U.S. aims up a brisk anti espionage drive with four leaders
Col William J. Donovan J Edgar Hoover Brig Gen Sherman Miles and Capt Alan G Kirk join a focused campaign to counter espionage and propaganda. Kirk brings naval intelligence insight from a long career including the Athenia sinking report and London posting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EW York
U.S.A
Col
William J. Donovan
J. Edgar Hoover
Sherman Miles
Military Intelligence Division
War Department
Alan G. Kirk
Office of Naval Intelligence
Kirk
Navy
London
Athenia
State Department
Captain Kirk
New U S O Head Is Business Man Of Wide Interests
ARPER SIBLEY new U S O head is a diversified businessman with farms, lumber, banks, coal firms, and loan societies. He mediated the 1937 auto strike, backed trade treaties, and supported foreign policy. A former Chamber of Commerce president and Groton Harvard associate of Roosevelt, he balances many interests.
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Arper Sibley
United Service Organizations
Sibley
Hull
Berkeley
United States Chamber of Commerce
Groton
Harvard
Roosevelt
Hollywood Notes on Stars and Fans in New York
Virginia Vale reports on Susanna Foster and other young stars, including Joan Blondell, Virginia Weidler, and Laraine Day, with gossip about gifts, fan clubs, and on-set antics. Mentions Maj. Gen. Adams praising Chute Battalion and Muzak Inc. obtaining a New York station permit with no advertising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laraine Day
Mary
Dr. Kildare
Edward G. Robinson
Edward Arnold
Marsha Hunt
FFC
Muzak Inc
New York
Ellery Queen films sign Margaret Lind for four more
Margaret Lind signs to appear in four additional Columbia Ellery Queen pictures. Victor McLaglen ends his personal tour as The Marines Are Ready nears release. Jack Benn plans The Widow Wouldnt Weep for Warners on September return. Richard Travis gains a big break from Bette Davis after her recommendation for The Man Who Came to Dinner. Bob Hope's sunburn delays Louisiana Purchase. ZaSu Pitts to star in Week End for Three at RKO.
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Margaret Lindsay
Columbia
Ellery Queen Pictures
McLaglen
Jack Benn
Warners
Richard Travis
Bette Davis
Bob Hope
Louisiana Purchase
ZaSu Pitts
RKO
Tappans sparked credit reporting and a new era in finance
The Tappan brothers Arthur and Lewis created the first credit reporters after the 1837 panic, founding a mercantile agency in 1841 in New York. They helped pioneer modern credit references and influenced later firms like Dun and Bradstreet, with early correspondents including future presidents.
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Tappan
Messrs
America
Arthur
Lewis Tappan
Massachusetts
Boston
England
New York
Arthur Tappan and Co
Tappans
West
South
Benjamin Douglas
Robert Graham Dun
Ohio
Young Dun
John M. Bradstreet
Bradstreet Company
R.G. Dun and Company
Dun
Pioneer Credit Reporters
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
the Tappans
New York Journal of Commerce
Arthur Tappan
The
Emancipator
William Lloyd Garrison
Liberator
Baltimore
American Anti-Slavery Society
Early Saving a Habit for All Times
A concise moral note quoting the Earl of Derby on the importance of saving early to secure future acquisition and resilience against worldly change. It emphasizes preparation and prudent budgeting as a timeless virtue.
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Earl of Derby
K.G
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Who’s News
Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
WIN
U.S
Charles L. Lawrance
Elbert C. Hubbard
Lawrance
Charles Lindbergh
Paris
Yale
Phi Beta Kappa
Ecole Des Beaux Arts
Lawrance Engineering Corporation
Richard E. Byrd
Atlantic
New U.S.O. Head
Virginia Vale
Western Newspaper Union
Usanna Foster
Paramount
Jackie Cooper
Susanna
Joan Blondell
Binnie Barnes
Walter Soderling
Sam Bischoff
Soderling
Hungary
Joseph Hamer
Virginia Weidler
Budapest
Virginia
RKO Radio
E. S. Adams
United States Army
Parachute Battalion
Red Gap
Charles Laughton
Warner Bros
Humphrey Bogart
Mary Astor
Miss Astor
Hollywood
Fort Benning
Red Army
United States
Jacksonville
N. C
Southwest
Desert
Russia
Russian Red Cross
Moscow
U.S.S.R
U. S. Navy
Philadelphia Navy Yard
American Red Cross
Keene
Bill Stahl Jr
Edward McLaughlin
Junior
Spain
Josephine Winter
Figueras
U. S
Ctesibius
B.C
Sir T. Browne
Wintersmith
Wintersmith Chemical Co., Inc
Hill Street
Louisville
Kentucky
Acarea
Vauven
J Crane
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
WIU
Doan
Coeice
Dean
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