House Rejects Death Sentence for Utility Bill in 258 148 Vote
Lawmakers move to substitute the house bill regulating utility holding companies under the SEC. passage of the revised measure followed, with 322 to 81 voting for the final version. An investigation into lobbying activity was approved amid accusations of administration pressure.
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Congress
House
Senate
Securities and Exchange
Commission
Capitol
John H. Hoeppel
California
Hoeppel
Ralph O. Brewster
Maine
Thomas G. Corcoran
Passamaquoddy
Brewster
Aia
Rankin
Mueieet
Moran
Roosevelt
Charles West
Farley
Emil Hurja
War on holding companies becomes 1930s campaign issue
Senator Wheeler after a White House call expressed confidence a satisfactory conference bill would emerge or the measure would die. The fight over holding companies is set to be a major campaign issue with administration allies predicting defeat for Democratic lawmakers who voted against the death sentence. Republicans hailed the episode as a strike against the President and New Dealers, while neutral observers saw it as a clash of lobbies with the utilities lobby prevailing.
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Wheeler
Montana
White House
Battle between Senator Carter Glass and Governor Eccles over banking bill
The narrative shows Senator Carter Glass and Governor Eccles trading positions on a banking bill. Eccles, credited with extracting radical provisions from the Currie bill, aims to push the measure through the Senate Banking and Currency Committee with little recording, after minor changes. Morgenthau and Eccles were ready to testify to justify the bill before the committee.
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Carter Glass
Marriner
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Eccles-Currie
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Johnson Takes Federal Works Relief Post in New York
Hugh Johnson assumed the New York federal works relief administrator role as reporters faced obstruction. He lamented the program's efficacy saying it will fail without funds and warning that morale will collapse when money ends.
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Hugh Johnson
Federal Works Relief
New York City
Robbie
General Cummings Announces Police Training School
General Cummings said on July 29 a Washington school would open to train state county and city police in law enforcement theory and practice. A twelve weeks course will be offered to selected officers with free instruction.
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Cummings
Washington
Hoover to Stay Out of 1936 Race but Back Party Candidate
Republican senators were told former President Herbert Hoover will not seek the 1936 nomination and will announce later this summer. He plans private life but may provide support for the party’s eventual candidate and push for unified Republican prospects as they grow brighter.
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Epublican
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Lloyd George resumes political activity in Britain
Lloyd George, whose New Deal program drew limited support, resumes active politics with reluctance yet resolve. The Welsh statesman addressed the national convention of the peace and reconstruction movement, warning that global economic confusion and threats to peace are worsening.
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Das Lloyd George
Disaster on APAN inland sea sinks Midori Maru
A foggy night disaster on APAN'S inland sea costs 104 lives when the steamer Midori Maru collides with a freighter and sinks. Rescue boats save 91 of 166 passengers and 56 crew. all victims are Japanese.
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Apan
Farmers Approve Flexible Plan for Wheat Benefit Payments
Secretary Wallace discussed the Washington estate program with AAA officials and farmers from major wheat states. They debated operation outline and approved a tentative flexible plan for wheat grower payments.
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Ecretary OF Agriculture
Wallace
Washington
AAA
British proposals to cede Somaliland to Ethiopia trigger Mussolini push
Anthony Eden wheeled out a plan to gift a slice of British Somaliland to Haile Selassie to deter Italy from an African war. Mussolini rejected the offer and vowed four years of conquest. British and Italian officials debated sanctions and Ethiopian appeals to the United States. Also noted is the death of NORED CITROEN, famed French auto maker.
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Anthony Eden
England
British Isles
Great Britain
Haile Selassie
Abyssinia
Italy
Africa
Mussoini
Britain
Mussolini
Eden
MacDonald
Ethopia
Rome
Ethiopia
United States
W. Perry George
Addis Ababa
Roosevelt forecasts record peacetime spending and rising deficits
President Roosevelt unveils a budget calling for 8.52 billion dollars in outlays, including 4.58 billion for relief, with a projected 4.53 billion deficit and a public debt near 28.7 billion. The plan relies on tax measures and relief programs amid postwar unemployment. A separate Detroit case notes the death of Howard Carter Dickinson, linked to the Yawkey estate, with suspects including William Schweitzer and three burlesque workers arrested after a police probe.
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Roosevelt
Treasury
Congress
Detroit
Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
Charles Evans Hughes
Rouge Park Road
Dickinson
Charles Evans Hughes,Jr
William H. Yawkey
Rouge Park
SARTORIAL EVOLUTION IN EARLY ABORIGINAL DRESS
The article traces how early peoples used hair and skins for protection and gradually developed clothing as a social custom. It notes modesty influenced by clothing habits and how body hair shifted from practical to aesthetic value for both genders.
Proud Man Dethroned
The opening of the business world to women has robbed them forever of any disposition to accept man as a superior person. President Row land Angell of Yale University.
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Rowland Angell
Yale University
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Glass Bests Eccles
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Rep
Federal. Reserve Board
Reserve Banks
National Treasury
Glass
Reserve Board
Virgin Islands
Charles H. Gibson
the Interior
Ickes
Gibson
Paul.m. Pearson
Pearson
Sen. Glase
Nored Citroen
Henry Ford
France
Peterman
ANT Food
Ian
Simoniz
General Foods
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