Grain cooperative seeks full trading rights at Chicago Board
The Farmers National Grain Cooperative pushes to join the Chicago Board of Trade with a proposal to grant full trading and clearing privileges. Government spokesmen including Gov. W. Alvers support the amendment, signaling likely approval despite exchange opposition. Physicists at MIT prepare to test Van De Graaff’s giant generator aiming for 15 million volts to probe nature’s secrets.
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Operative Farmers National Grain Corporation
Chicago Board of Trade
Grain Exchange Code
Federal Farm Credit Administration
George N. Peek
J. W. T. Duvel
Grain ‘Futures Administration
Wendell Byrd
Farmers’ National
Massachusetts
RJ. van de Graff
Round Hill
Mass
Smith Defends Gold Standard Against Inflation Threat
Alfred E. Smith urges return to gold standard in open letter, arguing monetary policy harms confidence and burdens 130,000,000 Americans. He contrasts gold dollars with ba-loney, favors private business over government management, and warns against inflationary folly amid Democratic policy debates. Also notes civil unrest and a dramatic lynching in California as contemporaneous events.
Roosevelt blamed by NRA official in heated Warm Springs clash
Peledens reports a sharp denunciation by General Johnson NRA administrator at Warm Springs in response to Mr Smith's letter. The assault targets Professor Sprague as an obscure lecturer, while noting a dramatized resignation and a financier adviser from the Bank of England earning $25,000 annually before returning to Treasury service at $10,000.
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Peeldens
Roosevelt
Smith
Johnson
NRA
Warm Springs
Sprague
Bank of England
War Department announces low bid for conservation corps trucks
The War Department declared Chevrolet Motor Company as the low bidder at 620.19 per unit for six cylinder trucks. Northland Motor Company of Bethesda, Md., a Ford dealer, followed at 671.10 per unit for Detroit deliveries, 686.10 for Chicago, and 687.00 for Cosville Ky. The Ford bid covered eight cylinder trucks. specifications required no fewer than six cylinders. Rol Sabine, head of Ford, commented on the results.
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War Department
Conservation Corps
Chevrolet Motor Company
Northland ‘Motor Company
Bethes‘da
Ford
Detroit
Chicago
Cosisville
Chevrolet
Four Chicago gangsters acquitted in Lindbergh kidnap case
The Touhy group and three companions were found not guilty in St Paul for the Wilam Hamm kidnapping, marking the first federal defeat in Lindbergh law cases. Also, mob violence in Missouri and Maryland led to hangings and arrests as governors sent troops to restore order amid lynch law. France formed a new cabinet led by Chau temps with Herriot likely to return as premier.
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Oger Touity
St. Paul
Wilam Hamm
Anl
Calfornia
Chicago
Congress
Touhy
Jake the Barber
San Jose
Baltimore
Princess Anne
Camille ‘Chautemps
Tert
Saranthe
Daladiers
Sarraut
Paris
Edouard Herriot
Herriot
United States
France
Chautemps
Douglas MacArthur warns U.S. military below danger line
In a report to Secretary of War Dern Douglas MacArthur warns that the army’s strength is below the danger line and the nation’s military standing ranks seventeenth globally. He urges rapid gains in efficiency including more regulars, exempting enlisted from a 15 percent pay cut, and nearly 200 million pounds for aircraft and modernization. He calls for National Guard maintenance, reserves with annual training, and restoration of 1932 personnel scales.
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Douglas MacArthur
Dern
National Guard
OT. GC and
Co. M. T. GO
Men Who Helped Make Christmas
This article traces how key figures shaped Christmas traditions across centuries. It credits Washington Irving James K Paulding and Clement C Moore for Santa Claus archetypes and notes the 1818 Stille Nacht collaboration by Josef Mohr and Franz Gruber as foundational carol art. It covers Sir Henry Cole and Louis Prang in Christmas cards, Einar Holboell and Danish Christmas seals, Jacob Riis and Miss Emily Bissell in American seal adoption, and Joel Roberts Poinsett’s poinsettia link, highlighting how these individuals helped form modern Christmas observances.
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Santa Claus
Sinterkiiss
Saint Nicholas
James K. Paulding
Washington Iying
Clement C. Moore
Washington Irving
Knickerbocker
New York
New Amsterdam
Irving
James Kirke Paulding
St. Nicholas
Clement Clark Moore
Moore
Pruid- Ing
Inter
Chelséaine
New York City
Toley
America
John Keese
More
Poe
Washington“Irving
Clement ©. Moore
Reese
Poets of America
Josef Mohr
St. “Nicholas
Oberndorf
Salzburg
Austria
Franz’ Gruber
Arnstdorf
Franz Gruber
St. Nicolas
Karl Mannacher
Fuges
Zillertal
Franz Geuber
Henry Cole
J. C. Horsley
Royal Academy
London
Cole
Jena
Louis Prang
F “Towerdaof
Baston
Skye Oh
Henry ‘Cale
Louis Prapy
Jacob Rijs
Denmark
Holboell
Emily Bissell
American Red Cross
American National Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Einar Holboel
Jacob Riis
William Eustis
Madison
Joel Roberts Poinsett
Joel Roberts R Poingettatas
South Carolina
Edinburgh University
Woolwich Academy
Europe
Asia
Maison
Mexico
United States
Poinsett
Robert, Burst
Philadelphia
Burst
Poinsettia
van Buren
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al Smith
Suade
Edward W. Pickard
Alfred E. Smith
Department of Agriculture
Motors
McCarl
Toft,Inc
General Johnson
Washington
Californ
Tang
Jack Holmes
Thomas’ Thurmond
Brooke L. Hart
Any Park
James Rolph
California
Camille Chautemps
TEVT
Abalardo
Obertley
Hitler
Germany
Rank Wilstach
Will Hays
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
Anest WW
Gibson
Vermont
Senate
Wilson
Porter H. Dale
Western Newspaper Union
Gen
Einar Holbeen
Copenhagen
Mountain of Christmas Mall
Postal Service
Christian Ix
Charlotten Zund
Usian
Che
Aswyras
Washington Trving
Elmar Rolboell
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