Review of Current Events and March Primaries
The piece surveys the 1932 presidential primary scene with Roosevelt’s setbacks in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, Smith’s strong showing, and Hoover’s delegate assureance. It notes political battles within parties, congressional votes on tax and tariff measures, and a broad roundup of governors’ events and international figures, including Darrow and La Guardia hearings.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Massachusetts
al Smith
Pennsylvania
New York
Smith
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Hoover
James J. Davis
Smedley D. Butler
Pincot
Davis
William §. Ware
Pinchot
Louis T. McFadden
Europe
Multiple Michigan towns report fatal, miraculous and industrial events
In many brief notes, Michiganians face disasters and discoveries. Galesburg Kalmazoo driver killed when struck by a locomotive and truck fire burned his body. Ishpeming man dies of heart attack while inspecting a bridge. Novack found dead in Budd Lake after missing six weeks. Mt. Pleasant reports a new oil well boosting field output to 30 000 barrels daily amid proration talk. Mills crushed by falling house. Jackson area allocates 1000 acres for welfare farm aid. Belding silk mills to move to Putnam Conn leaving 325 workers jobless. 90 day notice. Allegan furniture theft and fire. Berkley class walkout punished. Grand Rapids canoeing death of Peter La Fata. Baldwin forest fire threatens Idlewild. Detroit reports Camp Custer and Fort Brady MTI demand exceeds quota. Mt. Pleasant clock from 1734 praised. Muskegon boy burns treatment improves. Jackson radio plant theft halted. Grand River sturgeon caught by net fishermen. Norway reports perfect 300 game in bowling. Muskegon GOP delegates chosen. Coldwater driver injury causes death. Muskegon burns at Clover Foundry. Dowagiac fertility in Hungerford family. Hesperia school fire. all students escape. Detroit man killed in garage incident. Ewen trees planted for Washington bicentennial forest. Adrian fire crew saves corn stalks using tractor. Riopel improving after stew accident. Berkley man jailed for child support. Houghton woodsman dies running from wardens. Flint plant explosion burns two workers. East Lansing announces MSU summer session dates. Bad Axe skunk rescue ends safely.
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Galesburg
Samuel Stohler
Kalamazoo
Ishpeming
John Wirtala
Clare
Jacob
Novack
Budd Lake
Mt. Pleasant
Mt. Clemens
George R. Mills
Mills
Baldwin
Idlewild Terrace
North Lake Marlborough
Luther
Chase
White Cloud
Dighton
Conservation Department
Détroit
Camp Custer
Fort. Brady
Phelps Newberry
Michigan
Secretary of War
John L. Seaman
Gratiot County
Eli Terry
Plymouth
Muskegon
Martin Deater
Young Denter
Adrian
Tecumseh
E. J. Marshall
Detroit
Frank J. Riopel
Riopel
Berkley
Stanley Gruber
Frank
Kortejarvi
Checking Work of Legislature Review in Lansing
Lansing officials assess the legislature’s week long work on highway funding and budget cuts. They warn mass transfers could cost highway jobs while seeking to protect property owners and speed adjournment. The senate budget push and a failed income tax proposal loom as two more actions pending. The house approves extended municipal bond refunding and two executive messages urge cemetery charter relief and presidential elector ballot restoration.
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Lansing
House
Grover Dillman
Highway Department
House Or Representatives
Senate
of Representatives
Executive Office
Ex-Treasurer Roberts Arrested for Misappropriation
Harry Roberts 57 former Wheatland Township treasurer was arrested on charges of misappropriating 872 89 in tax money. Harold Hard, his successor, found the shortage during an audit requested by taxpayers. County prosecutor Kenneth W. Huggett said Roberts denies knowledge of the shortage. An Addison Courier brief notes a separate 72 word will from Charles Orkhams of Chesterfield England disposing of a 3 6 million estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Roberts
Wheatland Township
Harold Hard
Roberts
Kenneth W. Huggett
Addison
Courier
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Edward W. Pickard
Sen. J. J. Davis
Kahahawai
Honolulu
Thomas H. Massie
Navy
Granville Fortescue
B. J. Tord
Albert O. Jones
Oahu
Massie
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
Couzens
Senate Finance Committee
Harrison
Mississippi
Congress
Rainey
Britten
Chmond
Washington
James Monroe
Pollard
Monroe
Ash Lawn
Claude G. Bowers
White House
F. H. la Guardia
Senates Banking Committee
New York Stock Exchange
la Guardia
The
New Yorker
Savage Arms
Maxwell Motors
Pure Oil
Simms
Petroleum
Superior Oil
la’ Guardia
A. Newton Plummer
Institute of Economic Research
Plummer
Stock Exchange
Norbeck
Glass
Fletcher
Walcott
Connecticut
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Democratic Party
Joe Robinson
Arkansas
Robinson
OHN N
Willys
Poland
United States
Willys-Overland Company
F. M. Sackett
University of Tuebingen
Grand Rapids
Committee On
Borgia
Richard B. Russell, Jr
William Harris
John 8. Cohen
Atlanta Journal
Harris
Russell
Major Cohen
Georgia
Journal
Maj. J. S. Cohen
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Reich
Bavaria
Prussia
Russia
Social Democrats
Hitler
Berlin
Agaran
Fapan
Manchuria
Manchoukuo
Hay Jag
Sungari
H. la Guardia
Senator Couzens
Jackson
Municipal Welfare Bureau
Belding
Citizens’ Committee
Putnam
Conn
Allegan
John Hettinger
Berkley High School
Robert B. French
Degby
Peter la Fata
la Fata
Little Pine Island Lake
Sparks Withington Co
Poice
Grand River
Lake Michigan
Norway
G. W. Johnson
Rialto
Johnson
Coldwater
Elizabeth L. Green
Richard H. Fidler
Richard Kriéselt
Milton
William Sam
Frank Borgeson
Clover
Dowaziac
Fred Hungerford
Hungerford
Hesperia
Oceana County
Edgar Ducharne
Ewen
Ewen Post 41
American Legion
Kenton
Albert E. Nelson
Dunbar Forest
Sault ‘Ste_- Marie
Arthur ‘Dundas
Dundas
Bis Helper
By Elton R. Eaton
Charles Orkham
Chesterfield
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