One Big Shot Convicted and Global Ironies
In a wide column the writer reflects on justice versus crime in America, praising Dewey’s conviction of Charles Luciano on 62 counts and noting broader global events from Mussolini’s Ethiopia campaign to weather disasters. The piece mocks tax-based prosecutions and laughs at technological marvels while critiquing foreign policy and consumer loyalties to “Made in” brands. The piece blends commentary on crime, politics, and cultural slogans.
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Dewey
Supreme Justice
McCook
New York City
Charles Lucky" Luciano
Lucky
ARGER
United States
Landon nominated for President at Republican convention
Landon won the nomination on the first ballot with 804 of 1005 votes as the party rallied behind him. Knox nominated for vice president, Borah received 19 votes, and the platform called for economy, labor rights, and reform while opposing the League of Nations and World Court.
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Landon
William E. Borah
Idaho
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Chicago Daily News
Board Farm
League of Nations
World Court
John Hamilton
Post Office
Mussolini Shakes Cabinet Names Ciano Foreign Minister
Italy’s Premier Mussolini reshuffles the cabinet, elevating his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano to foreign minister at age thirty three, after moving from propaganda. Ferruccio Lanini and Alessandro Lessona receive the ministries of colonies and corporations, while Diano Alferi and Giuseppe Bastianini take Ciano’s former posts.
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Italy
Mussolini
Tr Duce
Bia
Galeazzo Ciano
Ciano
Propaganda
Ferrucia Lantini
Alesandro Lessopa
Count Ciano
Diano Alferi
Giuseppe Bastianini
Amd
Washington mourns Speaker Burns in sudden death
The death of Speaker Joseph W. Burns shocks colleagues after a 25 year tenure in the Hermitage Tennessee district. He led the house appropriations committee and the Democratic congressional campaign, earning the nickname Uncle Joe for his sharp parliamentary skill.
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Washington
Joseph W. Burns
Tack
House
Hermitage
Tennessee
House Appropriations
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Joe
Kiyrns
National Democratic Congressional
Cedar U
Robertson County
Burns
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Byrne
Byrnk
Congress
John Wesley Gaines
National House
Political theater and policy notes clash across the nation
A chaotic mix of political jabs and policy briefings critiques the 1930s party scene. The piece spars with names, quotes, and social issues from Washington to Philadelphia, noting foreign service pay gaps and a Bureau of Navigation overhaul while skewering reform rhetoric and anti minority sentiment.
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Brisbane
Fulton
Hudson River
Major Baker
Army Air Corps
Badoglio
Ethiopia
Soe
Rome
Mussolin
Constantine
Oklahoma
Kansas
Black Legion
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Sir Samuel Hoare
Mediterranean
Haile Selassie
Great Britain
England
France
Bing Features Syndicate
WAU Service
London
Britain
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Gov
Alfred M. Landon
Cleveland
Gov. Landon
Lorenzo Guerrero
Roberto Gonzalez
Alejandro Sequeira Rivas
Fath
John Hays Fammond
Eighty One
Gloucester
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Rider Haggard
Cecil Rhodes
Mr. Hammond
San Francisco
California
Yale
Mexico
South Africa
Barney” Barnato
Hammonds
Paul Kruger
Transvaal Republic
FTER
Popular Front
Leon Blum
Blom
Supreme Court of Minness
Cook County
Carl W. McNeil
Jonn Hays
Hammond
Tom
National Capital
Bertha Nienburg
Women’s Bureau
Associated Country Women
Labor Department
Ufe
New England
Southern Highlands Association
Tennessee Valley Authority
Norris
Rockefeller Center
N.Y
Margaret A. Ambrose
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Basia
Ccourt
NEA
New York
Supreme Court
Roosevelt Haa
Lhumke
Ollywood
Calif
Philadelphia
Uberty
Seattle Lochinvar
America
Lochinvar
Seattle
Atone
Clyde Beatty
Zion
Cheek
Ita Foreign Service
Uit
State Department
Uncle Sam
Ite
Foreign Service
Bureau of Navigation and Steam Ship Inspection
Waa
Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper
Commerce Department
Joseph B. Weaver
Koper
Ropers
Commerce
Department
WN Service
Bigdtry
Michigan
Reir
Kcently
Liberty League
Church of SS. Midas and
Croesun
al Smith
Apeak
Irvin
Cobb
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