Dear Mr. W Memo on Chiang Kai-shek and Hollywood Bets
Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrives in the United States quietly due to illness. Mervyn LeRoy and Jack Benny wagered $500 over who would break a cigar ban. Benny lit up and forfeited to charity. Other notes include Darryl Zanuck’s prominence, Hopkins’s Britain report film, and Click magazine’s stance on Wheeler and Lundeen. Marian Anderson buys a Brewster home amid D A R activity.
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Mr. W
Chiang Kai-shek
U. S
Mervyn LeRoy
Jack Benny
Jack
Mervyn
Darryl Zanuck
Twentieth Century
Private Papers of a Cub Reporter
A collection of satirical notes from a cub reporter reflecting on show premieres and public figures. Observations include Hollywood curiosities, mispronunciations of Knudsen, and playful jabs at censorship, Mussolini, and film plots.
Mobile units proposed to house defense workers in congested areas
Defense Housing Coordinator Charles F Palmer urges Roosevelt to purchase thousands of mobile units made from auto trailers to shelter defense workers. Trailer plants produce at best about 2,000 units while army orders dominate production, risking epidemics as migrants clog substandard quarters. The piece also surveys foreign born members in Congress and a shift toward finger print based G-man promotions amid alien registration laws.
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Washington
D. C
Charlea F. Palmer
Roosevelt
Palmer
Congress
Capitol Hill
Robert F. Wagner
New York
New Dealer
Germany
James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
Labor
Wales
James E. Murray
Montana
Canada
B. J. Gehrmann
Wisconsin
Leonard W. Schuetz
Dlinois
Karl Stefan
Nebraska
Rudolph Tencrowicz
Michigan
Austria
Stefani
Russia
Samuel Dickstein
Herman Kopplemann
Connecticut
Samuel Weiss
Poland
Adolph Sabath
Illinois
Czechoslovakia
Charles Eaton
New Jersey
Albert Rutherford
William Barry
Ireland
Frank Crowther
Robert Ramsay
West Virginia
England
Robert Crosser
Ohio
George Gillie
Indiana
Scotland
Noah Mason
Pehr Holmes
Massachusetts
Sweden
Defense
Knudsen and
Hillman
Alaska
Anthony J. Dimond
Uninhabitable Homes Studied by Anti-Monopoly Panel
The congressional committee says 5.8 million U S homes are uninhabitable yet occupied by tenants. The quartermaster corps buys tomahawks for a modern army. Wendell Willkie to write a book on the campaign and British experiences. Bobbs-Merrill has the publishing contract.
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Congressional Anti
Authority of Christ Lesson Text Luke 19 41 20 8
The lesson examines Jesus authority debated by scribes and affirmed by actions. It contrasts the rejected Jerusalem leadership with the receptive common people, ending with Jesus inviting honest inquiry about his heaven sent authority and offering an open mind to readers.
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Morgan
Jerusalem
Jesus
Temple
Christ
God
John
Quiz Questions From Ask Me Another List Trivia Details
General quiz item covers Great Lakes elevations arcadia origin country for Arcadia, veto passage rates, Nobel fields, term for paid applauders, language origin for mile, genre of Japan, apostrophe possessives in US cities, and examples like Grays Landing Kings Mill Martina Ferry and Penns Park.
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Great Lakes
Arcadia
Congress
Japan
United States
Lake Ontario
Lake Superior
Greece
Grays Landing
Kings Mill
Martina Ferry
Penns ‘Park
Money returned if not satisfied notice prompts shop dispute
A fragment shows a dissatisfied customer challenging a shop with a money back claim while the shopkeeper quips that he is satisfied with the money. The text shifts to stray jokes and lines about faith, advertising, and literary figures.
Gold on the Way and the Pot of Gold Vision
A reflective piece notes that gold at the rainbow’s end rarely lies where expected. It suggests many other pots of gold lie along the path to realizing dreams, and only some men possess the vision to see them.
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Detroit Times
Knudsen
Leon Henderson
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Britain
Harry Hopkins
White House
Hopkins
Herbert Morrison
Drew Pearson
Robert
Allen
Click
Burton K. Wheeler
Lundeen
George Sylvester Viereck
America
Frank
R. A
NBC
Mutual
Marian Anderson
Snooty Brewster, N. Y
Harriet Hilliard
Bobby Byrne
Bobby
Clare Boothe
Rome
G-Men
John Brown
Berlin
Bureau of Education
the Sims
Herbert Marshall
Eran
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harold L. Lundquist
D. D
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Hell
Pui
Na ‘International Om
Ny and
Oleg Se
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
Bil W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Skjold
The
Mint
Boogy
Job
Socrates
Lancelot
Apollo
C. C. Colton
Dutta
Lydia Mm Pinkham
Pinkham
Henri Bergson
Othes
Izaak. Walton
Bia
Menthol
Tata Deli Ious
Smith Bros
Gall Hamilton
Schiller
Juvenal
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