Census clock marks start of nationwide data collection
Edward W. Pickard notes the fifteenth decennial census begins, detailing new questions on home ownership, age at first marriage, radio presence, unemployment, and trades. Missouri Idaho and New Jersey claim first district completion as towns race to finish amid tariff and prohibition debates.
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Edward W. Pickard
Sam
United States
Washington
Hoover
J. Sterling Moran
District of Columbia
White House
Missouri
New Jersey
Idaho
Centertown
Cole County
Kootenai County
Morris Township
Morris County
N. J
Cosgrove Reelects as Irish Premier After Vote
William T Cosgrove was re elected president of the executive council of the Irish Free State by the Dail Eireann equal 50 to 65 after a difficult debate that defeated Eamon de Valera and T J O Connell. Otto Bruening forms a German ministry aided by Nationalists and faces no confidence defeat 252 to 187. Bruening promises farm relief to win nationalist support and stabilize the cabinet.
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Ongressman Smell
Congressional
Executive
House
Snell
Illiam T. Cosgrove
Dail Eireann
Eamon de Valera
T. J. O’connell
Otto Bruening
Germany
Bruening
von Hindenburg
France Ratifies Young Plan and Evacuation of Rhineland
The French Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly approved the Young reparations plan and empowered President Doumergue to sign the liquidation act. The session ended quietly as Nationalists warned troop withdrawal could invite a new German invasion.
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Hatever
St. James’ Palace
France
Italy
Great Britain
Mediterranean
MacDonald
Briand
Henderson
Japan
Chamber of Deputies
Doumergue
Rhineland
Union
Lincoln's Tragic Burden and Fate in Wartime
Elmo Scott Watson reflects on the Lincoln assassination anniversary and asks whether Booth’s bullet could have been avoided. The piece notes Lincoln’s weary burden during the Civil War, his Emancipation Proclamation, and Ludwig’s portrait of Lincoln as a tragic figure whose life ended with Ford's Theatre.
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Elmo Scott Watson
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Ford
United States
Woodrow Wilson
White House
George Washington
Lincoln
Emil Ludwig
Little, Bryan and Company
Ludwig
Douglas
Stock Exchange
Congress
Thement
Welles
Appomattox
Baker
Lord of Death
Mary Lincoln
Tad
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Ruth Elder
Aviatrix
New York Police
First Air Police
North Beach
Columbia River
Longview
Wash
Ranier
Ore
Iine
Charles Evans Hughes
Hough
Literary Digest
Prohibition
Dones and
Dill
Senate
Digest
House of Representatives
McBride
Curtis
Longworth
Senate Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Gator Norris
Nebraska
Muscle Shoals
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chester Gray
Gray
Tennessee River Improvement Association
CG. A. Huston
Republican National Committee
Northwest
Legge
Farm Board
J. L. Coulter
Tariff Commission
Coulter
Minnesota
Dakotas
Millers’ National Federation
Congressman
The
Lincolnnae
Lingala Doulas Lions
Gettysburg
Little, Brown, and Co
Man of Sorrows
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