Big Business in a Democracy and a Daring Novel Review
James Truslow Adams critiques Big Business and Ford in a sustained, period tone while assessing Adams own Swan Song. The review also covers Marc Brande l Rain Before Seven and notes proposals for full employment and tax policy amid Roosevelt era debates.
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James Truslow Adams
Adams
Ford Company
Ford
Bank
Roosevelt
Wallace
America
Mount Ararat
Kettering
O.K
Not in Our Stars and Psychology of Sex Relations reviewed
A mixed critical notice of Josiah E. Greene's Not in Our Stars for MacMillan and Theodor Reik's Psychology of Sex Relations from Farrar and Rinehart. The review notes Greene’s dairy community novel lacks strong conflict and features heavy dialogue with controversial labor themes. Reik's work is praised for readability and humor while arguing sex remains central to human behavior and emotion.
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Josiah E. Greene
MacMillan
Sgt. Greene
Duluth
Brown
Providence Journal
Greene
Mike T
Freda Ellis
Ida Heim
Charlie
Theodor Reik
Farrar & Rinehart
Freud
Reik
Iman
Dr. Reik
Persian Gulf Command
A brief note on Joel Sayre’s PERSIAN GULF COMMAND from Randon House praises the work as a masterly evocation of the difficulties in creating and running the PGC project. Thurber provides the foreword and Bruce Mitchell supplies Life magazine style illustrations.
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Persian Gulf Command
Joel Sayre
Randon House
Sayre
The
New Yorker
James Thurber
Bruce Mitchell
Life
P.G.C
Death in the Mind by Lockridge and Estabrooks
Richard Lockridge and G H Estabrooks present a novel about a secret hypnotism weapon that makes soldiers betray their country. A submarine torpedoes a battleship in a tense plot with Northian humor occasionaly. Footnotes tie fiction to real news events.
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Richard Lockridge
G. H. Estabrooks
Dutton
Mrs. North
Andy Zany
Colgate University
Germany
Sixty Million Jobs by Henry A Wallace reviewed
A critical look at Henry A Wallace’s Sixty Million Jobs outlines his plan to create 60 million jobs and a 200 billion dollar income surge. The book assigns roles for economic sectors and stresses preventing social strain if unemployment hits 50 million. It argues for a wartime scale effort to win postwar peace and rebuild.
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Henry A. Wallace
Serne & Hitchcock
Simon & Schiuster
Wallace
Beachhead on the Wind by Carl Jonas review
A fragmented World War II memoir set on an Aleutian island where seven sailors clean a beach after a storm. The narrator, Montillion, St. Clare, O'Higgins and others recount cash finds, a trapped enemy, a gold mine, and the bleak weather while exploring the gap between returning sailors and civilian understanding.
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Carl Jonas
Little, Brown
Aleutian
Jonas
Montillion
St. Clare
O'Higgins
Negro College to Offer Health Course in Durham
Durham reports the North Carolina College for Negroes will offer a new health education program this year in collaboration with the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. The course leads to a Master of Science in Public Health and is recognized by the American Public Health Association.
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Durham
North Carolina Cor
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina
James E. Shepard
N.C.C.N
American Public Health Association
Committee On Professions Education
Association
Grand Lodge of North Carolina Meets October 6
The grand lodge of North Carolina ancient free and accepted masons will convene in Raleigh on October 6, announced by grand master J. C. Hobson. The meeting was postponed in April due to travel restrictions.
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Grand Lodge
Raleigh
Grand Lodge of
North Carolina
J. C. Hbbson
War Famous Ships To Help Celebrate Navy Day
United States ports will host fleet units famed for Pacific theater actions to mark Navy Day on October 27. The lineup tentatively includes battleships Missouri North Carolina Washington New Mexico Mississippi New York Idaho and more along with carriers Randolph Wasp Enterprise Ranger Monterey Bataan Langley cruisers Boise Richmond Cordova and destroyers Ausburne Aulick Claxton Dyson Braine Converse Foote Young Rodgers Harrison McKee Murray Kimberly Ringgold Schroeder Siebee and Dashiell.
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Washinggton
United States
Missouri
Skiports
Navy
Atlantic
North Carolina
Washington
New Mexico
Mississippi
New York
Idaho
Randolph
Wasp
Enterprise
Ranger
Monterey
Bataan
Langley
Boise
Richmond
Concord
Charles Ausburne
Aulick
Claxton
Dyson
Braine
Converse
Foote
Young
Rodgers
Harrison
McKee
Murray
Kimberly
Ringgold
Schroeder
Sigebee
Dashiell
Restrictive Practices Bloc Construction Growth
A Senate small business committee described construction as shackled by practices meant to protect jobs and profits. It warned a maze of local restraints from manufacturers to legislators limits output and employment, urging removal of barriers to raise yearly, stable employment and reduce labor costs.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Senate
Murray
D-Mont
Georgia Educator Dr Steadman Sanford Dies At 74
Dr Steadman Vincent Sanford longtime chancellor of the University System of Georgia died at Emory hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while addressing university regents. Funeral set for 3 pm tomorrow at the University of Georgia chapel in Athens with burial in Marietta city cemetery. Cuba has about 7 000 000 acres devoted to sugar cane.
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Atlanta
Steadman Vincent Sanford
University System of Georgia
University Atten
Emory Hospital
Sanford
University of Georgia At
Athens
Marietta
Policy gap on construction during reconversion urged
He argued that the war mobilization effort has not yet established a clear policy for construction during the reconversion period and urged that such a policy be set.
Auto Industry Key Factor In War Victory
Detroit reports the nations automotive industry delivered nearly 29 billion dollars in war products to the United States and allies since the war began. council figures show 11.24 billion in aircraft and parts, 8.59 billion in military vehicles, 3.78 billion in tanks, 1.95 billion in marine equipment, 1.59 billion in guns and artillery, and 0.90 billion in ammunition. Automotive parts supplied all military vehicles and 80 percent of combat vehicles used by the U.S. Mass production cut costs from 967 to 496, then to 200 dollars for the standard caliber 50 machine gun.
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Detroit
United States
Automotive Council For War Reduction
Rail line across U S would take 288 days at mile a minute
A line stretching every U S railway track end to end would require about 288 days for a train moving at one mile per minute to traverse from coast to coast.
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United States
The Hawaiian Islands Distance from American Mainland
The article notes that the Hawaiian Islands lie more than 2,000 miles from the American mainland marking a key geographic landmark.
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Hawaiian Islands
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