From Veils to Reform Nexhmie Zaimi in America
Wellesley student Nexhmie Zaimi, born in Albania where King Zog banned veils, fled cloistered life to study in the United States. She now advocates reform through coeducation, writing textbooks, and founding a coed college to shift traditionalist views. Her father threatened police and disownment as she pursued independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellesley
Mass
Albania
Zog
Nexhmic Zaimi
Wellesley College
Paris
Nexhmice
United States
America
Nexhmie
War Cryptography Foretold as Vital in Coming Conflicts
Lieutenant Colonel William F. Friedman, chief cryptanalyst of the war department, discusses cryptography as an old yet crucial art shaping future warfare. He explains secrecy, expanding code networks, and real cases from World War I and peacetime alerts, including the prison break decipherment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
William F. Friedman
Friedman
Fabyan
Francis Bacon
Bacon
Hindenburg
France
U.S. Signal Corps
Tannenburg
Young Lindbergh's Newborn Named Land Morrow Lindbergh
London reports the birth of Col and Mrs. Lindbergh's infant son named Land Morrow Lindbergh born May 12 at a Devonshire Place clinic. Registrations confirm Anne Morrow Lindbergh as mother and Evangeline Lodge Land as maiden name. The Path of the scandalous kidnapping of their first son Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. remains a remembered tragedy in the background.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Col
Registrar of Births and Deaths of
Se Oess Ong Beals, OF
Marylebone
Fashionable
Devonshire Place
Lindbergh
United States
Martin Announces Meeting With GMC Detroit
Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers Union, said negotiations for contract amendments with General Motors will begin tomorrow. Union sources reported John Brophy, as personal representative of CIO head John L. Lewis, will arrive today to take part in a union inquiry into recent unauthorized strikes in Flint, Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers Union
General Motors Corporation
John Brophy
John L. Lewis
CIO
Flint
Mich
Strike ballots set on 20 percent wage hike demand
Representatives from five railroad brotherhoods vote on authorizing a strike ballot to press companies for a 20 percent wage increase. J A Phillips of Cedar Rapids notes the vote signals negotiations rather than an outright strike, with unions including Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, Enginemen, and Railway Trainmen represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
J. A. Phillips
Cedar Rapid
Order of Railway Conductors
Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers
Unions Demand Retroactive Increase for Conductors
The Switchmen's Union and the Order of Conductors press for a wage rise to take effect retroactively from May 1 once agreed, arguing the higher rate should apply to past services.
Colin Clive Shows Slight Improvement After Restful Night
In Los Angeles on June 22 APY reports actor Colin Clive remains hospitalized at Cedars of Lebanon with a serious pulmonary ailment. He passed a comparatively restful night and the condition is described as slightly improved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Anilles
Colin Clive
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Clive
Missouri seeks 4 million refund of 1936 unemployment tax
Representative Richard M. Duncan introduces a bill to authorize a $4,019,332 refund to Missouri for 1936 unemployment insurance taxes. The measure targets 13 states and Hawaii that did not meet the January 1, 1937 deadline to comply with Social Security requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Missouri
Richard M. Duncan
D-Mo
Congress
Hawaii
Rogers and Astaire Knockknees Sparks Dance Theory
Pasadena reports Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire are knock-kneed, a trait cited by Dr. William F. Madsen as aiding their dance dexterity. He notes pelvis and leg alignment influence weight support and even cites other athletes with knock-knees as part of a broader theory. In Springfield, Maude P. Fones wins legal ability to certify petitions to recall Mayor Arthur C. Maher after a court quashes a temporary writ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Calif
Ginger Rogers
Fredy Astaire
California Osteopathic Association
Theodore Kosloff
William F. Madsen
Madsen
Seth
University of Minnesota
Birger Rudd
Norway
Springfield
Maude P. Fones
Joplin
Arthur C. Maher
Springfield Court ‘of Appeals
Robert H. Cauthorn 90 dies in Mexico Missouri
Robert H. Cauthorn, 90, a businessman and former political leader, died here yesterday. Survived by a son Curtis P. Cauthorn, operator of a Excelsior Springs hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico, Mo
Robert H. Cauthron
Curtis P
Jumps) Cauthorn
Excelsior Springs
Also Mentioned on This Page
Aimi
George Fabyan
Cornell
Bato
Land
Morroia
Martin
GMC
Major Hoope
Jake
Boots
Nora
Bevier
By Williams
Winnin
Johnny
COPR
NES Service
Lake
Scorchy Smith
By Hamlin
By Noel Sickies
Diana
Pops
Tex
Bimey
Yano Wusr
BO You
Lissen
Hanno
Booly
By Don Flowers
Urggrt Beker Ed
Rogers
Astaire
California
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!