Lovett as aviation production czar candidate from Wall Street ranks
Robert A. Lovett, New York banker and World War I flying ace, emerges as a potential aviation production czar as Young Financiers join defense efforts. The piece notes his Yale 1918 degree, Harvard studies, leadership of rail lines, and parallels with James Forrestal and Averill Harriman amid wartime mobilization.
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EW York
Robert A. Lovett
New York
War Department
Robert S. Lovett
War Industries Board
Lovett
Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co
James V. Forrestal
Dillon, Reed and Co
Navy
Wall Street
Averill Harriman
Washington
Harriman
Huntsville
Texas
Beacon
N. 4
Yale
Harvard
Union Pacific
Oregon
Oregon-Washington
St. Joseph
Grand Island
Prohibition drive back in focus as Dry groups press Congress
Prohibition advocates led by the Women's Christian Temperance Union press Congress with appeals to defend soldiers near military posts and push local option laws amid a broad campaign. Postmaster Walker tightens foreign propaganda controls while Senate voices praise for Vandenberg and concern over farm relief funding. The Bulgaria crisis and Nazi expansion loom as Hitler advances toward the east.
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Prohibition
Capitol Hill
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Congress
Wgen
Frank Walker
Walker
New Labor Plan Promises Supreme Board For Defense Industry
A proposed executive order creates an 11 member non salaried board to resolve labor disputes in defense plants. It would act only after conciliation fails and relies on mediation without compulsory power. The plan follows the Buffalo Bethlehem Steel strike and involves OPM mediation, Knudsen and Hillman proposing settlement terms.
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Supreme Court
Roosevelt
White House
Labor and Industry
Labor Department
Buffalo
Bethlehem Steel Company
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
C.I.O
Office of Production Management
Washington
William S. Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
OPM
NLRB
Michigan
United Automobile Workers
C.I.0
Ford Company
Knudsen
Sumners
Texas
House Judiciary Committee
Defense
U. S. Labor Department
OMP
Hilkman
Wilson
A. F
Samuel Gompers
Industry
Envo y headlines on Bermuda leases and casino of bases
Lord Halifax arrives in Annapolis as Roosevelt meets him marking a precedent. King George VI greets the U S ambassador to the Court of St James, John C Winant, in London. New Canadian minister Leighton G McCarthy, 71, named for the United States, with ties to the Warm Springs foundation. Bermuda leases discussed by Rep Carl Vinson grant long term U S military control and operational rights.
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Hans T. F. Lundberg
Toronto
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Belgium
France
Germany
Spain
Mexico
Canada
United States
Swedish Engineering Academy
Lord Halifax
Annapolis
Roosevelt
George VI
U. S
Court of St. James
John C. Winant
London
Leighton G. McCarthy
Ambassador McCarthy
Warm Springs Foundation
House of Commons
Churchill
U.S
Bermuda
U. S. Navy
Washington
Carl Vinson
D., Tenn
House Naval Committee
Debate on subsidizing trans Atlantic air service sparks policy clash
Washington debates government subsidy for another New York to Lisbon air line to rival Pan American. Critics warn subsidies breed monopolistic ruin as the mail route shows cost recovery, while defense labor issues draw calls for firm action against saboteurs and recalcitrant plants.
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Washington
New York
Lisbon
Pan-American
Europe
Coolidge National Transportation Committee
Hitler Drives East as Balkans Pressure Rises
Edward C. Wayne analyzes a growing German push toward the East with increased Balkan pressure and rising labor unrest in defense industries. The piece notes forthcoming U.S. handling of defense labor issues by a new agency, reflecting wartime policy shifts.
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Hitler
East
Balkans
U.S
Death of Banting in Newfoundland Plane Crash
Sir Frederick Banting renowned for insulin research dies in a Newfoundland plane crash en route to England. He was about to apply a new aviation medicine discovery of high value. Oscar shields award winners James Stewart and Ginger Rogers are noted for best actor and best actress roles in The Philadelphia Story and Kitty Foyle.
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England
Newfoundland
Sir Frederick
Hollywood
Academy of Motion Picture Arts
James Stewart
Ginger Rogers
Virginia MacMath
Kitty Foyle
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Illinois
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