NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS SUMMARY OF EDWARD W PICKARD
President Hoover hosts a White House breakfast with Republican leaders to speed tariff and appropriation bills amid discord. Senate Dems blame Republicans for delays. arson and prohibition hearings loom as global and naval policy tensions mount. Other items cover Soviet anti religious campaign, Antarctic rescue reports, and Chinese war dynamics.
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Edward W. Pickard
Hoover
Washington
Florida
Congress
Senate
White House
Watson
Tilson
Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission
Pat Harrison
Lilly
Byrns
Tennessee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Repubican
Davis
Gamer
Texas
House
Ambassador L P Moore dies in Los Angeles
LEXANDER P MOORE of Pittsburgh recently appointed ambassador to Poland died of tuberculosis of the throat in Los Angeles before serving in Warsaw He was a prominent newspaper publisher and diplomat having served as ambassador to Spain under Harding and to Peru under Coolidge He was a lifelong Republican with support for Theodore Roosevelt in 1920 Bull Moose campaign.
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Lexander P. Moore
Pittsburgh
Poland
Los Angeles
Warsaw
Moore
Harding
Spain
Coolidge
Peru
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Uaion
Parrots Dominate Birds as Talkative Troop with Trouble
Washington reports the National Geographic Society warns parrots, though beloved, may spread disease. With an estimated 40,000 parrots in New York City alone and over half a million imported annually, parrots of the Psittaci family include canaries, macaws, cockatoos, and parrots worldwide.
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Washington
Polly
Map
Parot
United States
National Geographic Society
New York
Psittacis
Canaries
Albany
Wisconsin
New Zealand
Labrador
Amazon
Majaran
Manhattan
India
Alexander the Great
Nero
New World
Columbus
M. Judd
National “Geographic Society
Pueblo Bonito
New Mexico
Czech Actress Objects to Nudity in Sculpture
Czech actress Arn Sedlacek objects to a nude sculpture unveiling by sculptor Foit at an art exhibition. She contends the piece should be removed. the dispute led to a court action which Sedlacek pursued after learning the work was a bust of her with full nudity.
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Arn Sedlacek
Foit
Miss Sedlacek
Fort
Nag
Washington, D. C
New York
Washington
Iowa Youth Whistling Way Through University Independence
Iowa John Plank Jr. whistling to fund education at the University of Minnesota after two years of stage work. He plans to quit the stage next summer and return to college while continuing to whistle to pay his way through college.
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Iowa
University Independence
John Plank, Jr
Plank
University of Minnesota
Pack of Wolves Vanishes Near Facob Maters Door
Racine Wisconsin report details a man named Facob Maters who heard a scratching at his door and opened it to find wolves at the threshold. When police arrived the wolves had already vanished, leaving the scene as a puzzling encounter.
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Racine
Wis
Facob Maters
Maters
Test of Human Nature in Benfleet Vicar's Quip
The vicar of Benfleet Essex claims an average man sees his wife's face at breakfast 10 000 times per day in a humorous reflection on human nature and perception during a light news item.
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Benfleet
Essex
England
Light chatter on theater life and aviation in 1930s New York
A Washington style reminiscence surveys private wealth in entertainment, naming a high paying singer, a crafty plan to marry heiresses to counts, and notes on New York theaters. It also quotes Eddie Rickenbacker on aviation safety, pilot negligence, and future air travel with sleeping berths between New York and Chicago.
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New York
Music Bus
Globe
Earl Carroll
Capitol Movie
Major Bowes
Rosy
Towe
Charles Hopkins
Alvin and the Guild
Loew
Eddie Rickenbacker
Fokker Company
Long Island
Bell Syndicate
Endfield Prize Honors Peter Perfect at Local School
In Endfield England the prize for good conduct at a local school was won by Peter Perfect. This cheerful item notes the student’s achievement and reflects school recognition of behavior and discipline.
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Endfield
England
Peter Perfect
Red survivors of Custer battle found in Canada
An expedition from Cambridge University Museum and the British Museum, led by Donald A. Cadzow, reports locating Native American survivors of the Little Bighorn fight among a Wapeton Siouss band in central Saskatchewan. The group, including the old chief Four Stars, fled after the battle and now hunts in northern Saskatchewan. The expedition notes ancient secret societies and ongoing patterns of indigenous life, but fears white civilization will erase the culture in a few years.
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New York
Custer
The
Little Big Horn
Saskatche Wan
Cambridge University Museum
British Museum
Donald A. Cadzow
Cadzow
Robert Ryall
England
John Rymil
South Australia
Canada
Saskatchewan River
Four Stars
Saskatchewan
Nippy
America
Ceizon
Indian Department
Evey
Alberta
American Ways Rapidly Getting Hold in Sweden
Stockholm notes a growing American influence across Sweden with Stockholm leading the trend. Americans are embraced in novels magazines dramas and especially films as talkies reshape daily life. American foods clothing and consumer goods spread through breakfast grapefruit juice hot dogs soda fountains and more. Rotary clubs begin in several cities signaling broader cultural exchange.
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Stockholm
Tipsy Undertaker Delays Funeral In Afternoon Burial
An undertaker’s employee, after becoming intoxicated, failed to visit the hospital mortuary and delayed the burial of Sudak of this city. Friends waited until night for the midafternoon service, a rush motor hearse was dispatched once the reason was found, but darkness prevented timely interment at the cemetery.
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Czechoslovaka
Sudak
Four Thousandth Goitre Operation Performed in Linz
Urban Primarius of the Charity Brothers hospital celebrated his four thousandth goitre operation in Linz Austria. The event drew congratulations from former patients and fellow surgeons. Goitre is common in the district due to local mineral water deposits.
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Linz
Austria
Urban
Charity Brothers* Hospital
Vienna Opera Ticket Offers Flexible Exchange
Opera ticket program in Vienna allows exchange for regular entry at the State theater and opera for any performance from January 1 to June 3 each year. This program makes popular gifts of small booklets that can be used across the season.
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Opera
Vienna
Viena
State Theater and Opera
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