Green amendments shape Wages and Hours bill
The Senate backed a bill to create a labor standards board with wage and hour limits, while Green of the AFL altered the House version to limit board scope to sweatshops and starvation wages. Japan builds up in China as clashes loom, U.S. and Britain plan peacetime naval expansion in 1938.
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China
Senate
John Lewis
Wwrtum Green
American Federation of Labor
House
Roosevelt
Green
White House
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Dixie
House Labor Committee
Labor ‘Standards Board
Walsh-Healey
Mary T. Norton
N. J
Labor Committee
Senate okays low cost housing bill with 700 million bond plan
The senate moved a Wagner Steagall measure authorizing a 700 million dollar bond issue by the United States Housing Authority. Immediate 26 million for the first year, with a 4 thousand dollar per family or one thousand per room cap on project costs, drew objections from Wagner Barkley and other leaders.
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Senate
Wagner-Steagall
United States
Treasury Department
Housing Authority
Wagner
Barkley
Harry F. Byrd
New York City
Franco is hailed as El Caudillo in Rebel Spain
The article notes Francisco Franco as El Caudillo with crowds saluting and banners reading Homenaje el Caudillo. It reports Spain’s uncertainty over governance with talk of a corporative system similar to Portugal and a potential monarch restoration led by Prince Juan, Alfonso XIII’s son.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Teruel
Cuenca
Valencia
Asera
Nsargent
Spain
Germany
der Fuehrer
Il Duce
el Caudillo
Franco
Portugal
Juan
Alfonso XIII
Madame Chiang Kaishek Calls Women to Aid China War Effort
Mme Chiang Kai shek urges Chinese women to fight Japan "according to their ability" and cites Spain as a model. She praises women's patriotism and physical endurance while warning of grave wartime sacrifices and the nation's need to endure losses of soldiers, civilians, and wealth.
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Japan
China
Tokyo
Fengtai-Lukouchiao
Peiping
Twenty-Ninth Army
Konoye
Hirohito
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Nanking
Chow Enlai
Chinese Political Council
Shanghai
Russia
Mme
Chiang Kaishek
Spain
Changing roles and divorce woes haunt a young wife
In a heated power struggle, Victoria debates divorce with her mother Magda who urges tough stance while warning that wives often win only to face renewed turmoil. Victoria confronts the emotional cost as a Christmas visit from Serena foreshadows new pressures and choices.
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Magda
Joe Jones
Vicky
New York
Pearl Ashburnley
Victoria
Quentin
Europe
Keith Herrendeen
Vic
Daddy
Scimitar
Half Moon Bay
Dr. Bledsoe
Anna
Witchs Gesture and Iron Ward Off Bad Luck
A description of a fisherman's party trying a rude horn gesture to ward off misfortune. They extend both middle fingers and the outer ones while pointing at the offender, then touch iron to avert the day’s looming trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biytaly
Western Newspaper Union
Windy City hat tale and pay raise at Ideal Furnace
A Chicago fair anecdote tells of hats whisked aloft by Lake Michigan breezes and later returned by strangers while Ideal Furnace Co workers secure a 2.5 percent raise starting this week plus a 5 percent increase after a two month strike closure.
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Chicago
Windy City
Kalispell, Mont
Lake Michigan
Michigan Avenue
Western Newspaper Union
Ideal Furnace Co
Howard Lofft
American Moulders Union
Milan
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Britain
London
Wiliam D. Leahy
Uncle
Caribbean
Santa Maria
Pan American-Grace Airways
Cristobal
Canal Zone
Guayaquil
Ecuador
A. F
L’s William
Sen. Wagner
Beauty
Kathleen Norris
WNU Service
Mrs. Morrison
Serena
Gita
Edwin
Finch
Frank E. Hagan
Elmo Scott Watson
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