Weir Aids CIO as Big Steel Walkout Looms
In Pittsburgh last Monday CIO SWOC and U S Steel reps debated a 261000 worker stoppage. Weir of National Steel granted a 10 cent raise to his workers affecting SWOC dynamics and delaying the Big Steel strike to April 15. Ford and mine talks continue amid wage disputes and regional differences. Alfred Rosenberg and Chaim Weizmann offer stark views on Jewish future under war outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Steel Corp
CIO
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Pittsburgh
SWOC
U. S. Steel
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Workers
Weir
National Steel
Little Steel’ Corporation
Ford
CIO Cio
Philip Murray
Detroit
Great River Rouge
CIO United Mine Workers Union
John L. Lewis
New York
Lewis
Appalachian
North
Alfred Rosenberg
Institute For Research
Chaim Weizman
Palestine
Europe
Weizman
War taxes and leadership in Britain and Middle East turmoil
World This Week notes King'sley Wood's budget plan raising income tax to 52 or 66 percent of earnings and adding 2 million low wage earners, with half of extra revenue as compulsory savings. It reports a postwar aim to curb consumption and prices, plus Middle East upheaval in Iraq and Syria, de Gaulle’s Syria policy, and Churchill warning of Nazi moves and need for naval escorts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Kingsley Wood
World War Balkans Battles and Allied Moves
A late 1940s style overview recounts Balkan WWI actions, Serbia's resistance, Salonika siege, and postwar Yugoslavia. It notes Roosevelt at a Washington gridiron dinner, Greece and Yugoslavia entering the war, and lend lease and coast guard transfers to Britain. Also mentions Greenland air bases, Mexico seizing German ships, and Italy pulling a naval attache.
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Constantine Fotitch
U. S
Semon Diamantopoulos
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Germany
Greece
Yugoslavia
Diamantopoulos
U. S. Coast Guard
Britain
Uncle Sam
Mexico
United States
Italy
Rome
De Brinon Predicts Quick War End Through English Exit
Fernand de Brinon, Paris ambassador, says chasing the English from the continent will hasten victory and spare France much unhappiness. Petain to address de Gaulle critique but condemns French ally propaganda and claims honor blocks action against Britain. Willkie’s throat strain leads to specialist care. Barnard bills total $13,000 with possible settlement at a third.
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Adolf Hitler
France
Fernand de Brinon
Paris
de Brinon
Marshal Petain
de Gaulle
Britain
Petain
Wendell Willkie
Harold Barnard
Barnard
April events and dates from the era
The record lists upcoming observances and anniversaries: Foster on Sunday April 13. Thomas Jefferson born 1743. Pan American Day on Monday April 14. ASNE meeting on Thursday April 17 in Washington. Patriots Day observed Saturday April 19 in Massachusetts and Maine, marking the 166th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.
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Thomas Jefferson
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Washington
Massachusetts
Maine
Paul Revere
Draft Dramas From WW II Draft Inquiries
Two letters to New York City Selective Service describe personal turmoil over marriage secrecy and classification. One writer fears being sent to camp if marriage stays secret while the mother-in-law disapproves. The other asks who possesses their number after insulting their local board and receiving little guidance.
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New York City
Selective Service
North Carolina Dreadnought First Of 17 In Navy
The North Carolina leads 17 ordered dreadnoughts as the first battleship commissioned by the Navy in 18 years, weighing 395000 tons. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, longtime congressman and sponsor of the national prohibition amendment, has died. James Roosevelt and Romelle Schneider announce plans to marry after nursing him through illness in 1938, having applied for a license Thursday. President Roosevelt’s son and press secretary Stephen Early express belief that voluntary press censorship would work. Several U.S. papers had printed word of a British battleship arriving for repairs despite a government request to withhold movements.
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U. S
North Carolina
Navy
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Congress
Frederic William Wise
James Roosevelt
Romelle Schneider
Stephen Early
America
Language and youth culture in American science and English
Dr. Clarence Mills notes American born children in the Canal Zone are smaller than new arrivals from the United States due to tropical heat. Smithsonian anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka cites skull widening from less chewing muscle use. Robert Pooley promotes widespread acceptance of conversational English and the corrective potential of eliminating ain’t.
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Canal Zone
Clarence Mills
University of Cincinnati
United States
Ales Hrdlicka
Smithsonian Institution
Robert Pooley
National Councils of Teachers of English
Mary
Benton rails against museums in odd quote
Thomas Hart Benton blasts museums saying no one looks at pictures there and he'd sell his works to saloons bawdy houses Kiwanis and Rotary clubs and chambers of commerce even women's clubs. A fascist party poster in Rome calls scraping an American a pirate gangster.
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Thomas Hart Benton
Rotary
Chambers of Commerce
Fascist Party
Rome
Seratch
How Hitler Used One-Two Tactics Across the Balkans
A historical overview of Nazi invasion methods in Poland, Scandinavia, the Lowlands, Yugoslavia, and Greece. It contrasts surprise, weather, and terrain handling, with moves from southern Bulgaria into Yugoslavia and a three-pronged drive into Greece, noting Wirkering use of air power, occupation aims, and responses by Yugoslav, Greek, and Soviet actors.
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Dolf Hitler
Poland
Scandinavia
Yugoslavia
Greece
Hitler
von Ribbentrop
England
Europe
Ribbentrop
Salonika
Flanders
Aegean
Struma
Rupel Pass
Phermopylae
Belgrade
Albania
Balkans
Russia
Ethiopia and Italians Vie in East Africa War
The article outlines six years of conflict in Italian East Africa with Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie resisting via guerrilla warfare while Italian and German forces push back, capturing Addis Ababa and other cities, despite British retreates and casualty losses including six generals. It notes Churchill’s optimism waning as the front shifts and British reinforcements prepare for future battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duce
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Lybia
Churchill
Bengasi
Bengali
Derna
Richardn. O'Connor
Balkans
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Washington Star
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Fei- Sal II
Syria
Khaled Bey Azem
Cuise Free
Soviet
House of Commons
Ivan Maisky
Ukraine
Caucasus
Winant
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Bucharest
Algaria Fe
Bulgaria
Sofia
Erri
AVIA
Allied
the Abc of
Serbia
Austria
Archduke Ferdinand
Austro-Hungary
Montenegro
Romania
Dardanelles
Corfu
North Sea
Lonika
Balkan
Rumania
Hungary
Transylvania
August von Mackensen
Greenland
Sigmund List
Maginot Line
Foutch
Foster
Norway
Berlin
Foreign Office
Nis
Skoplje
Sezer
Chicago
Newa
Africa
Italian Somaliland
Libya
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