World Conference Stalemate Deepens As Roosevelt Presses Agenda
Roosevelt challenges the London economic conference to pursue broader monetary reform while opposing a narrow gold bloc plan. Hull argues for continued talks, and leaders reluctantly adjourn, with France and others forming a monetary pool and an economic union in talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
London
Hull
Bureau
France
MacDonald
Polland
Belgium
Italy
Poland
Switzerland
US and Soviet Move to Renew Trade Ties Stir Diplomatic Hopes
The United States and Soviet Russia promote trade through a scheme where Russia buys 60,000 to 80,000 bales of American cotton financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Loans totaling about 4 million dollars will be secured by Amtorg notes and guaranteed by the Soviet state bank. The plan raises questions about possible US recognition of the Soviet government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Russia
Smith Wildman Brookhart
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Amtorg Trading Company
Soviet State Bank
Amtorg
New Russia
China
Reconstruction Corporation
Brookhart
Moley
London
Maxim Litvinov
Riga
Moscow
Roosevelt
White House
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Western Newspaper Union
Industrial Codes Rise Under Roosevelt Plan Aims
General Hugh S. Johnson drives industrial codes with publicity power to spur recovery. Labor chief Frances Perkins delivers a sharp challenge, exposing tension between capital and labor as farmers face crop reductions and price boosts under federal programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
Roosevelt
Ira
Industrial Recovery Ad- Johnson Ministrator
Congress
United States
General Johnson
Itig
Wiseacres
Frinces Perkins
Secretary of Labor
Miss Perkins
Department of Commerce
Wallace
George N. Peek
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Our Government How It Operates In 1932
A Western Newspaper Union excerpt surveys the U.S. federal bureaucracy, listing 58 independent agencies with annual costs around 60 million dollars plus veteran affairs. It discusses wartime remnants, new entities like Reconstruction Finance Corp and Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and questions the necessity and cost of many commissions and boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civilian Conservation Corps
Washington
Robert Fechner
Veterans’ Administration
Tennessee
Radio Commission
Federal Power Commission
Board of Tax Appeals
Shipping Board
United States Tariff Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Bureau of Efficiency
United States
National Screw Thread Commission
Battle Monument
Tariff Commission
Civil Service Commission
Federal
Joint Committee On Printing
House
Senate
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
Pan-American Union
Americas
War Finance Corporation
Railroad Administration
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Home Loan Bank
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Edward W. Pickard
The
Economic Conference
Canada
Australia
Argentina
Peaker
Henry T. Rainey
American Chamber of Commerce
Paris
Straus
Daily Press
le Brun
Berlin
der Angriff
Iowa Bakers’ Association
Iowa Association
American Bakers’ Association
Farm Administration
Campobello Island
Indianapolis
Ickes
Hugh 8. Johnson
Johnson
Indiana
Kee
Estonia
Latvia
Rumania
Turkey
Persia
Afghanistan
Litvinov
Soviet Union
Lithuania
Hancellor Hitler
Germany
Bavarian People’s Party
Reichstag
Bruening
Eugen Quadt-Isny
Los Angeles
Chicago
California
Russell Boardman
Mong
Albert R. Erskine
Studebaker Automobile Corporation
Hipolito Yrigoyen
Republic
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Pickfair
Beverly Hills
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