Congress Defies Roosevelt as Hatch Bill Passes Senate
In a day of swift votes the Senate backed the Hatch bill limiting political work by federal staff while the House stalled key Roosevelt measures. Defeats on lend-spend and housing aid underscored a now hostile Congress, signaling a permanent rift with the White House and shaping odds for 1940. Other actions included stalled wage hour amendments and depictions of a looming economic slump.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Export-Import Bank
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Farm Security Administration
Britain Turns To Peace Talks Amid War Word Fears
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hints that peaceful discussion could settle Europe’s conflicts if action restores public trust. Winston Churchill accuses Germany of massing troops near Poland while the SEC probes Germany’s 73 million dollar bond issue, seeking data to stop the registration.
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Europe
Neville Chamberlain
Atlantic
Congress
Commons
Mr. Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Securities and Exchange Commission
Reich
SEC
Washington
High flight records push air power and speed limits
An U S air corps bomber climbs to 33 400 feet with an 11 023 pound load. A U S plane breaks Italian speed with 259 398 mph versus 251 878. A Burbank to New York flight sets a nine and a half hour record. Hunter Moody cap 219 hours 43 minutes in a long endurance flight. Col Angelo Tondi shatters distance with 7 763 miles, beating Japan’s 7 239.
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U. S. Air Corps
Germany
U. S.air Corps
Italy
Burbank
Calif
New York
Hunter
Humphrey Moody
Springfield
Angelo Tondi
Japan
News Quiz Answer Key Challenge From The 1930s
A concise quiz item asks readers to map Croatia to Yugoslavia and choose correct reasons for unrest in Bombay, plus another about Pan-American Airways, TVA former solicitor James Fly, and a TrueFalse on corn collateral loans. Answers accompany the column.
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Yugoslavia
Pan-American Airways
U. S
New Zealand
Moscow
Upper Silesia
Bombay
Mahatma Gandhi
James Lawrence Fly
TVA
Federal Communications Commission
Argentina
Roosevelt
News Quiz Answers Summary
Correct choices include Croatia seeking home rule triggering secession threats and talks. Pan-American plans a four day service over 8,000 miles to New Zealand. Bombay shutters 8,500 bars and liquor shops. Fly beat Frank R. McNinch. bids opened on 30,666 cribs for 50,000,060 bushels.
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Croatia
New Zealand
Bombay
Fly
Frank R. McNinch
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