Paroles and Ransom Vincent Astor Hotel Bargain
The column discusses Vincent Astor buying the St. Regis hotel for 5,090,000 and notes his lineage and former Astor properties. It also covers Mussolini bluntly criticizing Britain, the brain bath medical treatment, and global political tensions with China Japan and Manchukuo. The piece ends reflecting on American industry and a Toledo strike, plus a King FosteresBraecate reference.
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Vincent Astor
Mussolini
New York
St. Regis
Fifth Avenue
Astor
Astor House
City Hall
Chicago
Kansas City
Huey Long filibuster blocks NRA extension vote
Senator Huey Long waged an 16 hour filibuster to block an extension of the NRA, attacking the administration and reading from Bible and Hugo. The Senate rejected the Gore amendment and passed the extension 41 to 13, sending the measure back to the House with a minor antitrust tweak.
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Enator
Huey Long
Louisiana
Senate
Gore
Huey
Schan
McCarren
NRA
National
Racketeers’ Association
Victor Hugo
Borah
House
Recovery Administration
White House
Donald Richberg
Roosevelt
Idaho clubs rally to Borah for president
Idaho supporters have formed Borah for President clubs led by Ralph Brashears of Boise. They urge the Senator to emancipate the people from a vast bureaucratic government that stifles individual initiative and regiments Americans.
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Congress
United States
Robinson
Senate
Arkansas Pharmaceutical Association
Stockton
Sacramento
Charley Chaplin
Brother
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
William E. Borah
Idaho
Ralph Brashears
Boise
Mr. Borah
Braddock Beats Ax Baer for World Heavyweight Title
James J. Braddock defeats Ax Baer in a 15 round world title bout on Long Island City. No knockdowns occur and neither fighter suffers severe punishment. Braddock claims heavyweight championship.
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AX Baer
James J. Braddock
Long Island City
Lindbergh Ends Active Role With TWA As Advisor
Transcontinental and Western Air chairman Henry B. Dupont announced that Charles A. Lindbergh has terminated his active participation for the present. The aviator will devote the next few months to personal affairs while remaining available in emergencies as TWA technical adviser.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Transcontinental
Western Air
Henry B. Dupont
Lindbergh
TWA
Dupont
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Waley
Weyerhaeuser
Tacoma
England
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India
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Manchukuo
Imperial Palace
Asia
Republican Party
Constitutional Party
New York Herald
Joseph Pulitzer
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NEA
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King Fosters Braecate, Inc
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Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
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Mitchell
Tennessee
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Kansas
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George W. Bunn
Harrison E. Spangler
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Spangler
Frank O. Lowden
Ilinois
Lowden
American Federation of Labor
Old Brain Trust
Es Laval
France
Chamber of Deputies
Laval
Paris
Bank of France
Chiang Kai-shek
Takashi Sakai
Chiang
Kuomintang
Blue Shirt
Shanghai
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Essex
Viscount Byng of
Vimy
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Sudan
Ypres
H. H. Asquith
John Simon
Foreign Office
Home Office
Samuel Hoare
MacDonald
Malcolm
Sam Parks
Pittsburgh
Oakmont Country Club
Jimmy Thompson
Long Beach Calif
Walter Hagen
Christ Brinke
Detroit
Witte
Wi Rogers
Beverly Hills
Cal
Irvin Cobb
Cobb
Mississippi
Ohio
Irvin
Claremore
American
Desert
Mohave
Calledarndsburg
Irene Rich
Margaret Livingston
Paul Whiteman
Dempsey
Stanley Baldwin
nCeo
Ara Ae
de Kalb
B'kisaa
Daisy Fly Killer
Lee
Ders& Uitoes
Uthura Jalemn
Pawo
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Wintersmith’s Tonic
Spurlock-Neal Co
Nashville, Tenn
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