Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-01-02
June 1s-House passed AAA amend

ments asked by administration.
June 19-President told to congress
redistribute wealth through taxes.
Senate passed the social security bill.
House passed the Wagner-Connery la
Dor disputes bill.
ment $550.000 for industrial workers
home colony In Detroit area.
June 25-Gen. Hugh Johnson made
works relief director for New York.
June 26-President set aside $50, O00,-
600 from works fund to provide jobs
for youth Of nation. ann nm
July president handed $91,000,000
to Rexford Guy Tugwell for rural reset
Element work.
July 2-House passed utilities bill
without death sentence clause. and
then ordered investigation of lobbying
for and against the measure.
July 16-AAA processing tax de-
clared unconstitutional by Federal APP
peals court in Boston.
July 22-General strike at Terre
Haute shut off all food supplies; Ma
tional Guard called out.
July 2S-Senate passed AAA amend
President Roosevelt named L. w.
Cramer to succeed Paul Pearson as gov
ernor of Virgin islands.
Terre Haute general strike called of
July 24-House passed liquor con-
July 2e-senate passed bank bill as
James O'Neill resigned as head of
MIRA, effective August l.
July 31-Congress passed bill restor.
ing SAG, O00.O 900 in Spanish war veterans
pensions.
Aug. 5-New tax bill passed by
house.
elected Charles F. Risk as congressman.
defeating the New Deal candidate
Aug. 8-Maj. Gen. B. D. Foulois. head
Of army air corps, voluntarily retired.
Aug. 9:Enactment of social security
law completed.
Aug. 15-Senate passed new tax bill.
House cleared Federal Judge Alschu-
Ter Of Illinois Of misconduct charges.
Aug. 19-Senate passed farm mora
forum and railway pension bills and
adopted conference report on banking
House passed Guffey coal bill, rail-
way pension bill and conference reports
on banking and rivers and harbors
of IVA: senate passed neutrality res
oiution concerning Italo-Ethiopian
Aug. 22-House accepted compro-
mise death sentence in utilities bill.
Guffey coal bill passed by senate.
House passed resolution for manda-
tory embargo on arms shipments to
Aug. aS-John G. winant appointed
chairman of labor relations board.
Aug. 24-Senate accepted conference
TcpOTlS OH UTILITIES, new TAX ana dlCOnOl
control bills; and approved compromise
neutrality resolution.
Texas voted for prohibition repeal and
local option.
deficiency appropriation bill killed by
Senator Longs filibuster.
Aug. 2S-James A. Moffet resigned as
federal housing, administrator.
Dillinger gang. found near Ottawa. III.
Sept 5--President ordered inquiry
into deaths of hundreds of war vet
Grams in Florida hurricane.
Sept. 6-Stewart Mcdonald appointed
federal housing administrator
Sept. S-Senator Huey P. Long of
Louisiana shot and critically, wounded
Sept. 9-National encampment of G.
A. r. opened in Grand Rapids. Mich.
Sept. Ex-senator Long died.
Sept. 12-Oley Nelson Of Slater. Iowa.
elected commander in chief of G. A. r.
Sept. 16-Franklin c. Hoyt appointed
fede ert alcohol adm mi
New Mexico rejected changes in state
constitutions.
Sept. oss@o5Peresident Roosevelt allo-
American Legion convention opened
in st. Louis, Mo.
James M. Lands was appointed chair
man of the SEC.
Soft coal miners began strike
Sept. 26-President Roosevelt started
on trip to Pacific coast.
Strike of soft coal miners won by
the union.
= Ray Murphy Of Ida Grove. Iowa,
elected commander of American Legion.
, Sept 29-New budget announced. re-
ducing deficit by more than a billion
Sept. 3O-Van swearingen brothers
regained control of their railway en-
pire.
Oct. president Roosevelt sailed on
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chief of staff of army
Oct. s-New Jersey Court of Errors
and Appeals upheld death sentence for
Bruno Hauptmann for numbering the
Oct. 16-President Roosevelt in PAN
Oct. 17-vice President Garner and
big congressional delegation sailed for
Oct. iS-william Green reelected
president of American Federation of
Oct. 23-President Roosevelt landed
at Charleston, S. c.
Oct. 26-Farmers voted by big ma
jority for retention of corn-hog pro-
gram.
Oct. 27-United States Supreme court
f timer for
Chicago adopted by council.
Nov 5-Republicans gained control
Of New York legislature and elected
A. B. Chandler. Democrat, elected gov
ernor of Kentucky.
Nov. III. n. Darling. chief of the
biological survey resigned.
Nov. 17-President Roosevelt refused
to interfere in Mexico's church affairs.
Bar association upheld Liberty league
lawyers offer of legal aid.
Now 2O-President Roosevelt went to
Warm Springs. Ga.
Nov. 22-United States shipping board
warned American shippers against
shipping war material to Italy and
Nov 2s-John l.. Lewis resigned as
vice president of A. F. of L.
Nov. 24-Supreme court granted tenn
ing taxes on rice.
Nov. 3O-Federal relief ended with
100000 shifted from FERA rolls to
Dec. 2-George N. Peek resigned as
president of export bank.
Secretary Wallace announced new
corn-hog program.
Dec. 5-Congress of American Indus
try and National Association of Manu-
facturers adopted platform for defeat
of New Deal and return to American
system"
declared he was not candidate for
reelection.
Dec. S-Lawyers committee of Amer
lean Liberty league declared Guffey
coal act unconstitutional.
Dec. 9-President Roosevelt addressed
the American Farm Bureau convention
in Chicago. defending the AAA, and re-
ceived honorary degree from Notre
Dame in South Bend, Ind.
Supreme court refused to review the
conviction of Bruno Hauptmann for kid