Labor and economic policy battles loom in 1930s era
NRA administrator General Johnson brokered a compromise averting a 400000 worker strike in the cotton textile sector while producers cut 26 percent and labor seeks wage review and greater board representation. Roosevelt mobilizes relief funds and drafts projects to aid farmers, with Hopkins allocating 6.5 million across 13 states for water, canning, and road work. Republican party leadership shifts to Fletcher, emphasizing platform reforms and anti-Democrat critique. Secretary Ickes testifies in Chicago graft case. Congress advances the Kerr tobacco bill expanding AAA powers amid broader New Deal fights. Britain signals debt default posture, delaying further payments until debt terms are revised.
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NRA
General Johnson
Thomas F
Drewth
Roosevelt
Groton
Conn
Fedt ‘Eral Relief
Washington
Jgouhell
Mae
Ivari H. & Hopkins Lus
Ity
Barry L
Hopkins
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South
Dakota
Idaho
Kansas
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
Utah
Wyoming
Barthou Leads Efforts to Avert European War
Louis Barthou dominates negotiations to dispel war clouds in Europe and push for a Franco German accord on Saar plebiscite set for January 13, 1935. The plan promises nonuse of force to return Saar Basin to Germany and seeks a broader eastern security pact with Soviet Union and Baltic states, with France as guarantor.
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Ouis Barthou
France
Europe
Germany
Salar
Saar
Geneva
M. Barthou
Sir John Simon
Rosenberg
Paris
Barthou
Russia
Rumania
Czechoslovakia
Lithuania
Latvia
Esthenia
Ice Patrol Guards Warn of Atlantic Icebergs
A National Geographic bulletin notes 165 icebergs drift in Atlantic ship lanes the largest since 1912. The International Ice Patrol monitors Greenland glacier ice as navigators learn safe routes. since patrol inception no ship has been lost to bergs in the lanes.
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Washington
U. S
Grand Banks
International
Ice Patrol
United States Navy
International Conference For the Safety of
London
United States
Greenland
Money Money as a Medium of Exchange and Value
A definition notes money as any material agreed upon to function as a common medium of exchange and a standard for measuring value in trade.
Adults Embrace Toys At Spring City Toy Fair
At the spring toy fair adults join children in play with electric trains and accessories, palatial racing sets, parlor horse and dog races, bird cages with dice, miniature soldier galleries, parlor shooting matches, copper bullet pistols, and a spring loaded bucking riding horse. The piece notes adults seek faster games and wagering vibes, with trains designed for speed and parental amusement shared with kids.
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Palra
Middle West
Youngest Champion Betty Jameson Tops New Orleans Golf
Betty Jameson, a fifteen year old Dallas girl and Sunset High sophomore, won the Southern Woman's Golf Championship in New Orleans becoming the youngest champion of a major golf organization. She had earlier won Dallas municipal and Texas public course titles and the Dallas city title this spring. The notice also mentions a toy fair with American and Russian exhibits and rising toy prices, plus a New York street scene vignette describing a fashionable young man in Fifth Avenue.
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Betty
Jameson
Dallas
Texas
New Orleana
Foxter
Sunset’ High School
Dust Storm Blamed On Unchecked Erosion Causes
H. H. Bennett, director of the United States Soil Erosion Service, attributes the huge dust storm sweeping half a billion tons of soil from Nebraska and South Dakota to unchecked erosion. Drought prepped the land, winds and a cyclonic storm scattered dust toward the east and even to ships in the Atlantic, with areas of the Middle West buried under wind-blown soil hundreds of feet thick.
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Nebraska
South Dakota
States
Atlantic
H. H. Bennett
United States
Sahara
Middle West
Literary Digest
Make Natural Mineral Water At Home With Crazy Water Crystals
The ad promotes Crazy Water Crystals as a way to create mineral water at home using natural minerals from world wells. It claims Americans spend heavily on European mineral waters and imports exceed a million dollars annually, offering a Texas company product at $1.50 per box sufficient for several weeks of treatment for rheumatic pains.
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Europe
Crazy. Water Co
Mineral Wells
Texas
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Dreath
Fletcher
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspwner Union
F. Tighe
Steel—Masters
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Michael F. Tighe
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iIndustry
American Iron and Stee Institute
Instate
Amalgamated Association
H. P. Fletcher
Jtena Atsylvania
Republican Party
National Committee
Chicago
Everett Sandera
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough
Cuba
China
Portugal
Chile
Mexico
Belgium
Italy
Harding
Rome
Federal Tariff Commission
Founders of the Republic
Qecrasary OF the Interior
Harold Ickes
G. W. Larsen
J. M. ‘Malmin
Virgin Islands
Ickes
Malmin
Theirgin Islands
Larsen
Chicago ™ Bar’ Association
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AAA
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New York
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Carl Byck and Associates
Father Gross
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Austria
Hane Luther
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Louis Barthou
National Capitol
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David J. Walsh
Massachusetts
Tom Connally
Capitol
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Great Arctic Island
Lights of
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Amercan
Fifth Avenue
Madison, Avenue
Unies
Bliss Electrical School
Addres SC
Bliss
Takoma Ave
Washington, D.C
Wiighin
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