Huey Long Blocks NRA Extension in 16 Hour Filibuster
Senator Huey Long mounted a long filibuster to block extension of the NRA with Gore’s amendment tying executive pay to confirmation. He spoke for about sixteen hours, attacking Roosevelt and reading from varied sources while a crowd listened. the Senate finally rejected the amendment and passed the extension 41 to 18.
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Louisiana
Senate
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Schall
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Victor Hugo
Borah
House
White House
Donald Richberg
Roosevelt
Borah-For-President Clubs Form in Idaho
Idaho supporters form Borah for President clubs as Ralph Brashears of Boise leads the drive. They urge Borah to emancipate people from a vast bureaucratic government that curtails individual initiative and regiments Americans.
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William E. Borar
Idaho
Ralph Brashears
Boise
Mr. Borah
Braddock Beats Baer In Fifteen Round World Heavyweight Fight
James J Braddock defeats Ax Baer in a 15 round world heavyweight championship bout at Long Island City with no knockdowns and no severe punishment to either fighter.
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AX Baer
James J. Braddock
Long Island City
Roosevelt at a crossroads as New Deal era reshapes politics
Washington observers say the 1936 campaign will hinge on whether Roosevelt aligns with radicals or Jeffersonian Democrats. Defections rise as NRA and farm policies face Supreme Court limits and calls for a new party alignment emerge amid a looming move to a new Court building.
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Lange
1936
NRA
Roosevelt
Tugwells
Richbergs
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la Follettes
Solid South
United States
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Beck Warns Of Totalitarian Trend In U S Government
Pennsylvania Congressman James M. Beck warns that the United States has become a totalitarian socialist state in degree if not in kind. He likens constitutional danger to the Titanic and calls on the American people to defend the Constitution at all hazards.
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NRA
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Germany
Italy
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Trend Toward Liberalism and Its Economic Impacts
The speaker surveys political drift toward liberalism or socialism and notes a future where the average worker benefits from hard work while accumulation of wealth by speculation grows harder. He warns the high-earning class faces greater difficulty maintaining riches over the next four decades.
Labor Troubles by Robert F. Wagner
U S Senator from New York argues the National Labor Relations bill does not force union membership or alter current state laws on the closed shop. It avoids granting arbitrary powers to the labor board and limits orders to something like federal agency procedures. The bill simply grants workers rights employers already possess, with full court review.
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National Labor Relations
Labor Board
Federal Trade Commission
Gallantry in Male Rats Highlighted by Scientist
A New York Herald Tribune writer cites Dr. A M Hain of the Institute of Animal Genetics Edinburgh who describes male rat gallantry. He says males are often courted but notes an unusual case where a female trapped a male in a cage for six to seven hours before a truce.
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New York Herald Tribune
A. M. Hain
Institute of Animal Genetics
Edinburgh
Doctor Hain
Foot Binding Remains A Strange Beauty Amid Prohibition
Despite a 20 year ban, foot binding persists in many Chinese areas. In Hwaiking, bound feet are seen as humorous and a bride’s beauty on her wedding day centers on her bound feet rather than her face or figure.
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China
Hwaiking
Freedom of the Press and Free Speech Ideals
A speaker defends the right to a free press and the equal importance of free speech and assembly. He asserts that editors may publish about him within truth limits, just as he may express opinions about others, and he notes his own right to hire a platform to voice his views.
Replacing Property Taxes With Local Charge Schemes
The article discusses replacing property taxes with poll taxes and local charges for police, sewage, garbage, and street lighting. It argues these new methods can be inequitable, reduce savings from limits, and harm many taxpayers while occasionally benefiting others, not necessarily small property owners.
British American Union pledge by Viscount Hailsham
A wartime speech by Viscount Hailsham asserts Britain and the United States must cooperate to preserve world peace. He calls for a closer British American understanding as the sole solution to global peace and war challenges, framed as the surest assurance of peace.
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Viscount Hailsham
Britain
United States
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