France on the brink as Herriot government falls
French politics reel after Herriot's cabinet collapses amid a debt crisis and pressure for national unity. Briand and Leagues ministers poised for reshuffling as Poincare consideration of a strong government unfolds while France faces costly debts and a stabilizing plan.
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France
Herriot
Briand-Caillaux
Chamber of Deputies
de Monzie
Chamber
Briand
Doumergues
Poincare
National Union
Leagues
Marine
Pavilege
Leon Blum
Paincare
Paris
America
Borah Addresses Protestant Ministers in Augusta Ga
Senator Borah spoke to the Protestant Ministers association in Augusta Georgia delivering a stern address on church and civic matters. The remarks emphasized moral concerns and unity among denominations.
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Enator Borah
Protestant Ministers’ Association
Augusta
Mexican government targets priests in church law enforcement
The Mexican government cites thirty six Roman Catholic priests for contempt and refusal to register as church authorities vow not to register. Catholic groups pledge obedience to central committee while Catholic HQ says orders will not suppress religious orders. Catholics boycott government revenue items including lottery tickets and Catholic women abstain from social functions.
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Central Committee
Mexico City
Baths of the Week Span Djerjinsky Laeck and Douglas Leaders
The column features Felix Djerjinsky as a ruthless head of the Soviet secret police, Martin L. Laeck the Democratic Wisconsin governor nominee, and Henry T. Douglas the last surviving Confederate general as notable baths of the week.
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Felix Djerjinsky
Martin L. Laeck
Wisconsin
Henry T. Douglas
Great Progress in Road Building
A National Geographic bulletin frames American road history from buffalo trails to macadam. It notes the 400,000 miles of highways and the third road-building renaissance driven by automobiling, railroads, and turnpikes from Lancaster Pike to Lincoln Highway with echoes of Braddock’s road and early corduroy and plank roads.
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Washington
United States
Canada
National Geographic Society
Mississippi Valley
North Amer
Lancaster
Philadelphia Valley
Lancaster Pike
America
Buffier
Ingin
Cumberland
Uniontown
Nemacolip
Braddock
Fort Duquesne
Pittsburgh
Congress
Ormond Beach
Great Salt Lake
Death Valley
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Hudson
Delaware River
Erie
Franklin
Ohio
Middle West
Detroit
West Virginia
Waco
Texas
Wichita
Kans
South Texas
Grafton
Parkersburg
W. Va
Helpful Smile New York
Helen Wille writes about the charm of a smile as Charles O. Lockwood, recently back from Paris, endures an appendectomy hospital stay. His spirits lifted by a visit from Helen, he barely minds the surgery.
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New York State
Russia
Edwards
New Jersey
Borah
Senator Borah
New York
Helen Wille
Paris
Helen
Geologist Claims Vanished Oregon Peak Mount Multnomah
Portland geologist Edwin T. Hodge reports discovering a former 15000 foot peak in the Cascade area now occupied by Three Sisters. He envisions Mount Multnomah as a cone created by ancient eruptions, explaining its collapse and the formation of a large eight mile caldera and subsequent valley.
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Portland
Cascade Range
Oregon
Edwin T. Hodge
University of Oregon
Multnomah
Krakatau
East Indies
Professor Hodge
Mountain and Lake Enlarged
Middle
South Sisters
Black Crater
Mount Scott
Roof numbering to guide planes in Kentucky air service
Kentucky Adjutant General J A Kehoe announces roofs in strategic cities will be numbered to aid air recognition from the air. The state air board supervises airport and route maintenance, enabling counties and cities to coordinate aviation facilities with the adjutant general as part of advancing a guard air service.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Adjt
J. A. Kehoe
Kentucky National Guard
State Air Board
Adjutant General
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