Eden Laval plan to avert Italo Ethiopian war faces Italian rejection
British minister Anthony Eden and French Premier Laval propose a league council formula to ease the Italo Ethiopian dispute. Mussolini rejects the plan while signaling possible modifications. key time limits and border issues are debated as Haile Selassie resists foreign control.
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Anthony Eden
League of Nations
Geneva
Italy
Ethiopia
Premier Laval
France
League Council
Mussolini
Baron Aloisi
Great Britain
Usalual
Haile Selassie
Addis Ababa
Africa
Michigan News Highlights Wide Range of Projects and Odd Finds
Michigan reports include a probe of prisons and paroles by Dr. Stannard at Governor Fitzgerald’s request, statewide job hires in the sales tax division, liquor enforcement shifts to the State Police, and $90,000 in PWA projects in Grand Rapids. Also noted are hospital plans in Mason County, farm value declines in Shiawassee, starlings driven from Lake Odessa, and waterway and highway plans across several counties.
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Lansing
Fitzgerald
Any N. Stannard
Federal Parole Board
Michigan
Ludington
Clarence Ferris
Tasman Lake
Ferris
Michigan Liquor Control Commission
Grand Rapids
PWA
Owosso
Shiawassee County
Michigan Road Builders’ Association
Michigan Construction League
Roosevelt
Lake Odessa
Charles Overly
Homer
George Fishell
Fishell
James Johnson
Camp Lake Superior
Lake Superior State Forest
Battle Creek
Bennett Root
Birmingham
National Patriotic Council
Camp Custer
Baldwin High School
William M. Webb
Sturgis
Jackson
Southern Michigan Prison
Delano
Ironwood
C. E. Gunderson
Gogebic
Silver Scott
Gunderson
Sault Ste. Marie
Emperor Haile Selassie
Wheeler Batdorff
John Flannery
Batdorff
Flannery
United States
Detroit
Raymond M. Foley
State Highway Department
Washtenaw County
Chelsea
Michigan Central Railroad
Plat Rock
Wayne County
Pennsylvania Railroad
Allegan
Allegan County
New Deal
Jackson County
Waterloo
National Park Service
Department of Interior
Muskegon
Manistee National Forest
Chittenden Nursery
Wellston
Roosevelt settles Virgin Islands feud by moves to Washington
President Roosevelt ends the Pearson Wilson clash by transferring Paul M. Pearson from Virgin Islands civil governor to assistant director of housing in the Interior Department and T. Webber Wilson to the federal parole board in Washington. The dispute, rooted in Virgin Islands governance and investigation, is now regarded as settled though broader policy questions about the islands persist.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Virgin Islands
Paul M. Pearson
The
Interior Department
T. Webber Wilson
Islands
Federal Parole Board
Pearson
Wilson
Virgin Island
Paul Yates
Yates
Senate Committee
Pearson-Wilson
Senate
Hoover
Governor Pearson
Secretary Ickes
Ickes
PWA
Tydings
Maryland
Interior
Department of the Interior
Caribbean Sea
United States
Congress
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Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
George Huddleston
Alabama
House
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Senate Lobbying Committee
New Jersey
Ben Cohen
Hastings
Delaware
Senator Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Uncle Sam
la Follette
House Ways and Means Committee
Enate
Senator Black
Associated Gas and Electric Corporation
White House
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Patton
Texas
House Committee
John W. Carpenter
Texas Power and Light Corporation
Georgia
Glass
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Doughty
Gerald Nye
North Dakota
Charles E. Coughlin
Senator Glass
Communist Internationale
Moscow
Reds
Pacific
Sam Carey
San Francisco
Earl Browder
Frederick H. Gillett
Massachusetts
Springfield
Mass
Gillett
Sec’y Swanson
APA
Swanson
Pacific Ocean
Navy
Tong
Japan
Hawaii
Aleutian Islands
Navy High Command
Clermany
Bremen
New York
William Phillips
Rudolf Leitner
Germany
Phillips
Dickstein
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Reich
Hitler
World War Veterans’ Organization
Schutzgstaffel
Black Corps
der Fuehrer
Antung
Manchukuo
Formosa
Yangtse
Harry L. Hopkins
Nikolai Sokoloff
Hallie Flanagan
Holger Cahill
Henry G. Alseberg
East Lansing
Farms Crops Department
Michigan State College
Onaway
Onaway-Cheboygan Road
Upper Peninsula
State Museum
Todd Kincaid
Corunna
Murray D. van Wagoner
Lower Peninsula
Monroe
Uwition Bluchait National Press Bldg
Washington, D.C
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