Debate on draft limits and equipment shortages in Army
The Senate discussed draft limits with Democratic Leader Barkley proposing a cap of 1.2 million for annual inductees and Lodge seeking an 800,000 ceiling for draftees in training. General Marshall said 30 caliber rifles exist for 3,000,000 men and troops report basic equipment sufficient for training, with armored divisions having 500 tanks combined and readiness to form effective units.
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Kentucky
Senator Lodge
Batileys
Senate
Marshall
Nelier
Aclu
Armored Corps
Ben- Alor Wheeler
D.mont
Stimsom
Army Recruiting News
Stimson
Wheeler
Death Closes Lawyer's Career
NEW YORK Aug 22 VP Death has ended the career of Max J Steuer a brilliant younger lawyer known as a 3500 a minute attorney He died of a heart attack yesterday in a Jackson New Hampshire hotel He was 69 His body is being brought to New York for funeral services Friday Steuer active in Tammany Hall affairs recently testified at the trial of James J Hines a Tammany reader convicted of conspiracy to protect the policy racket From a lower East Side tailor shop where he worked as a busting puller he put himself through two years at City College of New York and in 1893 graduated from Columbia Law School with honors Steuer was attorney in many spectacular cases among them the litigation arising from the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire which took 145 lives in 1911 His clients included Max Bog Hoo Hoff Philadelphia underworld king and Bridgie Webber one of Herman Rosenthal murderers He estimated he won 94 percent of his cases.
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New York
Max J
Steuer
Iew
Jackson
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New
Angle
Max “Bog Hoo” Hoff
Philadelphia
Bridgie Webber
Herman Rosenthal
War and draft debates dominate summer Senate session
The radiogram from Washington reports enlistments rising in July 1940 and the army peacetime peak in June. Senators discuss peacetime conscription, war industry draft ideas, and potential amendments to the Burke Wadsworth bill as lawmakers push toward final action.
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Army
War Department
Iam
Washington
United States
Knox
Senate
Lawyers Committee
Louis F. McCabe
Philadelphia
Wheeler D.mont
Yhun
Trotzky rites in U. S. sought
Reports say Trotzky funeral plans and banners of protest may push to New York as questions swirl over the murder. Police announced fresh statements from suspect Jackson, who claimed to be Belgian. officials said he is American with ties to New York. Sylvia Agaloff of Brooklyn held as related, while Trotzky aides test the political rift with Stalinism. Mexico's Lazaro Cardenas sent aides to the chapel as Mexico contemplates rites the country may host. James Cannon of the Socialist Workers Party says the funeral will be held in New York to honor Trotzky and slam Stalinist forces.
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Jackson
Eitizer
New York City
Sylvia Agaloff
Brooklyn
N. Y
Troteky
Slater
Trotky
Thracio Asunsulg
Lazaro Cardenas
Norway
Turn
Russia
Hernandez Lamont
Threp
Mexico
Mexico City
New York
James Cannon
Socialist Workers, Party
United States
Ie Fourth International
OGPU Plot Seen in NK Slaying
Albert Goldman, attorney for Leon Trotzky, alleged the exiled Bolshevik leader’s slaying involved an OGPU plot. He cited Vandendreisehd’s admission of Soviet orders and said the assassin, also known as Frank Jackson, gained Trotzky’s trust via Sylvia Ageloff’s family. Goldman noted the Mexico City case may reveal how intruders accessed Trotzky’s home.
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Albert Goldman
Leon Trotzky
Trotzky
Goldman
Vandendrelsehd
OGPU
Mexico City
Jacques Vandendrelsehd
Frank Jackson
Vandendreisehd
Sylvia Ageloff
Brooklown
Ruth
Sylvia
Sammel Ageloff
New York
Jatter
Trotaky
Vandendreiscid
Mexico
New Orl
Rivera and Trotzky Slayer Tied to Premeditation Claim
Diego Rivera says Mexico City authorities report Frank Jackson confessed to killing Leon Trotzky. Rivera notes a pocket note indicating premeditation and shifts blame toward Stalinist forces. Russian dispatches confirm the attack but not Trotzky’s death.
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