Roosevelt urges two steps to expand employment in 1929
In a May 17 1929 message President Roosevelt asks Congress to enable a cooperative movement and direct public works to boost reemployment. He calls for anti-trust safeguards with licensing, a large public works program around 3.3 billion dollars, and revenue measures to fund the effort while protecting credit and avoiding waste.
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Congress
Conpress
United States
Locasson
Franklin Lb
Roosevelt
Paris
Daladier
France
House bill bars utilities from cutting prices to end competition
Austin May 1 The legislature passed a bill to forbid public utilities from reducing their rates to eliminate competition.
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Austin
City briefs on judge Dibrell bias in Bell telephone case
The city filed its May 25 brief in Vicksburg Mississippi as a special master’s mental attitude toward the telephone company is challenged. Bruce W Teagarden Carl Wright Johnson and T D Cobbs present the city brief arguing Dibrell’s record favored the telephone firm amid a high stakes rate dispute with Southwestern Bell. Judge Holmes will conduct the May hearing.
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Joseph Dibrel
Seguin
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Vicksburg
Miss
Bruce W. ‘Teagarden
Edwin R. Holmes
Missisippi
Holmes
Dibrell
Teagarden
Carl Wright Johnson
T. D. Cobbs
Judge Dibrell
Judge Holmes
Lelephione Company
Supreme Court
Smith Et al
Tines Bell Telephone Company
Western Electric Company
Tragarden
Courge
Witttin
Bnisia
Telephone Company
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orlerns
World Responds to Roosevelt Peace Message Across Nations
International reaction to President Roosevelt's appeal ranges from cautious optimism to calls for disarmament. Britain prepared to answer with royal seal, France backs the effort, and other capitals forecast progress, while domestic legal matters and a crime report interrupt the discourse.
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Roosevelt
Tokio
Orient
Moscow
Russia
Geneva
Arthur Henderson
Rome
Grand Couel
Stockholm
Mexico City
Abelardo Rodriguez
Mexico
Madrid
Melquiades Alvarez
Liberal’ Democratic Party
Copenhagen
Fremier Slauning
Denmark
London
City, Telephone Firm Clash Over Case Referencing
City asserts toll business links to golf ventures and accuses the telephone firm of provoking a court re reference. The brief mocks the plaintiff stance and cites a January 2, 1931 motion, questioning the court’s handling and the city’s alleged complicity versus overreach.
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CITY
Telephone Company
Holmes
Mitchell Jury Sees Mirgin Records in Tax Case
New York May 11 The government opened files from J B Morgan and Co to show Charles E Mitchell former National City Bank chairman evaded taxes on over 4 million dollars by fake sales to his wife and to W K Thornton Witnesses included a deputy internal revenue collector and Morgan office manager detailing loans and collateral tied to the alleged transactions The defense portrayed Mitchell as a patriot and the jurors heard accounts of stock pledges and custodial records amid the $850000 tax fraud claim
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New York
J. B. Morgin and Company
Charles E. Mitchell
National City Bank
Internal Revenue
Morgan
National City Company
Mitchel
Prederick Bommer
Mitchell
W. K.thornton
Greene Cananea Cooper Rompany
Leonard A. Keyes
Instituton
Thornton
Keyes
William Werling
E. Bendit Mitchell
Atern
World Finance
Believe Savant Victim of Stroke
Princeton May 17 a stroke may have caused the automobile crash that killed Dr John Grier Hibben president emeritus of Princeton University and critically injured his wife Hibben 72 died yesterday afternoon when a car he drove swerved into a beer truck near Woodbridge Eye witnesses believed the educator may have suffered a stroke and fell inert
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Princeton
N. J
John Grier Hibben
Princrton University
Hibben
Woodbridge
Fifteen Indicted by Thirty-Seventh Grand Jury
Fifteen indictments and six no bills were returned to Judge W. A. Anderson by the Thirty-seventh District Court grand jury Wednesday noon.
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Grand Jury
Dutge W. 5. Anderson
Thirty-seventh
District Court
Hoon
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ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Dallas
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Oklahoma City
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Excelsior Springs
Des Moines
Minneapolia
Chicago
Pillman Aerview de
Mirgin “Records
Firast
Frost Bros
San Antonio
Elizabeth Arden
Harriet Hubbard Ayer Yardley Bourjois
Jaquet
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Frost
Texas
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