Roosevelt's reorganization bill clears Senate in tight vote
The President's broad reorganization bill passes the Senate 49 to 42 after a fierce fight. An attempt to recommit failed 48 to 43. The measure would let the President use executive orders to reorganize federal bureaus, with several exemptions and the creation of a new department of welfare as part of the plan.
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Roosevelt
Senate
United States
House
O'Connor
Rules Committee
Federal Reserve Board
Corps of Engineers
United States Army
Board of Tax Appeals
The
Communications Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Labor Relations Board
Civil Service Commission
General Accounting Office
Ten Men to Probe TVA Investigation Set by Senate
Ten men to probe the Tennessee Valley Authority as a joint committee inquiry was approved with no dissent in the Senate. The panel includes five senators and five representatives to examine charges against ousted TVA chairman A E Morgan and the role of private utility companies in TVA injunction suits.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Senate
House
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
A. E. Morgan
Bridges and King
TVA
H. Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Republican
Lister B. Hill
Alabama
Roosevelt
Chairman Morgan
Morgan
Jackson
Congress
Harcourt Morgan
White House
Supreme Court Upholds Utilities Registration Provisions
The Supreme Court upheld the Wheel er-Rayburn public utility act registration requirements for Electric Bond and Share Co and 14 holding firms, ordering registration with the SEC or denial of interstate mail and commerce. Chief Justice Hughes wrote the opinion with Justice McReynolds dissenting. Justices Cardozo and Reed did not participate.
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United States Supreme Court
Wheeler-Rayburn Public Utility
Justice McReynolds
Justice Cardozo
Reed
Edvard M. House Dies After Long Illness In New York
Col. House after a long illness ended the notable career of Edward M. House whose name in the World war era was familiar to millions. He died in New York at seventy nine. He shunned publicity and devoted himself to what he deemed best for his country. He advised Woodrow Wilson and helped direct policy before and during the war, serving as Wilsons personal representative at Versailles. Later the two disagreed and their close association ended.
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Edward M. House
New York
House
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Europe
Versailles
Franco’s forces push through Catalonia toward Barcelona
Insurgent troops drive through loyalist lines into Catalonia with about 100 towns captured in a day and villages demolished by bombing by some 200 warplanes, reportedly supported by Italy and Germany. Italy warns France that intervention in Spain could threaten European peace.
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Eneral Franco
Catalonia
Barcelona
Italy
Germany
France
Spain
Ialian
Informazione Diplomatica
Treasury halts Mexican silver purchases under expropriation pressure
Secretary Morgenthau announced the United States would stop buying newly mined Mexican silver until further notice, a likely response to Mexico's expropriation of foreign oil properties. Silver price dropped one cent per ounce as the Treasury had been purchasing about 5,000,000 ounces monthly for roughly $2,500,000 at the New York price.
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Morgenthau
United States
Mexico
Hull
United States Treasury
New York
Japan’s Regime in China Announces Reformed Govt in Nanking
YAPAN proclaims the inauguration of the reformed Government of the Republic of China in Nanking to replace Chiang Kai-shek’s regime. Liang Hung-Tze named chairman of the new executive yu an. Chinese forces fight along the Peiping Hankow railway as Japanese incursions suffer heavy losses.
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Japan
China
Yapan
Republic of China
Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
Liang Hung-Tze
Executive Yuan
Peiping-Hankow
Harrison Aims to Alter Revenue Bill With Senate Changes
The Senate finance committee, in a 17 to 4 vote, removed the undistributed profits tax from the revenue bill and replaced it with an 18 percent flat corporate income tax. It also shifted capital gains to a 15 percent flat rate for assets held over 18 months and dropped a proposed tax-processing plan for major crops to fund $200 million in annual farm bounties.
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Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
House
Harrison
Goering Demands Jewish Expulsion From Vienna
General Goering announces in Vienna that 300000 Jews must leave within four years as part of Austria economic reconstruction. He orders removal by legal means to quiet, mercifully accomplish the task. Cardinal Innitzer urges Austrians to vote for union with Germany on April 10, aiding Nazi aims and Vatican talks.
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Vienna
Field Marshal
Goering
Hitler
Austria
Seyss- Inquart
Germany
Cardinal Innetzer
Vatican
Britain ready to fight if Czechoslovakia attacked
Prime Minister Chamberlain warned Hitler in the House of Commons that Britain will honor its treaty obligations to France and Belgium and may go to war if Germany aggresses. He stressed a continued pursuit of peace but insisted Britain could be drawn into conflict to defend allies. He rejected Soviet calls for consultation.
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Britain
Czechoslovakia
France
Belgium
Hitler
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Europe
Central
Russia
Wheat Crop Outlook Sees Record Potential
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics projects this year’s wheat crop at 830 million bushels, above the 1932-36 average by 160 million. Carryover near 300 million. If planted as projected and average yields reached, spring wheat plus durum could total 200 million, with winter wheat about 630 million, for a potential 839 million bushels.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Department of Agriculture
Catarrhal Deafness and Epilepsy Diet Theories
The piece reviews Dr. F W O'Brien’s X ray treatment for catarrhal deafness noting 140 patients treated with 73 improved over nine weekly five minute exposures and follow ups up to five years. It also summarizes research linking epilepsy to diet showing reducing starch and water and increasing fats may lessen seizures with medications in many cases.
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F. W. O'Brien
Boston
Radiology
O’brien
Four French police types noted by Pearson’s London Weekly
A British visitor to France learns of four police kinds: state police with special duties, gardes mobiles who handle riots, bendarmes in rural areas with army backgrounds, and town agents plus gardes champetre in villages. An eighty six year old gardes champetre in Sainte Blandine patrols for criminals.
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France
Pearson
London
Gardes Mobiles
Gardes Champetres
Sainte Blandine
Dauphine
Vitamins Found and Vital Role in Health History
In a historical overview author C. Houston Goudiss explains the discovery of vitamins by Casimir Funk in 1912 and outlines their importance for immune function, mucous membranes, night blindness prevention, and teeth health. It notes sources like milk, fortified margarine, egg yolk, cod liver oil, and yellow fruits and vegetables.
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Casimir Funk
Funk
Spark Plugs of Nutrition
Biochemists worldwide including Hopkins Hart Humphrey Babcock Steenbeck and McCollum pursued the vitamins problem. They showed that vitamin deficiency harms both animals and humans and that foods supply these vital substances. Vitamin A supports growth and disease resistance among six identified vitamins.
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
England
Hart, Humphrey
Babcock
Steenbeck
McCollum
United States
Funk
Building Health Through Diet For Families
The article promotes a weekly series by C Houston Goudiss on food groups including proteins carbohydrates fats and mineral salts. It emphasizes their role in mental and physical power, bone health, nerves and blood and invites readers to collect and request past installments. It urges housewives to start a scrapbook department of these informative pieces for future reference.
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C. Houston Goudiss
Food Authority
Vitamin B role in appetite and digestion highlighted
Vitamin B promotes appetite and aids digestion, preventing a serious nerve disorder. It is essential for maintaining good digestion to derive full energy from food, supporting growth and higher energy use in children and adults. Sources include yeast, cereals, milk, peas, beans, greens, eggs, and liver.
Vitamin C For Teeth Gums And Diet Tips
Vitamin C helps regulate body processes and prevents scurvy. A lack damages teeth and gums, and can cause tissue hemorrhages and muscle degeneration. It is abundant in fresh greens like cabbage and in onions potatoes oranges tomatoes peppers bananas and strawberries. Heat can destroy it so include fresh raw foods daily.
Vitamins and their roles in preventing disease
The article explains vitamin D as the sunshine vitamin essential for calcium use and bone health, noting its presence in fish liver oils and egg yolk and praising scientists who concentrate it for food enrichment. It describes vitamin E as important for reproduction, found in wheat germ and lettuce, and vitamin G as vital for growth, skin health, and possibly cataract prevention, with sources including yeast and various animal and plant foods. The piece emphasizes homemakers' duty to ensure abundant vitamins for all family members.
Have You a Question to Goudissa at Ex perimental Kitchen Lab
C Houston Goudissa offers readers access to the Experimental Kitchen Laboratory in New York City. He will answer questions on foods diet nutrition and health and advise on personal hygiene. Postcard inquiries receive the same attention at 6 East 39th Street New York City.
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C. Houston Goudissa
Houston Goudiss
New York City
C. Houston Goodiss
East 39Th Street
Not enough vitamins for every household, says Houston Goudiss
A 1938 message urges ensuring all household members get sufficient vitamins to achieve health and happiness. It stresses that science has placed health within reach and calls on readers to provide for children, workers, middle aged, and elderly.
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WNU
C. Houston Goudiss
Cause and prevention of spider web check in furniture
The text explains that spider web check or checking is caused by polish neglect or using a poor cheap polish without a fine light oil base. Regular use of a quality oil polish feeds the wood, preventing cracks, ridges and splits.
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Col
Gen
Neville Chamberlain
Dr. Barton
Houston
East 39Th St
Draco
Ferry-Morse
Ferry
Ferry’s
Ferry-Morse Seed Co
Detroit
San Francisco
Ferry's
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