Washington recalls on hosiery and wage rules
A Washington tale of Easter stockings shows OPA price decree raising Grade A hosiery specs, forcing stores to cut stock prices and provoking protests on Capitol Hill. Prentiss Brown delays the date to May 14 while Patman and the Supreme Court may review grading and margins. Critics blame bureaucrats for misreading consumer needs.
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Ray Tucker
Washington
OPA Textiles Nd
Berard Haley
Ir. Hajey
Pedaogue
Sctms
Capitol Hill
Prentiss Brown
Brown
Patman Committee
Supreme Court
OPA
Patman
Perfect Crime at Gull Point Ends Tonight Mystery
The serialized tale centers on Colonel Wesley Merriwether's Long Island estate where a murder unfolds after a polo game. Cynthia Merriwether and Fred West mingle with guests at Stone House as hidden rivalries and financial pressures surface amid a party atmosphere and careful social ritual.
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Col
Wesley Hope Merriwether
Long Island
Cynthia
Clovers
Mra. Porter West
Wests
Mra. West
Fred
Henry Prentiss
Stone House
Cynthia Merriwether
Gull Point
Porter West
Winchell
Mitchell Grace
Fred West
Captain Pugh
Sweet
Colonel Merriwether
Washingtons first disciplinary action against this group since the New Deal
The Office of War Information conducted a national canvass last November and again recently to gauge views on whether management workers and union officials were fully serving the war effort with profit a secondary aim. Front office support reached 60 percent, workers 77 percent, but John L Lewis William Green Philip Murray and allies only 49 percent. Majority deemed labor leaders as fumbling and featherbedding the war effort, a view echoed by overseas servicemen in official studies.
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Washington
Office of War Information
John L . Lewis
William Green
Philip Murray
United States
Postwar reconversion plans push private job boom
Albert Lemans Thouches argues for rapid demobilization and a private sector rebound to 135 billion dollars in output, led by leaders like Paul Hoffman and Thomas Lamont. The plan, backed by the Committee for Economic Development, seeks transfer bonuses, worker retraining, and early civilian production to curb postwar unemployment and avoid socialist pressure.
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Albert Leman Toughes
Jesse Jones
Far East
Secretary of Commerce
Mr. Jones
Paul Hoffman
Studebaker Corporation
Thomas W. Lamont
J. P. Morgan & Company
Beardsley Ruml
R. H. Macy
Committee For Economic Development
New York
Radio Schedule Highlights War Era Programs and Guests
A detailed Tuesday April twenty program lineup across CBS NBC and other networks features Captain Midnight, Love a Mystery, Fred Waring Time, Arthur Hale commentary, Bill Stern sports, Young program blocks, and multiple news and music segments. Notable figures include Harry Wismer Edwin Hill Byron, Jack Armstrong, Grace Fields, Red Skelton, and Bob Hope with wartime commentary and dramatic features.
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Erlalb
Cbs
Shrednik
Frazier Hunt
Cbs Basic Music From Symphonets
Harry Wismer
Rines Arch
Edwin C Hill
Charlotte Diebel
Three Suns
Jack Armstrong
Dlu-west
John B. Kennedy
Bill Stern
Nbe
Lowell Thomason
Fred Waring
Victor Borge
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Big Harry James & His
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Joe Rines
Arthur Hale
Kaitenborn
Mment
Dinny Simms
Hollywood
Karl Godwin
Sam
Lam @ Abner
Leo Cherne
Horace Heidt
Gardner
Duffy's Place
Bilu
al Jolson
Monty Woolley
Ebs Vass
Blu Burns
Alien
Gabriel Hearter
Mbs
Babe
Ibber McGee
Blu Jaze Laboratory
John B Hughes
Gracie Fields
Blu Dance Tune Orchestra
Red Skelton and Company
Biu
Dbs
Paul Schubert
Mary Small
Bes
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Nbc-West
Sinfonietta
Nbc
Writin' Star Rises From Skid Row
New York story from April 20 reports Woody Guthrie shifts from singing to writing. He recalls compiling about 1.4 million words in six months and selecting 140,000 that fit, with editor Joy Doer flinger noting at least three other strong books from leftovers.
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Woody
Joy Doerflinger
Tips on staying vigorous after eighty from four noted men
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Gustav V, Walter S. Goodland, and Connie Mack share routines for long, active lives. Butler follows a strict daily cadence with late mornings and midweek rest. Gustav V maintains a busy schedule with moderate living. Goodland credits heredity for health. Mack advocates light meals with a regular rest.
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Gustav V
Walter
Goodland
Wisconsin
Connie Mack
Cornelius McGillicudd
Philadelphia Athletics
Woody the Okie troubadour fights for the U S A in song
Woody, a 31 year old Okie troubadour with a rugged appearance, travels across 44 states and lives in Skid Rows to chronicle Americans as natural fighters. He recalls family roots in Oklahoma and a life following construction jobs to see the country and later write about it.
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Woody
U.S.A
Bowery
New York
Chicago
Clark Street
Los Angeles
Fifth Street
Main
Oklahoma City
Reno Street
Gultar
Hitler
el Paso
Texas
United States Library of Congress
Oklahoma
Wage Increases Sought For Souths Textile Workers
Spartanburg April 20 A plan to seek wage increases for textile workers in the south was announced by John W Pollard of Spartanburg vice president in charge of the southern UFL office after a conference with union officials from the Carolinas Virginia Georgia Tennessee Alabama and Mississippi The proposal targets compensation for existing wage differentials amid WLB wage-freezing orders.
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Spartanburg
South
War Labor Board
John W. Pollard
United Textile Workers of America
UFL
Carolinas
Virginia
Georgia
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Pollard
WLB
England’s youngest postgirl begins four mile rounds
Eighteen year old Frances E Slater of Weston Hills becomes England's youngest postgirl starting her four mile round at 7 30 a m A Norwich gardener C Thetford grows 178 pounds of high quality tomatoes from a five cent package of seed last year in his back garden
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Frances E. Slater
Weston Hills
England
C. Thetford
Norwich
Tomorrow Living By The Sweat of His Brow
An Arabian Tunisian superstition reframes coal as whiteness and fire as war. An Arab asks for a light, we request peace, and a blind man is called the enlightened one. The piece probes language and symbolism in daily life tomorrow.
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Tunisia
Conferences Planned On Cases Of Three Slated For Execution
RALEIGH April 20 State Paroles Commissioner Hathaway Cross and Governor Broughton planned conferences either today or tomorrow on the cases of three men scheduled to die in the gas chamber Friday. Those awaiting death are Clyde Grass 31 of Cabarrus County convicted of killing his father in law Lewis Moody 25 year old Northampton County Negro convicted of killing John Arthur Key a Negro and Gaither Watson Negro of Bertie County convicted of slaying his wife. There are 13 prisoners on death row now.
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Raleigh
Hathawaya Cross
Broughton
Clyde Grass
Cabarrus County
Lewis Moody
Northampton County
John Arthur Key
Gaither Watson
Bertie County
L-K claims relief from distressing indigestion
Wilson resident Roy Mills recounts severe indigestion, sour stomach, gas pain, constipation, headaches, and weight loss before using Dr Foster's L-K. He credits the vegetable medicine with rapid relief and a strong appetite, noting he has gained weight. The 1.25 size is advertised at 97 cents.
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Roy Mills
W. Lee St
Wilson
N. C
Foster
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