces. Excavation is underway and work on theaters is slated for completion by fall 1932, with offices to follow.
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New York
Rockefeller
Radio City
Babylon
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
International Music Hall
Fiftieth
Fifty-first Streets
Sixth Avenue
Forty Eighth
Forty-ninth Streets
Metropolitan Opera Company
National Broadcasting Company
Music Hall
Sound Theater
Century Old Clock Keeps Time In Belfast
Jerome F. Gleason reclaimed a 1822 clock from attic dust in Belfast New York. He cleaned dust and soot from wooden cogs and repaired a broken face. After hours of tinkering he declared the timepiece now keeps railroad time.
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Belfast
N. Y
Jerome F. Gleason
Gleason
The Object of Satire: Seeing Wrong through Wit
A concise reflection states that satire aims to reveal errors by provoking insight rather than offense. It argues satire serves as a mirror to society, urging readers to recognize blind spots and adjust beliefs.
Bombing Planes Used in War on Mosquitos
Planes in the Panama Canal Zone dusted malarial mosquito larvae using a simple dust mix of green powder and local clay. Two 600 pound loads per flight at 20 to 40 feet for 10 to 12 minutes, weekly from July 28, with seven to ten dustings in the malaria season needed to kill most larvae.
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Washington
Panama Canal Zone
Air Corps
United States
Present Day Knut Holm Linked to King Canute Line
Danish genealogist Harold Hansen identifies Knut Holm as a direct descendant of King Canute who ruled England in the early 1100s. Knut Holm is the sole son of a Danish farmer named Knut. twenty three generations of Holm males have been christened Knut.
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Knut Holm
Harold Hansen
Canute
England
Knut
Heat in Arctic Slows Herring Eggs Hatch
British scientists warn rising Arctic temperatures shift currents, freezing herring eggs and driving herrings from the North Sea. Only about one percent of eggs may hatch, risking big losses for deep sea fishers and fishermen dependent on herring catches.
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Arctic
London
North Sea
Elephant Knocked Out by Bridge Suffers Humorous Narrow Escape
In Norwalk a circus elephant truck failed to clear a low bridge. The elephant’s head hit the beam but remained upright, leaning against the sides as the truck pushed through. The animal was not injured and continued on its route.
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Hoover
Convention of
The
American Legion
Detroit
Legion
United States
Washington
Congress
Henry L. Stevens, Jr
Warsaw
N. Y
Norwalk
Gonn
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Wakatsuki
Alfred Sze
League of Nations
League Council
Nanking
Japan
Sze
Shidehara
T. V. Soong
Chiang Kai-shek
Canton
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Russia
League of Nations Council
United States Steel Corporation
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
General Motors Corporation
United States Rubber Company
Organized Labor
Jouett Shouse
Democratic National Committee
Woman’s National Democratic Club
Shouse
Smith-Raskob
Newfoundland
Willy Rody
Christian Johanssen
Fernando Costa Viega
Belmeira
Portugal
Manuel Tellez
Virginia
Stonewall Jackson
Fredericksburg
Spottsylvania
Chancellorsville
Panama
Masaji Nagata
Brawley
Calif
Mt. Wilson Observatory
F. H. Seares
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