Roosevelt vetoes Patman bonus bill faces override vote
President Roosevelt personally delivers veto in a joint session arguing the measure harms the nation and veterans. Despite his warning inflation threatens the plan, and Congress overrides the veto by 322 to 98, while Senate debate stalls action for a day. The administration considers funding gaps through work relief and broader measures.
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Roosevelt
Byrne
Patman
House
Senate
Solence
White House
Representatives
Garner
Thomas
Pittman
Nevada
Pope
Idaho
Coolidge
Massachusetts
Norbeck
South Dakota
Dennis Chavez
New Mexico
Passamaquoddy
Wisconsin
la Follette
Ethiopia, Mussolini, and wars shadow the League in Europe
The note to the League of Nations warns Ethiopia will yield to neither intimidation nor violence. Eden and Laval failed to sway Italy’s Aloisi over economic privileges to save the league’s face. Mussolini’s Africa venture draws Western governments into a brittle standoff as Haile Selassie buys Turkish bombing planes.
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Eichsfuehrer
Hitler
Reichstag
Europe
League of Nations Council
Germany
League
Great Britain
Lithuania
Reich
Walter von Reichenau
Ministry of Defense
Army
Air Force
Etsiofia
Anthony Eden
Pierre Laval
Baron Aloisi
Ethiopia
Geneva
Mussolini
Rome
British Somaliland
Emperor Haile Selassie
Turkey
Michigan News Briefs from 1936 Coast to Coast
A string of short items reports Detroit and Lansing events including train wreck aftermaths, deaths by accident, forest disease progress, school honors, legal actions, and state government measures. Notable notes cover railway refunds, pheasant egg supply, hotel Kerns fire lawsuits, civil service reforms, and a boy’s shock injury.
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Lansing
CCC
Michigan
Jackson
D Jackson
Michigan Central Railroad
D. J. Hackett
U. S. Supreme Court
Escanaba
Lusitania Sinking Remains a Century-Old Mystery
Twenty years after the Lusitania sank off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, experts debate whether the ship carried munitions and gold. The 1915 disaster killed 1,189, including 124 Americans, with investigations offering conflicting accounts and plans for diving expeditions to recover rumored treasure.
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London
Kinsale
Ireland
Lusitania
Dethroned Needle Threader Champion by Armless Brit
Ottawa tailor J Serelli who threaded 250 strands through a needle loses the title to E G Alason a forty seven year old West Hartlepool news agent in Britain. Alason with no limbs threads 270 strands using only his tongue in wool with a needle. Serelli admits he cannot better the feat and steps down from the world championship won last year with a long forgotten United States house wife.
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Ottawa
School Year Splits Into Farm City Book Phases
Hubert Upjohn, Long Beach schools superintendent, urged California educators to adopt a year split into three seasons. Three months on farm learning, three months in city life and industry, six months for book study. He argued this would shield children from irritable parents and give parents time for personal pursuits.
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San Diego
Hubert 8
Upjohn
Long Beach
Southern California
This Man Builds Over Thousand Boats in Idaho and Canada
Moses Sauve, eighty two, has built thousands of boats and canoes in 63 years. He built 1,200 boats on Lake Coeur d Alene in 33 years and many more in the Thousand Islands area. Since his seventieth birthday he has maintained an average of 41 boats and 100 sets of oars and paddles per year.
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Coeur
Alene
Idaho
Moses Sauve
Sauve
Lake Coeur d’Alene
Thousand Islands
St. Lawrence River
Brockville
Ont
Jane Addams of Hull House and the Reality of Life
Bris bane This Week notes Jane Addams of Hull House died and praises her work for women and children. The column also surveys science and reality, Ludendorff, a Chicago woodpecker sermon, inflation fears, a New York girl’s disappearance, racketeering in poultry, and a Sydney shark tale with a murdered man’s arm returned as evidence.
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Iss Jane Addams
Chicago
West Side
Hull House
America
Women’s International Peace Conference
Hague
International Congress of Women
Jane Addams
Ludendorff
Samos
Sydney
Wnou Service
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Edward W. Pickard
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JTS
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
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Harry Hopkins
Cleveland
Ickes
Campobello
Maine
Maj
Philip B. Fleming
Army Engineers Corps
Fleming
PWA
Major Fleming
NAN
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Midway Island
Harry Brandenburger
Charles J. Kelly
P. C. Litts
Enator
Wagner
New York
Representative Crosser
Supreme Court
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Bronson Cutting
Chamber
Cutting
Hiram Johnson
California
William E. Borah
George Norris
Nebraska
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Robert M. LaFollette
Progressive
Henrik Shipstead
Minnesota
Farmer-Laborite
USSIA
Maxim Gorky
Moscow
Central Aerodynamic Institute
ECRET
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Arthur E. Morgan
TVA
David Lilienthal
Marcourt A. Morgan
J. R. McCarl
House Committee
Hoss
AAA
Frederik
Denmark
Ingrid
Sweden
Stockholm
A. &, Morgan
Battle Creek
Dolph Sijourney
Ceresco
Mary Lucas
Allen—H
Young
Walter S. Goff
Hoxeyville
Mich
Goff
Game Division
Department of Conservation
Traverse City
Thomas J. Blevins
Fife Lake
Parm C. Gilbert
Big Rapids
Richard Schmidt
Quincy
Donald
Darwin Quigley
Milner E. Quigley
Hach
South Haven
Frederick Albert Hoschka
Kerns
Mt. Hope
the Trust Co. of
Hotel
Kerns, Inc
James A. Gratrix
Kalamazoo
C. LaViolette
Fitzgerald
Saginaw
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Midland
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John York
Chippewa Township
Isabella County
Mt. Clemens
Gratiot Avenue
State Highway Department
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Ann Arbor
University Senate Committee On Student Affairs
Marshall
Leo Derhammer
Douglas
Grand Ledger
Tebe Teman
Eaton County
Cupid
Claude Coryeil
Yonas Kristjansson
Sandarkrok
Iceland
Kristjansson
A. H. Palmi
Reykjavik
Sturgis
Flint
Loueella Robison
Court St
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Robison
Camden
Kenneth Brown
Frank Brown
Milwaukee
Kenneth
Yuncheon
Charles Frohman
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Elbert Hubbard
Justus Miles Forman
W. T. Turner
Cunard Line
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Einstein
B. Podolsky
N. Rosen
Princeton Institute For Advanced Study
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New York University
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