Roper Urges Broad Tax Reform And Utilities Tone
Secretary of commerce DASEL C. ROPER calls for a full revision of the U S tax system arguing for simplification equity and broader base. Utilities executives announce expansion and policy approaches while Roosevelt pushes housing act changes to spur a building boom.
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Dasel C. Roper
Commerce
United States
Chicago
Roper
Floyd L. Carlisle
Consolidated Edison Company
New York State Public Service Commission
Wendell ‘le Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Roosevelt
Borah O Mahoney push broad interstate licensing bill
Senators Borah and O Mahoney of Wyoming and Idaho propose a federal licensing scheme for all corporations engaged in interstate commerce aimed at curbing monopolies and expanding labor protections. The bill would license all such corporations and have the Federal Trade Commission draft federal corporate law recommendations.
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Enators O’mahoney
Wyoming
Borah
Idaho
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Reign Farmers Grain Corp Seeks Dissolution
A resolution calls for dissolving the Farmers National Grain Corporation, with stockholders to vote at a January meeting. J C McClintock, VP, says marketing by national groups would shift to independent state groups, likely centered on 11 regional offices. The federal government funded most financing, facing loss through the dissolution.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Housing Administration
National Mortgage Associations
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
J. C. McClintock
Ras
Manchukuo Gains Formal Recognition Amid Pact Talks
The government of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state, receives formal recognition. Tokyo hopes Manchukuo will join the Axis bloc against communism, signaling geopolitical importance and regional sediment in alliance plans.
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FTALY
Manchukuo
Japan
Tokyo
Bus Strike Ends After Wage Rise and No Closed Shop
The six day Greyhound drivers strike ended with a wage increase set to take effect July 1. The deal gives drivers one quarter of a cent more per mile and no guaranteed minimum mileage. The strike disrupted the Northeast and included violence. The union had sought 5.5 cents per mile with a 200 mile daily guarantee. In Britain, Earl of Derby warned the US trade pact would deepen economic and political ties, while Herschel Johnson cautioned against political strings.
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Greyhound
Britain
United States
Earl of Derby
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
America
Great Britain
Derby
Herschel V. Johnson
London
Johnson
Farm Bill Sparks Battle Over Surplus Prices and Budget
Jones of Texas chairs the House Agricultural Committee as he submits the farm bill with a majority report urging speedy enactment to curb mounting crop surpluses and depressions in prices. A minority report calls the measure unconstitutional and harmful to American agriculture. Both bills face modifications due to the President's veto threat and push for a pay as you go budget.
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House
Senate
Senate Boss Rules Out Quick Tax Revision Plan
Senator Barkley said it is impossible to craft and pass a tax revision bill in the remaining time of the extraordinary session. President Roosevelt favored early revision, butHouse origins and Ways and Means delays push action to January. The President also sent Vinson for DC Circuit Court of Appeals and Groner to be chief justice, with Edgerton as Groner’s successor.
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Roosevelt
Civil Service Executive Board
Brookings Institution
Institution
Lewis Meriam
Civil Service Commission
Barkley
Senate
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Fred M. Vinson
Kentucky
United States Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Vinson
Sof
Ashianid
Isociate
Virginia
Groner
Henry White _Edgerton
New York
Spending trends show cars and clothes rise with income
A survey of 46 towns in Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Wisconsin Illinois and Towana by the bureau of home economics finds that as income grows families spend more on food and clothing and sharply increase spending on automobiles. Food expenses rise from 180 to 539, clothing from 25 to 188, and family car costs from 14 to 315 dollars.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Towana
Bureau of Home Economics
Neighbors arrive as Cast of Sam Reyburns Islets
In Lookout House Lucette Brooke and Sam Reyburn's circle welcomes Daphne Field and Jerry Field to the Point as plans form for Sam's charity comedy Islands Arise while Jed Stewart and Mark Trent hunt for Mary Amanda Dane's missing will and silver.
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Trent Service
England
Stewart
Sam
Lookout House
Jed
Jerry Field
Lucette
Brooke
Trent
Daphne
Jerry
Miss Reyburn
Daphne Field
Pve
Pve Heard That You Are the Caring Playwright, Mr. Reyburn
O’neil
Kaufman
Raphne
Field
Mother
Lucette’s
Reyburn
Family Lost and Found
Purple
Mark Trent
Jed Stewart
Field’s
Reyburns
Mark
Mary Amanda Dane
Bill Harrison
Causeway
Blondy the racing mare wins after tongue trick at Churchill Downs
The 1892 feature Blondy owned by a turfman and trained by Nigger Jim wins a 144 mile claiming race at Churchill Downs on May 15. A medicated stake and mortgage pressure loom as Blondy stretches her neck and sticks out her tongue to spur a photo finish against Dixie Dude.
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Blondy
Nigger Jim
Churchill Downs
Dixie Dude
Jim
Western Newspaper Union
Strange Superstitions
Edwin Finch Windaria describes beliefs about seeing a ghost if one stoops to look at an approaching coffin and warns the ghost may break its neck. The piece also notes a superstition about placing a comb underfoot and making a wish.
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Windaria
Postmaster Sees Surprise Dental Growth During Checkup
62 year old L. Shepherd, a Mo. postmaster at igi, visited a dentist for dentures and learned he was sprouting a new set of molars. The discovery came during routine examination.
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L. Sheperd
Igi
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WNN Service
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Frank E. Hagan
Watson
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