Fechet to Leave Army Air Corps for Aviation Bureau
Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet announces retirement from the Army Air Corps to head the Washington bureau of Aero Digest. He warns of a vulnerable U.S. aviation position, urges national resolve and better preparation, and says remaining in uniform would limit impact on the industry. The city set a one percent monthly delinquent tax penalty to replace the old ten percent after the due date.
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James E. Fechet
Army Air Corps
Washington
Aviation
General Fechet
Air Forces of America
Air Corps
Aero Digest
United States
Napoleon style executive revival urged to cut waste
Glenn Frank argues the war on waste requires executives to return to details and basics. He recalls Napoleon’s practice of auditing orders and records to ground policy in facts, contrasting 1929 business excess. The piece stresses executives must master details to craft rational, informed policy.
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Napoleon
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Venice Muir Seeks Drake Farrelly Amid Social Turmoil
Venice Muir endures bleak February as she longs for Drake Farrelly who ignores her. She tests ties with Lola and Donny Reese while plotting to reveal her past with Guy and navigate a social season haunted by rumors. A sleet storm ends with a chance collision with Farrelly on Madison Avenue.
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Venice Muir
Drake Farrelly
New York
Drake
Roland Wainwright
Venice
Rollo
Tenth Street
Sixth Avenue
Fifth
Derby
Lita Chase
Guy
Donny Reese
Donny
Goadbys
Lola
Peasley
Whitcombe
Godfrey
Jerry
Europe
Darling
Culbertson
Riverside Drive
One Hundred and Tenth Street
Eightieth Street
Fifth Avenue
One Hundred and Sixteenth Street
Madison Avenue
Harriet Henry
Hangdog look to Frippery and old clothes trade
A history note traces the hangdog look from medieval sneaking to its literary usage. It discusses the old French dealer in second hand items called a fripper, whose wares evolved from odds and ends to foolish trumpery. Tomorrow’s feature highlights the buttons on frock coats and terms like nag and white liver.
Leading stage stars trained in slap stick
New York dispatch surveys burlesque history from its rowdy roots to the modern musical revue. It lists early and midcentury figures such as Jolson, Fields, Jessel, Cantor, Brice, Tucker, and Sydell, notes declines, and recounts careers from Pacific honky tonks to Broadway.
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O. O. McIntyre
New York
Bernard Sobel
Burlycue
al Jolson
W. C. Fields
George Jessel
Alexander Carr
Junie McCree
Shaw and Lee
Harry Fox
Hoey and Lee
McIntyre and Heath
Charlie Murray
Grace la Rue
Joe E. Brown
Frances White
William Rock
Frances
George White
Cantor
Clark and
McCullough
Joe Cook
Bedint
Radio star Tibbett opens WEAF NBC program in opera style
Metropolitan opera bari tenor Lawrence Tibbett opened his WEAF NBC weekly broadcast with The Peanut Vendor Old Man River and Toreador Song from Carmen. NBC networks air Howard Lanins orchestra Rudy Vallee Kate Smith Tito Guitar Frank Stretz Frank Wilson bands and more across WEAF WABC and WJZ with late night organ and dance sets.
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New York
Lawrence Tibbett
Weaf-Nbc
WEAF
NBC
Howard Lanin
Rudy Vallee
Lois Moran
Josef Jayda
Jesse Crawford
WABC
CBS
Frank Stretz
Kate Smith
Tito Guitar
Vincent Sorey
Guy Lombardo
Royal Canadians
WJZ
Frank Wilson
Lannie Ross
Clara
Larry Funk
Natives in India Violate Salt Law
In Karachi India on January 7 police did not intervene as volunteers marched to the seashore and gathered or sold salt, defying the salt monopoly law Gandhi protested this issue in the last conflict with British authorities. In Newark New Jersey Anthony Caruso Jr. is noted as a potential future notable, born yesterday weighing 18 pounds.
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Karachi
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Tve
Newark
N. J
Anthony Caruso, Jr
Reddy Fox Chases Danger Through Winter Hunt
In this Thornton Burgess tale Reddy Fox flees a hunter and baying hound. Starved and exhausted far from familiar woods he uses a stream, rocks, and a wall to dodge capture as footprints reveal his trail in the fresh snow. The story ends with plans for the next episode, Reddy Becomes Desperate.
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Reddy
Bowser
Blacky
T. W. Burgess
Crossword Puzzle From Historical Page
A word puzzle with horizontal and vertical clues including Hang chow country, mineral spring, hearing, monkey, lubricate, cigar butt, eyes of fish, brute, many, stain, male proster, Eucharist vessel, barren, shade of difference, brawler, chum, yesterday's answer, and other scattered terms across multiple definitions. The grid challenges knowledge of zoological, botanical, and linguistic terms with varied difficulty.
Burlesque Stars and Stage Props Recalled in 1930s Memoir
The piece recalls wealthy actors once in burlesque, noting David Warfield and Fred Stone as former performers who invested in real estate. It also mentions Al Reeves in Jamaica and lists burlesque names like Charles Winninger and Bert Lahr, pairing nostalgic humor with a sharp critique of past acts.
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David Warfield
Fred Stone
Jamaica
L. I
al Reeves
Mr. Sobel
Oyes
Charles Winninger
Billy B. van
Lester Allen
Bert Lahr
Frances
Park Avenue
Jean Malin
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
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Amarillo
Texas
Globe News Publishing Co
Sixth
Fillmore
Gene Howe
Wilbur C. Hawk
Associated Press
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Circulation
Ceeewre
Amarillo Globe
Amarllo Daily News
BY Mail
Oklahoma
New Mexico
the Globe
Glenn Frank
L_LAIDY
Columbia
L&tin
CORS
Flippeeryy
Rose Sydell
London
The
Met
Glock
Bedtime
BY Thornton W. Burgess
Reddy Fox
China
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