Purge plan targets 40 plus lawmakers in C I O blacklist
The C I O issues a blacklist of more than forty congressmen and senators allied against wage hour and Roosevelt policies. John L. Lewis directs the list via E. L. Oliver, targeting Democratic and Republican figures in a push ahead of the fall elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.I.O
Congress
John L. Lewis
E. L. Oliver
Labor
League
Committee For Industrial Organization
Oliver
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
House Rules Committee
John J. O'Connor
Democratic Rules Committee
Rep
Er. Cox
Georgia
House
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
James Roosevelt
Thomas G.tommy
Cork Corcoran
William E. Dodd Jr
Lawrence Lewis
Colorado
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
William J. Driver
Arkansas
J. Bayard Clark
North Carolina
Martin Dies
Texas
Republican Committee
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Carl E. Mapes
Michigan
J. Will Taylor
Tennessee
Donald H. McLean
New Jersey
Lewis
Senators Tydings
Maryland
Adams
Lonergan
Connecticut
Hatton W. Sumners
A. P. Lamneck
Ohio
Leo Kocialkowski
Illinois
R. L. Doughton
H. B. Steagall
Alabama
C. F. Lea
California
Fred Cummings
C. J. White
Idaho
R. L. de Rouen
Louisiana
John Rankin
Will Whittington
Mississippi
H. B. Coffee
Nebraska
Sam McReynolds
J. I. Mansfield
Fritz Lanahan
M. H. West
S. O. Bland
Joe Smith
West Virginia
Corrigan Makes West to East Atlantic Flight in Fragile Plane
Corrigan, a California aircraft enthusiast, secretly flew from Floyd Bennett Field New York to Baldonnel Ireland in 28 hours 13 minutes in a single motor Curtiss Robin lacking navigation gear radio or parachute. He had no permit landing papers or passport and claimed a misread compass sent him eastward. It was the sixth west to east solo crossing, with Mollison and Beryl Markham having prior successes in the reverse direction.
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Ocean Duglas
Corrigan
California
Air Commerce Bureau
Atlantic
Floyd Bennett Field
New York
Baldonnel
Ireland
Dublin
Mollison
Beryl Markham
Wheat allotment set at 55 million acres under AAA act
R Tolley announces national wheat acreage cap of 55 million for fall and spring sowing as part of the 1938 AAA program. The order, signed by M L Wilson acting secretary of agriculture, aims to keep supplies at 30 percent of normal consumption and exports while supporting farm prices and income. Total supply for the year listed at 1.147 billion bushels with a normal supply of 866 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Tolley
AAA
M. L. Wilson
Agricul
Tolley
Dowager Queen Marie of Romania Dies at Bucharest
Queen Marie, widow of Ferdinand, died at her Bucharest summer residence after a year of illness. King Carol was at her bedside. An English princess and Victoria’s granddaughter, she married Ferdinand in 1914 and guided Romania toward the Allied cause in World War I. Her 1926 US tour gained international notice.
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Marie
Romania
Bucharest
Carol
Victoria
Ferdinand
Rumania
United States
Insull Dies in Paris and King of Utilities in Decline
AMUEL INSULL once head of a vast American utilities empire dies in the Paris subway. His wife Gladys Wallis had him moved to London for burial. Once worth about 100 million, his holdings faltered after the crash, amid indictments and a later acquittal.
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Insull
Paris
Amuel Insull
France
Gladys Wallis
Stage
London
United States
England
Thomas A. Edison
Chicago
Insulls
Europe
Istanbul
Turkey
Senate probe widens on campaign fund charges in multiple states
The Sh app sob? Senate committee voted unanimously to investigate alleged misuse of federal and state funds in Democratic primaries in Kentucky and Pennsylvania. It also said it is probing similar charges in Tennessee. Separately the social security board ordered Kentucky to investigate Senator Barkley’s claim that state agents are politicizing pension checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivr Sheppard
Senate
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Social Security Board
Barkley
Hughes Flies World Flight Sets Record at New York Landing
Hughes and crew complete world circumnavigation landing at Floyd Bennett Field New York after 3 days 19 hours 17 minutes covering 14824 miles with six refueling stops Paris Moscow Omsk Yakutsk Fairbanks and Minneapolis. They exceed Wiley Post’s 1933 record though Hughes hails Post’s solo feat as remarkable.
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Hughes
Oward Hughes
Floyd Bennett Airport
New York
Paris
Moscow
Omsk
Yakutsk
Fairbanks
Minneapolis
Wiley Post
Post
Atlantic
Lindbergh
Harry Connor
Thomas Thurlow
Richard Stoddart
Ed Lund
Army Air Corps
Japan Cancels 1940 Olympic Games in Tokyo
Tokyo officials cancel the 1940 Olympics citing financing costs and military opposition to rising nationalism. The decision ends Tokyo’s bid as London and Helsingfors are floated as possible alternate sites while the international committee weighs the next step.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
APAN
China
Tokyo
International Committee
London
Helsingfors
Finland
Cheese the Body Builder and Energy Source
In this 1938 piece by C Houston Goudiss, cheese is praised as a concentrated protein source and energy booster. It outlines calcium and vitamin A content, digestibility, and practical uses, stressing cheese as a daily, nutritious mainstay and debunking myths about its digestibility. It notes varieties, serving ideas, and the low per capita consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
WNU
C. Houston Goudiss
Learn to Plan a Laxative Diet Bulletin Request
Readers are invited to request a free bulletin by C. Houston Goudiss at 6 East 39th Street New York City. The pamphlet offers concrete tips for correct eating and hygiene to combat faulty elimination with a list of laxative foods and a full week of sample menus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Houston Goudiss
East 39Th St
New York City
East 39Th Street
Loveliness in Crochet Cloth Pattern 6084
Crochet pattern for a 58 inch cloth and two smaller sizes 26 inches with big hook and two strands. Includes instructions, illustrations of stitches and cloth section, materials, and photo. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept 259 W Fourteenth St New York NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Inward Sun Inspires Quiet Nature Reverie
Thoreau reflects on nature as a source of sincerity and inner brightness. He values landscapes that never cheat or rest, describing nature as earnestly musical and truthful, guiding his reliance on the earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thoreau
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Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Donald Meyer
Endurand W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
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Ture
H. R. Tolley
Queen Marie
Hile
Elmer F. Andrews
New York State
Andrews
Flushing
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cuba
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Nathan Mann
Travis
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Charley Massey
Little Family Gin Mill
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Barbara Hutton Haugwitz- Reventlow
Babs
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Park Avenue
Joan Sutherland
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Princess
Nice
Sir Robert
Cagey Job
Robert
M. Hodgson
Britain
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Spain
Neville Chamberlain
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Howard Hughes
Houston Goudiss
Iran
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C. Houston Coudiss
Tan Costa
NTU
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