Hull Seaway Plan Sparks Senate Clash Across Parties
Hull submits a new St Lawrence seaway plan to Canada as basis for a revised treaty. The US would fund and develop the river, gain Niagara power, and assert Lake Michigan sovereignty, while Canada would gain a ready waterway and concessions. Critics warn of a British canal and threaten to block ratification.
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Hull
St. Lawrence
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
Senate
St. Lawrence Deep Waterway
United States
Niagara Falls
Lake Michigan
Congress
Dominion
New York
International Rapids
St. Lawrence River
Wagner
Copeland
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Middle West
Clark
Missouri
Chicago Drainage Canal
Mississippi River
Claude Parsons
Illinois
International Commission
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin
Michigan
Chicago
Mississippi
Reform Bill Shelved by President Roosevelts Plan
President Roosevelt accepts congressional advice and shelves the executive government reorganization bill. Senator Barkley confirms the move and says the administration aims to push the measure again in the 1939 session. Senator Hiram Johnson indicates opponents will resume the fight next year.
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Roosevelt
Senator Barkley
Congress
Hiram Johnson
California
Roosevelts unsigned tax bill vetoes unwise parts
President Roosevelt allowed the tax revision bill to become law without his signature to protest provisions he calls unwise. He spoke at Arthur Dale West Virginia graduation exercises before 13 students, broadcast nationwide by radio. He warned against tax avoidance and corporate form use to dodge burdens, while urging future revenue law revisions to spur investment.
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White House
Roosevelt
Arthurdale
W. Va
Highway Funding Bill Clears Congress For 1940 41
Federal legislation authorizes 357.4 million dollars for highways in fiscal years 1940 and 1941 and approves 150 million dollars of old unused appropriations after Senate adoption of a conference report constant with the House.
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House
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Hook urges abandonment of recovery experiments for industrial program
Charles R. Hook president of the National Association of Manufacturers spoke before the Chicago Association of Commerce proposing a private enterprise driven recovery. He urged amending the Wagner act revising the tax structure and ending government competition with private industry to restore confidence and private investment.
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Charles R. Hook
National Association of Manufacturers
Chicago Association of Commerce
America
Hook
American Rolling Mill Company
National Labor Relations Board
Roosevelt Signs Bill Creating Twenty More Federal Judges
President Roosevelt signed a bill creating 20 additional federal judges across the nation. The measure, the largest judiciary expansion since 1921, authorizes five circuit court judges at 12500 dollars yearly each and fifteen district judges at 10000 dollars yearly each.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Circuit Court of
Gedente
TVA Officials Level Charges Against Ousted Colleague
DAVID E. LILIENTHAL and Harcourt Morgan accuse Dr. Arthur E. Morgan of trying to sabotage the TVA's legal defense in a constitutional case. They deny Morgan's accusations and defend their actions during last winter's trial of 18 private utilities against the TVA. They reject claims of fraud over Berry marble, calling them rumors with no evidence.
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TVA
Lilienthal
Berry
Harcourt Morgan
Dean Mumford Dies, University of Illinois Educator
Dean Mumford, 67, prominent agricultural educator and marketing expert at the University of Illinois, died after an automobile accident. Born in Michigan, he joined the university in 1901 as professor of animal husbandry at Champaign and later served as dean of agriculture and director of the Experiment Station and Extension Service.
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Dean Mumford
Ean Herbert W. Mumford
University of Illinois
Mumford
Michigan
Champaign
College of Agriculture
Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service
Sweepstakes Winners Dominate English Derby and US Bets
OIS ROUSSEL, a French bred horse, won the English Derby at Epsom Downs. Four sweepstakes ticket holders in the United States won $150,000 each. Scottish Union finished second and earned $75,000 each for 11 US ticket holders. Pasch, the favorite, placed third and returned $50,000 each to seven US ticketholders.
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Ois Roussel
Epsom Downs
United States
Scottish Union
Pasch
WPA Chief Christgau Ousted by Hopkins Sparks Dismissal Row
Victor A. Christgau Minnesota WPA administrator clashed with Governor Hanson and Farmer-Labor leaders. Harry Hopkins, national WPA head, announced Christgau’s removal, but Christgau refused to quit, arguing only President Roosevelt could dismiss him.
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Harry Hopkins
Victor A. Christgau
Minnesota
WPA
Elmer Benson
Farmer-Labor Party
Christgau
Roosevelt
Pensions Expanded for Spanish War Veterans and Helped Servicemen
A bill to raise pensions for soldiers sailors and nurses from the Spanish war Philippine insurrection and China relief expedition. It grants sixty dollar monthly pensions to veterans aged sixty five with at least 90 days service and to those with shorter service discharged for disability arising in service.
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Roosevelt
Congress Heads Home Amid Criticism Of Unsolved Problems
The piece argues Congress will depart soon amid vocal criticism of inaction on unemployment relief and recovery. It blames federal overreach, shifting burdens to states, and costly pump priming, suggesting lasting debt and weak recovery without state-led action.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Social Security Board
Harry Hopkins
Chicago
Cleveland
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Western Newspaper Union
The Screech Owl in Local Bird Boxes
The screech owl known as the little horned owl is a common bird in many areas. It is less secretive than other owls and often nests in boxes placed for martins and flickers.
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Adolpho Echagaray Somohano
San Luis Potosi
Saturnino Cedillo
Edward W. Pickard
Union
Western NJ
Henry A. Wallace
Robert H. Jackson
United States Supreme Court
Kansas City
Hugo Black
David E. Lilienthal
Captain G. Elliott - Nightingale
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Salteaux
Indian Affairs Department
Hudson Bay
Mounted Police
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