Women at Work In Wartime Shape Postwar Outlook
The article notes eighteen million women are now employed, with five million new to the labor market since 1940, in war related and civilian jobs. It outlines the Women’s Bureau's wartime leadership, policy aims for equal opportunity, wage standards, and training, and contrasts World War I and II worker shifts, forecasting postwar manpower needs and planning for retraining and reintegration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. V. Peters
Department of Labor
Women's Bureau
Woman In Industry Service
Mary Anderson
War Agency
Miss Anderson
Bureau
United States
Addiion
Geldswitch
Chumn
Women’s Bureau
War Department
Navy Department
Frucda S. Muller
America
Radio and Magazine Notes on Entertainment and Politics
Notes survey 1945 radio shifts and new programs with Fred Allen guest spots and Danny Kaye potential hit. Mention of Gov officials eyeing round the clock broadcasts to save electricity. Reviews of American Magazine Byrnes blueprint and Collier's The President and the Press. Esquire cartoon and Farrel Marines anecdote appear amid a mix of media observations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Allen
Allen
Danny Kaye
Henry Youngman
James F. Byrnes
American Magazine
Harper's
Harriet van Horne
W. Davenport
Collier's
Esquire
Byrd
FDR
The Grandest Canyon: Faces About Town
A collage of 1930s showbiz vignettes portrays Jimmy Durante in a quiet room compiling a financial joke on debt, Harold Lloyd unrecognized at City Center Theatre, Frank Conville of the USO sharing butter with a civilian, Bea Littie chatting with a British tar, Ann Sheridan headed to South America for work, Broadway dreams keeping crowds awake, a Lincoln photo auction at WMCA, Mrs Davis in the audience and her longing to see her son, a soldier identified as her boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Durante
Harold Lloyd
Clown Prince
City Center Theatre
Ann Sheridan
South America
New York
WMCA
Meyer Davis
Lincoln
British aid in Pacific sparks debate over Indian troops
Ex Representative Norris Poulson reports talks with British MPs about help for the Pacific war after Germany falls. A Briton cites an army of 7,000,000 Indians, while Poulson warns they may not aid the Allies. Other notes cover Salonika, Krishna Menon, Stilwell's views, and political parallels to Coolidge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Farrell
Farrell
Frank
South Pacific Islands
Cap't
Farrel
Fred
Walter Davenport
Collier's
Air Transport Command
Pacific
Paul Hunter
Liberty
Marshall Field
Moelion Picture Herald
London
Peter Burnup
Bing Crosby
Cole Porter
Philip Wylie
Marine
Wylie
Ted
Norris Poulson
California
Japan
Poulson
Germany
Philippines
King
United States
Salonika
Greece
Eam-Elas
King George
Churchill
Burma
U. S
Wiliam Phillips
India
Also Mentioned on This Page
Women’s Bureau of Labor Department
Nora T. Sterns
Sterns
Felt
Seattle
Wash
Nita Carlin
Weehawkin
N. J
Miss Carlin
Runter College
New York City
Broadway
Calvin Coolidge
Harry Fruman
Senate
Truman
Coolidge
Calfist
Boston
Blackstone
Harding
White House
Henry Wallace
Swanee River
John Danaher
Connecticut
Brien McMahon
Francis Maroney
Ray Baldwin
Dansher
Danaher
CLC Ang
Bfgoodrich
Hile
East
Theny
TY Scott
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