Odlum Named Chairman of RKO in Shakeup at Atlas
Floyd B. Odlum, midwestern cleric's son turned Wall Street star, becomes chairman of Radio-Keith-Orpheum after guiding Atlas through post crash reinvestment. He built Atlas from $40,000 in the 1920s to assets of $14,000,000, aided RKO's 1939 reorganization, and oversees a vast film and theater empire with assets around $70,000,000, producing 49 features and 90 shorts annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation
Floyd B. Odlum
RKO
Atlas Corporation
Odlum
Atlas
Wall Street
Union City
Mich
Methodist Church
Denver
University of Colorado
Electric Bond and Share Corporation
Big Power Group
Street
Charlie Chaplin
Joseph P. Kennedy
Radio Corporation of America
Rkko Radio
Wagner outlines American plan for a national social insurance
Senator Wagner with Senator Murray proposals create a national social insurance system funded by 6 percent wages and 6 percent employer contributions up to 3000 yearly. It covers public employment offices old age survivors and disability benefits maternity medical and unemployment insurance with rights for military personnel and extended coverage to farm workers and domestic workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wagner
New York
Murray
Montana
Beveridge
General Treasury
2500 Negroes at Plant Strike in St Louis Unit
About 2500 black employees at one of eight production units of the St Louis ordnance plant struck today, refusing to work under white foremen. The unit trains black workers as supervisors, but no spokesman emerged. Two shifts quit. one resumed briefly. remaining shifts undecided. The plant, government owned and Cartridge Co operated, says other seven units are unaffected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Julian Kirk
United States Cartridge Company
Kirk
United States
Cartridge Company
Knights of Pythias lodge to vote at Thursday meeting
Stonewall lodge No 8 will meet Thursday at 8 p.m. and urges all members to attend as an election is scheduled. A large class will take the first rank and the second rank. Dokeys will meet Monday at 8 p.m. China provinces Hunan and Hupeh population exceeds one third that of the United States. Enemy radio detectors are not accurate on a fast airplane flying low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stonewall Lodge No
Knights of Pythias
Dokeys
Hunan
Hupeh
China
United States
Military School In War Described At Monroe Kiwanis
The Monroe Kiwanis heard Lt. Frank E. Wheeler of Kemper Military School discuss the role of military schools in the war effort. He noted 14 000 graduates serving as officers and listed high ranking alumni while a Monroe student Floyd Garrett and West Monroe Kiwanian George Welch attended. The talk linked wartime training to national service and historical magnet theory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Tatum
Underwood Fourmy
Monroe
Wheeler
Floyd Garrett
Kiwanis Club
George Welch
West Monroe
Also Mentioned on This Page
William Gilbert
Walgreen's
U.S. P
DeSiard
Alkaeltzer
LUX
White Shoe Cleaners
Seidlitz
Carter's
SQL Squibb
Santar
Stillman
Rt Ve Pol
Griffin
Recreation Soft Ball
Parke-Davis
Ted Ca
Enoz
Pell
Raleigh, Prince Albert, Granger
Emilia Garcia
Rodena
Centaur
HINDS
Wondersoft
Anabrid
Arn
Ove
Lea U
rVoute
Woodbury Face
West
Carter
Ay-Tol
Mead’s Oleum
Olafsen
Pinkham
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!