Claims law is necessary say Wallace in 1950 forecast
Secretary Wallace in a December report to Roosevelt urged that a permanent shift to government crop control is needed due to a partial loss of foreign markets and slack domestic demand. He warned production must align with marketing, not just expansion, and predicted population growth may reach 10 million by 1950 or 1960, with only modest more harvested acreage needed. He cautioned against a mere let-alone policy amid changing export prospects. Also notes larceny report of 10 chickens and Santa Claus at City Hall with December pay for all city staff.
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Washington
Wallace
Roosevelt
Ground broken for Jefferson Memorial in Washington
President Roosevelt officiates at a ceremony to start construction of a white marble shrine for Thomas Jefferson on a site by the Tidal Basin. The $3,000,000 memorial forms the fourth corner of a cross with the White House and Lincoln Memorial as others, amid cherry tree controversy and security presence.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Virginia
Tidal
Capital
White House
Lincoln Memorial
Washington Monument
Stuart G. Gibboney
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission
City jail mocked in grand jury report
Annapolis grand jurors criticized the city jail calling it a drag race to the city and likening its conditions to a dog kennel. The six celix block provided no segregation and a single lavatory served all cells. The old municipal building and county courthouse also drew censure for inadequate ventilation and lighting.
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Annapolis
Anne Arundel County
The Pines Hospital Progress in Berkeley Springs
Berkeley Springs West Virginia may rival Warm Springs Georgia as a center for infantile paralysis treatment. The Pines hospital run by the West Virginia Foundation for Crippled Children opened a new wing with 23 patients, capacity 40, aiming for 80 with another wing. The facility uses waters from Berkeley Springs piped to a special pool. Dr H G Weiler oversees clinic monthly. Basil O’Connor once visited. funding includes PWA project and private gifts.
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Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Hancock
Warm Springs
the Pines
Crippled Childrens’ Hospital
West Virginia Foundation For Crippled Children
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Berkeley
George Washington
P. E. Stigers
H. G. Weiler
Wheeling
Basil O'Connor
New York City
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
J. A. Proctor
C. S. Trump
Velma Rice
PWA
Contract Details for Cumberland Project Listed
The excerpt names John I. Vandegrift of Cumberland as general contractor and J. Klinkhart of Hagerstown as architect for a project valued at $50,000.
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John I. Vandegrift
Cumberland
4. J. Klinkhart
Hagerstown
Millionaire Weds Pretty Showgirl in Simple Ceremony
Phil Plant, famed hunter and Connecticut chicken farmer, marries Broadway show girl Marjorie King at his mother's Fifth Avenue home. The couple plans a January safari honeymoon in British East Africa and will settle at Plant’s Waterbury farm after returning with zoo specimens.
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New York
Phil Plant
Connecticut
Marjorie King
Fifth Avenue
William Hayward
Plant
Connie Bennett
Edna Dunham
Boston
British East Africa
Waterbury
Conn
Farm Bureau backs Agricultural Act 1938 at New Orleans
The American Farm Bureau Federation, meeting in New Orleans with over 4,000 delegates, endorsed the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and urged Roosevelt to convene leaders from industry labor and agriculture to balance the economy. The delegates credited AAA 1938 with saving agriculture from a price disaster and praised its potential impact in 1939, deeming it the most comprehensive farm law yet.
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NBW
Orleans
American Farm Bureau Federation
Roosevelt
Federation
AAA
Deafness Costs Ten At Wisconsin Tavern Sale
A traveling salesman in Watertown Wisconsin tried to buy a mounted black and white squirrel on a tavern backbar after several refusals. He offered 15 dollars then 25 dollars, and the keeper agreed when he thought the price was 50 dollars, revealing the miscommunication due to the salesman’s partial deafness.
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Watertown
Wis
Iyott
Distress Signal From British Motorship Ridley
Globe wireless reported a distress call from the British motorship Ridley saying she struck a submerged projectile and had disabled engines. Water flooded tanks one three and four as she listed slowly near the China Sea area between the southern Philippines and Formosa.
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Manila
Globe Wireless Today
Ridley
Abled
China Sea
Philippines
Formosa
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Secretary Wallace
Agriculture Crop Control
Joseph Palmer
Cannon Agere
Santa
City Hall
Santa Claus
Vicks
Kleinerts
Agricultural Experiment Station
North Carolina College
North Carolina
Hagerstown Industrial Savings & Loan Co
Jonathan St
A. K. Coffman
D. Barl Neikirk
Sec'y-Treas
Deetjen
Potomac St
Kelvinator
Bohman- Warne, Inc
BF Tenis SE Tass
NEW Cross and Chain
Years Jewelry Co
House of Blue White Diamonds
Washington St
Bureau
Ufe
Sunporch
Victor Records
RCA
RCA Victor
Shockey Furniture CO
Summit Avenue
Blue Ridge
Canada
Beu Pe
Baltimore
Washington, D. C
Yttsburgh
Alexander
Harry S. Myers China Department
Sea
Pen
China Department
Harry S. Myers
Cor
Franklin & Potomac Streets
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