Hoover Senate clash over power board appointments heats up
The Hoover administration stands firm against Senate demands to rescind power board appointments. The Senate, by 36 to 28, restored George Otis Smith Marcel Gargaud and Claude Draper to the executive calendar amid threats to filibuster. Attorney General Mittchell supports the President.
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Hoover
Senate
George Otis Smith
Marcel Gargaud
Claude L. Draper
Mittchell
Power Commission
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Independent Offices
Global Economic Conference and Tariff Board Battles
The Senate opposed Hoover nominees for the tariff board but confirmed six members including Fletcher Page Coulter Dennis Brossard Dixon. A six day world business conference begins May 4 in Washington with 46 nations, led by Georges Theunis, to study causes of the international depression and the impact of grain and Soviet dumping. tributes note Jathan Straus and Edwin Meyer for philanthropy, while a missing plane wind event endangers Beryl Hart and W S MacLaren. Briand’s European federation plan faces mixed reactions from Britain, Germany, Italy, and France as League of Nations officials weigh the union’s effects.
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Senate
Hoover
Tariff Board
Henry P. Fletcher
Thomas W. Page
John Lee Coulter
Alfred P. Dennis
Edgar B. Brossard
Lincoln Dixon
Robinson
Arkansas
Walsh
Montana
Brossard
Utah
Old Tariff Commission
International Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Georges Theunis
Belgium
International Chamber
Silas H. Strawn
Chicago
The
Europe
United States
Soviet Russia
Ristide Briand
League of Nations
Geneva
Great Britain
Germany
Hungary
Italy
League
France
Briand
Weatarn
Union
Thief Arrested Six Hours After Parole
Boston police recaptured Harold Remington six hours after his parole from Concord reformatory. He snatched a woman's handbag containing $30 and was sent back to the reformatory to finish his five year sentence.
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Boston
Mass
Harold Remington
Concord Reformatory
Reformatory
Cashier Confesses to Long Term Employee Theft
Alma Brunner, 39, admitted stealing from Dicto graph Products over eight years, totaling about eighty thousand dollars. She cashed daily checks and money orders, falsified accounts, and used funds for clothes and a roadster. Brunner pled not guilty at arraignment. bail set at 5000 dollars.
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Alma Brunner
Dictograph Products Company
Brunner
Wolf Trapper Treed 48 Hours by Ferocious Pack
Bayfield Wisconsin fisherman and trapper Martin Kane spent more than 48 hours in a tree after luring a wolf pack to his trail with fish bait. He trapped six wolves near his cabin but was forced to flee as darkness fell. Kane slid down, broke a limb, and escaped into Lake Superior reaching his cabin.
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Bayfield
Wis
Martin Kane
Presque Island
Lake Superior
Kane
Conscience Stricken Thieves Return Hams in Virginia
In Luray Virginia two men stole two 800 pound hogs from Calvin Sours at Jewell Hollow. The thieves returned the missing two hams after Mrs Sours alerted them and a bag with the meat was found propped by the barn the next morning.
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Luray
Calvin Sours
Jewell Hollow
Mr. Sours
Bottle Cap Almost Kills Man at Party
Ross Duncan of Richards Missouri nearly died after a wine bottle cap blew off and lodged in his throat during a party with his girlfriend. Physicians failed to remove it for hours. the cap was finally forced into his stomach to relieve the obstruction.
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Kansas City
Ross Duncan
Richards
Mouse causes driver to wreck car near Augusta
In Augusta Maine a mouse ran up Herman Pattersons leg causing him to lose control of his car. He escaped serious injury and the vehicle was wrecked.
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Augusta
Maine
Herman Patterson
Unsolved Royal Riddle Hannah Lightfoot and George III
History’s mysteries discuss the alleged link between George III and Hannah Lightfoot known as the Fair Quakeress. Accounts vary from casual flirtation to possible secret marriage, with chroniclers debating the extent of any royal involvement and the reliability of sources across 18th century and later reflections.
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George III of
England
Hannah Lightfoot
St. James’ Market
Miss Lightfoot
London
Prince of Wales
George III
Elizabeth Chudleigh
Duchess of
Kingston
Olive Wilmot Serres
Princess of Cumberland
John Heneage Jesse
Rair
House of Parliament
Isaac Axford
Nathaniel Wraxall
George
Bridget Tollemache
Daunt
Daniel O'Connell
Gentleman's Magazine
After 40 Bowel Trouble Is Most Dangerous
Constipation may become chronic after forty and lead to piles and other disorders. Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, a doctor’s prescription, is claimed to relieve constipation safely for all ages. Large bottles available at drugstores.
S J Nazarre Bans Street Horns In France
The mayor of S J Nazarre in France orders suppression of all street loudspeakers to avoid interference with motor horns and public danger. In Paris, night horn blowing is prohibited and a broader ban on horns day or night is under consideration.
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S J. Nazarre
France
Paris
Georgia cotton and tobacco rise from boll weevil losses
From a cautious experiment by Georgia farmers the long staple crop shifted from cotton losses to a thriving tobacco trade. Growers realized 16,672,780.27 dollars last season from the sale of their crops, marking tobacco as a prized state commodity.
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Georgia
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Robert H. Lucas
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James Carnahan
James McCosh
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Tion
S. H. Strawn
America
Jathan Straus
Edwin F. Meyer
Associated Jewish Charities
Beryl Hart
W. 8. MacLaren
Bermuda
Azores
Atlantic
M. Briand
Eric Drummond
South America
J. L. M. ©. Avenol
Wheeler Syndicate
W. B. Caldwell
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C. W. Boggs Sons & Co
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