Red Hot Campaign and the New Deal's Enduring Question
A Washington column argues a hot campaign will center on whether New Deal measures become permanent. It notes potential issues from air mail and federal overreach to tax spending and proposes a proportional electoral college as a reform, analyzed amid partisan debate.
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Roosevelt
United States
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NRA
Tennessee Valley Authority
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
DEVELOP PULLETS BODY FOR LAYING
Roy Dearstyne explains how proper feeding during early development ensures pullets mature with laying onset. Research at North Carolina State College shows a mash with 15.1 percent protein and 4 percent animal protein, plus scratch feed, yields synchronized sexual and physical maturity in Rhode Island Reds and White Leghorns.
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Dearstyne
Poultry Department
North Carolina State College
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Rhode Islands
Discovering an Easy Way to Clean Poultry Houses
A Successful Farming correspondent explains that cleaning a poultry house is easier when dropping boards are removable. Install wall supports no more than 4½ feet apart and extend 3½ feet into the building. Create 5 by 4 foot removable boards with eye bolts and wall hooks. Removable roosts sit atop the boards and can be raised for cleaning.
Salt hunger blamed for feather pulling in hens
A Rural New Yorker cor respondent explains hens pull feathers not from hunger but salt craving. They advise hanging fat pork low for 80 to 40 hens and keeping constant water to curb the behavior.
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New Yorker
Egg weight effects on hatchability in Michigan tests
Experiments in Michigan show eggs under 20 ounces per dozen hatch poorly producing small, slow-developing chicks. Eggs 21 to 22 ounces per dozen hatch fairly well. Eggs of 28 ounces per dozen or more hatch well and yield good weight chicks.
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Michigan
Poultry Hints on Hen Feeding and Grit Use
Loafing hens in farm flocks eat profits from their eggs. Brown egg shells differ chemically from white shells. Grit aids the gizzard in grinding feed and should be available at all times. A hen needs not more than three quarters of a pound of hard grit per year.
Wirt’s Red Plot Labelled Bunk In Senate Testimony
Washington testimony traced Wirt’s red plot claims to a Virginia dinner party with minor federal employees and Tass correspondent present. Wirt named Hildegarde Kneeland Mary Taylor Alice Barrows and Rexford Tugwell as brain trusters who allegedly plotted to control influence and push a planned economy. Democrats called it bank and whitewash while Republicans cried gag during the session.
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William A. Wirt
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Home Economic Section
Department of Agriculture
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Roosevelt
Wherensky
Robert Breure
Textile Code Advisory Board
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Lawrence Todd
Tass Agency
Mary Taylor
Agriculture Department
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Department of Education
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Indiana
Brain Trust
Kerensky
Soviet Russia
Stalin
Rainey
W. J. Westervelt
AAA
Westervelt
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Tugwell
Howe
Gary
West Point Rock Slide Kills Three Autoists
A rock slide on Storm King mountain along a scenic highway killed three motorists and injured three others. The dead include Mrs. Otto Seilheimer and her eight year old son Otto Jr of East Paterson New Jersey, and Lambert Shac kis of Brooklyn.
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King Mountain
Otto ‘Seilheimer
Otto, Jr
East Paterson
N. J
Lambert Shacknis
Brooklyn
Beauty Starts Suit Against British Peer
London reports a breach of promise suit filed by Angela Joyce Miss England against 23 year old Lord Revelstoke heir to a banker fortune. The couple, Lord Revelstoke and Flora Fermor Hesketh, married March 2 and recently returned from their honeymoon.
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London
Angela Joyce
Lord Revelstoke
Flora Fermor-Hesketh
New NRA Reorganization Ordered by Johnson
Washington reports a major NRA overhaul as Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson restructures the agency to resemble a U S Army setup. Lieut. Col. G A Lynch becomes top aide with broad authority, while Harriman Richberg Henderson and Buckley lead executive, legal, economic, and planning functions.
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NRA
United States Army
Recovery Administration
Florida
Roosevelt
G. A. Lynch
General Staff
Johnson
Lynch
West Point
NRAA
W. Averell Harriman
Donald R. Richberg
Leon Henderson
Alvin Brown
George Buckley
Spain occupies Ifni on the African Coast
Madrid reports four young army officers raised the Spanish flag over Ifni the final unoccupied African territory claimed by Spain. Ifni sits on the western coast, about sixty by fifteen miles, once called the Holy Cross of the Little Sea. Rumors tied German arms smuggling to Arab chiefs in the Atlas Mountains have pushed the spot into recent prominence.
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Africa
Spain
Ferdinand
Ifni
Holy Cross of the
Little Sea
Atlas Mountains
Morocco
Von Seeckt Arrives in China as Military Adviser
Gen. Hans von Seeckt arrives in Shanghai to serve as chief military adviser to the Nationalist government at Chiang Kai shek request. He replaces Gen. George Wetzell who advised Marshal Chiang for two years.
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China
Shanghai
Hans von Seeckt
Germany
Chiang Kaishek
von. Seeckt
George Wetzell
Marshal Chaing
Slainan Cadet Revolt in Bolivia Reported
A dispatch from Puno to El Comercio states 120 cadets were killed and hundreds wounded in a revolt by Bolivian military cadets at La Paz. The incident occurred at the Bolivian capital near Lake Titicaca and the border.
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Peru
el Comercio
Puno
Lake Titicaca
la Paz
Bolivia
Thurston Shows On After Wife's Death
New York audience heard of Howard Thurston's wife's death as the curtain rose. He and his daughter Jane finished the performance, continuing the show despite the loss.
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New York
Howard Thurston
Jane
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