Rhode Island by election signals New Deal backlash
In Rhode Island First District, Republican Charles F. Risk defeated Democrat Antonio Prince by nearly 13,000 votes to win the seat vacated by Francis B. Condon. The result is seen as a rebuke to President Roosevelt and a bellwether for the 1940 election, with Republicans and Democrats weighing the implications in Congress.
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Epublican
Rhode Island
Charles F. Risk
Antonio Prince
Congress
Francis B. Condon
State Supreme Court
Roosevelt
B. H. Snell
New York
House
John J. O'Connor
Tammany Democrat
Tom Blanton
Texas
Gerry
Byrd
Tydings
White House
Fess
Ohio
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
W. W. Barbour
New Jersey
Barbour
Michigan News Summary of State Projects and Incidents
State boards seek a $1.8 million loan for a governor's home and office building. A lightning strike killed Mrs. Maude Myers near Keeler, while contracts for rural electrification reach 33 more families in Quincy Township. Public works push grade separations near US-127 in Hudson and a $13 million highway relief program spans several counties. Grand Rapids hosts a Michigan Women's Centennial expo and Nashville opens an $85,340 school with mixed funding.
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Lansing
State Administrative Board
Federal Public Works Administration
Hartford
Maude Myers
Leon Myers
Keeler
Myers
Quincy
Quincy Township
Lake School
Hudson
State Highway Department
New York Central
Grand Rapids
State Tax Commission
State Financial Responsibility Division
Berrien Springs
Michigan
R. B. Spurlock
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Eighth
Works Progress District
Allegan
Berrien
Kalamazoo
Cass
Branch
Calhoun
St. Joseph
Barry
Eaton
van Buren
Mackinac Island
Fitzgerald
Tampa
Fla
Federal agency overreaches on coaxial cable probe
A Washington columnist warns the Federal Communications Commission is overstepping its authority by dictating experimental use of AT&T coaxial cable. The plan could affect long distance telephony telegraph and radio as AT&T researchers pursue 100 miles of testing between New York and Philadelphia. The piece argues bureaucracy risks stalling innovation and eroding public trust.
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NRA
J. C. O’mahoney
Wyoming
Federal Trade Commission
O’mahoney
Ann Arbor
Huron River
Geddes Ave
Emanuel Visel
Ludington
Mason County Board of Supervisors
State Bureau of Aeronautics
Lansing
Muskegon River
Gerald P. Cooper
University of Michigan Institute For Fisheries Research
Michigan
American Game Association
Minnesota
Texas
Ilinois
Wisconsin
California
Washington
Alaska
Oklahoma
Jackson
Waterloo
Jackson County
CCC
Johannesburg
Otsego County
Portage Lake
CCG
Marquette
Cliffs Dow Chemical Company
Forestry
Conservation Officers of
Field Administration Division
Department of Conservation
State Conservation Department
Works Progress Administration
WRDS
Hast Lansing
East Lansing
Lower Peninsula
Benton Harbor
Lake City
Muskegon
Alpena
State Highway Department
Clare-Frankfort
Ewart
Hoover
New Deal
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
Commission
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
FCC
A. T. & Picture
Communications Agency
The
Communications Commission
Commundications Commission
A. T
New York
Philadelphia
Roosevelt era debate on communications commission and duck hunting limits
The piece discusses opposition to the communications commission and its expanded control, warning of national harm if funded programs stall. It then details federal migratory bird protections set by J N Darling, including season dates October 21 to December 19, geographic areas, restrictions on baited water, no live decoy, limited shooting hours, and shotgun shell limits.
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Presiden Roosevelt
J. N
Ding) Darling
Chied
The
Biological Survey
Maine
New Hampshire
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Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
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Ohio
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Colorado
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Oregon
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Virginia
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Georgia
Florida
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Mississippi
Kentucky
Tennessee
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Darling
Western Newspaper Union
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Guffey
Black
Hurley
Edward W. Pickard
Chas. F. Risk
Epublicans
Springfield
Til
Harrison B. Spengler
Leslie Wheeler
Clinois
Jo Ferguson
Enator
Hugo Black
Alabarma
Senate Committee
Patrick J. Hurley
Hoover Administration
Associated Gas and Electric System
Joseph P. Tumulty
Wilson
Tumulty
George B. Moses
Rep
Ways and Means
Doughton
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bituminous Coal Commission
Hjalmar Schacht
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Essen
Stahlheim
England
France
Italy
Ethiopia
Mussolini
Baile Selassie
Nanda
Siam
Gooden
Nathan P. Bryan
Jacksonville
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Bryan
United States
Frank H. Hitchcock
Daily Citizen
Tucson
Ariz
Hitchcock
Taft
Joe Louis
Detroit
Amuel Insull
Chicago
Insull
Brest
Paris
Census Bureau
P. J. Hurley
Sen
Paul Goebbels
Newberry
Tahquamenon Falls
State Conservation Commission
Nashville
PWA
Kellogg Foundation
Saginaw
Battle Creek
Dolly Saxton
Bank
Kent County
WPA
Algonac
War Department
St. Clair River
Robert’s Landing
Washington’ Digest
National
William Bruckart
National Press
Washington, D.C
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