Army Labor Aide For Fair Break to Ownership
Ed ward F. McGrady, a veteran labor conciliator, becomes special labor adviser to Secretary Stimson and serves as labor consultant to the Army. His career spans A F of L organizing, NRA work, and RCA labor relations, highlighting a tough, independent approach to worker-owner relations.
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Army
York
Elizabethton
Tenn
Edward F. McGrady
A. F. of L
Stimson
Labor
Radio Corporation of America
Boston
Aewspaper
Samuel Gompers
Washington
NRA
Hugh Johnson
David Sarnoff
R. C A
A Missionary Sailor Faces Love on the Fiji Sea
George McAusland at 38 sails to Fiji to begin ministry but hides a recent crime. He avoids Mary Doncaster who joins the same voyage from Honolulu. She visits her missionary parents on Gilead Island and dives after him when he falls overboard. Love grows despite fear and guilt.
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George McAusland
America
Fiji Islands
Mary Doncaster
Honolulu
Sho
Gilead Island
Mary
George
Her
Mrs. Gale
John Gale
Captain Keen Sails Toward Mystery Letters From Father
Mary learns from Jarambo and a note from Ephraim Doncaster that her father Ephraim has died and chosen to go home, leaving Mary to face the voyage with Captain Keen and the crew. Tension rises as old loyalties and peril mix with the unknown.
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Jacob
Ephraim Doncaster
Island Mission and Mary Face Loss on Board
Mary Grieves at Ephraim Doncaster's memory as George McAusland contemplates his own readiness to lead. The party weighs Ephraim’s outdoor church model and the future role of Jarambo’s island faith while Mary plans a personal course with Uncle Tom Hanline and the Venturer.
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George McAusland
Jarambo
McAusland
Mary
Ephraim
John Gale
George
Olied
Captain Keen
Honolulu
Joseph
Father
Joseph Neargood
Ephraim Doncaster
Mary Doncaster
Tom
Hanline
Tommy
New
I want to stay here with you Mary
George confesses fear of failing as a missionary and asks Mary to join him. Mary probes his true wish and questions whether they should marry to stay together. The scene on deck reveals personal conflict about duty, love, and future plans within the voyage.
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Corkran
George
Joseph Neargood
Mrs. Gale
Captain Keen
John Gale
Mary
Mary ‘Doncaster
Nel Fe
A New Year's Prayer By David Cory
A devotional verse expressing a resolve to live virtuously in the new year. The speaker asks God for guidance each morning and a cheerful, kind spirit throughout the day, concluding with a plea for divine help to stay on the right path.
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David Cory
Ancient Rites Mark Chinese New Year
Ancient customs mark the transition to the new year with large city parades and home ceremonies. Four days before the year starts families spread a feast with sticky candies to please the gods and ensure favorable omens for the coming months.
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China
Earth
New Year Birth On Chatham Islands Welcomes 1941
The Chatham Islands welcomed the new year at its birth as 200 shepherds and fishermen rang the church bell on Hanson Island to mark 5 a m in New York time, celebrating 1941. The islands lie 414 miles southwest of New Zealand near the international date line.
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Chatham Islands
New Zealand
U. S
Little Church
Hanson Island
New York
Admiralty
Ocean
New Year’s Eve Fate Secrets From Old Advice
A fragment describes old customs to learn marriage fate on New Year’s Day. A girl turns the pillow at midnight December 31 to dream of her future husband or uses a ritual with a hymn book and pillow to reveal fate the next morning.
Taxi Drivers as Army Heroes Stir Public Debate
A New York taxi driver is rejected by the draft due to an eye test, prompting a controversial pushback praising drivers as critical wartime assets. The piece cites Elmer Twitchell praising cabs as potential weapons and urges Roosevelt to lift the ban. It also notes Miami Beach season openings related to a dental-themed publicity quip and mentions Police Commissioner Valentine planning to mobilize 18,500 officers for emergency defense.
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New York
Valentine
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Lemuel F. Parton
Ripley
Portugal
Antonio Oliviera Salazar
Europe
Italy
Germany
Antonio Carmona
Salazar
England
Law Faculty
Keen
Elmer Twitchell
Elmer
Uncle Sam
Hitler
Goering
Goebbels
Roosevelt
Miami
Miami Beach
Wally
Billy Friesell
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