Sit-down strikes and federal role in labor policy debated
Washington discussions center on who may regulate sit-down strikes and whether the Wagner act is constitutional. The administration resists compulsory arbitration, eyes 30 day notice, with the Supreme Court enlargement and budget matters delaying labor and farm legislation into June.
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Dar Mae
Washington
Senate
House
Grover Cleveland
Capitol Hill
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
William Green
Roosevelt
General Motors
High Court
Henry F. Ashurst
Senate Judiciary Committee
Departed Spirits and Matrimonial Adventures Oddities
In a California column, a first seance yields a ghostly exchange as a son asks if his late father is in heaven and an angel with wings. A separate note from Los Angeles discusses marriage as the sixth-year danger point, while Washington buzz covers a senator wavering on the Supreme Court plan. Maine’s senators resist New Deal prompts as poker law sparks debate on gambling vs sport.
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Los Angeles
Washington
Supreme Court
Lloyd's
Maine
Congress
Tree rings show Pacific Northwest drought period 1917 to 1935
A USDA study of 1,240 centuries old ponderosa pines in the Pacific Northwest reveals a critically subnormal period from 1917 to 1935 due to lack of precipitation, suggesting no general long term trend toward wetter or drier climate.
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Pacific Northwest
United States Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin Names Cincinnati Leader as University President
Clarence A. Dykstra, city manager of Cincinnati, announced his acceptance of the presidency at the University of Wisconsin. He will succeed Dr. Glenn Frank, who was deposed recently by the university regents' executive committee.
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Clarence A. Dykstra
Cincinnati
University of Wisconsin
Dykstra
Glenn Frank
University Regents
Floods ease as Derby season returns and war ends noted
In New York this week two news threads rise from floods and war. Colonel Matt Winn returns to steer Churchill Downs as the Kentucky Derby purse rises by fifty thousand dollars. Also Dr. William R. Valentiner discusses Rembrandt authenticities while noting war impacts on art in America.
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York
Churchill Downs
Matt Winn
Kentucky
Colonel Winn
Aristides
Noah
James Butler
Empire City
Mr. Butler
Charles’ Evans Hughes
New York State
Juarez
Mexico
Chicago
Laurel
William R. Valentiner
Detroit Institute of Art
Juno
New York
Valentiner
America
Hague
Royal Museums of
Berlin
le Seer En A Ae
United States
Canada
Pariahs and Puzzles in a General Quiz Session
The questions cover groups called the Pariahs, the meaning of dm in measurement, Libby prison location, why trees are deciduous, a distress signal used at sea, the longest passenger railway tunnel, height differences when lying versus standing, Sunday presidential oath legality, first silver dollar coinage, the meaning of cover charge, and the origin of the Troy weight name.
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Libby
United States
Fragmentary clues from a period quiz or note
A scrambled list mentions Golders Green to South Wim berg London a distance of 16% miles notes about lying down an inch noted President Wilson visiting a cafe privilege costs food and weights from Troyes France used in the Middle Ages.
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Golders Green
Wimberg
London
Wilson
Troyes
France
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