Frayed Cuff and Threadbare Knee Smart in Britain
Capt Oliver Lyttleton, noted as one of Britain's wealthiest and best dressed men, leads the Board of Trade and directs defense mobilization. The piece discusses centralized power over industry, labor reallocation, and commentary calling this shift a major economic and social revolution with syndicalist overtones.
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Britain
New York
Oliver Lyttleton
England
Board of Trade
British Metals Corporation Ltd
Conferreus Metals
Seaverbrook
Evening Standard
Hollywood Screen News and Star Pairings Amid Studio Moves
Virginia Vale notes Henda Lupino and Louis Hayward to co star in Columbia's Ladies in Retirement with director Charles Vidor and Else Lanchester Edith Barrett Isobel Elso among top stars. Disney and Ronal Colman projects cited. March of Time film China Fights Back highlights national efforts while Veronica Lake pivots to Preston Sturges new project. Reymond Grem earns extended contract with Mutual.
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Henda Lupino
Louis Hayward
Columbia
China
Chiang Kai-shek
New OPM Deputy Boss a Marvelous Human Catalyzer
The article profiles a new OPM deputy boss praised as a marvelous human catalyzer. It notes his flexible early New Deal stance, NBA reform actions, and return to banking while leaving ties in Washington. Born in Pittsburgh, he rose from an organizer to a bank executive with a talent for leadership and conflict resolution.
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Walt Disney Pictures
Dragon
NBA
Supreme Court
Suny
Donald Richberg
Mr. O'ne«L
NRA
O'Neill
Washington
Pittsburgh
Mr. O'Neill
Bradstreet Corp
Cera Steel Co
Bipieet Co
Odds and Ends in Hollywood and Film News
Jim Falkenburg says posing for photographers is easier than for a movie camera Rita Johnson claims she ranks as Hollywood's top stewer Warners plans shorts on the Federal Bureau Edgar Hoover to appear in a film and a Mexican constabulary gesture is noted Barry Fitzgerald slated for the next Tarzan film
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Jim Falkenburg
America
Rita Johnson
Hollywood
Stewer
Warners
Federal Bureau of Ererigations
Edgar Hoover
Vane M
Rurales
Een Aexican Constabulary
Barry Fitzgerald
Admiral Carter Bridge Between Navies and Armies
Samuel P. Carter, born 1819 in Elizabethtown Tennessee, rose from midshipman to captain and later rear admiral. He served in the Mexican War and Civil War, led cavalry raids in East Tennessee, and held commands in both the army and navy before retiring in 1881. He died in Washington on May 26, 1891. The veteran, known as Old Horse Marine, bridged service branches and shaped Union warfare.
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Mvery
Washington, D. C
America
Samuel Powshoton Carter
United States Army
United States Navy
Horn
Elizabethtown
Tenn
Carter
Princeton University
Navy
Mexico
Asiatic
War Department
East Tennessee
Second
Tennessee Volunteers
Old Horse
Kentucky
Nessee
North Carolina
Tennessee
Army
Home Shorthand Course Opens Door to Jobs
A home shorthand course offers quick entry to clerical work and better job prospects. The guide suggests women can learn easily at home and use shorthand to enter fields like fashion, buying, and advertising.
Life Spans in Plants and Animals Range Wide
The piece notes plants live longer than animals, with California Sequoia trees reaching about 50 centuries, while some bacteria have life cycles as short as 20 minutes, shorter than any animal. Parrots are in the century group and elephants may reach two centuries.
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Fougst
Grenec
Guirce
Lemuel F. Parton
WNU
Virginia Vale
Western New
Per Trion
Mertha O'Driscol
Paramount
Aldrich
Cecil DeMille
Peulette Godcara
Roy Milland
Reymond Massex
Susan Hayward
Walter Hempees
Sue Beecher
Spring Brington
Robert Preston
Elizabeth Ris
Stealiner
Ronald Colman
Mr Lie
Caroline
So Reo
Nicolai Remisof
Lewis Milestone
Charles
Buddy’) Rogers
Mary Pickford
Spitire
Lupe Velez
Leon
Veronica Lake
Farrie
Wings
Comedienne
Preston Sturges
Sullavan
Joe] McCrea
McCrea
Sturges
Mutual
Reymond Grem
Woman's National ‘Radio Committee
Iéa Lupino
Mariha O'Driscoll
OPM
U. S. Navy
Adolphus Andrews
Third Naval District
Floyd Bennett Field
United States Line
Philadelphia
Parashots
Northeast Gun Club
Frankford Post 211
American Legion
Somerton
United States
Columbia University, New York
Felipe A. Espil
Carlos Martins
Lord Halifax
Pat MacLeod
Winifred Ashford
Women’s Mechanized Transport Corps
Marvel
Empire State Building
Roger W. Hosheins
Buffalo
Niagara River
Eddie Rickenbacker
South
John H. Morgan
Morgan
West's
Pegram
Knoxville
Schofield
Kingston
N. C
Bragg
P. Carter
Reader Home Service
Sixth Avenue
New York City
Emerson
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