Five Little Girls at Once and Big Bills Come Back
A North Bay mother welcomed five daughters in one birth, bringing her family to ten children. Dr. A. R. Dafoe says the quintuplets are well. The piece also notes large-denomination bills returning to banks, French flyers’ failed nonstop cross-country attempt, Cuba seeking assassins of Ambassador Caffery, Mrs. Roosevelt’s prison visit and radio pay, Mussolini’s war prep, and the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago with Henry Ford visiting and urging youth engagement.
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Atlantic
Cuba
Oliva Dionne
North Bay
Ont
A. R. Dafoe
Callander
NRA
Congress
Federal Reserve
United States Treasury
Maurice Rossi
Paul Codos
Long Island
Paris
California
Lord Northcliffe
English Channel
San Francisco
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Aldergon
W. Va
John Huss
John Hues
Chicago
Henry Ford
Memorial Day at Gettysburg gives Roosevelt broad attack on critics
President Roosevelt, hailed as first citizen of the world by Governor Pinchot, honors North and South veterans at Gettysburg then tours New York aboard the Indianapolis. He condemns those who distort facts, reject rules, or isolate themselves as he promotes national unity and recovery plans amid looming labor disputes and NRA debates.
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Roosevelt
Pinchot
West
South
New York
Indianapolis
Navy
Swanson
Josephus Daniels
Congress
Ambrose
Pennsylvania
David A. Sellers
Louisville
President Coolidge
New England, New York, Pennsylvania Edge Toward Wage Pact
ELEGATES from the five New England states, New York and Pennsylvania have signed a solemn pact for the protection of women and minors in industry. The compact calls for minimum wage standards and bars unfair pay to women or minors. State boards would investigate payrolls and enforce compliance.
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New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Embargo on arms to waring nations under Roosevelt action
President Roosevelt signed a joint resolution empowering him to halt arms shipments to belligerent states and proclaimed an embargo on selling arms or munitions in the United States to Bolivia and Paraguay. The move, the first of its kind, respects existing treaties and seeks to curb the war effort while Bolivia contemplates arbitration at the League of Nations. DOS and Rossi, the distance record holders, failed to improve their mark after landing in New York due to wing weakness in their Paris to California flight.
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Geneva
Europe
League of Nations
Litvinov
Russia
Norman H. Davis
Roosevelt
Louis Barthou
France
Hitler
Mussolini
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Washington
United States
Harry Hopkins
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Chicago
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
NRA
Graphic Arts Industries
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Congress
Bolivia
Paraguay
Costa Durell
League of Nations Council
World’s
Court of Permanent Justice
Durell
Dos and Rossi
Paris
California
Atlantic Ocean
New York
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Jefferson Caffery
Maine
Spain
Philippines
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Havana
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
United States Naval Academy
Marine Corps
Philippine Scouts
Dern
Baker
Sant “Orate da SS
Moe Eng
Coeine
Hough
Johnson
United Textile Workers of America
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
American Iron and Steel Institute
National Industrial Conference Board
UBA
State Department
Senate
Guantanamo
Mendieta
J. Caffery
Mr. Caffery
Caffery
Yacht Club
House Agriculture Committee
Fulmer
Irish Free State
Daileireann
Eamon de Valera
England
Britain
William Bruckart
I Forest
General Johnson
White House
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