Business leaders meet Roosevelt on economy
Western business advisory council leaders met with President Roosevelt at the White House to outline steps against the recession. They urged wage hour limit, utility truce, no purge of holding companies, and currency tinkering halt, with Roosevelt signaling a formal policy study group to coordinate pro business measures.
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White House
Department of Commerce
Roosevelt
W. Averill
Council
Security Fund Burden Under Social Security Confusion
Treasury reports social security and railroad retirement expenditures far exceed tax receipts by 294 million in the year to Jan 1 1938, with funds used to build a reserve for old age pensions and state grants for social security machinery. John Hoover G men probe kidnap slayings. Fifteen lines summarize the text.
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Treasury
Romania's government drives Jews to flee under new edicts
Amid intense anti-Semitism under Premier Octavian Goga, thousands of Jews seek escape as consulates report emigration desires to Brazil Ethiopia Madagascar Mexico or Australia. The regime tightens intermarriage limits while a military decree orders alien Jews not farming to exit Ecuador within 30 days. Local Jews find Ecuadorian colonization increasingly shifting to business. Meanwhile US hearings on 63 revenue-law changes aim to relieve small corporations and boost industry without cutting revenue.
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Romania
Octavian Goga
Bucharest
Brazil
Ethiopia
Madagascar
Mexico
Australia
Ecuador
Alberto Eriquez
Europe
Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Fred Vinson
Jackson
Ickes
NRA
Department of Justice
Cummings
Call recruits in syphilis war nationwide
General Pershing chairs the National Anti Syphilis Committee of the American Social Hygiene Association with Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur as vice chairman. A war fund of 500000 is raised by volunteers as state and city committees broaden interest in the fight against syphilis and its spread.
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Gen
John J. Pershing
Ray Lyman Wilbur
General Pershing
Wilbur
The
American Social Hygiene Association
Colleges Join War to Check Syphilis Testing Adoptions Across U S Campuses
A Chicago Tribune survey shows serological tests for syphilis are not common in incoming-student exams though many colleges require health or hygiene courses. Some universities like Chicago Iowa and Dartmouth test all newcomers Wasserman or Kahn tests while New York University offers free tests without mandate. Dartmouth found one congenital syphilis case in 650 entrants. Iowa paused full freshman testing in 1930 citing objections and shifted to testing food handlers and staff.
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The
Chicago Tribune
University of Chicago
University of Iowa
Dartmouth College
New York University
Chicago Board of Health
University Health Service
M. E. Barnes
Department of Hygiene
Fidei Defensor title and its evolving meaning
The label Fidei Defensor was granted to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X in 1521 for his reply to Luther. After conflicts with Rome, Paul III deprived him in 1538, but Parliament confirmed the title in 1544. Since then it has referred to the Protestant faith rather than the original Catholic sense.
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Henry VIII
Leo X
Henry
Martin Luther
Rome
Paul III
Roosevelt critics and White House visitors discussed
The piece surveys the Roosevelt administration facing a low mood as labor leaders fade and industrial magnates visit the White House to influence policy. It notes calls from the “economic royalists,” attacks on monopolies, and doubt about presidential continuity while praising Stanley Reed for the Supreme Court appointment and commenting on anti lynching push amid southern resistance.
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Roosevelt
White House
Ickes
Interior Department
Robert H. Jackson
America
Jackson
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Supreme Court
Reed
United States
Stanley Reed
Sutherland
Cummings
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Mr. Reed
Risie
Senate
Harrison
Mississippi
Byrnes
South Carolina
Connally
Texas
South
Wagner
New York
New York City
Harlem
Western Newspaper Union
Pioneers of the Sixth Avenue Line and a British Guard on Broadway
Retired Sixth Avenue motorman George A. Robb recalls steam era shifts from anthracite to soft coal, the rise of electric trains, and a life of punctual service. He notes the planned Sixth Avenue subway and farewell to the elevated line. The column also mentions Phil Bakers left handed accordion, Spencer Bentley’s ship purser role, and a Scottish guardsman on Broadway observing shop windows.
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George A. Robb
Sixth Avenue
Jay Gould
Harlem
Bronx Park
Moshulu
Robb
Bronx
Phil Baker
Philadelphia
Baker
Spencer Bentley
American Men Buy More Clothes in 1937 Than 1929 Boom
New York style minded Mr America has boosted his clothing budget to nearly double 1929 levels. A ten month survey by the Merchant Tailors Designers association shows business executives and professionals ordering one to three more suits in 1937 than in 1929 and spending 300 to 500 dollars more.
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America
Merchant Tailors Designers Association
National Organization of Custom Tailors
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