Belgian King Albert II dies in mountain accident
World mourns as Albert II dies while climbing a 90 foot pinnacle near Namur. Crown Prince Leopold, 32, ascends to the throne with Queen Astrid. Funeral crowds include international dignitaries and police guard. Leopold crowned next day in Brussels.
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Albert I
Belgium
Namur
Brussels
Elizabeth
Albert
Leopold
Duke of
Brabant
Astrid
Sweden
Cathedral of St. Gudule
Charles
Crown Prince
Umberto
Italy
Morris
United States
Lebrun
Doumergue
Queen Elizabeth
Prince Leopold
England
France
Spain
Brazil
Air mail contracts and aviation profits disclosed in senate hearing
The senate committee reconvened to hear Walter F. Brown deny collusion in air mail contracts while Colonel Lindbergh supplied a statement of aviation earnings. The record lists Brown’s denials and Lindberghs various salaries and profits from Pan American Airways and Transcontinental Air Transport, with losses from other aviation investments.
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Senate Committee
Walter F. Brown
Hoover
Brown
Transcontinental and
Western Air
Transcontinental Air Transport
Transcontinental and Western Air
Pennsylvania Railroad
Michigan News Briefs Highlight Local Incidents and Achievements
Reports from multiple Michigan locales cover a paralyzed driver after a tire failure. a sugar beet yield of 35,242,370 pounds by Great Lakes Sugar Co. Blissfield. a 103rd birthday celebration in Grand Rapids. a near sinking off Beaver Island. a gas main leak endangering families near Pontiac. trumpeter swans at Michigan State College. aroused economy concerns in Battle Creek and Lansing fuel savings, with various other local notes.
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Watervliet
Howard Danneifel
Blissfield
Great Lakes Sugar Co
Grand Rapids
Thomas Gordon
Alexander Mayville
Mayville
Gordon
Charlevoix
Everett Cole
Raymond
Mike Cull
Beaver Island
Garden Island
Pontiac
Franklin Road
George Avram
Avram
East Lansing
Michigan State College
North America
Holland
Battle Creek
Board of Education
Luce County
Robert Dawson
Lansing
Michigan
State Department of Labor and Industry
Jackson
Alan Leamy
CWA
Janice Mary Murphy
James Lt. Murphy
Rochester
al Engen
Salt Lake City
Detroit
Engen
Sverre Engen
Ted Zaberski
Ironwood
Anders Haugen
Minneapolis
John Erkilla
Ishpeming
Louis D. Becker
Becker
Charles Hebner
Detroit Saving Bank
Roosevelt era and the new deal moves reshape America
The essay surveys a year of Roosevelt's New Deal, noting expanding federal powers and shifts toward collective action. It highlights the Bankhead cotton control bill, its drastic reach, the certificate system, and questions about impacts for crop years, weather, and regional differences.
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Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New Deal
States
District of Columbia
United States
NRA
AAA
Union
Roosevelt
Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Department of Agriculture
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Austria
Edward W. Pickard
King Leopold
Anthony Eden
Europe
Paris
Hitler
Germany
Eden
Berlin
Rome
Great Britain
Lord Tyrrell
Louis Barthou
Privy Seal
Mussolini
Bhitler
Dollfuss
Wright Patman
House
Rainey
White House
TJ Am
Senate
NLW
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Roger Touhy
Chicago
John Factor
Charles W. Mayo
Alabama
EB. P. Adler
Davenport
Iowa
Mayo
Albert Prince
Court of Appeals
Stavisky
Dijon
Farm Administration
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
Indiana
Ohio
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Fridials
St. Paul
Homer 5. Cummings
Twin Cities
Mahoney
Lindbergh
Augusto Sandino
Nicaragua
Sacasa
National Guard
Managua
Sandino
Republic
Sigvard
Gustav Adolf
Erika Patgek
Erika
Gustav
London
Mr. Bernadotte
Prince Lennert
Stockholm
Mr. Lennert Bernadotte
Japan
Russia
North Pacific
Moscow
Kamchatka
Tokyo
Baron Shidehara
Alexander Troyanovsky
Prince Sigvard
Eeee
Burnett J. Abbott
State Administrative Board
William Bruckart
Cotton Belt
Western Newspaper Union
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