Roosevelts landslide reshapes Senate then governorships
After a nationwide vote the Democrats gain nine Senate seats with victories in Pennsylvania and California. Key defeats for the administration include Reed and Fess while Republicans lose ground as reformers like La Follette prevail in the Midwest. Prohibition shifts show wet gains in seven states amid political realignment.
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Roosevelt
United States
Senate
Pennsylvania
Joseph Guffey
David A. Reed
Simeon B. Fess
Ohio
Vic Donahey
Arthur R. Robinson
Indiana
Sherman Minton
Hatfield
West Virginia
Walcott
Connecticut
Hebert
Rhode Island
Kean
New
Frank F. Merriam
California
Hiram Johnson
Wisconsin
la Follette
Bob la Follette
John M. Callahan
al Smith
Bob
Callahan
John 3. Chapple
Republian
Philip la Follette
Albert Schmedeman
Howard T. Greene
Austin
Vermont
Townsend
Delaware
Illlinois
New York
Massachusetts
Fred Britten
Royal S. Copeland
H. H. Lehman
David I. Walsh
Jim Curley
Boston
Jim Farley
Congress
Michigan and Michigan items from a 1934 local roundup
A sweeping county and city digest reports levy changes in Monroe County, a hit and run incident in Marshall, deer collisions near Tawas City, surgery for Mrs. Bairley in Monroe, a stove ash return in Portland, skeet shot standards in Lansing, and multiple accidents and notices across Houghton Grand Rapids Escanaba Dearborn Adrian and more.
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Monroe
Frances Bairley
Joseph J. Bairley
Lansing
Michigan Skeet Association
Houghton
Arthur
Bruce
George Brozak
Crystal Falls
John A. Labrecque
CCC
Kenton
Hwen
Labrecque
Grand Rapids
Escanaba
Upper Peninsula
Emil Wietzke
Rapid River
Vietzke
Delbert Mosier
Willard Larson
Dearborn
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Michigan
Detroit
Rouge and
Highland Park
Romeo
George McAndrews
George
Bartlett S. Hart
Bartlett
Port Austin
Ralph L
Cleveland
Huron County
Louis LaFord
Russell
Edward Lash
Here
Bay City
Lafayette Avenue
J. H. Cissel
University of Michigan
Gladstone
Albert Rustad
Albert
Frank D. Fitzgerald
State Administrative Board
House of Representatives
Senate
Vandenberg
Sault Ste. Marie
St. Mary’s Falls Canal
Pittsburgh
Roosevelt era recovery plans shift from dole to work programs
The article notes a broad shift in national policy under President Roosevelt from direct relief to job creation. It details housing subsidies, public works, and rural rehabilitation as central aims, with bank loan loosening to spur private construction. Senator Nye advocates government ownership of war-related plants amid active committee hearings.
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Roper
Galston Doumergue
Chamber of Deputies
Doumergue
Edouard Herriot
Lebrun
Pierre Laval
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Paris
Patriotic Societies
Lansing
Woodward Ave
Detroit
State Highway Department
Kirby Ave
Orchestra Place
Julius Porath
Roosevelt
Federal Housing Administration
James A. Moffett
Washington
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Treasury
United States
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Senate
Nye
Canada
House
Europe
Western Newspaper Union
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Edward W. Pickard
Kansas
Florida
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Idaho
George Norris
Morto’ Castle
Dickerson
N. Hoover
Steamboat Inspection Service
The
World Foundation
OVIET
Russia
Lenin
Moscow
Comintern
Third Internationale
Franklin D. Roosevelt
America
Philadelphia
Warm
Springs
National Association of Manufacturers
Ilegal
American Federation of Labor
William Green
A. F. of L
Alvan Macauley
Automobile Manufacturers’ Association
Ollowing
Department of Agriculture
AAA
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
J. Gorman
Rancis J. Gorman
United Textile Workers’ Committee
George A. Sloan
Cotton Textile Institute
Federal Board
Gaston Doumergue
Board of Supervisors
Marshall
Carrie Sandy
Tawas City
E. D. Jacques
Howard Hatton
Allegane
Walter A. Parker
William Rings
Philippines
Rings
Maj. E. O. Barber
Young Men’s Republican Club
Zachary Taylor
Lincoln
Leroy Waterman
Michigan Council of Religious Education
Frederick B. Fisher
E. C. Edmunds
Benton Harbor
EB. J. Millington
Cadillac
Hazel D. Leonard
E. Harris
Adrian
Tawas
Dudley
Au Sable
East Tawas
Hart
Lake Orion
Robert Hauxwell
Wildwood Farms
W. E. Scripps
Hauxwell
Flint
Black Street
Opics
William Bruckart
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