Hoover Senate tax clash overshadows relief and new sales plan
President Hoover warned of credit danger as the senate passed its tax bill aiming for 1.121 billion in revenue. Hoover urged a sales tax but Democrats blocked it. the chamber approved the budget balancing measures aided by a gasoline levy and electricity tax. The article also notes Germany's Bruening cabinet resignation and the rise of Hitler's influence, with interim chancellor von Papen, plus other international and domestic political developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Hoover—Von Papen
Hoover
Garner
Finance Committee
Secretary of the Treasury Mills
House
Glenn
Illinois
Mnee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Peaker Garner
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Conference of Governors
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Einrich Bruening
Germany
von Hindenburg
Hitler
Reichstag
APAN
Makoto Saito
China
Manchuria
Manchukuo
Count Uchida
South Manchurian Railroad
Manchoukuo
Siberia
Japan
United States
Russia
Mongkut's Move to Modernize Siam Through Education
The Siamese monarch Mongkut began modernizing the country by promoting Western styled education for his son Chulalongkorn and royal brothers. Mrs. Leonowens was invited to Bangkok to teach English while avoiding religious instruction. Chulalongkorn ascended at fifteen and later mandated education for all royal brothers, expanding study abroad for royals and officials to overhaul Siamese administration.
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Mongkut
Siam
Chulalongkorn
Leonowens
Singapore
Bangkok
H den R. James
Woman Becomes Victim Of Rock Garden Fad
A woman who joined the rock garden craze spent days building a scenic display with flag paths, a concrete pedestal sun dial, and flowers among rocks. A departing teamster offered to haul the rocks away for cheap, interrupting her satisfaction with the finished work.
Dollar Bill's Travels Collect 182 Names In a Day
Judge F E Woods and Roy L Reid attached a note to a dollar asking anyone handling it to write their name. The bill left at four o clock and the next afternoon returned to Judge Woods bearing 182 names.
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F E. P. Woods
Roy L. Reid
Belvedere Gardens
Calif
Judge Wood
His Preference and a Frugal Fight over Wireless Sets
A fragment from a Springfield Ohio ad column notes a husband quipping his wife’s wireless set is “turned off.” Nearby lines promote Long Eakins originators at 53 High St offering equipment and training to set up caramel popcorn shops, claiming strong cash flow.
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Long- Eakins
High St
Springfield
Ohio
Ady
Poets Claim Fifty Rhymes Spark Dread Of Recital
Byron quip about poets who boast fifty rhymes, hinting readers fear an impending recital. The line weights humor on literary boasting and audience fatigue with overlong verse.
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Byron
Can She Act Better Than Her Husband Movie Line
A playful dialogue notes a wife’s acting claim versus her husband while a beau’s half shared candy joke hints at romantic tensions. The line comically contrasts performance with relationship stakes in a lighthearted film moment.
Wonderful Clock Made by Italian Artificer
Cos tanzo Renzi of Rimini Italy completed an 86 hour bamboo clock in the form of the Fascist emblem. It shows hour minute second moon phase weekday month and day. On striking a flag with the king and Il Duce appears chimes play Giovinezza a mortar fires and a tricolor appears. Renzi told school children it cannot do home lessons.
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Costanzo Renzi
Rimini
Italy
Il Duce
Renzi
If the people could agree on bed time
A quip notes difficulty in reaching consensus on a universal bedtime law. The comment frames public policy as contentious and illustrate divergent views on personal routines and governance.
Armament Makers and Global Conflict Links
A Social Science Abstracts digest cites a World Tomorrow review noting armament makers lack patriotism and risk only their business. It recalls 1866 Krupp artillery in use by Prussia and Austria, Willingen's mixed French ownership, Vickers supplying Boer forces, Vickers Terni building Italy’s fleet, and British mines blamed for Dardanelles losses.
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Social Science Abstracts
Willingen
Vickers- Terni
Italy
Dardanelles
Identifying Himself Voice of the Telephone
A playful exchange unfolds as a caller asks to identify the voice on the line. A flirtatious reply prompts a request to imitate a kiss, highlighting lighthearted banter.
A Beautiful Woman Needs Little Intelligence
A concise remark suggests that beauty reduces the need for mental effort, implying elegance can substitute for intellect in social contexts. The line frames charm as a limited but sufficient attribute for certain interactions.
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Edward W. Pickard
Herr Bruening
Berlin
E. Huff
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
Chicago Board of Trade
Department of Agriculture
Huff
Hyde
Grain Futures Commission
Washington
William D. Mitchell
Commerce
Robert P. Lamont
Aes
James R. Garfield
Garfield
Interior
Roosevelt
Resolutions Committee
White House
Borah
Henry W. Peabody
Woman’s National Committee For Law Enforcement
Congress
Bertrand H. Snell
New York
Snell
Crusaders
Republican Citizens’ Committee Against
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
Erbert Hoover
California
Joseph Scott
Los Angeles
Scott
England
University of ‘Notre Dame
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nicholas Iorga
Carol
Romania
Nicholas Titulescu
London
Ashington
Costigan
Colorado
J. Hamilton Lewis
Mltnois
Senator Lewis
Saito
Soviet Russia
M. Neely
West Virginia
Uncle Sam
M. M. Neely
ORMER
Middle West
Belleau Wood
Maj
L. Fordney
Western Newspaper Union
J. R. Garfield
Rock Gardens
Dollar Bill
Otter Bree & En Corp
Idea, Mass
Cuticura
Rinso
Cincinnati
Susie
Thaviu
Harry Willsey
Russland
Kiddieland
Cincinnati Zoo
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