Ministers Recall Strains UK Mexico Diplomatic Break
Mexico recalls its London minister Primo Villa Michel after Britain demands an $85,000 claims annuity. Britain withdraws its London mission staff and threatens further action as diplomatic ties fracture over expropriated oil properties. Mexico defends the move, backed by labor and political groups, while Viscount Halifax awaits Geneva talks.
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Great Britain
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Primo Villa Michel
London
Legation
Owen St. Clair O'Malley
J. Dalton Murray
Cardenas
Britain
Eduardo Hay
O'Malley
Michel
United States
Chamber of Deputies
Celebration marks National Air Mail week and Hanes Treasury post
National Air Mail week opens with Mrs. Roosevelt accepting air mail stamps for her husband as Chicago begins autogiro mail delivery. President Roosevelt nominates John W. Hanes to be assistant secretary of the treasury and predicts his advancement to under secretary as Roswell Magill nears return to Columbia.
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John W. Hanes
the Treasury
Roosevelt
Washington
Chicago
Japanese drive closes on Suchow in Central China rail hub
Dispatches from Shanghai report Japanese forces closing in on Suchow, a key Central China rail junction, with thousands of Chinese troops trapped. Encirclement followed Lunghai railway cutting, as Japanese advances pushed through Pihsien and Siaohsien. General Terauchi takes command for the final drive. Naval forces occupy Amoy and land at the Min river mouth but retreat.
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Shanghai
Suchow
Central China
Lunghai
Pihsien
Siaohsien
Juichi Ter
Texan Mrs Bray Potentially Named US Ambassador to Soviet Union
Mrs Charles C Broy a Texan by birth wife of an American foreign service officer and widow of Rep Thomas A Sisson of Mississippi is under consideration for the American ambassadorship to Soviet Russia. She has support from congressional leaders and would be the first American woman named an ambassador if confirmed. Secretary Hull has known her for 16 years after being presented by Senator Key Pittman.
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United States
Moscow
Charles C. Broy
Soviet Russia
Joseph E. Davies
Belgium
Bray
Thomas A. Sisson
Mississippi
Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs Committees
Congress
Hull
Key Pittman
Supreme Court Orders Circuit Court to Show Cause in Steel Case
The Supreme Court directed the Philadelphia Circuit Court of Appeals to show cause why its orders against the National Labor Relations Board in the Republic Steel case should not be vacated. The court had barred the board from withdrawing its case to avoid scrutiny and restrained further action until the transcript record is certified. In a second action, the high court ruled that strikers do not terminate their employee relationship.
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United States Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Philadelphia
National Labor Relations Board
Republic Steel Company
Circuit Court
Labor Board
Steel Company
Tower Court
Republic
Supreme Court
House Passes Three Billion Dollar Relief Bill in Turbulent Session
The House approved a 3 154 million dollar measure 328 to 70 sending it to the Senate. A bid to send the bill back to committee to shift control to state relief was rejected. Provisions include 2 519 million direct appropriations and 635 million in authorizations.
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House of Representatives
Senate
Farm Bloc
Roosevelt Accepts West Switch in Interior Post
President Roosevelt approves Charles West as undersecretary of the interior and names Harry Slattery of North Carolina to West’s former post. The move ends West’s tenure and marks a victory for Ickes in a feud that briefly saw West’s aides dismissed and the office handed to Ebert Burlew. Earliest White House notes say the President seeks another post for West.
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Slattery
West
Charles West
Roosevelt
Harry Slattery
North Carolina
Ickes
Ebert K. Burlew
White House
Steve Early
Bela Imredi Named Hungary Premier To Halt Nazi Rise
Bela Imredi became Hungary’s premier after Daranyi’s resignation and aimed to curb extremist activity with two new laws. He proposed harsher penalties for disturbing public peace and tighter limits on public assembly while outlining a five point economic and social reconstruction plan. He pledged policy continuity abroad. Imredi, slender and polished, is a multilingual financier with varied interests. He appears about forty but is closer to fifty.
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Bela Imredi
Hungary
Daranyi
Duranyi
House of Deputies
Imredi
League Censures Japan as Nations Rally to Aid China
At Geneva the League council adopted a resolution condemning Japan for its actions in China and urged member states to directly assist China. Georges Bonnet urged moral support, while Jacob Souritz of Russia lamented the resolution did not go farther. Chile announced withdrawal from the League to avoid European entanglements, with Venezuela and others signaling similar moves. Switzerland also removed itself from Article XVI, altering economic pressure rules.
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League
Japan
Wellington Koo
League of Nations
Geneva
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
del Mayo
Spain
China
Georges Bonnet
Viscount Halifax
Bonnet
Russia
Jacob Souritz
Chile
Venezuela
Switzerland
Tax conferees send revenue act to White House
A 300 million dollar Revenue Act of 1938, patched by Senate and House conferees, goes to the President. The compromise keeps a remnant of the undistributed profits tax to save face but applies only to 1938 and 1939. Corporations earning over 25,000 dollars face a 19 percent maximum tax with no dividends and a 16 14 percent minimum if all earnings are distributed, plus a 2 percent credit against the maximum tax for dividends paid.
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Senate
House
White House
Prisoner Uses Rats to Cheat Death in Poe Tale
In Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum a prisoner awakens in darkness and learns his clothes have been replaced by a stark robe. He explores a large cell, marks his start, and discovers a pit, while fear of the Inquisition lingers as the chamber changes around him.
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Inquisition
Edgar Allen Poe
Toledo
Enter Our Cake Recipe Contest For Prizes
Only a few days remain to enter the cake recipe contest with a first prize of 25 dollars, five second prizes of 10 dollars, and ten third prizes of 5 dollars. Submit a recipe by May 31 1938 using the attached coupon with name address brand of shortening baking powder and flour. Winning entries may be printed in a national booklet and judged by Experimental Kitchen Laboratory staff in New York City.
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C. Houston Goudiss
New
York City
East 39Th Street
New York City
C. Houston
Turbulent Life of Poe Painted in Biographers
The life of Edgar Allan Poe is described as more turbulent than any of his stories. Biographers note his sharp criticism and acclaimed tales, while his early troubles at the University of Virginia and West Point, and his disinheritance, colored his youth and later life. Poe lived 1809 to 1849 and earned fame in Europe and America.
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Poe
University of Virginia
West Point
Europe
America
Pendulum of Death in Torture Pit Ends With Rat Escape
A prisoner chained on a bench endures a deadly pit trap as a descending blade nears him. Rats gnaw his bonds and save him from death. The walls heat and close in before the French rescue arrives, ending the peril.
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Hell
Bell Syndicate
WNU
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Juneau
Fairbanks
Alaska
Pan American Airways
Western Newspaper Union
Air Mail
J. W. Hanes
C.C. Broy
N.L.R.B
Elizabeth C. James
Elizabeth James
Norge
Adams Wholesalers, Inc
Waterloo
Iowa
Ata AU
Henry George
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