War toll tests patience as Congress faced with postwar recovery
Economists warn quick cures are unlikely as high taxes and stagnant prices test public patience. Gompers criticizes Congress for inaction while praising rail reownership. The piece argues the United States outpaces Europe in recovery, urges production and prudent government spending, and warns against blaming Congress for worldwide ills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Congress
America
United States
England
France
Europe
Sugar Prices and Imports Spark Food Cost Debate
Amid soaring imports of sugar and rising prices, a near record 9 billion pounds are projected for the fiscal year through June, with value exceeding 700 million dollars. Critics question distribution costs and profiteering as Congress and refiners discuss relief measures, including a proposed boycott of luxury sweets to free supplies for public use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Washington
New York City
McAdoo Sets Out Policy Views as Private Citizen
Former Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo says he is not a candidate for president yet answers a farmers board questionnaire with clear standpoints. He favors higher taxes on unearned income, opposes broad license restrictions, critiques the railroad law as experimental, and supports free speech and press while endorsing sedition limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. McAdoo
Congress
McAdoo
Department of Justice
U S Get Opium From Canada Smuggling Report
Ottawa April 26 Canadian imports of opium show large quantities smuggled into the United States Minister of Health Rowell told the house of commons. He said imports have risen about 600 percent in five years and that more drug is coming in than is used domestically, indicating the drug is moving across the border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
United States
Rowell
House of Commons
Dominion
France’s 87th Infantry to Be Disbanded in Regimental Reform
The article recounts the end of the historic Dillon regiment, the 87th Infantry, as France reorganizes its army after World War I. It notes the regiment’s Irish origins, its long service under various aristocratic Dillon proprietors, its role in battles such as the Marne, Somme, and Verdun, and the transition of its two battalions—one remaining in France as the 87th, the other serving in the British army after Santo Domingo’s capture. It also mentions royal connections, notable Dillon members, and a note on later impostors claiming Counts Dillon in France.
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France
Marne
Somme
Verdun
Dillon
Theobald
Lord Dillon
Mayo
Roscommon
Lord Clanricarde
James II
Ireland
Henry
Han
Arthur Dillon
Louis XIV
de Dillon
Dillons
Arthur Dilson
Toulon
Hhs
Vendome
Duc de Noailles
Duc de Berwick
Marshal de Villars
Palace of
St. Germain
Count Dillon
Earl Dillon
Mary of Modena
Rhine
Dettingan
Great Britain
Earl of Lichfield
James Dillon
Order of
Malta
Fontenoy
Edward Dillon
Laufeld
Narbonne
Loula XV
House of Dillon
England
Louis XV
Dillon Regiment
Yorktown
St Christopher
Tobago
Franco
Dumonurrez
Argonne
Camille Desmoulins
Sanson
Dilion
Santo Domingo
Ford
Henry Dillon II
Fsat
Charles Dillon
Viscount Dillon
Charles X
Rheims
Gen. Boulanger
Paris
the Elysee
Marguire DE Pontenot
Proceedings of Congress and Committees In Brief
Congress convened at noon and adjourned at 4 58 p m. A rivers and harbors bill totaling 24 000 000 was passed. Lodge sparked debate on the peace treaty while Reed warned of British control of South American trade. Lind to testify on Mexican affairs. Pay raises for army and navy officers were agreed with continued wartime quarters. Knox drafted a new peace resolution. Nichols funeral observed in Michigan with lawmakers attending. Underwood urged retaliatory action on paper exports if talks fail. Interior to study a redwood national park in California. Mapes introduced a street widening bill for Firat street northeast to 60 feet.
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House
Lodge
United States
Hughcock
League
Whaan
Reed
Missouri
Great Britain
John Lind
Mexico
Wilson
Navy
Heed
New York
Knox
Foreign Relations Committee
Charles A. Nichols
Michigan
Doremus
Campbell
Kansas
Nichols
Detroit
Ireland
Thnoise
McFadden
Canada
Congress
Public Lands Committee
Interior Department
California
Mapes
Shanghai Elects International Settlement Council Members
Seven British, one Japanese, and one American form the Shanghai International Settlement municipal council after a taxpayer election. Sterling Fessenden won the American seat against a single defeated nominee, with 883 votes cast, the lowest since 1913. The council governs about 750,000 residents, including 26,000 foreigners, and foreign voter eligibility hinges on property tax payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Municipal Council of the International Settlement of
Sterling Fessenden
A Ransom
Municipal Council of
Former Austrian passenger liner Martha Washington enters South American trade
New York April 26 The Martha Washington recently refitted for the ships board South American service was formally entered into the trade at a luncheon on board the steamer by the Mungot Line. The liner, rebuilt to carry 170 cabin passengers, will sail New York to Rio de Janeiro in 15 days and to Buenos Aires in 22 days, President Munson announced.
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New York
Martha Washington
Shipping Board
Mungot Line
South America
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Munson
Peru ratifies international trade mark pact at Buenos Aires
The State Department announced Peru has ratified the international convention for the protection of trade marks signed at the fourth International Congress of American States in Buenos Aires. Fourteen republics have ratified, with one adhering. two regional bureaux are planned, Havana serving the northern group and Rio Janeiro the southern group once two thirds ratify.
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Peru
Buenos Aires
State Department
Havana
Rio Janeiro
Archaeologist Potter sails to Italy for Ostia dig
George Potter of Buffalo sails for Italy to monitor excavation of Ostia, 13 miles from Home on the Tiber river. The ancient seaport of Rome, destroyed in 4 A D, is believed to reveal the residential area as digs began during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George ¥. Potter
Buffalo
Saile
Italy
Ostia
Tiber
Rome
Mr. Potter
Plan to End Trade Disputes in Paris Convention
Plans for international trade dispute talks in Paris include hundreds of business leaders from around the world. John H. Fehey of Boston, chairing the International Chamber of Commerce committee, said 200 American representatives will attend pre-convention meetings for a broad machinery to gather and share trade information and curb unfair practices. The article also notes discussions in Fineburnt, North Carolina, on forming a nationwide Edge-law corporation to finance American foreign trade, backed by banks, exporters, and manufacturers, aimed at boosting exports and imports in a balanced, prosperous domestic economy.
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Paris
Atlantic City
Nearess
John H. Fehey
Boston
General Organization Committee
International Chamber of Commerce
National Council of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Inter- National Chamber of Commerce
American Bankers’ Association
John McHugh
Mechanics and Metals Bank of New York
America
National Woman's Party Predicts NC Ratification Spin
The National Woman's Party predicts North Carolina will ratify the suffrage amendment at an 118th special session in June after canvassing legislators. Of 60 responders, 38 pledged support, 11 opposed, while other states Delaware Connecticut Vermont Louisiana weigh action as sessions approach May dates.
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Nouth Carolina
National Womans Party
North Carolina
Delaware
Lousiana
Connecticut
Vermont
Cotton Exports Jump in Latest Report
A government report issued Saturday shows cotton exports last month at 171 million dollars, nearly 100 million more than March 1919. Meat and dairy exports dropped to about 70 million, breadstuffs roughly 68.5 million, mineral oils at 44.25 million with a large rise, and gasoline and naphtha exports surged from 22.06 million to 47 million gallons.
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Department of Commitee
WANTS TO LEARN "MIXOLOGY" Special to The Washington Past New York
Elisayo Castro, Spanish bartender with Madrid training, arrives from Havana as a stowaway seeking American palates. He notes all bar work is held by the International Bartenders union and English is required. Five stowaways from a ship of American excursionists are sent to Ellis Island.
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Washington
New York
Elisayo Castro
Madrid
Havana
Elianyo
International Bartenders Union of
Elisayo
West Indies
Ellis Island
U S Wins 49 Of 50 Pure Food Suit Rulings
Government actions on pure food law violations were upheld in 49 of 50 federal cases. The Agriculture Department’s Bureau of Chemistry announced that ten actions involved adulterated tomato products including catsup and eleven centered on misbranding stock feed from cottonseed cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Wood Seeks Cabinet Head For Public Health Service
Dr Seale Harris of Alabama urged a national public health department with a medical cabinet officer as head at the opening session of the American Medical Association branch in New Orleans. Harris said Maj. Gen Leonard Wood favored a cabinet officer leading the Public Health Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
National Public Health Department
Seate Harris
Alabama
American Medical Editors’ Association
American Medical Association
Harris
Leonard Wood
American firm seeks Labrador wood pulp forests
Ottawa April 28 An American securities firm has begun negotiations to acquire 1 500 000 acres of wood pulp forests in southern Labrador to supply wood pulp to news print manufacturers in England, it was announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Labrador
England
Minnesota and Pennsylvania Democrats Face 1932 Election Turbulence
Historic chatter in Washington hotels links Minnesota Democrats to a rising anti Republican tilt. The piece notes the GOP split after the presidential primary, factional feuding in the Rust Belt, and potential realignment with the Nonpartisan League and Dewar era politics influencing Pennsylvania where Republicans show unity and Democrats struggle with empty districts and weak candidate slate. Senator Johnson and Gen Wood are named as pivotal in the national contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Party
Minnesota
John Truzes
Dewarra
Dom Nates
Paing
Republan
Pennsylvania
Edward
Philadelphia
Vienrose
Democrata
Democrats Party
Aino Lacka
Senate
Upath
Democratt
Guy Sproul
Pennaylvaniar
Reputan
Outlook brightens in Japan as crisis seems past
Financial circles express hopeful that worst of crisis is over as Japanese banks, faced with severe money market stringency, had prepared by shortening loans and tightening protection. Officials say measures curbed excessive speculation believed to have driven the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ihy
Japan
Ten Red Cross Scholarships Offered by League of Red Cross
Geneva April 26 Ten scholarships of 1000 dollars each will be awarded for public health nursing by the League of Red Cross Societies. Henry P Davison, chairman, proposed the awards to assist Red Cross members in afflicted countries and nations with weaker Red Cross links. Courses start next October at King's College London women’s department.
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Geneva
League of Red Croup
Henry P Davison
Board of
Red Cross
Nationa
King's College, Women's Department University of London
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Labrador Wood Pulp
Te NS Partisan League
Radicaliam
Wiwee
Pe & Naver
Samtro Ny
Leagie
Frank
Rand
Ker
Manhattan
Leary
Nothoy
Johnsen
Herbert Parent
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