Y W C A SERVICE COMMITTEE TO MEET
The Service Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association will meet on Thursday October 3 at the Y W C A building on Commerce street Mrs M T Hicks is chairman of this committee.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1931
Page
6
The Service Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association will meet on Thursday October 3 at the Y W C A building on Commerce street Mrs M T Hicks is chairman of this committee.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon notes in a Women’s Bureau bulletin that yearly income from a job, not weekly wages, should test adequacy. Data from 107000 women across 13 states show many earned less than $500 a year, with 14.5 percent of manufacturing workers beneath that level due to layoffs, holidays, illness, and other factors.
New York dispatch notes fall fashion and wage data. Scarlet-tinted toe nails, ash hair, and nude and nude bathing suits dominate winter resort beach style, with square-shouldered costumes and wide fur collars. Wage studies show 5‑to‑10 cent stores at bottom earnings. general mercantile groups top.
Einstein and three cabinet members Wilbur Brown and Hyde draw attention as speculation grows after Dr. Charles Gray Shaw of New York University warns that only a limited view of life is being shown by the administration.
A Hollywood feature lists seven top stars and their birth names including Jean Harlow Lucille Le Sueur Joan Crawford Ruby Stevens Myrna Loy Leila Koerber Greta Garbo and Marie Dressler Leila Koerber plus many other "reel and real" names such as Raquel Torres Paula Osterman Pola Negri and Mary Astor. The piece notes how stage names differ from birth names and offers a broader look at the industry’s practice.
New York reports novelist Ernest Hemingway who has just returned from Spain is intrigued by a mysterious person impersonating him in the United States. He questions why someone would profit from impersonating an author when income remains highly uncertain.
Sweden warns that Nobel prize funds may fall below current values if the gold standard is not resumed by December 10. Sinclair Lewis earned $46,350 last year. at current exchange rates his prize would be about $38,971. In New York, sentiment shifts as more people take out life insurance, with the first half of 1931 seeing an increase of about one and a quarter billion.
The statement notes that total insurance in force on June 30 reached 109,250,000,000 dollars, reflecting the size of active policies and the scale of coverage at midyear.
Rome Italy residents drink 600000 barrels of beer and 22000000 barrels of wine annually. The beer serves as a summer drink and the figures translate to about 100 quarts per person per year nationwide. In Mamaroneck New York a golf match between national democratic and republican clubs ended 44 to 27 in favor of the Democrats.
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