The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30

| clared
June 21-Senate refused to cut relief
| appropriation.
House passed pension bill for railroad
| employees.
| June 22-Senate passed 2 billion 63
! million dollar relief bill.
June 23-Ellis Parker. Sr.. and son
| convicted at Newark. N: j.. of kidnap-
| ing plot under Lindbergh law.
Fifty-five indicted in Is million dollar
| gem smuggling plot in New York.
June 24-Senate voted to extend nuis-
| ance taxes and 3 cent postage for two
| years.
June 25-Steel strike in Johnstown
area lost by union.
June 26-J. Butler Wright named am
| bassador to Cuba.
National labor relations board charged
Ford with violation of Wagner act.
June 29-Senate ratified treaties drawn
at Buenos Aires conference.
June 30-Franklin D. Roosevelt. Jr..
and Ethel du Pont married.
July 6-Ohio grand jury indicted 200
for rioting as steel plants reopened.
July 7-National labor relations board
began hearings on charges Ford COM
pany violated Wagner act.
July 3-Immunity was granted Presi-
dent Roosevelt in tax lodging hearings.
July 12-President urged immediate
passage of new crop control legislation.
Dave H. Morris resigned as ambassa-
dor to Belgium; Hugh Gibson, ambassa-
dor TO Brazil, transferred to Belgium.
July 13-House paid tribute to and
pensioned Harry Parker. venerable door
man for the ways and means committee.
House overrode Presidents veto of
farm loan bill.
July 14-Nine men, including two c. l.
o. chieftains, indicted for halting United
States mails in Ohio strike zone.
July 17-Controller general refused to
pay expenses Of foreign iunkets.
July 19-House voted "a millions for
Ohio basin flood control.
July 2l-Administration abandoned
Supreme court bill
Senator Barkley Of Kentucky elected
majority leader Of senate,
July 22-Senate voted 20 to 20 to re-
commit the court bill.
Senate overrode Presidents veto OF
low farm interest extension.
J. L. Houghteling, Chicago. appointed
commissioner of immigration.
July 27-House voted six more White
House secretaries.
Congress authorized building of six
auxiliary naval vessels to cost $50. 600 600.
San Francisco hotel workers strike
settled.
July 2s-Senate confirmed the nomina-
tions of George A. Gordon of New York
to be minister to the Netherlands; Leo
]. Keena of Michigan as minister TO
Honduras and Franklin Mott Gunther of
Florida as minister TO Rumania.
July 29-F. P. Corrigan appointed min.
lister TO San Salvador.
July 30-Senate passed the wage and
hour labor bill.
Aug. 6-Senate passed Wagner hous-
ing bill in limited form.
Aug. 7-Congress appropriated S5,OO0,.
600 toward viii Rogers memorial
Aug Il-Senate passed federal court
procedural reform bill.
Aug l2-President Roosevelt nomi-
mated Senator Hugo L. Black of Alabama
20 to nf
Aug. 13-Senate passed sugar control
bill
Aug. 16-House passed bill TO stop tax
leaks.
Aug I7-Senate confirmed appointment
of Hugo L. Black to Supreme court
House passed third deficiency bill car
rying 100 millions.
Aug. 18-House passed half billion dol
lar housing bill.
Aug. l9-Gov. Ribb Graves Of Alabama
appointed his wife. Dixie Bibb Graves,
United States senator to succeed Hugo
L. Black.
Senate passed Panama canal tolls re-
vision bill
Aug. 2O-Senate passed deficiency bill
New York c. l. o. shipyard strike col
lapsed workers returning TO jobs.
Aug. 21-Congress adjourned. after
housing bill and deficiency appropriation
President vetoed VIII Rogers memorial
bill
Aug. 23-Col H. B. Hackett resigned
as assistant director of P. w. A.
Aug. 26-Strike of railway brother
hoods averted by federal mediation.
Aug. 23-Andrew Melons will left his
millions to a charitable trust. -
Aug. 31-A. F. of L. council voted to
reioin world labor federation.
Sept. 4-President Roosevelt in Labor
day address asked labor to drop strike
tactics.
Sept. Edward McGrady resigned as
assistant to secretary of labor.
Sept 9-Dr. o. H Mennet. Los An
geles, elected commander of G.. A. r.
Sept l2-Justice Hugo l.. Black of
ing member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Sept. Infringement announced Of
John Roosevelt. son of President. to Anne
Clark of Boston.
chairman of securities and exchange
commission.
Sept. l6-La Guardia renominated for
mayor of New York by Republicans. and
]. T. Mahoney by Democrats.
John T. Biggers of Toledo named to
| manage census of unemployed.
Sept. 20-American Legion convention
opened in New York.
w. O. Douglas became head of SEC.
Sept. 22-President Roosevelt started
Sept 23-Daniel Doherty of Boston
| elected national commander of Amer
Sept. 29-American Bar association
| voted unanimously to continue fight for
| independence of the judiciary.
Oct. Hugo L. Black in radio address
| admitted he was a member of Ku Klux
Klan but said he had abandoned it.
Oct. 3Railway brotherhoods accepted
offer of A cents day wage raise; strike
| averted
Oct. AHugo L. Black took his seat as
| associate Justice of the Supreme court.
| American Federation of Labor conven.
| ton opened in Denver.
Oct. 5-President Roosevelt in Chi.
cago speech intimated America might
be drawn into war.
Oct. 11-Supreme court rejected mo-
tions TO unseat Justice Black.
Oct 12-President Roosevelt called
/ extraordinary session of congress for
| November Is.
Brady gang of outlaws wiped out by
| G-men in Bangor. Me.
Oct 16-President named delegation
| headed by Norman H. Davis to attend far
eastern conference in Brussels.
| Oct I8-John E. Miller elected senator
| from Arkansas TO fill out term of the
| late joseph T. Robinson.
Nathan Straus appointed federal hous.
| ing administrator.
| Great decline in stock markets began.
Oct 22-Interstate Commerce Commits
sion approved increase of railway freight
! rates.
Oct 26-E. r. Stettinius, Jr., succeed.
ed M. c. Taylor as head of Unned
States Steel
Oct 27-Federal reserve board cut
stock margin rate to help market.
Nov. 2-La Guardia reelected mayor OF
| New York.
Nov. 15-CongreSs met in extraordi
nary session: President asked tax re-
vision to aid small business.
Nov. 18-Governors of the six New
England states demanded repeal OF
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