London naval treaty battle to be settled in special session
Senate and House leaders plan a June adjournment with a special session called by President Hoover to push the London naval treaty. Debate focuses on naval test cases, duties, and the risk to shipping routes as objections to rapid passage mount.
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London
Senate
Hoover
Congress
House
Johnson
Navy General Board
Navy
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations and
Naval Affairs
United States
America
Japan
Curtis
Tariff Commission
Religious board officers testify on 1928 Hoover campaign
Fricials of the Methodist temperance board testified before a senate lobby panel about alleged failures to report activities during the 1928 presidential race. Deets Pickett said the board’s Hoover actions were nonpolitical and noted the Justice Department declined to prosecute. He cited widespread copies of Voice and Glipsheet mentioning Smith’s prohibition record and admitted the board pushed Hoover and Curtis.
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Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Senate Lobby Committee
Deets Pickett
Clarence True Wilson
Hoover
Department of Justice
Pickett
the Voice
al Smith
Voice
Doctor Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
Defeated Chinese forces halt advance toward Chengchow
Nationalist troops in Henan retreat after a severe defeat by Yen Hsi-shan and Weng Yu-hsian led northern forces numbering about 200,000. Government units dig in along the railway south of the Yellow River awaiting reinforcements as clashes persist since May.
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Henan Province
Northern Alliance
Yen Hsi-shan
Weng Yu-hsian
Chengchow
Yellow River
Supreme Court Upholds Railroad Hold on Company Union
Organized labor wins a major victory as the Supreme Court upholds an injunction restraining the Texas and New Orleans railroad a Southern Pacific system subsidiary from forming a company union and from interfering with the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks among its employees.
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Organized Labor
Supreme Court of the United States
Texas and New Orleans Railroad
Southern Pacific System
The
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Hoover vetoes veterans pension bill to curb costs
President Hoover vetoed a measure expanding pensions for Spanish war veterans, which would have raised annual government costs from 11.06 million to 12 million dollars. He said he supports discharging the national obligation to veterans but objects to principles in the bill that affect veterans and the public.
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Hoover
Record Flight East to West by APT. ROSCOE TURNISR
APT ROSCOE TURNISR flew a Lockheed Vega monoplane from New York via Wichita to Glendale California recording 18 hours 43 minutes 34 seconds of elapsed flying time setting a new east to west continental record. He faced strong headwinds with only a lion cub as companion on the way to Wichita.
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Apt
Roscoe Turnisr
New York
Wichita
Glendale
Calif
Havana
Lakehurst
N. J
Pernambuco
Amy Johnson
England
Australia
Australian
The President's Flag and Other American Flags
An exploration of the President's flag and other official banners used by U S leaders and departments. It traces origins from the Civil War era through 1916 including Navy and Army flags, heraldic disputes, and the eventual standardization under President Wilson.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Commerce
Wilson
Gideon Wells
Secretary of the Navy
Elizabeth Vivial
Secretary of War
Helen Appelio
Coolidge
Mary Devenny
Olid Giory
Helen Basqui
Taft
Anna Corcoran
Roosevelt
Quartermaster’s
Philadelphia
William E. Chandler
Chester Alan Arthur
United States
Army
Navy
Adjutant General's Office
United States Coat of Arms
White House
McKinley
Chicago
War Department
State Department
The
Department of State
New York
Mare Island
Department
Navy Department
War ‘Department
Byron McCandless
Bureau of Construction and Repair
McCandless
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Salt Lake City
W. W. Bruce
Delphi
Greece
Edward W. Pickard
Grundy
Davis
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Association
Senarate
Supreme Court
Prohibition Enforcement Bureau
Sheppard
Texas
Tharly
Senator Jones
Washington
Enforcement Bureau
Seattle
Roy c. Lyle
Prohibition
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Alaska
William M. Whitney
Rangoon
Burma
Cardinal Lucan
Reims
Katherine Keith Adler
France
Lord Randall Thomas Davidson
Canterbury
Daniel M. Lord
Baron Ashton
Western Newspaper Union
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