Woman Union Organizer Balances Family and Activism
Loraine Covert profiles Margaret Sonnycalb a four daughter mother and organizer for the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers union. She explains juggling two jobs and PAC work with family support and her aims to elect more women to union posts and public office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Sunnycalb
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union
PAC
Sonnycalb
Emmerson Sonnycalb
Uer&mw
War weary waiter ponders ends in a curious political poker bit
A New York waiter tells colleagues the war may finish soon as political candidates trade jabs. Dilworth fears Elmer Lickahoop will win the Friday Night Poker Assn presidency again. Luther urges clever lines while a reference to Mussolini and Taft highlights censorship debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Lickahoop
Mr. Dilworth
Pop
Luther
Hitler
Moscow
Bud Lickahoop
Digest Articles Planted Digest Editors Face Criticism
Chicago report notes Readers Digest reprints many articles from other magazines after editors preview them. It finds one third of items are planned by editors and about a fifth are written by editors. The English teachers group questions policy and presses for a repudiation of the survey.
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Chicago
Nati. Council of Teachers of English
English Teachers Committee
DeWitt Wallace
Lace
United Nations
England
Russia
China
Roosevelt
Wallace
Vote Of Negro Women Is Vital
Mrs Verda Barnes CIO Political Action Committee Women's Division director said Negro women may decide the November election as many men are overseas and some cannot vote. She noted 10 percent more registered Negro women voters than men before the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Verda Barnes
CIO
Political Action Committee
The Truth About Heredity and Inheritance Thought
A speaker argues heredity involves generations and lists diseases like feeblemindedness diabetes migraine and hemophilia as hereditary. He notes syphilis may be transmitted by the mother to the unborn child but is not technically hereditary and ends with a personal reflection on inheriting both flaws and strengths.
Rent gouging hits New York as Dewey inaction prompts hikes
Senate hearings show New York commercial rents up 30 percent to 100 percent year over year amid small business and labor calls for action. OPA limits on residential rents leave a gap while governors and markets face cigar shortages and black market activity.
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Thomas E. Dewey
New York City
Senate
Small Business Committee
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
Boston
Dewey
OPA
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Loraine Covert
SUN
Cincinnati
Loraine
Sonnyealb
Cincinnati Time Recorder
Lotal
Taft
Elston
Hess
Sonnycalle
Mrs
Margaret Sonnycalb
John Paine
Federated Press
GOP
Mussolini
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Labor’s Front
the Sun
Public Health Federated, Health Branch
The
Community Chest
Betty Goldstein
Forth Worth
Tex
Pennsylvania
New England
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