Roosevelt Reform Bill Passes Senate Amid Fierce Fight
Western Newspaper Union reports that President Roosevelts reorganization bill cleared the Senate by 49 to 42 after a heated debate. A recommit vote failed 48 to 43. Critics warn the measure could pave the way for dictatorship as it would allow executive orders to reorganize or abolish federal bureaus and agencies, create a department of welfare, and add staff, while excluding the Federal Reserve Board and other core bodies.
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Roosevelt
Senate
United States
House
Loase
O'Connor
Rules Committee
Federal Reserve Board
Corps of Engineers
United States Army
Board of Tax Appeals
Communications ‘Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Labor Relations Board
Civil Service Commission
General Accounting Office
Ten Men to Probe TVA Sen. Bridges
Senate approves resolution for a joint committee inquiry with ten men to probe the Tennessee Valley Authority. It names eight of twenty three original charges and seeks a wide look at private utility suits against TVA. President Roosevelt had removed A. E. Morgan, with legitimacy still to be settled in courts.
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EIVE
Tennessee Valley Authority
Senate
House
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
A. E. Morgan
Bridges and King
TVA
H. Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Republican
Lister B. Hill
Alabama
Roosevelt
Chairman Morgan
Morgan
Jackson
Congresa
Harcourt Morgan
A. ¥. Morgan
Prade, Grave
Leagues
Tetenadtoar Vibe Orntinty Lsaguea
R Tor
White House
Supreme Court Upholds Public Utility Registration Act
The Supreme Court upheld registration provisions of the 1935 Wheel er-Rayburn public utility act but avoided ruling on other sections including the death sentence for holding companies. It sustained a lower court order forcing Electric Bond and Shares Co. and 14 utility holding firms to register with the SEC or be barred from mails and interstate commerce. Chief Justice Hughes wrote the opinion. Justice McReynolds dissented. Justice Cardozo was ill and Justice Reed did not participate.
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United States Supreme Court
Wheeler-Rayburn Public Utility
Justice McReynolds
Cardozo
Reed
Col House Dies After Long Illness at 79
Col Ed ward M House dies in New York at seventy nine after a long illness. A key figure in the Wilson era, House advised the president and helped guide international policy including trips to Europe and service as Wilsons personal representative at Versailles. Their close association ended after disputes.
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House
Edward.m. House
New York
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Europe
Versailles
Franco insurgents push toward Barcelona in Catalonia advance
General Franco's insurgent army broke loyalist lines and swept through Catalonia heading for Barcelona, capturing about 100 towns in a single day. Bom bardment by a 200-plane fleet, aided by Italy and Germany, demolished villages as Italy warned France against intervention in Spain.
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Eneral Franco
Catalonia
Barcelona
Italy
Germany
France
Spain
Informazione Diplomatica
United States halts Mexican silver purchases
Secretary Morgenthau announced a suspension of Mexican silver purchases pending further notice likely tied to Mexico's expropriation of foreign oil properties. The move comes after a price cut of one cent per ounce and reflects strain on good neighbor policies. The Treasury had been buying 6 million ounces monthly at about $2.6 million, subsidizing Mexico under the New York price.
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Morgenthau
United States
Mexico
Hall
United States Treasury
New York
Japan's Regime in China Inaugurated in Nanking
Japan announced the formation of a reformed Government of the Republic of China in Nanking. Liang Hung-Tze heads the executive yuan as chairman, replacing Chiang Kai-shek’s regime. Chinese forces still fight along the Peiping Hankow railway as Japan suffers losses.
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Japan
China
Republic of China
Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
Liang Hung-Tze
Executive Yuan
Peiping-Hankow
Pat Harrison Moves to Revise Revenue Bill
Senate finance committee, led by Pat Harrison, votes 17 to 4 to strike the undistributed profits tax and replace with an 18 percent flat corporation income tax. They also adopt a 15 percent flat rate for capital gains on assets held over 18 months and bar processing taxes on key crops to finance $200,000,000 yearly farmer bounties.
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Pat Harrison
House
Senate Finance Committee
Vienna Jews ordered to leave within four years
Goering announced a program for Austria’s economic reconstruction calling Vienna a German city and demanding the removal of 300000 Jews within four years. He entrusted the task to Seyss Inquart to be carried out quietly by legal means amid Catholic church appeals backing union with Germany. The Catholic declaration supported Hitler’s plebiscite victory.
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Vienna
Field Marshal
Goering
Hitler
Austria
Seyss- Inquart
Germany
Cardinal Innetzer
Vatican
Britain Will Fight If Europe War Breaks Out
Prime Minister Chamberlain warned in Parliament that Britain will honor treaties with France and Belgium and may go to war if German aggression threatens their defense. He stressed Britain seeks peace but will fight if vital interests are endangered and rejected Soviet calls for consultation.
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Great Britain
Czechoslovakia
France
Belgium
Hitler
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Europe
Central
Russia
Wheat crop outlook from agricultural bureau predicts 830 million bushels
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates this year's wheat crop at 830 million bushels, about 160 million above the 1932-36 average, with a carryover around 300 million bushels. If planting trends hold, spring wheat plus durum may reach 200 million, combining with roughly 630 million from the winter crop to total 830 million.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Department of Agriculture
Art Work Helps in the Building Up of Mental Health
New York psychiatrist finds paintings by the mentally deranged reveal inner attitudes through size and ego. design shows balance between impulse and restraint, with geometric patterns signaling repression. Color choices like brown and black relate to depressive tendencies, while finished pieces are interpreted like dreams to uncover emotional impasses.
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Marjorie van DE Water
New York
Edward Liss
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Liss
Supercharging Diesels Brings Gains in Power
Navy and marine engineers report that supercharging large Diesel engines boosts emergency power for ships and allows smaller engines with unchanged speed or more cargo space for commercial motorships. In trains and aircraft, it increases continuous power and enables higher altitude performance. E. D. Newell notes 50 percent power gains in one railroad case.
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Washington
E. D. Newell
Bureau of Engineering
Navy Department
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society of Automotive Engineers
Newell
Fire Ants Destroy Quail in Southeastern States
Fire ants in the Southeast attack quail eggs and newly hatched chicks, causing 0.5 to 16 percent hatch losses annually. Entomologist Bernard V. Travis notes ants also threaten citrus trees and that control is hard, with fumigation and dry sodium cyanide baits showing promise.
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Baltimore
Bernard V. Travis
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
United States Department of Agriculture
Six Pairs of Twins in One Family Puzzle for Scientists
Connecticut couple welcomed six pairs of fraternal twins, a finding Yale anatomy professor William Walter Greulich says unsettles current ideas on twinning. He cites paternal lineage and a 35 year old mother with a 57 year old father, noting only the father’s line shows prior multiple births. The report discusses Danforth and Curtius hypotheses of two ovulations and dual fertilization, urging medical observation to explain the phenomenon.
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Chicago
Connecticut
William Walter Greulich
Department of Anatomy
Yale University
Journal of the American Medical Association
Greulich
California Diamonds Do Not Justify a Rush
Dr. R A Foshag of the National Museum cautions against rushing to Cherokee Flats California in search of diamonds. He notes only about two hundred diamonds have been found there since the gold rush era and one diamond arrives at the museum every few years. The stones are good but their rarity makes placer deposits unprofitable as mines.
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Washington
Cherokee Flats
Camino
Calif
R. A. Foshag
National ‘Museum
California
Dr. Foshag
Larger Army Airplanes Have Many New Devices
Washington officials report 410 airplanes delivered in 1937, twice the size of predecessors. New standard equipment includes numerous tested devices, with a national program advancing improvements in military craft. Developments include paired propeller sets with opposite rotations, controllable pitch concentric propellers, self sealing tires and tubes, and automatic recovery for damaged machines.
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Washington
United States Army
A. W. Robins
Ag Gena Robine Wenge
Army
Doris Dene Uat Dont Believe Parents Narrow Minded Until You Know Them
A seventeen year old girl laments strict home rules and limited outings. The piece argues that parents often misjudge youth and that their own memories of love and mistakes can teach children about life and love if they shed rigid virtue. It suggests parents are connected to real experiences rather than mere propriety.
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Doris Dene
Why Parents Incompetent To Judge A Wise Friend
A column argues that parents misjudge a daughter's forty five year old confidant, often due to age bias and desire for independence. It contends youths prefer outsiders who flatter them while dismissing parental wisdom, urging readers to value advisers in their best interests.
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Miss Dene
Jeanette
Mary
Nee
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Neville - Chamberlain
Sciente
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