Harvard ties into labor and industry in new course
An article notes Harvard sponsored a nine month trade union fellowship for labor organizers to bridge gaps between labor and industry. It highlights Littauer’s School of Public Administration and a push for social responsibility, citing past and present figures and the role of education in workforce dynamics.
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York
Harvard
Cees Wenew
Harvard Jersey
Bendix Aviation
Wall Street
Harvard Business School
Littauer School of Public Administration
Harvard Department of Economics
Toynbee Hall
London
Lucius N. Littauer
Gloversville
New York City
Radio By Virginia Vale Highlights Early Hollywood Gossip
A Radio By Virginia Vale column recounts Vox Pop broadcasts with audience stunts and gifts, plus portraits of stars and behind the scenes moves. Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair trade star billing, Claudette Colbert’s rapid wedding spree, and Keenan Wynn’s war era service recalled amid film industry anecdotes.
ODDS AND ENDS ARDENTLY MIXED IN HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
Bing Crosby delays his return to radio to finish his Red Cross golf tour. Metro releases ATCA a one reel showcasing Air Training Corps of America training 500000 high school boys in aeronautics. Olivia de Havilland born in Tokyo unable to join location party at Lockheed as birth certificates were needed and hers was missing.
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Bing Crosby
Red Cross
Metro’s
ATCA
Air Training Corps of America
Olivia de Havilland
Tokyo
Princess O'Rourke
Lockheed
Olivia
Sergeant York and Elliott Lead Charge at Alamein
Sgt Alvin York captured 132 Germans in World War I. Sgt Keith Elliott of New Zealand captured 130 Germans near Ruweisat in the Alamein line, winning the Victoria Cross. Enemy tanks surrounded his battalion, 19 men of Company B remained, Elliott led repeated charges, single-handedly captured a German machine-gun nest, took three wounds, and handed over all 130 prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin York
Keith Elliott
New Zealand
Ruweisat
Alamein
Egypt
Elliott
Versailles of the Plains Peace Council Figures in Frontier News
Western Newspaper Union recalls the 1867 Medicine Lodge peace council and highlights two explorer friends. Henry Morton Stanley, born John Rowlands, rises from Welsh orphan to famed journalist and discoverer. Thomas Wallace Knox, prolific travel writer, also attested as a notable correspondent and author of multiple books.
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Livingstone
Henry M. Stanley
Denbigh
Wales
John Rowlands
America
New Orleans
Henry Morton Stanley
Rowlands
Arkansas
Shiloh
Fort Fisher
Turkey
Plains
Denver
Salt Lake City
Far West
Missouri Democrat of
St.Louis
Accomlle Pany
Stanley
Medicine Lodge Council
Thomas Wallace Knox
Pembroke
N. H
Stan Thomas W. Knoxley
Knox
New Hampshire
Colorado
Rocky Mountain News
New York Herald
Missouri
New York
Asia
Siberia
Europe
Africa
Upgrading Dining Chairs with Slip Covers and Covers
A Home Front feature discusses refreshing dining room style by modifying old chairs with a slip cover and simple upholstery. It describes a blue cotton cover with bias binding, fringe, and button-up-back openings, plus options for snaps and ties to secure the fit.
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United States Bureau of Standards
Bureau of Human Standards
Tserenc Vasarhelyi
Benito Mussolini
Greta Garbo
Alice Marble
Elisabeth Bergner
Antoine de Paris
Jessica Dragonette
Gabriel Pascal
Sauerkraut
Horthy
Mr. Vasarhelyi
Mr. Va
Karolyi
Vasarhelyi
Virginia Vale
Western
Union
Parks Johnson
Mrs. Johnson
Johnson
Rosalind Russell
Janet Blair
Columbia Pictures
Janet
Sister Eileen
George Russell
Alan Reed
Hollywood
Ezra Stone
Henry Aldrich
Reed
Russell Hoyt
RKO
Alan Ladd
Bits
Paramount
Lucky Gordon
Ladd
Claudette Colbert
Preston Sturges
Palm Beach
Claudette
Joel McCrea
Rudy Vallee
Joel
Keenan Wynn
Keenan
Jack Benny
Mary Livingstone
Jack
Mary
Claudia Morgan
Andrea Reynolds
Ralph Morgan
Frank
Milady
Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
Barbara Ritchie
J. R. Wells
Washington Airport
U. S
Uncle Sam
Panama
Sir Harold Alexander
Middle East
William Cornog
Augusta
J. W. Smothers
Princeton
Ind
Kindle Watson
Sgt. York’ No
Nazi
Charles Bedaux
Duke of Windsor
Paris
Zoo Monkey House
Western Newspaper Union
Versailles of the Plains
Medicine Lodge
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
Movie House
United States
Lyric
Majestic
Princess
Rialto
Ritz
Royal
State
Strand
Dr. Scholl
Gladys
C.B.C
Civilian Bomb Corps
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