Roosevelt Seeks Court Packing as Senate Debates Reform Plan
President Roosevelt voices support for enlarging the Supreme Court during a radio address while the Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings on the court bill. Attorney General Cummings and Assistant AG Jackson defend the measure as a means to shift the court’s outlook, amid union conflicts and labor actions nationwide.
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Supreme Court
A. F
Franco
Madrid
Senate Judiciary Committee
M Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt
Cummings
Borah
Burke
Dieterich
Illinois
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
J. Earl Major
Springfield
Robert Jackson
High Tribunal
Franco Driven Assault Threat Near Madrid War Front
General Franco mobilizes a vast force near Guadalajara threatening Madrid as observers predict a major battle along the Tajuna and Tajo line. Loyalist Jose Miaja claims 7 000 Italian troops are aiding the attack, landed in Cadiz after a neutrality ban. The Mar Cantabrico incident involved a rebel seizure en route to Ferrol amid crew mutiny claims. Clarence A. Dykstra named Wisconsin president designate, while the Duffey Vinson coal bill passes in a direct house vote to regulate soft coal via a new Interior Department commission.
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Francisco Franco
Madrid
Guadalajara
Tajuna
Tajo
Jose Miaja
Cadiz
International Neutrality Committee
Spain
Mar Cantabrico
United States
New York
Mar Contrabrico
Ferrol
Duffey- Vinson
Supreme Court
Department of” the Interior
Michigan and Alberta politics and Soviet trials dominate regional report
National and international items include the U.S. Maritime Commission becoming permanent with Kennedy as chairman and other appointees. Alberta premier Aberhart proposes full government control over business and price setting. Stalin era purges loom with Bykov and Bukharin facing potential trials. Local Michigan notes cover West Point nominations, MSNC students, quirky local stories, and county safety drives.
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Illiam Aberhart
Social Credit
Alberta
Canada
Aberhart
Michigan Seals Fund Extensive TB Clinic Work for 1937
The Michigan Tuberculosis Association led by Theodore J. Werle outlines a statewide clinic program funded by Christmas seal sales. It aims to tuberculin test and X ray unexamined contacts of 615 patients from three sanatoriums, who average five contacts each. More than half of these contacts had never been tested or X rayed, risking new TB tragedies.
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Ypsilanti
Michigan State Normal College
Betty Malley
Susan Haviland
Sonie
Forrest Kuhtz
Wilfred Sellers
Ann Arbor
Detroit
Durand
Abigail Parsons
Hillsdale
Jacob Beck
Beck
Michigan
Theodore J. Werle
Michigan Tuberculosis Association
Werle
Mr. Werle
Michigan Tubberculosis Association
Hornaday and Requa Deaths Highlight Early 20th Century News
Obituary notes R William T Hornaday of Stamford Connecticut former first director of the New York Zoological Park dies at 82. Also Mark L Requa, California Republican leader and WWII era official, dies in Los Angeles. Meantime meat import data show January imports at record levels due to drought and crop controls, with pork and overall meat up sharply from 1936 and 1935. Figures indicate Canada as major supplier to the US market.
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R. William T. Hornaday
America
Stamford
Conn
New York Zoological Park
Doctor Hornaday
Mark L. Requa
Los Angeles
California
Department of Commerce
United States
New York
Canada
Christ Cross and Mine in the Calvary Lesson
A Sunday school outline reflects on John 19 14 18 noting Jesus crucifixion as the focal point of redemption. It contrasts Pilate's fear with Jewish hostility the disciples care for Mary and Jesus as savior. The cross embodies strength mercy and triumph over death.
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Jesus
Bethlehem
Pilate
Rome
Paul
God
Martin Luther
Delight in Beauty Adison Quotation Fragment
A short historical fragment notes the inward joy sparked by beauty and its spread of cheer through the faculties. The item reflects a quotation attributed to Ad dison about beauty's first discovery and its mental uplift.
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Addison
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Washington
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Cincinnati
University of Wisconsin
Board of Regents
Glenn Frank
Dykstra
University of Iowa
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Joseph P. Kennedy
Securities and Exchange Commission
Thomas M. Woodward
Henry A. Wiley
Edward C. Moran Jr
Maine
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Wiley
Land
Kennedy
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
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Council of People’s Commissars
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Tzvestia
Moscow
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James H. Flynn, Jr
West Point
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Daily News
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Sylvan Township
Francisco
Clear Lake
George Smith
Kalmbach
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