Broadway Notes and Vanity in a War-Tone Column
A montage of brief items on wartime celebrity sighting and showbiz gossip. Secretary Morgenthau’s deli cashier encounter. Ann Corio complaining about excessive publicity. quirky nightclub quips from Havana Madrid Stork Reuben Leon and Eddie’s Latin Quarter. Film reviews mention The Magic Lanterns stars and Sonja Home skating. NewsHunt pages include Reed Williams and Lodge reaction, Will Rogers Jr. calls for breaking with Franco, plus cultural observes and local transit trivia.
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Broadway
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Delmonico Pharmacy
Ann Corio
Morning Telegraph
Ann
Havana
Madrid
Reuben
Leon
Eddie
Latin Quarter
Versailles
Mark Hellinger
Warner Bros
Edouard Cantor
Cantor
Dinah Shore
Davis
Bogart
Garfield
Flynn
de Havilland
Sheridan
Sonja
Jack Oakie
Cesar Romero
Charles Laughton
Laughton
Richard Dux
Jane Wyatt
Victor Jory
Sage Brush
William Shirer
Harper's
Lars
Goebbels
Shirer
Will Rogers, Jr
Franco
Coronrt
Spain
Carl Hermenn Frank
Hitler
Quisling
Frank
Collier
Ther
Morton Eustis
Theatre Arts Monthly
North Africa
Josephine Baxer
Josephine
Navy Day salute marks Spearhead of victory effort
Navy Day observance on October 27 honors the United States Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Officials note Theodore Roosevelt founded the modern Navy and the Navy League promotes patriotic education with broad national support and a focus on future strength and readiness. The report highlights dramatic growth in ships and planes since 1940, with hundreds of new combatant ships and thousands of naval aircraft produced by 1943.
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Elliott Pine
Western Now
Union
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Theodore Roosevelt
Navy League
District of Columbia
Charles Edison
Secretary of the Navy
Sheldon Clark
Chicago
Frank Knox
Navy Department
United States Navy
League
United States
Japan
Ordnance Department
Expansion of Navy in Three-Year Plan Increases Fleet Size
The navy reports three year expansion costing over three billion dollars with 383 ships reduced via transfers or conversion. Air power rises sharply from 1744 to 18269 planes highlighted by a shift to sea power. Total construction and bases program totals about 8.1 billion with over three million sailors planned by year end.
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Navy
Pacific
Atlantic
Mediterranean
U. S. Navy
United States Navy
U.S
América
Uncle Sam
Lend Lease
U. S
Roosevelt Calls for Navy League Support in 1903 Letter
President Theodore Roosevelt urged "All good Americans" to back the Navy League of the United States, aligning with its creed that a strong navy is essential for national defense and power projection, endorsing its policies as foundational.
Near East tensions and US Russian lend lease mix
Washington dispatch reports Anglo Russian friction in the Gulf of Persia as British and American officials allow a Russian air mission. The piece notes a British delay, a Russian base led by a lively general, and joint US-Russian testing, amid wider Allied balance of power concerns in the region.
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Washington, D. C
Britain
Russia
Near East
Persia
U. S
London
Gulf of Persia
Gulf
U.S
Gulf of Fersia
Teheran
Tran
Aerial Photos Cover 90 Percent of U S Farm Land
The U S Department of Agriculture has photographed 2 000 090 square miles or 90 percent of the nation's farm acreage to guide land use for crops. The project produced 1 300 000 air photos costing 8 million dollars, a fraction of ground survey costs.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Collier’s
All-Bran relief praised by longtime householder
An unsolicited letter from Mrs. Poline Balls of Bronx New York extols Kellogg's All-Bran as a gentle regulating aid for chronic constipation. The notice explains All-Bran as a cellulose rich food that supports colonic flora and regular elimination.
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Law
Thor
Kpleogo
Poline
East 100Th Street
Bronx
Kellogg’s
Navy men favor Camel cigarettes say sales records
A Navy friendly tip notes sailors prefer Camels, based on service store sales. It suggests sending Camels to soldiers at home and to service members abroad, and mentions similar appetite among Army Marines and Coast Guard.
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Navy
Army
Marines
Coast Guard
Post Office
U. S
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France
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New York Herald Tribune
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W. 33Rd St
Fifth
Sumner Welles
Washington
E. 24Th
Lexington
Second
Navy Icaspe
Navy Toague
Tedjy’ Roosevelt
Quartermaster Corps
QMC
Germany
England
Coleman
Parcs
Coleman Lamp & Stove CO
North St. Francis St
Wichita
Kansas
Feathers
Sterling Feather Company
N. Broadway
St Louis
Missouri
South America
Amazon Valley
Far East
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