Beatrice Davenport faces store power struggle and party night
Beatrice Davenport debates modernizing her retail empire as Anthony and Toby stir reform ideas. She seeks proof of mismanagement while planning a morale lifting night out with coworkers, leading to a Danceteria outing that reveals a democratic, youthful scene.
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Beatrice Huntington Davenport
Miss Dane
Miss Getz
Mr. Huntington
Grandfather
Bruce Sheldrake
Trust Company
Beatrice
Brice Sheldrake
Anthony Bradley
Anthony
Bee
Sheldrake
Davenport
Mr. Sheldrake
Mr. Weeming
Clarence
Weemie
Employes
Toby Masters
Toby
Comptroller’s
Vera
Jake Simon
Terry
Sam McArdle
Etiquette in Business and War Time Letters
A Nation’s Business excerpt discusses modern business etiquette as a social lubricant, highlighting leaders like Stewart, Wanamaker, and Carnegie. It notes boss humility, empowered assistants, and horizontal courtesy, then shifts to reader letters praising or joking about wartime solidarity and French aid during the occupation.
Sidney Kingsley on the Army and Social Barriers
Playwright Sidney Kingsley, now in civilian life, praises the army as a social organism that unites men. He says military service rebirths democracy by removing class barriers and rewarding character, integrity, and personality over background. He urges Americans to learn these lessons.
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Sidney Kingsley
Kingsley
America
King George Receives Trailblazing Trades Union Medal
The king smiles as he receives a Trades Union Congress medal from George Gibson at Buckingham Palace. The unusual honor marks labor leadership decorating a monarch, signaling shifting times in England. The article notes Britain’s vessels in American waters should keep their whereabouts discreet to avoid danger.
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George
Trades Union Congress
George Gibson
TUC
Buckingham Palace
England
British Fifth Column Drives Underground War in Europe
An April dispatch describes Britain and Allies waging an intensified underground war inside Axis Europe. Exiles lead democratic groups across twelve countries with propaganda, espionage, and sabotage aimed at undermining Nazi control. Reports detail symbol acts, smuggling arms, and clandestine networks in Norway, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, the Czech lands, Poland, and Austria, with a future plan for a coordinated liberation on “The Day.”
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NEA
Washington
Great Britain
Europe
Balkans
Africa
Fnends
Britain
Democratic Fifth Column
London
Is Hands
France
Belgium
Hollande
Norway
Tuxemburg
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Rumania
Italy
Austria
Germany
Wilhelmina
Benes
Boston
Holland
Libre Belgique
Hitler
Liberty Party
Frank
de Gaulle
Poles
Greece
French Resistance Grows as Hope for Victory Spreads
Widespread French resolve to hinder the German war effort strengthens with new hope for freedom. Letters from Paris area describe courage under censorship, clandestine meetings around shortwave radios, and prayers for support from Boston and American friends as the nation endures bombing, hunger, and separation.
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Ameri
New Mexico
Tllinois A
Maine
Alaska
Red Cross mi
Occupi
Gemans
France
Tf French
Leter
Brittany
Greece
America
Paris
Boston
World Wide Broadcasting Company
Europe
Mama
Overcoming Awe in Life and History
An essay on resisting public display and pomp by focusing on abstract ideas. It cites a girl facing an executive, Britain’s colonial awe, Hitler’s blitzkrieg propaganda, and reminds that even powerful figures remain fallible humans.
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Hitler
Poland
Scandinavia
Sharpies Shape Harlem Fashion Subculture
In Harlem, fashion is driven by customers known as sharpies, young black men who commission semi custom tailoring from local haberdashers. They outfit themselves with hats, socks, underwear, and multiple outfits annually, spending about $40 to $50 per ensemble and sometimes paying extra for unique details.
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Harlem
Coly Boys
Lenox
Lucius Beebe
Harlem Haberdashers
Mos
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Gene Howe
John McCarty
Telephones
News and Business
John Maynard Keynes
Kingsley Wood
Keynes
Jenkins
Miss Geta
Getzie
Fifty-Second Street
Danceteria
Greenland
Thule
Baffin Bay
Umonak
Godhovn
Canada
Davis Strait
Frederiksdal
Texas
Frederikshaab
Imaginlik
Greenland Sea
U. S. Hemispheric
Iceland
Reykjavik
Newfoundland
Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic
U.S
Esterd
J. George Bores
Nation's Business
Pril
A. T. Stewart
John Wanamaker
Marshal Field
Richard Sears
Sears & Roebuck & Co
Napoleon
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Thomas M. Johnson
Skoda
Tam
Oslo
The
Christian Science Monitor
Philip Harkins
New Yorker
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