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WASHINGTON, May 14. -- President Roosevelt today started the long-awaited home renovation and construction program, as his latest move in the battle for economic recovery.
Sen rejects Vandenberg-Copeland proposal to empower RFC to lend to receivers and liquidating agents of closed banks on "full" appraised value of assets
20 drowned, houses destroyed, Tiberias
1934A self coup by prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis succeeded in Latvia, suspending its constitution and dissolving its Saeima.[†]
The 1934 Latvian coup d'état known in Latvia also as the 15 May Coup or Ulmanis' Coup, was a self-coup by the veteran Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis against the parliamentary system in Latvia. His regime lasted until the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940.