Rail Wage Cut Denial Triggers Reorganization Talk
A Roosevelt commission rejects a 15 percent wage cut for 930,000 rail workers and points to broader reorganization, mergers, and temporary concessions as likely solutions. The report cites structural rail issues, regional merger proposals, and potential federal aid amid broader international tensions and economic policy shifts.
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Roosevelt
Walter P. Stacy
North Carolina Supreme Court
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
Securities and Exchange Commission
Harry A. Millis
University of Chicago
National Labor Relations Board
America
Interstate Commetee Commission
SC. C
Northwest
Chicago & North Western Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Deep South
Gulf,Mobile & Northern Line
Mobile & Ohio Road
Germany Italy and Japan face shifting imperial ambitions
The piece argues that Germany under Hitler aims to reclaim former colonies in Africa and seek arms parity with Britain and France, pressuring Italy to curb Mediterranean imperialism and pressuring Japan as a future target. It notes U S and British responses and predicts a tense shift toward resisting German Japanese and Italian aggression.
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Germany
Italy
Japan
Munich
Franz Ritter von Epp
France
Hitler
Togoland
Cameroons
Africa
Tanganyika
League of Nations
Britain
Mediterranean
Wired Magic of the Telephone Reaches Global Audio Web
A National Geographic feature explains how telephone and radio circuits connect 32 million desk phones, linking the United States with Europe and beyond. It notes the vast reach of teletype news, world-wide telephone networks, and examples of cross ocean calls and traffic, with data on devices, channels, and global density.
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National Geographic Society
Washington DC
WWNU
United States
North Star
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Andrews Leaves State Post for Wage and Hour Job
Elmer F. Andrews resigns as New York state industrial commissioner to take a federal role overseeing the wages and hours law. A 48 year old engineer, he has worked in Cuba and New York, with ties to the Queensboro Chamber and the National Labor board. He is known as a calm arbiter and a New Dealer with broader Washington duties ahead.
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Washington
San Francisco
London
Cleveland
United States
Australia
Atlantic
Sydney
Bay
Calif
Adelaide
New York
EW York
Elmer F. Andrews
New York State
Andrews
Flushing
Frances Perkins
Chambers of Commerce
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
U S. Army Air Service
Cuba
New York City
Queensboro
Mr. Andrews
Newton D. Baker
J.H. Amen
John
Harlan Amen
Thomas E. Dewey
Brooklyn
J. Edgar Hoover
Amen
Dewey
Italy
Marshall
Li Jebless
James Marshall
New York Board of Education
Louis Marshall
Board of Education
Columbia School of Journalism
Consolidated News Features
United States Officials Warn on Asia and 1910 Election
Guows Julean Arnold, U S commercial attache at Shanghai, warns that without American awareness of Orient events the nation risks losing Pacific power status and lucrative China trade. U S Senator Edward R Burke touts Garner for 1910, praising common sense and leadership, supported by Jeans and bounds.
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Julean Arnold
U. S
Shanghai
Orient
China
Edward R. Burke
Garner
The Life of a Tyrant and Human Nature Thoughts
A reflective piece on power and personality, noting a dictator’s lack of freedom, the vanity of obsession, and the difficulties of sustaining benevolence. It touches on civility, wealth, cynicism, and forging early friendship with strangers.
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Weekly News Review
Joseph W. la Binr
Cordell Hull
U S
Mexico
Hull
Standard Oil
Josephus Daniels
Western Hemisphere
Lazaro Cardenas
Rome
Edouard Daladier
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Russia
Rumania
Europe
Carol
St. Lawrence Waterway
St. Lawrence
Louis Johnson
Mississippi
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Landis
Stacy
Millis
Johnson
War Department
Usbuaneta
AP Mia
The
Great Britain
British South Africa
Southwest Africa
Fanganyika
Angola
Portugal
Mussolini
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Poland
England
Hankow
State Department
Tokyo
Far East
Pacific
Chiang Kai-shek
Ohio
Chicago
South America
Paris
Berlin
Havana
Dublin
Madrid
Netherlands
Switzerland
Iceland
Greenland
India
Chile
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Palestine
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Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Beacon
N. Y
Westchester County
Yonkers
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N. J
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George Herbert
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