Average Citizen Watches Unions Fight Over coast labor war
The Pacific Coast battle between the Teamsters and the Longshoremen disrupts port operations from San Francisco to beyond. Citizens face higher costs as shipments stall and embargo threats widen along the coast and into Atlantic ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Coast
Pacific Coast Teamsters’ Union
A. F
Myshoremen's Union
Teamsters
Union
Ctien
San Francisco Bay
Pas
Atlantic Coast Porta
Svelte Queen of Italian Cinema Opens Hollywood Voyage
Italian star Isa Miranda, on Paramount payroll as Inez Sanpietto, arrives in Hollywood with little English and a determined plan. Born in Milan, she worked from errand girl to model and typist before drama school, earning leading roles in Europe and Berlin. She seeks a quiet home, no night clubs, and a serious career as she learns English and trains for U.S. films.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Inez Sanpietto
Paramount
Isa Miranda
Italy
Mussolini
Shirley Temple
Signorina Miranda
Aong
Poale
Chico
Ifarpo
Marlene Dietrich
Miranda
Milan
Madeling
Academy of Dramatic Art
Engleus
Italia
End of CCC Era Shrinks Camps and Enrollees
The Civilian Conservation Corps will abandon nearly 250 camps by October 1 reducing total camps to the lowest since 1938 and enrollees to below 200,000 for the first time. The move reflects the easing emergency and marks a significant reduction in a once vast program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Cancer risk links to chronic irritation and smoking myths
The eighth installment in Dr. Morris Fishbein’s series explains cancer may start from repeated irritation of skin or intestinal lining by tar soot or chemicals. It notes lip and mouth cancers are common among tobacco users, stresses dental hygiene, and cites rising female smoking since 1918 from 10 to 145 billion cigarets annually to illustrate changes in risk.
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Morris Fishbein
United States
Child Wisdom on Growing Up and Fears
Olive Roberts Barton explores adolescent restlessness as boys around fourteen or fifteen wrestle with growing up. She notes tall frames and weight while parents despair at moodiness and distance. The piece argues time and gradual change shape maturity amid two worlds: childhood and the adult realm.
Trial of Amy Kerr ties to unresolved past
Priscilla Pierce, a young woman attorney, faces the death of Amy Kerr amid rumors of a past affair. Harry Hutchins, Amy’s employer, probes potential motives while Cilly contemplates reviewing Amy’s personal effects. The office backup from Crowell and Burns steadies her as she weighs police handling and media risk.
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Pruscilla Pierce
Any Kerrr
Cilly
Jim Kemrigan
Cilly* Baoce
Harry Hwutcmins
Amy
Abrghant Dolan
Amy Kerr
Harvey
Ulin
Citly
R. Crowell
Crowell and Burns
Jim
Miss Pierce
Betty
Mr. Hutchins
Harry
Priscilla
Greenwood Funeral
Flatbush
Harry Hutchins
Growers and youth in need of care and understanding
The piece discusses adolescent growth pains and the mismatch between a developing body and expectations. It stresses the inner conflict, sleepiness, and sensitivity of fast growers, urging families to provide a happy home life, patience, and gentle guidance to help him mature into a balanced man. It ends with reflections on sales and rural life anecdotes.
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Ature
Harry
Bill
Ife
A Book a Day By Bruce Catton review of Carl Crow’s China work
The column praises Carl Crow’s 400 Million Customers as an optimistic view of Chinese life and commerce. It notes Crow’s American advertising insight into Shanghai and the challenges of selling to a vast, poor, and largely illiterate population, with page excerpts and cultural observations.
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Fuyo
Tae House
Deaters
Carl Graw
D. S. EL
Carl Crow
Harpers
Crow
I Shanghsi Fw 2
Y Lfis Prent
Hammer
Tole Erance Dake Hin
Persis
Shadighur
Maren Polo
Mind Your Manners Quiz Answers and Guidance
A humorously phrased etiquette quiz outlines correct table manners. Questions address elbows on table, stacking plates, butter knife terminology, buttering biscuits, and how to handle dry cereal with cream. Provided answers indicate restricted elbow use, not eating, no plate stacking, butter spreader is not correct, and mixed guidance on biscuit eating.
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C. E. Palmer
Alex. H. Washburn
San Francisco
The
Mediterranean
Miss Miranda
Ira Miranda
America
Berlin
Paris
Fernand Gravet
Isa
Miranda Mussolini
Ina Miranda
Sav
Btorkis Fishbein
American Medical Associatin Hygeia, the Health Magazine
Olive Roberts
Barton
City
Dolan
Palmer Roberts
Bruce Catton
Flapper
Sylvia
Pat
Ofe
George
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