Labor fights over wage rules and housing bill agenda
Senatorial battles shape the Green amendments limiting a labor board to wage hour oversight while absorbing scope from the Senate to the House. A Wagner Steagall housing measure seeks a 700 million dollar bond issue with grants and loans to ease slums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Senate
John Lewis
William Green
American Federation of Labor
House
Roosevelt
Green
White House
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Dixie
House Labor Committee
Federation
Labor Standards Board
Walsh-Healey
Mary T. Norton
N. J
Labor Committee
Wagner-Steagall
United States Housing Authority
Treasury Department
Housing Authority
Wagner
Barkley
Harry F. Byrd
New York City
Silver Policy Inflation Threatens Everyday Prices
The column critiques the 1934 silver act and Treasury silver purchases, arguing inflation and higher costs for food, clothing, and goods. It links silver certificates to currency devaluation, notes large silver reserves and certificates, and questions the political use of the policy amid broader partisan clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Roosevelt
China
Federal Reserve Banks
United States
Aristocracy and manners in everyday life observations
A collection of aphorisms on class, friendship, weather, attire, honesty, etiquette, and civilization. Notes compare how self control, comfortable dress, and trustworthy character define social worth, with warnings about vanity, distraction, and excess.
You Can Bank on That It Cured Him
A memory expert at a village hall tells of a parachute jump during military service where a lapse nearly cost him his life. The anecdote ends with the lesson that fear of forgetting saved him from disaster and he claims he has never forgotten anything since.
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Japan
China
Tokyo
Fengtai-Sukouchiao
Peiping
Central
Twenty-Ninth Army
Konoye
Hirohito
Chow Enlai
Chinese Political Council
Nanking
Shanghai
Russia
Caribbean
Santa Maria
Pan American-Grace Airways
Cristobal
Canal Zone
Guayaquil
Ecuador
United States
Nsargent
Spain
Germany
der Fuehrer
Il Duce
Francisco Franco
el Caudillo
Franco
Portugal
Juan
Alfonso XIII
Air Force
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Eland W. Pickard
Saner
Sen. Wagner
U. S
Great Britain
Britain
London
William D. Leahy
Uncle Sam
Navy
Washington
Congress
Madrid
Teruel
Cuenca
Valencia
Usera
Mme
Chiang Kaishek
A. F. of
L’s
Chiang Kai-shek
William Ti Ae
Ae Eben Lohan
John Q
America
Mexico
Canada
Jim Farley
Lean Fui
Democratic National Committee
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Snell
New York
House of Representatives
Cummings
Farley
Representative Rayburn
Western Newspaper Union
Phil
Rar Naa
Thia Wim
Wim
Ashle
Best
Ohio
M. J. Deininger
Hotel Fountain Square
Cincinnati
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