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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Mar 06, 1933

Page

8

Hair powder fashion traced to ballad singers at St Germain

The passage notes that Seventeenth and Eighteenth century hair powder originated with ballad singers at the fair of St Germain. It says vulgar people adopted the look first, but then it spread to the higher classes as a fashion.

St. Germain

Clearing House Certificates In Bank Holiday Plan

The Roosevelt administration moves to reopen banks under a four day bank holiday using clearing house certificates to replace currency. Hoover backs plan while Congress is summoned for emergency session on Thursday to authorize new measures.

New York Uo States Congress Roosevelt American Bank Note Company Federal Reserve Banks Treasury Sub-Treasury United States Waldorf-Astoria Herbert Hoover Hoover Anton Cermak Lawrence Richey Washington Senate House Secretary of the Treasury White House Ogden Mills Mills Woodin Federal Reserve Glass-Steagall Ceri Perm America Garner Rainey Representative Snell Robinson Burns Tennessee Johnson California Byrnes South Carolina Congress of the Wall Street Franklin D. Roosevelt Robinsonr Arkansas Miles Ogden L. Mills William H. Woodin the Treasury

Bankers Prepare for Holiday Shutdowns Across Richmond

Banks plan four day closures with access to safety deposit boxes debated. Judges consider check payments for fines, while insurers predict smooth premium handling. Officials mull moratorium on debts and urge a special session to authorize it.

Richmond John M. Miller, Jr First and Merchants National Bank National Credit Corporation Washington Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin W. Worth Smith, Jr Louisa Edgar B. English Pollard General Assembly

Woman Held for Grand Jury in Bank Robbery Case

Mrs. Patey Hoffan lift 24 of Cleland was held for the grand jury on a bank robbery charge after a Kinon slice state. Clift, previously linked to a Newark nightclub murder, admitted waiting in a car near Waynesville Ohio last September while her husband James Clift and Howard Welle robbed a bank. Wells and Clift are already serving life terms for bank robbery.

Patey Hoffan Land Kinon Clift Newark Waynesville James Clift Howard Welle Wells

Mrs. Roosevelt Snips Red Tape in White House Move

The article notes Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt dramatically reducing formal red tape at the White House during her first day as mistress. Washington reports a startled atmosphere as traditional etiquette is described as shattered precedents and reorganized to facilitate action.

Washington White House Franklin D. Roosevelt

Alabama Negroes Facing New Trial

In Scottsboro Alabama a new trial will begin in the red brick court house where seven young negroes once faced death. The International Labor Defense will file a motion for a new trial as the first step in the referenced case against the seven defendants accused of assaulting two white girls.

Scottsboro Ala International Labor Defense

Change of Venue Denied by High Court Reversal

The discussion notes a Birmingham venue shift denied by the United States Supreme Court reversal of death sentences. It recalls how Western cowboys adapted a Spanish kordl into corral and how the term broadened to mean detaining or holding someone.

Birmingham United States Supreme Court

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