Senate OKs two year NRA extension and policy limits
The Senate finance committee approved a resolution extending the National Recovery Act until April 1, 1936 with safeguards against price fixing and intrastate code eligibility. President Roosevelt urged a broader two year bill, while critics like Long and Coughlin voiced opposition. Morgenthau proposes a graduated inheritance tax plan to fund relief and redistribution.
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Finance Committee
Senate
Donald Richberg
NRA
Senate Finance Committee
Clark
Missouri
Pat Harrison
White House
Richberg
Harrison
President presses for new legislation amid business clash
The President urged Congress to enact the old age and unemployment insurance bill, the NRA extension, utility holding company, transportation control, and banking bills. He clashes with business leaders who urge shelving unemployment insurance, the 30 hour work week, Wagner labor disputes, coal measures, and railroad changes. The National Association of Manufacturers says $20 billion in pent up capital could create 4 million jobs and lessen relief needs if political uncertainties are removed. The analysis was issued to members of the U S Chamber of Commerce.
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NRA
Public Utility Holding Company
National Association of Manufacturers
United States
Ickes Interior Dept Elevation Seals Undersecretary Post
Congress approved elevating the Interior Department to the level of major departments and created an undersecretary job with a 10000 dollar annual salary. The Senate amendment passed 248 to 92 after administration pressure. Democrats claimed snubs and demanded rebuke, but party leaders forced support.
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State, Treasury
Agriculture Departments
Congress
Harold
Senate
Interior Department
House
Supreme court limits Ickes authority on dam projects
The court ruled Secretary Ickes lacked authority to dam navigable rivers without explicit congressional order. It found the PWA law did not list Parker dam as a PWA project, suggesting many large reclamation works may face suits. Ickes said Congress would be asked to authorize Parker dam.
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Parker Dam
Supreme Court
Secretary Ickes
Congress
PWA
Ickes
Federal judges not to be impeached after subcommittee probe
A House subcommittee reported that evidence did not warrant impeachment of Judges Woodward Wilkerson and Lindley of Chicago. It noted conduct prejudicial to the judiciary but said improvements in court rules and bankruptcy receivership law have been made.
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Ederal
Woodward
Wilkerson
Lindley
Chicago
House
Apology Sent Over Disclosure Of Defense Plans
Chairman John J. McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee sent the President a letter of apology for disclosing defense plans discussed in executive sessions. He took full responsibility for the incident and was rebuked by the President for publishing in a House document possible plans against Canada and Atlantic Caribbean targets in wartime. Generals Andrews and Kilbourne had outlined the program at a secret committee meeting.
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Hairman John J. Mswain
House
McSwain
Canada
Atlantic
Caribbean
F. M. Andrews
Charles E. Kilbourne
Mutual assistance pact signed between France and Russia in Paris
Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Ambassador Sotemkin signed a mutual aid agreement in Paris that subordinates military action to League of Nations protocol Locarno provisions and the Franco Polish alliance. Laval planned to travel to Moscow routing through Warsaw. A secret military convention was expected to follow.
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Pierre Laval
France
Sotemkin
Russia
Paris
M. Laval
Moscow
Warsaw
Laval
League of Nations
Transcontinental test flight sets speed record
A TWA test plane flew from Burbank to New York in 11 hours 5 minutes with robot pilot control for most of the route. Pilot D W Tomlinson was joined by Harold Snead and Peter Redpath, with limited manual control during three segments. The craft achieved 262 mph over the Allegheny mountains.
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Burbank
Calif
New York
D. W. Tomlinson
Harold Snead
Peter Redpath
Tomlinson
San Bernardino Range
Durango
Colo
Floyd Bennett Field
Allegheny Mountains
Republicans plan grass roots conference in Springfield
Nine midwestern Republicans met at Excelsior Springs Missouri and voted to hold a grass roots conference of party leaders in Springfield NL. The date will be fixed later but likely in early June. The goal is rejuvenation of the party and a campaign to restore popular government.
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Epublicans
Excelsior Springs
Springfield
Havana Police Solve Morro Castle Mystery with Anarchist Plot
Police in Havana have arrested three Catalan natives linked to the Morro Castle fire and other disasters. Officials say letters found on the men instruct them to cause a disaster similar to the Morro Castle and label the prisoners as well known anarchists.
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Olice
Havana
Morro Castle
Catalan
Spain
Magallanes
Women take over running of town in New Albany
Seven women form a 100 percent petticoat city government in New Albany Kansas with Mayor Susie Murphy and six other council members plus a female police judge. They pledge honesty progress and liberty saying men mishandled affairs from Washington to small towns and deserve a chance.
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Kan
Petticoat
Susie Murphy
Effie Laughlin
Kathryn Bivins
Laura Shelton
Badgley
Murphy
Pal the Pied Piper Cat Ends Five Year Rat Slaying in Shelby
Shelby Ohio reports Pal a five year old tiger Angora mix cat owned by Arthur Allwine has killed about 2000 rats over five years. He reportedly averages two or three kills daily and eats them, with hamburg as a weekly treat. Pal also enjoys small dogs and was raised with a terrier.
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Shelby
Ohio
Pal
Arthur Allwine
Allwine
Hamburg
PWA Funding Tug-Of-War Shapesrelief Program
Washington reports Secretary Ickes frets over a rush for 100 percent grants and FERA grants while loan funds from the PWA face competition from states counties and towns. Frank Walker will decide how much give away money states can obtain and how much loan money they can afford. Ickes foresees anxious applicants and political maneuvering over relief funds.
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Washington
Ickes
Harry Hopkins
Rex Tugwell
Frank Walker
Walker
PWA
Newton's Diamond Book in Kunz Collection
A rare collection of diamond lore received by the geological survey from the estate of George Frederick Kunz includes Sir Isaac Newtons book on diamonds. The 1671 volume History of Jewels bears Newtons marginal notes and is considered the collection’s most valuable item alongside works and gemstones from around the world.
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Washington
Isaac Newton
Geological Survey
George Frederick Kunz
New York
Tiffany’s
Newton
Isaac
Man Ends Life Despite Prediction of Success
An elderly man identified as Christ Zwick by a numerology chart ends his life at the Federal building steps in Milwaukee. He pulled a razor from his pocket and slit his throat after a moment of gazing at the blade, then collapsed dead as bystanders hurried past.
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Milwaukee
Federal Building
Christ Zwick
Green hair mishap shocks Nassau society
A British and American crowd in Nassau, Bahamas gasped when a man in evening dress appeared with green hair. The effect came from a hair rinse reacting with salt in tap water, though his snow white hair remained his pride.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Pay Relief Jobs May Be Hiked To Meet Living Costs
Washington reports Roosevelt seeks a list of work relief projects while officials study raising wages beyond the $50 monthly average. Rising food prices up 14 percent in six months prompts the move as surveys in 59 cities compare living costs with regional wage scales. Wages may vary by region from $20 in the South to $100 for skilled work in New York.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Works Allotment Board
New York City
Relief fund equals seventeen percent of U S wages
New York report by the National Industrial Conference Board breaks down the 4.88 billion work relief appropriation. It estimates the sum covers about 17 percent of all wages and salaries, 68 percent of farm value, over double dividends, and over 90 percent of interest, and could be produced in 37 days by the entire US workforce.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
United States
Farm Registrations Boost US Vehicle Count
The article notes that nearly 25 million motor vehicles are registered in the United States and more than five million of these are on farms.
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United States
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