Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-01-06
Year OF 1897 In
Review Offers
Interesting Data
Domestic and World Hap
penings Bring to Mind
Good History Made.
Compiled by E. w. PICKARD

Compiled by E. w. PICKARD
Jan. ANDREW w. Mellon offered
his great art collection to the nation.
Jan. 4-Rep. Sam Rayburn OF
Texas made speaker of the house.
Supreme court upheld law restrict
ing prison-made goods.
Oregon's criminal syndicalism law
held invalid by Supreme Court.
Jan. 5-Seventy-fifth congress con-
vened and organized.
Jan. 6-President Roosevelt read
his message to congress.
Congress passed neutrality resolu-
ton barring war shipments to Spain.
Jan. president Glenn Frank OF
University of Wisconsin ousted by
board of regents.
Jan. 8-President Roosevelts bud
get message asked for between &c.
5000 900 and S8,000,0 100000.
Jan. 11-President Roosevelt asked
for $3.50 100000 for WPA until July l..
Charles Edison appointed assistant
secretary of the navy.
Strikers at Flint, Mich, in bloody
riot with police.
Supreme Court upheld so per cent
tax on silver profits.
Jan. 12-Congress received from
President plan for reorganizing ad-
ministrative branch of government.
Jan. l4-Truce for negotiations ar
ranged in General Motors strike.
Jan. 15-Senate voted 21a years
extension of RFC and subsidiaries.
Jan. 19-Congress extended for 21a
years Presidents control of stabiliza-
ton fund and dollar valuation.
Jan. 20-Franklin D. Roosevelt in
augurated for second term as Pres
ident
Jan. 21-Sanford Bates resigned
as federal bureau of prisons director.
Jan. 22-House extended RFC and
loaning subsidiaries to June 20, 1889.
Postmaster General Farley reap
pointed.
Jan. 26-House passed $3.50, 900
flood relief bill.
Jan. 27-Senate passed house bill
appropriating $50,000,000 for seed and
crop loans.
Jan. 28-House voted to put first,
second and third postmasters under
civil service.
Feb. Michigan National Guard
modified to stop new strike riots in
Flint.
Feb. 2-Sit-down strikers ordered
ousted from General Motors plants
by court injunction.
Feb. 3-President Roosevelt sub
mitted to congress a billion 6-year
public works program.
House passed bill appropriating
S1,OOO,000 for federal offices and
agencies.
Senate passed ss4S, 100000 defci-
ency bill.
Feb. 4-West Coast maritime strike
ended.
Feb. 5-President Roosevelt sub
mitted to congress a bill for reor-
ganization of the federal judiciary
including increasing Supreme Court
to Is.
Feb. toulouse passed bill provid-
ing for voluntary retirement of Su-
preme Court justices at seventy on
full pay.
President asked congress for leg
islation to protect plains states from
future droughts.
Feb. 11-Bill creating Disasters
H1yc
General Motors strike settled by
compromise agreement.
Feb. 13-Prof Charles Seymour
elected president of Yale.
Feb. 15-United Mine Workers
suspended from membership Presi-
dent Green of A. F. of L.
Feb. 16-Ex-Gov. Paul v. McNutt
of Indiana made high commissioner
to the Philippines.
Feb. 19-J. G.. Wynant resigned as
chairman of social security board
A. j. Altmeyer named chairman and
M. w. Latimer appointed member
Feb. 25-Reciprocal trade treaties
act extended three years by congress
Feb. 26-Senate passed house bill
, for voluntary retirement of Supreme
Court justices at seventy.
Feb. 27-President Roosevelt asked
states to enact soil conservation laws
Feb. 28-Eugene Vidal resigned as
director of federal air commerce bu-
reau.
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