Anti-Administration Congress Hangs Up Paradoxical Record
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes the Seventy-sixth Congress ends with a record peacetime spending total of 13.344 billion dollars, a mix of White House victories and defeats for FDR. It cites key votes, appointee confirmations, budget moves, and looming 1940 campaign dynamics led by McNutt and Taft with mentions of Leche indictments in Louisiana.
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Congress
Franklin Roosevelt
House
FHA
Hyde Park
Florida
Claude Pepper
Roosevelt
Seventy-sixth Congress
White House
Senate
Ation Power
Virginia
Floyd Roberts
Nevada
William Boyle
U. S
Wisconsin
Thomas Amlie
ICC
Donald Wakefield Smith
NLRB
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Garner
Farley
Hull
Hopkins
Paul McNutt
Jack Garner
Ohio
Robert Alphonso Taft
G. O. P. Gallup Pells
Chess Game Shadows World War Looms in August
The article describes international moves as Japan, Italy, and Germany seek a military axis while Britain and France brace for possible crisis. Ambassadors Shiratori and Oshima meet in Como to discuss pact risks amid anti-American sentiment and Far East tensions.
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France
Britain
Japan
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
U. S
Far East
Italy
Lake Como
Toshio Shiratori
Rome
Matahiko Oshima
Berlin
Germany
Russia
Moscow
China
Yangtze River
Tientsin
British International Export Corporation
Europe
Axis
Spain
Balkan States
Washington
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Asia
John Morgan
Lard Barter Plan Flops As German Trade Idea Surfaces
The piece reviews a surplus era plan where U S lard producers bartered with German machinery and now seeks 60 percent above domestic prices for lard. Secretary Hull rejects the plan while Under secretary Hanes calls for a hearing as traders eye a scheme using German marks and private buyers to swap goods and land through a U S importing firm.
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U. S
Germany
State Department
Cordell Hull
Treasury Department
John W.hanes
Russia U S trade pact extended for year
The brief notes a one-year extension of the Russia United States trade spot under which the Soviet will buy a minimum of 40 million dollars in American goods. Other items include a tentative settlement of a GM strike, wheat crop forecasts, Pan American air mileage, and a German bond issue hearing.
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U. S
Co. I. O
Pan-American Airways
SEC
Germany
Lesson topics for August 20 noted
The record lists lesson subjects for August 20 with reference to a reading schedule and noted permissions. It emphasizes the sequence of topics and approval for the materials to be used.
Beverages and Community Warned Against Alcohol
A sermon argues alcohol harms society beyond the drinker, citing alcohol's costs, increased crime and accidents, and social devastation. It links biblical warnings to modern repeal era concerns and Belshazzar's feast as moral examples. The message calls for awakening to the damage caused by drink and condemns debauchery and disintegration.
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Detroit
Omaha
Municipal Court
Evanston
Prisémn
America
Courtney R. Cooper
American Business Men’s Foundation
Chicago
Joel
Belshazzar
Wilbur M. Smith
Daniel
God
Beauty Aimed to Give Comprehensive Report
A small town store boss hires a striking girl applying for a cashier post. He trains her to ring every sale and observes her habit of visiting the cash register. She repeatedly records No Sale despite customers’ purchases.
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Beauty
Xvas
Camel Cigarettes Shown to Burn Slower and Hold Ash Longer
Extra Camels were found to contain more tobacco by weight than the average of 15 top brands. Camels burned 25 percent slower than the others and held their ash longer. Camel’s fine slow burning is presented as a smoking pleasure and a quality cigarette at an affordable price.
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Joseph W. Labine
Western Newspaper Union
New Dealish
Supreme Court
Frankfurter
Douglas
Newa Eee
Bierdams
Games
Guam
Townsend
Hatch
Committee
Mien
Louisiana
Richard Leche
War Department
Farm Credit & District of
Shiratori
Unday Chool Esson Ay Baer Tae Hgody
Auasen A
Joe
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