Lodge and Davis Strike on Unemployment Relief Policy
Senators Lodge and Davis released a minority report attacking administration relief and WPA waste while urging tax cuts and tax exemptions elimination. They propose unemployment census reforms and a return of currency control to Congress, plus reorganization of relief agencies. Roosevelt counters tax exemption concerns as unfair to lower incomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodge
Davis
Senate
Congress
Supreme Court
Wallace Rebuked by Supreme Court Over Market Rates
Supreme Court reverses June 14 1933 order by Secretary Wallace setting maximum charges by marketing agencies at Kansas City stockyards. Chief Justice Hughes writes that the three judge district court erred by denying fair hearing and by accepting prosecutors findings without review. Also upholds municipal bankruptcy act of 1937 and the 1923 filled milk act restricting interstate milk shipments with added fats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecretary OF Agriculture
Wallace
Star Chamber
Supreme Court
Kansas City
Hughes
Roosevelt seeks end to tax exemptions on all government income
President Roosevelt asks Congress to remove tax exemptions on income from all future government ends at federal state and local levels and on all government salaries. He cites judicial decisions as the source of exemptions and argues they could be eliminated by legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
PoverEt
Congress
French Premier Daladier Rejects Four Power Pact With Nazi Germany
Daladier and Foreign Minister Bonnet stated France will not join any four power European treaty including Germany. In Paris the move implied Chamberlain abandoned the plan for now as Daladier and Bonnet met in London to discuss Anglo British relations and broader European peace.
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RENCH
Daladier
Nazi Germany
Paris
Chamberlain
Great Britain
Bonnet
London
Europe
Henlein Threatens Czechs Urges Sudeten Demands
Sudeten German leader Konrad Henlein warned Prague of war if demands for revision of foreign policy toward Germany were not met. He declared Nazi guiding principle for Sudetens and urged halting resistance to eastern ambitions. An emergency Czech cabinet meeting was convened. In Budapest 20,000 Hungarians called for dismemberment of Czechoslovakia.
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Onrad Henlein
Czechoslovakia
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Henlein
Sudetens
Germany
Prague
France
Soviet
Russia
Budapest
Hungarian Revision League
Anglo-Irish Accord Ends Tariff War Between Ireland and Britain
In London Eamon de Valera and Neville Chamberlain signed an agreement to end six years of tariff and trade conflict sparked by Ireland’s refusal to pay £25 million in English land tithes. The accord leaves for later decision the incorporation of Ulster into the Irish republic. The piece notes Dr Douglas Hyde, a Protestant Gaelic scholar, as a leading figure in Ireland at age 78.
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Eamon DE Valera
Ireland
Neville Chamberlain
Great Britain
London
England
North Ireland
Ulster
Irish Republic
Dougal Hyde
Hyde
County Roscommon
Chemurgy leaders urge wealth creation through soil production
Wheeler McMillen of the National Farm Chemurgy council opens the fourth annual Omaha meeting challenging President Roosevelt on overproduction. He argues for no limits to wealth from farming, claiming chemurgy can empower farmers, industry, and science to create wealth and improve housing and consumption.
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Omaha
Roosevelt
Wheeler McMillen
Country Home
Council
Chemurgy
Mine Blast Kills 45 at Keen Mountain Coal Mine
An explosion in a Keen Mountain coal mine near Grundy Virginia trapped 45 workers under slate and rock. Rescue teams labored for 20 hours to recover bodies. all 45 miners were dead. The mine opened last November and was billed as modern and safe.
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Keen Mountain
Grundy
United States
Ford Brotherhood proposes annual wage guarantee plan
Henry Ford discussed by President Roosevelt at the White House as Ford officials consider a plan by the Ford Brotherhood of America for a minimum wage of at least 1500 dollars a year for River Rouge hourly workers in Dearborn. The Brotherhood, with 21400 members, would require members to buy a new car from Ford every two years at dealer price.
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Wile Henry Ford
White House
Roosevelt
Ford Brotherhood of America
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Brotherhood
Mammoth River Rouge
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn
William S. McDowell
Japan's Reorganized Forces Push Across Shantung Front
In Shantung province hard fighting continues as Japanese units press Chinese defenders who resist staunchly. Japan reportedly crossed into Kiangsu province for the first time while Chinese forces claim setbacks north of Taierchwang and recapture of 15 towns in Shansi Honan and Hopei.
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Japan
Shantung Province
Kiangsu
Taierchwang
Shansi
Honan
Hopei
Harry Hopkins One in Seven on Relief
A Senate relief report cites 12 to 18 million Americans on public assistance and 19.4 billion spent on relief from 1933 to 1937. WPA head Harry Hopkins argued for a 1.25 billion relief appropriation to expand federal aid by about 200000. The committee largely clears WPA but criticizes some relief policies.
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Senate Committee On Relief and Unemployment
Byrnes
Harry Hopkins
WPA
House Appropriations Committee
Senate’ Committee
Senate
Roosevelt
Working Together for Christ Across Denominations
A lesson on cooperating in service urges unity among Christians despite differences in polity and method. Jesus teaches humility and receptiveness to all who bear Christ’s name, stressing that those who serve in His name, even if outside our group, deserve cooperation.
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Christ
Jesus
Mount of Transfiguration
Galilee
James
Peter
John
Erdman
God
Morgan
Mexico's Cedillo foes split as Mestizo gains clout
The piece flags General Saturnio Cedillo as a top threat to the Mexican regime of President Cardenas while noting Mestizo’s growing following across provinces. It describes Mestizo as a strongman with a 10,000-strong private army and ties to foreign interests, and highlights ongoing political tension between left and right factions within Mexico’s revolutionary framework. It also profiles Dr. Morris Fishbein as a leading anti quack and medical reform critic, detailing his role with the Journal of the American Medical Association and his public influence.
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Porfirio Diaz
Cardenas
National Revolutionary Party Committee
Mexico
Senors
Cedillo
Fishbein
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Chicago
America
Hygeia
White Inspector Tells of Man-handling Sitting Bull
A Canadian frontier incident recounts Inspector Allen and two men forcing Sitting Bull off a horse after a dispute over stolen mounts. Despite Sioux anger, Allen seized the medicine man and vaulted into his saddle, becoming the only white man to man-handle Sitting Bull and live to tell the tale.
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India
Sitting Bull
Little Big Horn
Custer
Canada
Manitoba
Northwest Mounted Police
United States
Inspector Allen
Allen
Mounted
This Cheerful Peasant Apron Pattern Sale
A pattern transfers seven motifs averaging 6 by 7% inches with applique pieces color ideas stitches and materials needed. Send 15 cents in stamps for pattern 1679 to the Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York include name and address.
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Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Whiskers and the Civil List Witty Exchange
A light exchange features two English gentlemen one with very large whiskers. The bewhiskered man retorts that only when the other places his tongue on the civil list will he trim his facial hair.
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Nathan Straus
Housing Authority
Robert Wagner
Mr. Straus
Meme
Western Newspaper Union
Senator Lodge
Hitler
Henry Ford
China
Harold L. Lun Pquist
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Who's
By Lemuel F. Parton
York
Saturnio Cedillo
San Luis Potosi
Cedillo Cardenas
Morris Fishbein
James H. Means
American College of Physicians
Wolfs
Rush Medical ‘School
State of
Indiana
Journal of ‘Medicine
Consolidated News
WNU
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nature
Pinkham
Dr. Alexander Mackenzie
Denton
Magnesia
Select Products, Inc
Long Ieland City
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