Pennsylvania War Fund and its statewide campaign
The Pennsylvania War Fund Inc coordinates war relief across the state under a council of about a thousand citizens from every county. The drive funds local social services and emergency needs with a six area structure and two district divisions. Total Pennsylvania subscriptions reach 10,070,147 against a National War Fund quota of 10,266,260 with most counties meeting or exceeding targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National War Fund
Pennsylvania War Fund
H. J. Heinz
Pittsburgh
William Fulton Kurtz
Thomas
Gates
Lessing J. Rosenwald
Philadelphia
Gilbert S. McClintock
Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
R. C. No
Main
Pennsylvania War Fund, Inc
Grace Methodist Church
Harrisburg
X Day reconversion plan urged by War Production Board
The War Production Board is urged to implement the X Day Reconversion Plan from the Baruch-Hancock report to prep for postwar civilian production. The piece criticizes delay, cites Brewster Aircraft layoffs, and calls for a coordinated federal readjustment authority to avoid postwar disruption and a new national headache.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Production Board
Baruch- Hancock
Germany
WPB
Brewster Aeronautical Corp
Navy
Brewster
Company
Union
Truman Committee
Congress
Take
Washington
Foremen Leader a Youngster
Robert H. M. Keyes founder and head of the Foremen's Association of America led a 1930s strike that halted work at six Detroit plants, sidelining 80,000 workers and reportedly costing the Army Air Forces 250 planes. A 32 year old Cincinnati native, Keyes rose from Ford plant foreman to national leadership amid industrial tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Motor Company
United Auto Workers
Henry Ford
Packard Motor Car Co
Packard
Foremen's Association of America
Keys
National Labor Relations Board
Keyes
Robert HM. Keys
Foremen’s Association of America
Detroit
Henry HH. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Cincinnati
Ford Technical School
Ford
Lower
California
Asso Peninsula
Winnie Left Her Behind wins relief bill in Senate
The Senate debated and passed Senate Bill 1602 to aid Winnie Left Her Behind a Sioux Falls Indian woman with 80 acres who lives in a tepee on the Rosebud Reservation. The bill would allow her to sell her land for about 300 dollars and ease government restrictions that block sales to speculators. The anecdote followed remarks by War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes, noting postwar unity and the need for national direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fdr
Boettigers
White House
Senate
Winnie
United States
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Diwrian Bushield
Republian
South Dakota
Bushfield
Interiox
Fokunda
Ruby
Paluck
James F. Byrnes
Debunked U.S. Crime Film Shown as Made in America
In Bari Italy theatergoers saw 300000 receipts in six weeks for a full length movie that painted the United States as a crime ridden land. The film advertised as made in America was actually assembled from gangster shorts by Goebbels propaganda, contrasting decadent America with staged realism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bari
Italy
Sweden
America
Goebbels
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
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Indiana Printing and Publishing Co
Gudiner Gazette
Hooning
Ray
Prealaent
N Wewttt May
Dwight Ray
Trenaurer
Ecco
Meh AG
Indiana County
Ty Mall
Cartier Dally
Associated Press
Une
Repreaentativen + inc
44Th Street
New York
N.Y
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Chestnut St
Penna
Westoffice of Indiana
Pennsyvania
Thea
Indiana Evening Gazette
Ciation of
Foremen’s Association
Maryland Dry Dock
Peter Edson
Mister
The
Merry
Hydrew Pearson
They
Say
Botion
Ewan Clague
Social Security Board
Hitler
Lissie
Buzzie Dall
South
Roosevelt
Franklin
John
Harvard
Anna Boettiger
Johnny Boettiger, Jr
Major John Boettiger
North Africa
Ross McIntire
Admiral Mcclntire
Anna
Eimil Schram
New York Stock Exchange
Aruply Ous Rou
Wallace
Chiis
Cordell Hull
Hull
House Appropriations
District of Columbia
John Coffee
Tacoma
Wash
D. C
Frank Marks
Gazette
Shang Chen
Indiana Hardware Co
Phila
Coats
Dressy Spectator
Gabardine Slax
Oades
Rogers
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