Calmer heads weigh policy as Legge faces farm board fate
Alexander Legge, head of the federal farm board, tells the Senate agriculture committee he will resign if his policy is rejected. Lawmakers press for faster stabilization actions to lift farm prices while Legge defends loan and stock matters and outlines steps toward forming stabilization corporations.
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Lexander Legge
Federal Farm Board
Senate
Legge
Chicago
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Brookhart
Iowa
Wheeler
Montana
Farm Board
Frazier
North Dakota
Grain Marketing Corporation
Sun Maid Raisin Growers’ Association
Wall Street
Sun Maid Raisin Corporation
International Harvester Company
Shearer Disowned by Geneva Arms Report Officials
Senate investigators hear testimony from William B. Shearer’s former employers after the Geneva arms conference draft. They say his reports were of little importance and largely dismiss his claimed influence. He asserts his work caused the conference collapse and that his publicity warned U.S. officials and the press.
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Hipbuilding
William B. Shearer
Geneva
Senate
Shearer
United States
Senator Renator Howell's claim on liquor law enforcement in Washington
Nebraska senator Renator Howell sparked a heated reaction by arguing that liquor laws could be enforced in Washington if the President wished it, claiming the President is all powerful in the capital and could oust the district commissioners.
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Sioners
Hoover
Howell
Brookhart
Washington
New York
M. F. Sinclair
Mitchell
Sinclair
Renator Howell
Nebraska
Senate
Bank Leaders Named in Napans Newsroom Row
ACKSON REYNOLDS, president of the First Napans pane of New York, and Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First National Bank of
Berengaria voyage to meet Hoover for naval talks
AMSAY MACDONALD sails for the United States aboard the Berengaria to confer with President Hoover. He brings no staff, saying naval points are settled. topics include the five power conference and possible changes to the 1923 ship liquor treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsay MacDonald
Great Britain
United States
President Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Lindbergh flies new aerial route Miami to Cuba and beyond
Charles Lindbergh undertakes a flight from Miami to Cuba and onward through Trinidad British Guiana and Dutch Guiana to open a new air route. He travels with Mrs Lindbergh and others, returns from Paramaribo to Port of Spain, then heads to Maracay Venezuela before looping via Curacao Maracaibo Barranquilla the Canal Zone and back to Cuba.
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Lindbergh
Miami
Cuba
Trinidad
British Guiana
Dutch Guiana
Notable Deaths Include Cardinal Du Bois and Hodges
Prominent figures reported dead include Cardinal Du Bois, archbishop of Paris, Gen. Harry F. Hodges designer of the Panama canal locks, and Miller Huggins manager of the New York Yankees.
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Cardinal Dubois
Paris
Harry F. Hodges
Panama Canal Locks
Miller Huggins
New York Yankees
Washington Holds to Old Art Ideals
Washington plans emphasize Roman domes Greek columns and long horizontals despite New York’s new forms. A $50 million building program advances classic architecture with the Fine Arts Commission guiding projects toward monumental, Versailles inspired design as Arlington Memorial Bridge nears completion.
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Washington
New York
Fine Arts Commission
Pierre Charles L’enfant
Versailles
Louis XIV
le Notre
American Republic
Congress
Commission of Fine Arts
George Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Internal
North
South
Georgetown
Arlington Memorial Bridge
Dashes Across Sea to Be U. S. Citizen
George A. Madigan arrives in New York from Havre racing to secure U S citizenship before his twenty first birthday. Born in Locarno Switzerland to circus performers, he faced Ellis Island as officials reviewed passports and his case. He speaks French German and Dutch and trained as a goldsmith apprentice hoping for work.
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New York
George A. Madigan
Atlantic
Madigan
Locarno
Switzerland
Stockholm
George
Europe
Brussels
United States
Paris
America
Havre
Ellis Island
Drivers Held for Drink Must Walk Chalk Line
Lynn mass police test sobriety with a chalk line two inches wide drawn across the police headquarters floor. Drunken drivers accused of operating a motor vehicle will walk the line before a jury of officers. if they stay on the line they are cleared, if they falter they face the judge.
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Lynn
Mass
Andover
Renew Courtship of 50 Years Ago
Wilfred of Fort Wayne Indiana courted Mary Christie half a century ago. He went to India as a missionary. Miss Christie became a school teacher. He recovered her address through the Post Office department. A few months ago he returned and they plan to marry. She is seventy six and he is eighty two.
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Wilfred Fort Wayne
Ind
Frank Wilson
Mary B. Christie
India
Miss Christie
Wilson
Post Office Department
Scientist Warns of War Toxin Threat to Millions
London. Prof Leonard Hill warned at the Sanitary Inspectors’ meeting in Lowestoft about a secret deadly poison from a certain bacillus. A gram of the dry toxin could kill a million people, acting as a fine powder when inhaled or in the eye, with a call to end costly war preparations and redirect funds to disease prevention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Leonard Hill
Professor Hill
Sanitary Inspectors’ Association
Lowestoft
Chinese Women Grow Ashamed of Bound Feet
A foreign traveler reports that in Henan province Chinese women with bound feet are disguising them with large shoes. The so called Lily feet, once a beauty standard, are becoming a social disgrace as bound feet hinder natural walking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
China
Henan
Ohio Child Ties World Record for Grandparents
Springfield Ohio three year old Betty Love Beaty is tied with a Warley England child for the world record of living grandparents. Betty spans four grandparents five great grandparents and one great great grandparent aged eighty two, widow Mrs Rebecca E Clum of Rushville Ohio.
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Springfield
Ohio
Betty Love Beaty
R. C. Beaty
Warley
England
Betty
Rebecca E. Clum
Rushville, Ohio
Flattery Says Gratitude Outlasts Flattery
A concise aphorism notes that praise from others may fade but expressions of gratitude endure, suggesting appreciation remains refreshing regardless of insincerity.
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Curtis D. Wilbur
U. S. Circuit Court
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American Legion
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Carlton Club
Smedley D. Butler
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Quantico
Butler
Maj
John Coolidge
Bank For International Settlements
League of Nations
League Assembly
Young Commission
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Traylor
Russia
Red Army
Chang Fak-wei
Lichow
Kansu
Taochow
Austria
Streeruwitz
Johan Schober
Vienna
Karl Vaugein
Czechoslovakia
Calcutta
Amir Habibullah
Bacha Sakao
Afghanistan
Peshawar
Habibullah
U. S
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P. C O., Inc
Sinton
Hotel
Sinton Cincinnati
John &. Horgan Managing Director
Tourisg Sampe
Chaffey Alm Spring
California
Social Greeting Carder
Graphic Arts Bldg
Loulpville, Ry
Metal A. Company
Ohio St
Evansville
Motor Saver Corp
Euclid Ave
Cleveland
Sonal Wong
Chester Bacher
Sunny Tenn
Mirus Saige
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