Hull Plan for St Lawrence Seaway Faces Oppose and Debate
Secretary Hull proposed a Canada backed St Lawrence deep waterway treaty with U S rights to build at own expense and Niagara power gains. critics call it a sellout of Lake Michigan sovereignty. Senators Clark Parsons and Copeland denounce the plan as costly and dangerous to Midwest water rights while Canada questions benefit.
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Hull
St. Lawrence
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
Senate
St. Lawrence Deep Waterway
United States
Niagara Falls
Lake Michigan
Congress
Dominion
New York
International Rapids
St. Lawrence River
Wagner
Copeland
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Middle West
Clark
Missouri
Chicago Drainage Canal
Mississippi River
Claude Parsons
Illinois
International Commission
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence Basin
Michigan
Chicago
Mississippi
Congress OKs 357 Million for 1940 41 Highways
Senate approves conference report authorizing new federal highway expenditures of 357 million dollars for fiscal years 1940 and 1941 and 150 million dollars of old unused appropriations.
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Senate
House
Recovery plan endorsed for industrial revival by Hook
Charles R. Hook president of the National Association of Manufacturers told a Chicago Association of Commerce meeting that a government retreat from experiments and an industrial program rooted in experience will restore confidence. He urged amending the Wagner act revising the tax structure and ending government competition with private enterprise to revive private savings and investment.
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Charles R. Hook
National Association of Manufacturers
Chicago Association of Commerce
America
Hook
American Rolling Mill Company
National Labor Relations Board
Twenty More Federal Judges Authorized by Roosevelt Act
President Roosevelt signed the bill creating 20 additional federal judges nationwide. The measure, the largest judicial expansion since 1921, authorizes five Circuit Court of Appeals judges at 12 500 annually and 15 district judges at 10 000 yearly. Meanwhile Lilienthal and Morgan defended TVA in a court fight over its constitutionality and accused Arthur Morgan of tampering. Dean Herbert W. Mumford of the University of Illinois dies in an auto accident. he served as a leading agricultural educator and administrator.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Circuit Court of Appeals
Joint
Congressional Committee of Investigation
David E. Lilienthal
Harcourt Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Arthur E. Morgan
TVA
Arthur Morgan
Lilienthal
Berry Marble
Berry
Herbert W. Mumford
University of Illinois
Mumford
Michigan
University At
Champaign
College of Agriculture
Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service
Three Soong Sisters Register at Wesleyan In 1908
In 1908 three Soong sisters Ling Soong Ching Ling May Ling registered at Wesleyan College in Macon Georgia. Their father Charles Soong had earlier emigrated to the United States, sent his children to study in America, and later Chinese leaders Sun Yat Sen Chiang Kai shek and H H Kung shaped modern China. The article frames their education as a turning point for China as it pursued republican ideals and modernization amid war and upheaval.
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Macon
Georgia
Wesleyan College
Ling Soong
Ching-Ling Soong
May-Ling Soong
China
Soong
Charles Jones Soong
United States
Boston
Charles Soong
Bay State
Savannah
Orient
T. V. Soong
Harvard
Methodist Wesleyan
Republic
Sun Yat-sen
Ching-Ling
Wesleyan
Little Ching-Ling
E-Ling
H. H. Kung
Confucius
May-Ling
Wellesley College
Massachusetts
Soong House
Chiang Kai-shek
New Life Movement
Madame Chiang
New Life
Shanghai
Madam Chiang
Generalissimo
Chiang
George Washington
May Ling
Vargas a tough fighter and Brazil’s leader in 1930s turmoil
President Getulio Vargas rose from gaucho roots to dictator as Brazil shifted to a personalist state after the 1930 coup. He portrayed liberal beginnings but centralized power, suppressing free press and labor rights while forging a strong national defense and political machine.
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York
Getulio Vargas
Brazil
Vargas
Washington Luiz
Aurelio Monteiro
Luiz
South America
Prairie Town
Sweepstakes Winners and Derby Result Report
Bos Roussel the French bred horse won the English Derby at Epsom Downs. Four sweepstakes ticket holders in the United States won 150000 dollars each. Scottish Union finished second and paid 75000 dollars to eleven U S ticket holders. Pasch the favorite finished third returning 50000 dollars to seven U S ticketholders.
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Bos Roussel
Epsom Downs
United States
Scottish Union
Pasch
Christgau Is Ousted by Hopkins as WPA Leader
Defies Harry Hopkins ICTOR A Christgau was ousted by WPA head Harry Hopkins after quarreling with Gov. Elmer Benson and Minnesota Farmer-Labor leaders. Christgau refused to quit claiming only President Roosevelt could remove him.
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Harry Hopkins
Christgau
Minnesota
WPA
Elmer Benson
Farmer-Labor Party
Roosevelt
Pensions Bill Boosts Spain and Philippine War Veterans
A wartime pensions act increases monthly payments for veterans of the Spanish war, Philippine insurrection, or China relief expedition. Eligible veterans age sixty five with 90 days service receive 60 dollars monthly, while those with less than 90 days service discharged due to service-connected disability qualify as well.
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Roosevelt
The Mayflower and Early Plymouth Voyagers
The Mayflower carried 41 men and their families totaling 102. The Speedwell proved unseaworthy and turned back. In 1621 the Fortune of 55 tons arrived at Plymouth with about 30 more emigrants, followed by the Ann of 14 tons and the James of 44 tons in 1623 with 60 additional members.
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Plymouth
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