Voice of Broadway Sees Slow Summer Stock Season
Dorothy Kilgallen laments a sparse summer theatre season across the Island, New England, and Pennsylvania suburbs. She foresees few ingénues, recalls past stars, and notes plans for a major phonograph fundraising drive while predicting Diana Douglas Barrymore may shine on stage rather than screen.
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Broadway
Island
New England
Pennsylvania
Farmer Brown
Margaret Sullavan
Back To Work As Labor Shortage Hits War Effort
The piece argues that wartime manpower shortages have grown beyond skilled trades to include all labor, with only about 1.75 million workers theoretically available. It notes military, agriculture, and new arms plants needing workers, calls WPA CCC NYA relief programs insufficient, and warns a second five million draft may be needed.
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National Industrial Conference Board
WPA
CCC
NYA
Army
Navy
Marines
Sam
Economic determinism and peace in a world of resources
Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson challenge the idea of economic determinism in their new book on The Problems of Lasting Peace. They argue that no nation can claim entitlement to resources alone, rebutting the notion that wars are inevitable due to economic drivers.
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Herbert Hoover
Hugh Gibson
Noody
Carleton
Pan-America
Hoover and Gibson on raw materials and world power
The article discusses the idea of have and have not nations controlling global resources. Hoover and Gibson argue that ample materials exist for peaceful exchange if nations focus on peaceable production rather than war. Dictators seek self sufficiency through conquest, while the Atlantic Charter enshrines equal access to raw materials without allocating global territories.
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Great Britain
United States
France
Low Countries
Germany
Italy
Japan
Britain
Messrs
Hoover
Gibson
Pearl Harbor
Hoover and
Montana
Texas
Russia
Brazil
Mrs Jones Finds Freedom In Running Own Household
Ruth Millett discusses a well to do American woman managing without a live in maid. Mrs Jones learns to organize, assigns chores, and creates a new routine that reduces clutter and increases family participation, showing self sufficiency can bring satisfaction and time for activities she values.
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America
Mrs. Jones
Laval's Axis Appeal Roils French War Debate
The Evening Huronite reprints a guest editorial praising Laval for supporting a German victory and an axis-ruled Europe. It condemns Laval as a traitor to France while contrasting his stance with Britain and the United Nations. The piece questions Laval's future position amid wartime loyalties.
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Pierre Laval
Vichy
Marshal Petain
Europe
Germany
Laval
France
United Nations
Britain
War will hinge on Europe not fringe fronts say experts
Raymond Clapper argues war outcomes depend on Europe, not fringe fronts as Libya’s loss shocks Britain. U S and Britain back a second front in 1942, with plans for expanded air offensives, then possibly a ground invasion to defeat Germany and end the war.
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Europe
Raymond Clapper Washingson
Libya
Midway
England
Churchill
Singapore
Aleutians
Pacific Northwest
China
India
Southwest Pacific
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Tobruk
London
Near East
Germany
United Nations
Atlantic
Japan
RAF
Hitler
Monterey Zip Your Lip wartime guide to secrecy
Monterey California June 25 wartime caution urges residents to keep military matters quiet after warnings from Fort Ord Public Relations staff led by Lieut J Connell. Civilians and soldiers alike learned to avoid discussing troop movements and equipment, aiming to prevent leaks that could aid the enemy.
Zip Your Lip Campaign At Fort Ord Reduces Troop Talk
An editorial in Monterey Peninsula papers highlights Fort Ords Zip Your Lip campaign to curb troop chatter. Soldiers, civilian staff, and area civilians were urged to silence military topics, with loudspeakers, juke box jingles, posters by Arthur Green, and cooperation from Monterey and Salinas officials. Telegraph and telephone firms enforced voluntary censorship. no soldiers resisted, unlike a previous surge of messages claiming the fort was on alert.
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Peninsula
Ft. Ord
Monterey
Salinas
Carmel
Watsonville
Connell
Arthur Green
Post Intelligence
State University summer enrollment rises in first six weeks
Vermillion June 25 Enrollment in the first six weeks of the State University's summer program shows a 23 percent rise over 1942 figures. Registrar WH Frankenfeld announced 392 regular collegiate students now versus 219 last year. High school division enrollment stands at 36, up from 33, and fine arts special enrollments total seven, up from two.
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Vermillion
State University
WH Frankenfeld
Radio Programs Through Central War Time Daily Schedule
A June 25 1942 broadcast list from New York details NBC CBS and MBS nurseries including Fanny Brice Bing Crosby Major Bowes and Kate Smith with evening lineups, news, and variety shows. It notes wartime topics such as enemy aliens inflation and war news along with serials and musical programs across stations NBC CBS and Mutual.
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New York
NBC
Fanny Brice
Henry Aldrich
Bing Crosby
Rudy Vallee
Rosemary
Fay Wras
CBS
Maudie
Backus
Major Bowes
Big Town
Sion
Emanuelstein
Joe Rin
Kansas
Mcelodie
Hollywood Orchestra
Hollywood
Ted Steele
Nbe
Lum
Abner
Fine Ridge
Frank Parker
Hill Stern
Nbc World & War News of Today
F. Waring
Col. Stoopnagle
Canada
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Mariety
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Pg Andrews
Glen Miller
Moiy
K Crosby
Bob Hope
Fred Allen
Dian
Rymore
Barrymores
Leia Turners
Dottie Lamours
Beuu Grables
Diana
Ruth Millett
Huronite
Dakota Daily
Metropolitan
Rem
Sioux City Journal
Clared
Adolf Hitler
United ‘Nations
Pierre Lavem
Raymond Clapper
Huron
NEA
Cal
Monterey Peninsula
West Coast
Alaska
Ndt
Monterey Peninsoa
Feord
Elf
Lieut. J.connell
Jand Perurgols
Abe Zondee
Pang Fort
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SDU
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