New federal works plan outlines $3.0 billion program
President outlines eight large scale projects for rural rehabilitation and modernization with funds for highways rural electrification housing and sanitation. Rexford Tugwell leads rural rehabilitation while Walker and Ickes head new agencies and the NRA faces prolonged Supreme Court actions.
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Krll Louxervolt
Krank GO. Walker
Sorface
Democratic Party
Washington
DAI
Liresident
Auiiken
Citizen Conservation Corps
Torna
Estrea
Rexford O Tugwell
Wallace
Trge
OCC
Sckewe
Walker
Itlehburg
Erestjent
NRA
Congress
Supreme Court
GM in Toledo plant strike tests closed shop deal
Labor at the Toledo Chevrolet plant opened a strike to win recognition as the exclusive representative of all workers. Pickets surrounded the plant as deputies kept order. General Motors rejected a union backed closed shop and a proposed contract offering only minor wage tweaks and a small general raise.
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CV Aganizld
Oledo
Chevrolet Motor Company
Solon
Cfty Tellke
Hall
Iscaident Stoan
General Motors Corporation
Nework
Toledo
General Btotora
Ita
Gag Rule Spurs Social Security Bill Passage Debate
The administration pushes through a social security bill with full party discipline. Final vote 872 to 32, senate passage anticipated weeks later as committees juggle NRA extension and veterans bonuses. Provisions include old age pensions, payroll taxes rising to 4 percent by 1943, unemployment tax, and federal grants for health services and maternal child care amid broad support. Speaker and others claim no White House pressure and cite independence from leadership.
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Mase Biout
Roose
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Ying
Yrna Coidr
Clement Succeeds Atterbury as Penn Railroad President
Veteran Penn Railroad official M. W. Clement is named to succeed retiring president Atterbury. Clement, born in Sunbury, Pa, has been vice president for nine years and will oversee officals and relations with other railroads and the government.
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Atterbury
Clement
Comanys Offalra
Railraad
Clements
Ilia
Asd
Intercat
Pennsylvania Railroad
Inglands
MacDonald
Commttea
Arma
Duke of Norfolk
Georgia Governor Supports Linder Amid Secession Remark
Governor Talmadge of Georgia, a vocal Democrat critic of Roosevelt and the New Deal, backs Tom Linder, Georgia commissioner of agriculture. A farm department bulletin carried a note asserting the right to secede, tied to a Tinder article defending the Democratic administration and the Russian government. The secession remark touched off anger over the Supreme Court ruling reversing Alabama in the Scottsboro case for excluding black citizens from juries.
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Overnor Talmadge
Georgia
Loosevelt
New Deal
Tom Linder
Tinder
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Alabama
Scottsboro
Citilzens
Nazi edict blocks church press and Jewish organs in Germany
A newly issued law in Germany aims to suppress the Catholic and Protestant churches and all Jewish religious and secular publications. It designates Nazi organizations as exempt and seeks to monopolize Reich publications under Nazi dictatorship while banning professional and group subscription newspapers.
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Max Amann
Reich Pres Chamber
Naz Party
Nazi Party
Epidemics and Engineering Decide Wars More Than Armies
An old study argues that disease and sanitation shape outcomes more than battles. It cites Athens, Rome, Carthage, and Napoleon era campaigns, noting epidemics shifted campaigns and ultimate victories, with engineering and sanitary services determining success while military prowess alone falls short.
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Rimmanta
Ilomers
Oedipus Rex
Sophoclea
Athens
Periclea
Xerxes
Greece
Sicily
Dante
Napoleon
Moscow
Caesar
Hannibal
Human Trait: Men Live to Work
A concise aphorism notes that men derive purpose from labor and that removing that drive reveals the core truth about their motivation.
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Western Newspaper Union
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American Federation of Labor
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Ralse Priest
Detroit
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Oklahoma
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North Dakota
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Massachusetts
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Ohio
Thomas O Malley
Wisconsin
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Columbia University
National Academy of Science
Chicago
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American Philosophical Society
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Ryn Oale, Inc
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Coleman Lamp & Stove CO
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