Paris Fashion Shifts as American Designers Rise
The article cites Moly’s opison ability and Grover Whalen as leaders in fashion debate. Paris faces critiques on wartime shifts while New York boosts latent, fully equipped factories and a new science of reaction. Dorothy Shaver of Lord and Taylor insists America holds independent creative force. Valentina predicts couture seed despite war.
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Moly
Grover Whalen
Paris
New York
Man Norell
Dew
Nexis
Dorothy Shaver
Lord and Taylor
America
Valenting
Igbie Gimbel
Rue de la Paix
Schools To Observe Education Week in Houston County
Houston County Schools will observe Education Week November 7 to 13 with the theme Education for Victory. Activities include joint services, classroom exercises, school auditorium events, and invitations to parents to visit schools. Programs on WAGE radio feature Education for World Understanding and related topics, with contests for posters essays and poems on Victory.
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Houston County
Rolomon Baxter
Education For
Schopl Dos
Baxter
Mio
Idahvid Schao
Foray
Cottonwood
Harion
Vicksburg
Tehebeth
Ashford School
Columbia and
Webb School
Columbia FHA Group Initiates Pledges
The Columbia FHA Chapter began pledges at a Wednesday meeting amid debate over media access and federal direction. J B Davidson announced new pledges including Hattie Warfield Mildred Duke Betty Culbreth Mirom Hopking Sue Woolham Laura Sanders and others representing Daisy Mae Lum and Abner Tom Thumb and Peta the Tramp. About two million babies are born annually in the United States.
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Columbia F. H. A
J. B. Davidson
Houston County High School
Hattie and
Mattis Warfield
Mildred Duke
Betty Culbreth
Mirom Hopking
Sue Woolham
Laura Sanders
Othell Shelly Haze Windsor
Blondel Snellgrave
Martha Windsor
Eloise Newton
Peggy Wade
Daisy Mae
Lum and
Abner
Tom Thumb
Peta the Tramp
Designers face postwar shift in global fashion
The article quotes Fira Beneson and Lilly Dache on designers seeking worldwide influence after the war. Beneson notes American designers will expand beyond Paris for inspiration and competition but remain shaped by global talent. Dache argues global support after the war could elevate non French designers to lasting renown.
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China
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Canada
Russia
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Bonwit Tellers
America
Paris
Lilly Dache
France
Repatriated U S Soldiers Return from Europe
First Lt. Albert W. Glass of Macon Georgia and 13 wounded American soldiers repatriated under a German exchange pact arrived by air from England. They were moved from German camps to Goteborg Sweden then to England by ship and taken to Walter Reed Hospital on arrival. Lt. Glass is the son of Mrs Albert W. Glass Sr of 125 North Nottingham Drive Macon.
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Washington
Albert W. Glass
Macon
Germany
England
Goteborg
Sweden
Walter Reed Hospital
War Department
Glass
North
Nottingham Drive
Barry County War Force Triumph in Michigan Local Option Vote
In Hastings Michigan the Barry County war forces won the first local option election in nearly a decade with a 1446 vote majority. They attribute the win to a trend away from outright prohibition and the liquor traffic evils. The defeated city forces viewed the result as a warning to erring liquor dealers.
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Hastings, Mich
Barry County
Michigan
None Of Your Business Anyhow and Prohibition Echoes
A fragment from a wartime Knoxville report notes workers discussing secrets at a war project. An investigator questioned an elderly laborer earning $1.25 an hour while a dry sentiment and the Michigan vote history are mentioned amid prohibition debates.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Senate Group Takes Up FCC Control Bill
Washington AP The Senate Commerce Committee opened hearings on a bill to define FCC power to regulate radio. FCC Chairman James L Fly testified as the first witness as Sen Wheeler seeks clear guidelines for FCC actions plus debate on monopoly and broadcast speech.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
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FCC
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Wheeler
D.-Mont
FCC Commission
White
R.-Maijne
Montanan
Greater Physician Shortage In 1944 Seen
Washington AP investigators from the U S Public Health Service warned that civilian physician availability will fall below the wartime minimum next year. They projected shortages worsen as deaths and retirements outpace new graduates, predicting by 1950 the nation could be 15,000 doctors short of the 1,500 per physician target.
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Washington
Tee
U. & Public Health Service
Perrott
Burnet
Davig Eaid
Armed Services
Ecivilifen
Civilias Placce
Five More 17 Year Olds Join Navy
Chief Petty Officer J A Hutchins at the Dothan Navy recruiting station announced five additional seventeen year old youths were accepted for enlistment through Dothan. The recruits named Bulan Ellis Woods Colquitt GA Joe Cutchens Dothan route three James Hertram Berry town GA Beauford Heerold Johnson Third Avenue Dothan on roward White 210 North College Street Dothenes.
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Dothan
Ala
Navy
Nated Ag Bulan Ellis Woods
Colquitt
Joe Cutchens
James Hertram Berry
Town
Beauford Heerold Johnson
Third Avenue
Roward White
North College Atreat
Dothes
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