Peace plan collapse unsettles European power balance
The Hoare Laval peace scheme to curb Italian expansion and govern parts of Ethiopia collapses amid League of Nations opposition. Haile Selassie accuses Britain and France of breaching the covenant. the council names a 13-member committee to study the crisis as Italy threatens.
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Italy
Ethiopia
Samuel Hoare
Laval
France
Mussolini
League of Nations
Baldwin
Hoare
House of Commons
Paris
Edouard Herriot
Radical Socialist Party
Herriot
Geneva
Anthony Uden
League Council
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Great Britain
Hisiopia
Mussollini
Takkaze
Zeeland votes to build municipal power plant
Zeeland voters approved a plan to erect a municipal power plant with Federal aid and to issue 20000 in bonds by 469 to 110. Residents celebrated publicly after the tally. The vote spurred a local push toward public utility investment and future funding.
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Zeeland
Jackson
Ionia
Lansing
Fitzgerald
State Tax Commission
Petoskey
Michigan
Bay City
Grayling and
Alpena
Cheboygan
Harbor Springs
WPA
Ontonagon
Clifford Gougeon
Copper District Power Co
Gougeon
Peter Tandlund
Ann Arbor
Washtenaw-Livingston Boy Scout Council
United States
University Hospital
Bonus and Townsend Plan Threaten National Debt Load
Analysis warns that immediate payment of the World War I bonus and the Townsend old age pension both would require large treasury outlays. With a national debt near 80.5 billion dollars, annual interest now about 750 million, and funds for new taxes unlikely in an election year, critics say Congress and the President face a heavy debt burden regardless of the plan chosen.
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Thomas Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
Masaryk
Benes
Bohumil Nemec
Sokols
Jan Masaryk
London
Benes’ Chanceillery
Washington
F. Veverka
Jugo-Slavia
Rumania
Europe
France
Venezuela
Juan Vicente Gomez
Caracas
Eleazar Lopez Contreras
Congress
Gomez
Cipriano Castro
Lake Maracaibo
Marine City
United States
Broadbridge Beach
Algonac
Canada
Detroit
Mt. Clemens
New Hampshire
Florence M. Trowell
Ann Arbor
Delta Chi Fraternity
Michigan Children's Institute
Lewis M. Gram
Student Employment Relief Committee
The
National Youth Administration
Roosevelt
Veterans Bureau
Treasury
United States Treasury
Townsend Old Age Pension Plan
Cssn
Townsend Plan
Bonns
President
Political betting in New Deal era funds and campaigns
The piece argues that New Deal relief and public works funding favored a single class, while critics warn of growing debt and waste. It discusses Roosevelt's campaign strategy, Farley’s role, and Republican responses, claiming a shift to align agriculture and labor to support the president.
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Ceyeland
National Committee
Chicago
Kansas City
Cleveland
Ohio City
Alf Landon
Kansas
Col
Frank Knox
Ralph E. Williams
Oregon
Roosevelt
Frank C. Walker
National Emergency Council
James A. Farley
Lyle C. Anderson
NEC
Walker
Oaes Progress
Harry Hopkins
WPA
Hopkins
White House
Civilian Conservation Corps
Robert Fechner
CCG
Knights of Columbus
Mexico
James A. Reed
Missouri
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
Honduran Congress
United States
Pontiac
Oklahoma City
Dallas
Tex
Lansing
Federal Public Works Administration
Mortimer E. Cooley
PWA
SERA
Michigan
William Haber
East Lansing
Monroe
Detroit
St. Mary’s
Quebec
Raisin River
Rudolph E. Reichert
Reichert
Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor Board of Education
Ann Arbor High School
Water Works Park
General Treasury
Congress
Washington
Ins
Big Jim” Farley
Democratic National Committee
New York
Republican National Committee
Middle West
Pacific Coast
Farley
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Jeffersonian Democracy
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F. C. Walker
Aleb J. Milne
Philadelphia
Buckingham
Milne
Department of Justice
St. Peter’s
Vatican City
Sacred College
China
Gen. Gomez
Ce Gill University
Montreal
Arthur Eustace Morgan
England
Stephen Leacock
McGill
Verner W. Main
Howard Cavanagh
Main
Plorasco Elias Calles
Iron Man” of
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Cardenas
Medina Veytia
Valley of Mexico
Joaquin Amaro
National Military School
Calles
Aichigan Svenews Briefs
Mason—Ingham County
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Joseph C. Armstrong
Anson Best
Marquette Branch
Vera Schneider
James F. Shepherd
Shepherd
James F. Thompson
Thompson
New England
Port Huron
Thumb
Black River
Saginaw
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State Stream Control Commission
Francis Engineering Co
Saginaw Bay
Midland
National Sopics
Iubrpretic
William Bruckart
National Press Blog
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
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