Roosevelt Plans Power Over War Profits Wages and Industry
President Roosevelt forms a new committee chaired by Bernard Baruch to draft legislation giving the executive power to control war profits prices and wages across industries. Key officials including Hull Morgenthau Dern Swanson Tugwell MacArthur and Peek join as advisers.
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Hilfe
Senate
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Roosevelt
Bernard M. Baruch
New York
War Industries Board
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Baruch
Hull
State
Morgenthau
Treasury
Dern
War
Swanson
Navy
Tugwell
Wallace
McGrady
Perkins
Henry Latrobe Roosevelt
Eastman
Douglas MacArthur
George N. Peek
Congress
Nye
War Policies Commission
War Department
General MacArthur
Cuba suspends guarantees in three provinces to quell unrest
The Cuban government suspended constitutional guarantees in Havana Santa Clara and Camaguey to allow searches without warrants detentions without charges and mail inspections. Matanza remains the only province with rights intact as Pinar del Rio and Oriente previously lost theirs. A secretary in Havana said squatters on large Oriente lands will be evicted. Poland’s Radziwill outlines France dependent policy and seeks consultation on eastern security and relations with Russia Germany and Baltic states.
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Cera
Havana
Santa Clara
Camaguey
Matanzas
Pinar del Rio
Oriente
Poland
Radziwill
France
Russia
Germany
Baltic States
Europe
Ford plans $8 million expansion of River Rouge plant
Henry Ford and supporters push revival aims by pledging $8 million more for River Rouge near Dearborn Michigan. The total around $20 million will fund a steel finishing plant hot strip mill and power facilities plus blast furnaces as production shifts from 24 to 16 hours daily. Union leaders back unemployment insurance funded by a payroll tax while some lawmakers push an 80 hour week to cut unemployment, opposed by the administration.
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Enry Ford
River Rouge
Dearborn
Mich
Ford
Roosevelt
Green
A. F
Representative Connery
Massachusetts
House Labor Committee
Cummings Leads Washington Crime Conference Opening
Attorney General Cummings hosts a four day crime conference in Washington with about five hundred delegates and speeches by President Roosevelt and Henry L. Stimson. Criminologists judges lawyers and sociologists map a program to curb crime while Anslinger cites raids on dope peddlers and calls for stricter laws. Mayer Goldman suggests abolishing private criminal defense in favor of state lawyers. Treasury officials press broader police powers against bootlegging. Paraguay accepts the League plan to end the Chaco war and mobilizes troops as an armistice talks proceed though final action remains unsettled.
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Jugoslavia
Alexander
Bogoljub Yeftitch
Jugoslav
League of Nations Council
Geneva
Hungary
Marseilles
Italy
France
Czechoslovakia
Rumania
Yeftitch
League
Pierre Laval
Baron Aloisi
Little Entente
Belgrade
Laval
The
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Cummings
Washington
Roosevelt
Henry L. Stimson
H. J. Anslinger
Narcotic Bureau
Mayer C. Goldman
New York
Treasury
Seton
AAA
Wallace
Department of Agriculture
Riculture
National Topics Interpreted by William J. Washington
Senator Borah of Idaho demands reorganization of the Republican party and Fletcher’s resignation. Fletcher resists, urging a special national committee meeting. Couzens pushes for a constructive program. Borah, Hilles, and Requa clash over leadership. Observers see a broader need for pragmatic policy shifts to revive the GOP.
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Washington
William 5. Borah
Idaho
Fletcher
Republican Party
Henry P. Fletcher
Republican National Committee
Borah
James Couzens
Michigan
Couzens
Mr. Fletcher
National Committee
Ouzens
Senator Borah
Charles D. Hilles
Mark L. Requa
New York
California
Stolen Vipers Roil Tokyo Police Station Visit
A Tokyo dentist rushed to a police station to learn if his pet vipers could make him liable after their theft. He had taken two snakes in a box to a cinema and left briefly. the thief who stole them risked harm, police said the owner would not be held responsible.
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Tokyo
Royal love cools Princess Lois to sue Erik of Denmark
Ottawa reports that Princess Lois, formerly Lois Booth, and Prince Erik of Denmark seek a divorce after ten years of marriage. The couple, who renounced Erik’s throne rights in 1928, have two children and were living in Sweden with plans to visit Canada.
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Ottawa
Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
Arctic
Lois
Lois Booth
Erik
Denmark
Christian
Sweden
Bjergbygaard
Prince Erik
United States
California
J. R. Booth
Prince Waldimar
Pasadena
Plumber Succeeds After Surgeons Are Failures
In Boston a city hospital plumber removed a metal washer jammed on a four year old Roxbury girl’s right finger after three surgeons could not. Ether anesthesia followed as the plumber used tools to saw through a sliver of the washer and spread it free, ending the urgent case.
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Boston
Mass
Roxbury
Mary Peters
Perch Street
Celia Cooney
Mary
Uses His Wooden Leg as Weapon in 16 Fights
Josef Prochazka, an Olomouc resident with a wooden leg, is banned from entering the town after his sixteenth court appearance for grievous bodily harm. He eschews the leg as a weapon during confrontations, claiming insults as a helpless cripple.
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Prague
Josef Prochazka
Olomouc
Josef
Jimtown Succumbs to Young Man's Bad Checks
Bryan Ohio report recalls Jimtown aka Walling's half acre near Montpelier along U S Route 20. A personable young man passed worthless checks at the drug store city market restaurant filling station and a garage on the half acre town. Mrs Grace Walling mayor and owner of Jimtown bought the town at auction for 1400 dollars.
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Bryan
Ohio
Walling
Jimtown
Montpelier
Grace Walling
Boar Kills 20 Sheep in Helena Montana
A 500 pound domestic boar with six inch tusks attacked a flock near Helena Montana killing 20 sheep and injuring a saddled horse before it was shot. A tent was ripped apart in the incident.
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Helena
Mont
Missouri sorority spending tops non members for apparel
Sorority girls at the University of Missouri spent 27306 dollars on clothing in one semester, compared with 2948 dollars by non sorority students. The figures highlight a wide gap in apparel expenditure between campus social groups and the general student body.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
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Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Kerns
Lansing
Assembly
Grand River
Liry
Joseph W. Burns
Tennessee
Burns
John W. McCormack
John B. Rankin
Mississippi
James M. Mead
John J. O’connor
William W. Arnold
Adolph J. Sabath
Illinois
Saar
J. BH
Brind
Finland
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Henry Ford
Paraguay
League of Nations
Chaco
William J
Pan
Democratic Party
James M. Cox
Hoover
Alfred H. Smith
Representative Fish
Mal
Mr. Borah
Mr. Couzens
Borahs
Nyes
Norrises
Fletchers
Hilleses
Requas
Ralph W. Baird
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Engineering Society
Bastern Nowenaner Union
Booth
Prince
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