Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-28
Chronology
e t''s 1888
Compiled by
IL. w. PICK RID
DOMESTIC

Jan. l-PreSldent HooVer'a commits
sion on social trends reported.
Jan. SINNERS war in Christian
count. Illinois. broke out again and
so 6ase troops LIVER were sent after two per-
Jan. flight hundred enraged Iowa
farmers halted farm mortgage sale;
Coolidge died in Northampton. Mass.
and President Hoover ordered 80 days
OF PUBLIC mourning.
Jan. 12-House passed domestic al
iotment farm aid BILL
Jan; lS-President Hoover. vetoed
the Philippine independence bill. and
Jan. l7-Senate repassed Philippine
independence bill over Presidents
Jan. 2o-President Hoover and Pres
fdent-Elect Roosevelt agreed to open
war debt negotiations with Great
Jan. 21-senator H. B. Halves of Mis-
Jan. 2sSThe Twentieth amendment to
sessions Of congress. was officially
adopted when Missouri. the seth state
to approve, ratified it.
DR.. Harry WOODBURY. Chase resigned
as president of University of Illinois
versity.
all non -defaulting nations to confer
ence on war debts after March 4.
Congress voted ssOOOO.OOO for farm
Jan. 25..senate passed the Glass
Jan. sO-House passed bill to en-
able debtors to avoid bankruptcy. and
the Glass banking bill. :.
Feb. 4-House refused to cut pay Of
congressman.
Feb. 7-Senate ousted Sergeant at
Arms David S. Barry for traducing it
in magazine article.
Roosevelt called conference of all
Feb. i4sGovern aor' cem nna of Mich
fgan proclaimed an eight day bank
ing holiday.
Feb. 15-An anarchist, Giuseppe Fan
CARA, fired five shots at Franklin D.
Roosevelt in Miami, missing him but
fatally wounding Mayor Cermak of
Feb. 16-Senate adopted resolution
for repeal of Eighteenth amendment
Feb 20-Resolution for prohibition
repeal passed by the house.
Feb. DISAPPOINTMENT announced of
Senator Cordell Hull as secretary Of
state and William H: Woodin of New
York as secretary of the treasury in
the Roosevelt cabinet.
Feb. 23-Congress passed s3OS. zoo. 900
naval appropriation bill.
j. c. Stone resigned as chairman of
impeached Federal Judge Harold
iouderback of California for mis-
Feb. 26-President- Elect Roosevelt
announced Henry Wallace would be
secretary of agriculture and James A.
Feb. 27-Harold ickes as secretary
of the interior and Claude A. Swan
son as secretary of the navy announced
by Roosevelt.
Federal grand jury in Chicago in
-dicted the insults and others for u.s.
ing the mails to defraud.
March Harry Byrd appointed SEN
ator from Virginia to succeed Swan
son.
reorganization powers on President.
passed.
March Representative Henry T.
Rainey OF Illinois chosen next speaker
by Democrats.
Henry Morgenthau. Jr.. named new
chairman of farm board.
March Bank holidays proclaimed
in New York and Illinois
Homer S. Cummings named attorney
general in Roosevelt cabinet.
March 4-Franklin D. Roosevelt in
augurated President of United States
Seventy-second congress came to
close.
March 5-President Roosevelt de-
-clared four-day bank holiday and
called congress in session on March 8.
March Theodore Roosevelt re-
signed as governc general Of the Phil
Lewis Douglas appointed director Of
the budget
March 9-President Roosevelt ex-
tended bank holiday indefinitely
Congress gave President full control
of banking system.
Congress met in, special session;
March 10-President asked congress
for power to cut veterans costs and
government salaries $500, zoo. 900.
March 11-House passed Presidents
economy bill.
March l3-Banks reopened.
Robert w. Bingham appointed am
bassador to England: Jesse I. Strauss
ambassador to France: and Josephus
Daniels, ambassador to Mexico.
March l4-House passed 30 per cent
beer bill
March 16-Senate passed beer bill
March 19-Zangara slayer of Mayor
Cermak of Chicago. electrocuted at
March 22-House passed Roosevelt
farm bill
March 27-President scrapped farm
board and combined several agricul-
tural bureaus.
March 2s-President issued order
cutting pay of 100000 federal employ
ees Is per cent
April president signed regulations
fective July /.
April 3-Claude G. Bowers named
ambassador to Spain.
Michigan first state to vote repeal
of dry amendment.
April 4-Wisconsin voted repeal
April 5-President ordered return of
gold boards over 500 by May l.
April 6-President invited nine ma
tions to economic conference in Wash
1ngton.
April S-Mayor Frank Murphy of De-
tTOlt 6oNCih 6eHcTdl OI 1nll-
1ppines.
April 12-Ruth Bryan owen named
minister to Denmark.
April l7-Senate rejected 16 to l sill
yer reconciliation amendment to farm
bill.
House adopted resolution giving
President power to declare arms
embargo
April l9-United States went off
gold standard; embargo on gold ex-
portations declared: bill for controlled
imitation" drafted for administration.
April 20-Breckinrdge Long nomi-
mated for amba ssador to Italy
April 2l-House passed bill providing
half billion dollars for outright re-
lief gifts to the states.
Sumner Welles nominated for am
bassador to Cuba.
April 25-House passed the Muscle
Shoals bill
Wisconsin ratified prohibition repeal
amendment.
April 26-Mrs. Nellie TayIoe Ross an
pointed director OF the mint
April 27-L. A. Steinhardt was an
pointed minister to Sweden and Am
bassador Hugh S. Gibson transferred
from Belgium to Brazil.
April 2S-Senate passed farm bill
with credit and currency expansion
amendment.
House passed $500. 0OO. 900 nome
mortgage refnancing measure.
Warren Delano Robbins was appoint
ed minister to Canada, and Robert Fl
Gore governor of Porto Rico.
Iowa farmers rioted and attacked
Judge. at LIE Mars: martial law pro-
claimed.