Mussolini threatens in Ethiopia and world eyes
Benito Mussolini addressed 15,000 Black Shirt volunteers declaring a decisive struggle in Ethiopia. Haile Selassie faces a potential war after the rainy season ends and foreign nations advise citizens to leave. The U S and Britain weigh sanctions while Scheveningen talks stall on arbitration. France limits participation while domestic politics heat up over utility regulation.
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Black Shirt
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Il Duce
William Perry George
Adals Ababa
State Department
United Presbyterian Missions
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Italy
Hull
United States
Scheveningen
England
Grass roots Republican convention held in Cleveland
In Cleveland Ohio a second grass roots Republican convention drew attendees from Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee. George H Bender of Ohio served as permanent chairman and the meeting declared aims to revive party interest and defend constitutional government against the New Deal amid tensions with old party leaders over potential loss of influence.
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Leveland
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
George H. Bender
Springfield
Ong’s Louisiana Victory Gives Albany Advantage
Legislature approves 95 bills to curb local patronage and bolster Ury W. Ong’s power over New Orleans politics. With these measures, he gains tools to pressure Mayor Ty Semmes Walmsley and his allies as he consolidates dominance in the state capital.
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Ury W.ong
Louisiana
Ty. Semmes Walmsley
New Orleans
Death of Maj. Gen. Stuart Heintzelman at Army Hospital
Major General Stuart Heintzelman, a distinguished army officer and West Point graduate of 1809, died at the Army and Navy Hospital in Hot Springs Argentina. He served in the Philippines, China, and France as an observer, received the CSM, and was decorated by France and Italy. He led federal reclamation projects in Missouri before taking command of the Seventh Corps area in February.
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Stuart Heintzelman
Army and Navy
Hot Springs
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Heintzelman
West Point
Phillippines
China
France
America
Italy
CCO
Heinizelmann
Missouriatil
Corpa Ares
Aldermanic report targets relief reforms in New York City
An aldermanic inquiry recommends cutting relief wages below private industry, prosecuting alleged $24,000,000 annual relief frauds, and stopping out of town relief executives. The report notes a typical single person allowance of $7.30 weekly, higher amounts for larger families up to $19.50 for a nine person household, with 1,400,000 people on relief.
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Aldermanic
Relief Administration
New York City
Committee of Americans forms to push sales tax plan
Charles H. Sabin Jr leads a new Committee of Americans favoring a federal sales tax and abolition of nuisance taxes. The group aims to present to the President and Congress a petition with a million names. Wealthy families are said to be represented, though organizers deny it is a wealth lobby against the tax wealth program.
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House Ways and Menos Committee
Charles L. McNaty
Oregon
Congress
Committee of Americans
Charles H. Sabin, Jr
Crusaders
Rockefeller Quietly Reaches Ninety-Sixth Birthday
John D. Rockefeller spent his ninety sixth birthday at his Lakewood New Jersey estate with his closest relatives. His physician says Rockefeller is in better health than for the past three years and no celebration or cake was held.
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Ohn D. Rockefeller
Lakewood
N. J
Rockefeller
Johnson Takes Federal Works Relief Job in New York
EN, Hugh Johnson assumed the office of federal works relief administrator for New York City. Robbie, his secretary, kept reporters at bay for a day but finally admitted them. Johnson complained that the relief program is not helping anyone and warned that when funding ends, jobs will vanish.
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Carter Glass
Marriner
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Eecles-Currie
Federal Reserve System
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Glags
Reserve Board
Reserve Banks
Eemerican
Ghtorgo
ACP
Congressmin
Thomas R. Amie
Wisconsin
John Bosch
Atwater, Minn
Farm Holiday Association
Alfred Bingham
New York
United States
Hiram Bingham
Connecticut
Paul H. Douglas
Vito Marcantonio
New York City
Senator Nye
North Dakota
Hugh Johnson
Federal Works Relief
Robbie
Rye crop adjustment program outlined by AAA officials
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace proclaimed the establishment of an AAA adjustment program for the 1935 rye crop with benefit payments to be announced later. Representatives from 16 rye producing states gathered in Washington to discuss the program and outline its operation. Farmers from principal wheat states met AAA officials and approved a tentative flexible plan for benefit payments to wheat growers.
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Ecretary OF Agriculture
Wallace
AAA
Washington
Tugwell's Rural Resettlement Boss Named For Relief Program
Ashington The allocation of Tugwell to head Rural Resettlement signals a major shift in the New Deal effort to convert relief payments into employment. The plan prioritizes farm work, erosion repair, road and flood projects, and rural electrification, with broad outlines to be announced soon. Roosevelt's tax proposals on large fortunes gain backing in Congress as a step toward curbing wealth concentration and boosting social security and public welfare programs nationwide.
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Brain Trust
Tugwell
Federal Power Commission
Bell System
Pranklin
Social Security
United States
Treasury
Frances Perkins
Labor
Aubrey Wiliams
Federal Emergency Relef Administration
Williams
AAA
Townsend
Huey Jong
Jook
Volos
Minnesota Made Home for Last of Caribou
A boggy swamp north of Upper Red Lake hosts the only remaining native caribou in the 48 states. About a dozen animals comprise the Minnesota herd as authorities plan added protection at the refuge. Scientists and conservationists study the area with the state commission to guard this final stand of woodland caribou amid past drainage impacts.
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Red Lake
Minnesota
Siys
United States Biological Survey
St Ty
Biological Survey
State Conservation Commission
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