Roosevelt Wedding in Nahant Highlights Presidential Family Visit
The Roosevelt family travels to Nahant Massachusetts for the wedding of John Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark. President Roosevelt sails in on the Potomac after an overnight trip and greets crowds while planning a dinner aboard the Potomac. The event includes preparations, secret service presence, and a rehearsal in Nahant with onlookers and relatives arriving by train and plane.
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Nahant
Mass
Roosevelt
John
Old Town
Potomac
Washington
Salem
Anne Lindsay Clark
Boston
Elliott
John Bollettiger
Framingham
James
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Ethel Dupont
Massachusetts
New York
Anne
Secret Service
John Roosevelt
Government to expand relief and public works programs
President signed a $3,750,000 appropriation to fund relief and pump primed jobs. The measure taps PWA and other agencies to create about 4.1 million work opportunities over eight months, with the aim to reach 3.5 million jobs as projects start.
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PWA
Condit
Ielt
MPRE
Macy
Lacy
Ary Am
White
Harry L. Hop. A. Tha
Tration
D That
Evans claims deductions for entertainers and wardrobe in 1934 tax
Madge Evans sought to prove itemized deductions including wigs makeup and costumes were necessary to earn a living. The government argued these and related expenses were not deductible, listing wardrobe makeup wigs $383 special photographs $1200 and entertainments $338 among claimed items totaling $2237.
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Angeles
Madge Evans
Federal Bayneal Ls Federal Board of Tax
Pather
Povcornment
Flood disrupts Japanese Chinese defense and dike repairs
A massive Yellow River flood across Henan forces Japanese engineers and Chinese peasants to work amid rushing waters to mend dikes. The flood breaches near Kaifeng threaten Hankow logistics as 500,000 people face displacement and famine risk.
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Shanghai
Henan
Kaifeng
Shawkiakow
Associated Press
Ood
China
Yangtze
Hwai River
Nanking
Keifeng
Chengchow
Hankow
Peiping-Hankow
Tsienshan
Kiukiang
Anhwei
McCall Placed in Death Row Cell at Florida Pen
Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, who confessed to kidnapping Jimmy Cash Jr. for 10000 dollars, was moved to a death row cell at Raiford state prison to await electric chair. He was brought from Miami and stood calm as officials prepared for his execution week. Governor Cone will set the date via death warrant.
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Raiford
Fla
Franklin Pierce McCall
Jimmy Cash, Jr
Princeton
Dade County
Miami
L. F. Chapman
McCall
Chapman
Fred P. Cone
Florida
Arrow
James Bailey
Skeegie) Cash, Jr
Atkinson
Skeegie
Sheriff Coleman
Dade Snuntys
Congress Passes Peacetime Appropriation Record Amid Party Split
The 76th Congress ended a peacetime appropriation record while splitting the Democratic Party and enacting most Roosevelt measures. Major laws approved included crop control, wage and hour rules, expanded housing and public works, and a larger navy, with notable reversals on court reform and other reforms debated for 1939.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Jae
Democrat Party
House
Dlawimakers
Chaek
Roosevelt
Contempt Charge Sought Against Mayor Hague in Free Speech Suit
Morris L. Ernst for CIO and ACLU urged Judge William Clark to hold Mayor Frank Hague in contempt for an out of court statement to reporters. Ernst said the remark, accusing Ernst of blocking a New York legislative inquiry into radical school influences, was a defiant defense step. Hague sat in the witness chair, listening as the motion was announced.
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Newark
N. G
Morris L. Ernst
CIO
American Civil Liberties Union
Frank Hague
Jersey City
William Clark
Hague
Fernst
Ernst
New York
Loyalists Slow Insurgents Drive in Eastern Spain
From Hendaye near the Spanish frontier on June 17, government forces stiffened resistance south of the Mijares river. They recaptured Villarreal after hand to hand fights and massed troops under Colonel Hoplito Menendez to block the insurgent advance toward Valencia. The drive, however, continued at about five miles daily in the Penarroya sector, while cordoba-area units weakened.
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Hendaye
France
Francisco Franco
Spain
Valencia
Mijares
Villarreal
Hoplito Menendez
Cordoba
Penarroya
U S Demands Germany Assume Austria Debt
United States reiterates that Germany must bear Austria debts, delivering a formal note from Ambassador Hughes in Berlin on instructions from Secretary Hull. Washington notes Germany’s claim of non liability and cites international law that the absorbing state assumes debts and obligations, with burdens and benefits.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Austria
Hug
Wilson
Berlin
Hull
Walter Funk
Cholera Epidemic Spreads in India. 16500 Die
Lucknow reports cholera now spreading across north western India and into Afghanistan and central provinces. About 600000 people in the united provinces have received free inoculations as 44 of 48 districts are affected and authorities distribute vaccine and purify wells.
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James A. Mills
Lucknow
India
United Provinces
Afghanistan
Northwest Frontier
Punjab States
Sindh Regium
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
British India
They Egged Him on Dare Leads to Medical Removal
In Zanesville Ohio on June 17 PK J. E. Krebb, 45, needed surgery to remove four turtle eggs swallowed on a dare. He said they egged me on.
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Zanesville
J. E. Krebb
Solons Leave For Homes As Session Ends
Washington June 17 Five hundred-odd members of the 75th congress went home after adjourning last night to seek voter return in January. The Senate and House approved the relief and public works program while enacting a bill continuing low interest government loans to farmers. The Senate balked at funding for the senate lobby committee to curb press freedoms. Roosevelt praised the session for constructive legislation and wage hour standards, despite some rebuffs including the court bill defeat.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Cece Gepang Meen
Burke
D-Neb
Minton
D-Ind
Bankhead
Garner
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