Supreme Court upholds gold clause limits on private bonds
The high court ruled Congress may nullify gold clause promises in private bonds while government bonds cannot be paid in gold. Gold certificates hold face value only and the Court of Claims lacks jurisdiction over such cases, leaving many bondholders unable to collect the implied gold value.
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Congress
Supreme Court
Dartmouth College
Charles Evans Hughes
Brandeis
Stone
Roberts
Cardozo
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van Devanter
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Butler
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NRA
Senate Finance Committee
Herbert Hoover
United States
R. F. B. Townsend
California
America
Harrison
Townsend
Oklahoma prison riot ends in guard death and escape
A break from Granite state prison leads to the death of a guard as thirty-one inmates shoot him and flee with two smuggled guns. Thirteen are captured. a manhunt for the rest follows amid the warden controversy and ensuing investigations.
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Beheading of two Berlin women shocks world
Hitler refused mercy as two Berlin society women were beheaded at dawn for divulging military secrets. A Polish nobleman and another woman received life imprisonment. the executions were kept secret until dawn. An executioner used a silk hat and a medieval ax. Officials later confirmed the fate after hours of secrecy. In the Philippines, measures aim to curb Japanese landholder encroachment in Davao by enforcing stricter alien landholding laws and canceling subleases.
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Luxury Liner LAtlantique Burned Hull Sells For Scrap
Paris appeal court rules underwriters must pay owners full insurance of 11,390,000 making the hulk their property though they do not want ownership. Salvage firms towed the ship to Cherbourg and may bill 3,330,000 to recover costs.
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Paris
L’atlantique
Cherbourg
Lights of New York: A Modern Night Club Scene
A column surveys Broadway nightclubs shifting from prohibition era norms to licensed venues with larger dance floors and brighter signs. It notes changes in staff, attire, and conduct rules, including curfews, fewer hustlers, and different tipping patterns as venues compete with longer performances and multiple orchestras.
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Joe’s
Tony
Texas
Corps of Plug Uglies
Michigan news notes from 1934 to 1935 across towns
Reports from Lansing, Monroe, Traverse City, Harbor Springs, Tonia, Jackson and other Michigan cities cover FERA ship shipments, naturalization filings, a ballot recheck on a Cherry Growers sale, ice rescue on Lake Michigan, a lost cat returning home, sewage work, a jewelry guild, school funding, road diversions, tax levies, a tiger cub gift, a theater fire loss, a gas station holdup, a centenarian doctor honored, twins birthdays, a fatal accident, and the push to resume beer trade.
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Traverse City
Cherry Growers Packing Co
Harbor Springs
Dan Backus
Floyd and
Leon
Klause Anderson
Lake Michigan
Devil’s Elbow
Tonia
Karl Wetterling
Lansing
Ionia
Jackson
Michigan Central
City Commission
Kalamazoo— Jewelers
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Indiana
American Gem Society
Paul K. Morrison
Kalamazoo
Guy P. Swartslander
Kendallville
Ind
May Dorsey Hicks
Battle Creek
Fitzgerald
Ludington
Creamery Corners
State Tax Commission
Bertha B. Livings
Carl
South America
Panama
Howell
Lacey Recreation
Howell Theatre
Leslie Cole
Saginaw
Muskegon
John Parker Stoddard
Roosevelt
Muskegon “Honored Dr. Stoddard
University of Michigan
Durand
Lizzie Demand
Linus Leetch
Jack
Jerry Wooten
Leslie Wooten
Leetch
Ypsilanti
George Leetch
Hen Numbers in Oakville Farm Sparks Code Claim
Oakville Washington farmer John Gerritts found an egg marked with the number three in his henhouse. He argues the hen is numbering her output under an NRA code, claiming the egg shows compliance with the coded system.
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Wash
John Gerritts
Gerritts
Nature’s Sculpture on Virgin’s Island Rocks Sighted
A nearly perfect Madonna and Christ Child figure is etched on a steep barren rock on Virgin’s Island near N S A. The rock is inaccessible, and the formation can be seen only from afar on clear days, believed to be carved by nature itself.
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Virgin’s Island
N. S
The Gold Decision and War on Germs Featured News
The Supreme Court upholds federal anti gold money laws and invalidates gold contracts. Reports describe beheadings of two women by Hitler's regime and warnings of a global germ warfare threat. Noted advances include near absolute zero physics, gland transplant tech, Ford’s money view, and U S housing and construction signals amid a recovering economy. King Features Syndicate.
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