Melody Hour Salutes Armed Forces Radio Show Tonight
Radio program lineup features Viv ian della Chiesa, Evelyn MacGregor and Conrad Thibault with Soprano, Contralto and chorus. WMT airs at 730 pm dedicating pieces to United Nations troops in Ireland and the air corps, plus Navy and Coast Guard songs. Fort Knox and Bremer county fair broadcasts noted with war bond promotion from WMAQ.
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Melody Hour
Radio c
Vivian Della Chiesa
Evelyn MacGregor
Paritare Conrad Thibault
WMT
Della Chiesa
United Nations
Ireland
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
WMAQ
NBC
Merchandise Mart
Chicago
Fort Pearson
Bob Brown
Louis Boen
Cleve Conway
Charlies Lyon
Hour by Hour Radio Schedule for August 25, 1942
A dense, period voice listing daytime and evening radio programming across WMT WGN WHO KXEL EXEL and other stations. It catalogs shows, news, music, comedies, and sports with multiple named programs, hosts, and time slots reflecting a bustling network schedule. The fragment preserves era details and station overlaps, indicating a wide array of entertainment and information segments throughout the day.
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Taceday
Aus
WMT
WGN
Wendel Hall
Johnny Pres
Porter
Lum
Abner
Chanute
Caest
Tommy Riess
Exel Bremer
E. Howard
Judy Exel
Hil Sander
Exel Cavaliere O
WNT
Keem
WGN Northerners
Dorsey O
Muat Exel Living
Wey
Greten Hug
WGN Chiese Toe
Bu Exel G
Claridge
Vaillant Lady
Johnson Exel
Jane Foster
Bach
KXEL
Hiatt
Amanda
Lawson
Linda
Daurn
Vic and Sade
WMT Horizons
Salvo
Jenny
A.E.F. Mess
David Harum
Jack Little
Kate Smith
Carter
EXEL
Erkine
Vicki Vickee
Helen Trent
Hibrook
Exel Farm
Jordan Wedecadas
Wwely
Vate & Learn
Eisway King’s Jesters
Wwee Melodies Wal
Rvice Ser
WHO Farm
Jerry
Mike
Reveille
SEC orders dissolution of American Power and Light and Electric Power and Light
The SEC moves to dissolve two major units of the Electric Bond and Share system as the war era push to break up the nation’s largest public utility holding company continues. The 100 page decision labels American Power and Light and Electric Power and Light as nominal entities and urges dissolution plans after rejecting reorg proposals. A second top unit, National Power and Light, has already faced dissolution.
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Philadelphia
Securities and Exchange Commission
American Power and Light Company
Electric Power and Light Company
Electric Bond and Share Corporation
SEC
American and Electric
Bond and
Share
Bond
National Power and Light
Unscrupulous corporate simplification schemes exposed by SEC
The SEC states Bond and Share use American and Electric as pyramiding devices to control two subsidiaries with minimal investment and disproportionate voting power, leaving security holders unfairly distributed. Electric and America operate vast networks across multiple states including Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and more, with Electric holding similar ventures in several other states.
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Bond
Share
American
Electric
America
Florida
Arizona
Nevada
West Virginia
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Washington
Texas
Oregon
New Jersey
Maine
Montana
New Mexico
Arkansas
Delaware
Louisiana
Utah
Colorado
Dewey Waives 44 Presidential Hopes If Elected Governor
Thomas E. Dewey accepted the Republican nomination for New York governor and renounced any presidential ambitions in 1944. He pledged to devote four years to New York's good government and war effort, while urging loyal support for the commander in chief and continued Republican wartime criticism when needed.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Manhattan
Wendell L. Willkie
Brooklyn
Dewey
New York State
Republican Party
Tyrone Power Joins Marines as Private
Washington dispatch reports screen star Tyrone Power enlisted as Private, U S Marine Corps. He went inactive pending a film, then will start boot camp at Diego California. After basic training he aims for glider training at Parris Island South Carolina with 150 hours pilot time.
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Washington
Tyrone Power
U. S. Marine Corps
Power
Washington Marine Recruiting
Diego
Calif
Marine Corps
Parris Island
S. C
Henry Fonda Enlists in U.S. Navy as Seaman
Screen star Henry Fonda, 37, enlisted in the U S Navy as an apprentice seaman to enter combat service. He appeared unannounced at the federal building to be sworn in and said he had long desired to join the armed forces and hoped to “do a little pitching.”
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Los Angeles
Henry Fonda
U. S. Navy
Fonda
Federal
Barrows New Head Of Sears Roebuck
Arthur S. Barrows of Los Angeles, a former midwestern merchant and longtime Sears executive, was elected president of Sears, Roebuck and Company. Barrows, 58, was vice president in charge of the Pacific coast region and succeeds Thomas J. Carney who died last June 29.
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Chicago
Arthur S. Barrows
Los Angeles
Monday
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Barrows
Sears
Pacific Coast Territory
Thomas J. Carney
First Feminine AEF To Britain 600 Wacks Sent
NEW YORK INS The first contingent of the first feminine AEF will be 600 Wacks sent to England for duty. Two white and two Negro units will sail to Europe as Director Oveta Culp Hobby reveals the force is a token start with more Wacks to follow. The four companies of 150 women each will include cooks bakers chauffeurs and clerks and will be led by women officers.
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1Nez Robb
New York
INS
England
Oveta Culp Hobby
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Washington, D. C
U. S. Army
Hobby
Moose elects La Bell supreme governor at meeting
Frank J. La Bell of Boston Massachusetts will be elected supreme governor of the Loyal Order of Moose at the upcoming convention. Convention officers announced Monday that the election will take place Tuesday.
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Aurora
Frank J. la Bell
Boston
Mass
of the Loyal Order of Moose
First group of 440 officers to be commissioned Saturday
The article states that more than half will be commissioned next Saturday and by Oct 12 all 440 will have been commissioned. Women commissioned Saturday become third officers, base pay 125 dollars. Fifty-two graduates will be assigned to recruiting duty in 52 principal centers nationwide.
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Army
Actress Donna Reed Undergoes Tonsil Surgery in Denison
Carroll Iowa AP Movie actress Donna Reed visiting her parents at Denison Ia underwent a tonsillectomy Monday at St. Anthony s hospital in Carroll.
Fay Wray Marries Robert Riskin in New York
Fay Wray former film actress and Robert Riskin noted screenwriter were wed Sunday in New York. Riskin recently left high-paying film work to join the Office of War Information. Wray was previously divorced from John Monk Saunders in 1940.
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New York
Fay Wray
Robert Riskin
Office of War Information
Miss Wray
John Monk Saunders
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