The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05
May 3-Senate passed naval expansion

May 3NSenate passed naval expansion
bill
House passed bill to create "a more
federal judgeShipS.
May 6-Labor board withdrew deci.
sion against Ford company.
House passed $434, 900, 900 highway bill.
May 9-Senate passed billion dollar
agricultural department bill.
May 12-Three billion recovery spend.
ing bill passed by house.
May 13-Enactment of naval eXpan-
sion bill completed
May 16-Senate passed bill creating
aeronautics authority.
May 17-PennSylVania Democratic pri-
maries resulted in defeat for c. I. o.
candidates; Gov. C. H. Earle nominated
for senator and c. A. Jones for COVER.
nor. Republicans renOminated Senator
Davis and named A. H. James for gov
May 21-Presbyterian church general
assembly voted predestination sections
out of confession of faith.
May 24-House passed the Wage-hour
bill
May 25-Dr. A. E. Morgan, first wit
ness in congressional inquiry into IVA.
accused David Lilienthal and Harcourt
Morgan of deceit and dishonest manage
ment
May 26-Lilienthal and Harcourt Nor
gan heard in denial of A. E. Morgan's
charges and counter-attack
Bloody labor riots in Detroit and Ak.
May 27-President Roosevelt let tax
bill become law without his signature.
May 31-Supreme court denied rehear-
ing of stockyards case. rebuking Sec
rotary Wallace and Solicitor General
Jackson.
President signed bill creating 20 new
federal judges.
Government reorganization bill shelved
by congress.
June 3-Senate passed the three bill
lion recovery bill.
June 9-House ouSted Representative
jerks, Republican, of New Hampshire.
and seated Alphonse Roys Democrat
June 14-Senate passed the wage-hour
June 15-Congrcss passed food con-
June 16-Congress passed relief and
pump-priming bill and adjourned.
June 20-Eighteen persons indicted in
New York as German spies.
June 24-President. by executive order
extended civil service to all govern
ment employees not exempted by stat
ute.
July 6-Dr. A. E. Morgan sued for
reinstatement as chairman of iva.
transcontinental speechmaking tour.
July 14-PreSident reviewed battleShip
feet at San Francisco.
Howard Hughes and four others com.
July 10, setting record of three days.
10 hours. IA minutes.
July 15-Elmer F. Andrews. New York,
appointed administrator of wage and
hour faw.
Secretary Wallace asked 81 per cent
cut in wheat acreage.
July 18-Douglas Corrigan of Los An
geles made solo flight from New York
to Dublin, Ireland, in % hours. Is min
utes.
July Ex-Governor of Iowa ordered
troops to Newton, home of strike-bound
Five officials and IL corporations fined
In oil conspiracy case at Madison, Wis.
July 2O-Government began anti-mo-
nopoly suit against chief movie compa-
MES.
July 22-Federal court of appeals in
Chicago set aside finding of NLRB in
Fansteel corporation case.
July 25-Puerto Rico nationalist tried
to assassinate Gov. Blanton Winship.
Aug. 1-Justice department announces
investigation of American Medical asso.
citation on charge of antitrust law vic.
lation.
ginia and Missouri Democratic prima.
rieS.
Aug. 3-William C. Dodge, former New
York district attorney, linked with James
j. Hines in policy racket charge.
President Roosevelt heads back home
Aug. 6-Majority Leader Alben w.
Barley wins Democratic senatorial
nomination in Kentucky over Gov. A. B.
Happy Chandler.
Aug 11-President Roosevelt asks de-
feat of Sen. Walter F. George in Geor-
gia speech.
Twenty-six passenger German plane
flies nonstop from Berlin to New York.
Aug 12-Tom Girdler, Republic steel
president, blasts c. 1. O.. National La
Dor Relation board and senate civil
liberties committee
Aug 13-United States NaZiiSm and
Communism investigated by house com.
mittee on un-AmericaniSm.
Aug. 15-President Roosevelt asks de-
feat of Sen. Willard Tydings in fire.
side chat on eocial Security's third
birthday.
Trial of James j. Hines on racket
charge opens in New York city.
Ford Motor company calls $4,000 back
to work.
Aug. 16-John p Frey, A. F. of L.
leader, blames Communists for sit.doWn
strike epidemic.
Aug. 18-President Roosevelt dedicates
new international bridge through the
Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence river.
Aug. "a President Roosevelt de-.
nounces G. o. P. for meddling in pri.
Aug. 26-secretary Hull sends sharp
owned farmlands.
Aug. 80 - Senator Smith, intended
purge victim, wins in South Carolina
primary.
McAdoo, indorseo by Roosevelt. loses
in California primary.
Sept. Ex-Governor Davey of Ohio de.
fies federal social security board to cut
off states old-age assistance grants.
Senator Pat McCarron defeats two 100
per cent New Dealers in Nevada pri-
mary.
Sept. 7-Grand Army of the Republic
holds national reunion in DeS Moines.