Guarding Secret Papers Dull Life For America's Diplomatic Couriers
Washington AP reports about 85 State Department couriers traveling to 163 posts worldwide on set weekly routes. They swap pouches at key hubs like Panama Paris Cairo Bangkok and endure long hours with little danger beyond travel fatigue and unsanitary dining. The piece highlights both the routine duty and a dramatic wartime detour involving a courier near Bern who rerouted via Venice Belgrade and Athens to reach Istanbul on a disrupted line.
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Washington
State Department
South America
Panama
Paris
Cairo
Bangkok
Mata ‘Hari
Bern
Switzerland
Istanbul
Turkey
Italy
Greece
Berlin
Venice
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Thhey
Athens
Rabun Gap School Blends Heritage With Machine Age Life
In Rabun Gap Georgia a mountain school founded in 1904 by Dr Andrew Jackson Ritchie preserves pioneer life while teaching modern skills. A community cannery weaves, weaving and home economics rise again as students help in kitchen barn field and shop alongside practical crafts.
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Pioneer Heritage
Machine Way of Life
Georgia Mountain School
Margaret Walzem
Rabun Gap
Lonely Hills
North Georgia
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee
Sam
Blue Ridge Mountains
Rabun
U. S. Highway 23
North Carolina State Line
UAW Delegates Seek Private Rooms for CIO Convention
Milwaukee reports indicate the CIO United Auto Workers seek private hotel rooms as about 2400 convention delegates arrive for a week long session. International Secretary Emil Mazey said Executive Board members arrive for a 1 p.m. meeting to finalize convention plans while credentials and committees meet in session.
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Milwaukee
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW
International
Emil Mazey
Uaw-Cio
Mazey
National leaders attend economic policy briefing
A group including CIO President Philip Murray Rep Franklin D Roosevelt Jr Leon Keyserling and Anna Arnold Hedgeman gathered for an official briefing on economic policy and Social Security matters noting their roles with federal and national agencies.
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Clude National Cio
Philip Murray
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
New York
Leon Keyserling
President’s Council On Economic Affairs
Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Federal Social Security Administration
Lobbyists Have Rough Sailing
Washington AP reports with congressional access limited as lobbyists navigate tighter rules. The piece notes the climate on Capitol Hill amid security and the blocking of entrance to Senate and House chambers.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congressional
Lobbyists Gather Outside Cramped Capitol Chambers
As Congress sits in temporary spaces for repairs the public is barred from sessions and lobbyists crowd the corridors outside the two chambers. Up to twenty lobbyists line the walls awaiting congressmen. Three minerals are noted as usable asbestos commodities in mining.
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Senate
House
Capitol
Congress
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Frei
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