Tennessee Senate Campaign Scandal Warns of Election Contest
A Senate committee declares the Democratic primary in Tennessee tainted by mass vote buying and coercion. It cites candidates Berry Stewart Mitchell Neal Powell with backers Crump and Browning and notes possible contest and federal/state employee pressure. It calls for investigations in multiple states and a Farm Security circular probe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enator Sheppard
Tennessee
Senate
George L. Berry
Tom Stewart
J. Ridley Mitchell
John R. Neal
C. L. Powell
Stewart
E. H. Crump
Memphis
Berry
State Machine
Gordon Browning
United States
United States Senate
Farley
Farm Security Administration
South Dakota
Frank
Tom Berry
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
North Dakota
California
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
WPA
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Lawyers blast labor act as new social policy threat
Committee reports from the American Bar Association session in Cleveland criticize the National Labor Relations Act as intensifying class antagonisms and departing from mediation. They denounce governmental administrative tribunals as despotic and allege new absolutism in agencies including the SEC ICC and NLRB led by Roscoe Pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Delegates
American Bar Association
Cleveland
National Labor Relations Act
Committee On Labor, Employment and Social Security
Securities and Exchange Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Committee On Administrative Law
Roscoe Pound
Harvard Unniversity Law School
O Daniel Wins Texas Democratic Nomination In Democratic Primary
W Lee O Daniel born in Ohio and raised on a Kansas farm won the Texas Democratic primary for governor with a clear majority over rivals. The campaign featured a flour jobber candidate backed by a hillbilly band and a platform of Ten Commandments Golden Rule and liberal pensions. Nationally Rep Maury Maverick lost renomination to Paul Kilday a San Antonio attorney who promises not to be a rubber stamp. Other administration backers W D MacFarlane and Morgan Sanders also fell.
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EXAS
W. Lee O’daniel
Ohio
Kansas
O’daniel
Maury Maverick
Congress
Paul Kilday
San Antonio
Maverick
Kilday
W. D. MacFarlane
Morgan Sanders
Disaster In Bogota Kills Thirty Seven at Aviation Review
A Colombian army plane crashed into a Bogota grandstand during an aviation review killing 37 and injuring 150. Spectators included Colombia’s president and president elect and numerous foreign diplomats who narrowly escaped. The acrobatic plane struck the stands before nose-diving into the crowd.
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Bogota
Colombia
Hoffman challenges NLRB over freedom of speech in labor dispute
Republican congressman Hoffman from Michigan challenged the National Labor Relations Board after the board ruled that circulation of his house speech was an unfair labor practice under the Wagner act. He offered to print copies of the address at cost for distribution and urged readers to study it before joining the C I O. The AFL charged Wagner act misadministration threatens democracy and accused the NLRB of backing the C I O, warning this effects workers choosing unions and bargaining reps.
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Clare E. Hoffman
Michigan
National Labor Relations Board
House
Hoffman
Committee For Industrial Organization
C. I
Constitutional Educational League of New Haven, Conn
Labor Board
American Federation of Labor
American Federationist
C. L.O
RFC to Expand Loans by Forcing Bank Competition
Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation announced a policy to expand business loans by pitting banks against each other. If a loan approved by the RFC is refused locally, an RFC agent will urge participation, then approach a competitor if needed. The Fed reports rising industrial production in July, and RFC aims to fund larger public works with PWA shifting to grants only.
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Hairman
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
REC
Federal Reserve Board
Jones
Ickes
PWA
Wallace Blames GOP for Debt at Iowa Democratic Rally
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace told the Iowa Democratic convention that Republican policies of the twenties caused a rapid rise in federal debt. He cited figures claiming current total debts are about 6 billion dollars lower than 1930 and private debts down by 12 and 28 billion dollars respectively from 1932 and 1930 levels.
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G.O.P
Wallace
Iowa
Ike
Federe
United States
Hull Demands Arbitration Over Mexico Land Seizures
Secretary Hull, backed by President Roosevelt, urges Mexico to arbitrate payment for American owned farm lands seized by the government. Senator Pittman supports arbitration and warns that refusal could invite economic penalties and jeopardize Good Neighbor relations.
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Hull
Mexico
Public Life and Oddities From City Pages
Candor: a long island woman forgets her speed as she pursues her wedding gown on the way to the city and a cop humorously cites a vow to not let her go. Midtown notes capture Broadway scenes and Radio City curiosities alongside a Times annex elevator scare.
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Long Island
Queensboro Bridge
Match-Head Sized Motor Moves With One Flea Power
Conneaut Ohio Denver Bennett a post graduate high school student built an electric motor no larger than a match head powered by a small flashlight battery It runs at one flea power and is audible only when close to the ear Bennett began the machine in a school physics laboratory and finished it at home He used a magnifying glass and forty hair-like wire rounds form the field magnet
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Conneaut
Ohio
Denver Bennett
Bennett
Farmers reject potato marketing agreement amid growing farm independence
A press statement from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced the rejection of a potato marketing agreement covering 13 states. Officials said the vote was large enough to make it operative but not feasible given the distribution of support among growers. The piece notes rising farmer pushback against Washington control and cites a debate between pro and anti government intervention camps, plus a reflection on democracy and public opinion.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Wallace
Friends of Agriculture
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia
Congress
States
National Press Club
Douglas Corrigan
West
New York
Ireland
Department of Commerce
Sen. C. C. Dill
Department
H. O. Bishop
George Washington
Potomac River
Russia
Dill
Bishop
Senator Dill
Corrigan
Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
Mr. Bishop
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Western Newspaper Union
Parliament Shows Spunk In Army Row
In Britain a row over the army's handling of a defense leak involving Duncan Sandys sparks rebuke from Parliament. Sandys, ally of Churchill, faces party tensions as defections loom and potential alignments shift amid a high-stakes political fight.
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Senate Campaign Committee
Berry-Stewart
David E. Lilienthal
TVA
Congressional Investigating Committee
J. A. Kurg
A. E. Morgan
Senator
Jerome N. Frank
SEC
TVA Investigation Committee
Edison Electric Institute
Electric Bond and Share Company
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
London
Great Britain
France
Kennedy
Chamberlain
Paris
Treasury
Morgenthau
Bullitt
Bonnet
Marchandeau
Britain
Hoffman Dares
N.L.R
L. L. Stevenson
City Life
Midtown
Benny Venuta
Broadway
Fiftieth Street
Forty-ninth Street
Radio City
Abturbaned Oriental
Rockefeller
Sixth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Forty-eighth Street
Times Annex
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Huey Long
Babe Ruth
Goofy
Gomez
Walter Chrysler
Duke of Windsor
Jimmy Walker
Einstein
Bob Benchley
New Jersey
Zane Grey
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
William
Ios
Who's
By Lemuel F. Parton
Duncan Sandys
Mr. Sandys
Winston Churchill
Mr. Churchill
Sandys
O’leary
Anthony Eden
John Bailey
Eton
Oxford
Bailey
Jennie Jerome
Randolph Churchill
New York Times
Diplomatic Service
George Sandys
Greece
England
Wright
U.S
Kensington Science Museum
Wright Brothers
Association of Men With Wings
Orville Wright
Smithsonian Institution
Samuel P. Langley
Dayton
Earlham College
Wilbur Wright
Alexander von Falkenhausen
China
Hai
Japan
General von Falkenhausen
WNU
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