New York Heartbeat Parade and Hollywood Tales United
A vivid column surveys showbusiness gossip and political quips from New York, recalling Ted Lewis grosses, James Walker’s health, theater clashes with Lee Shubert, James Stewart sunburn tale, Hoover anecdotes, Goering and Hitler jests, and a Mildred Gilman interview moment in a chaotic panorama of 1940s public life.
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Ted Lewis
James J Walker
Lee Shubert
Shubert
Gwan
Hellzapoppin
Charlie Butterworth
Hollywood
Larry Clinton
Farm Income to Surpass Ten Billion This Year
Federal economists project farm cash income from crops and livestock will exceed 10 billion dollars in 1941, aided by strong consumer demand and Food for Defense purchases. Cotton and wheat incomes vary, with government loans boosting overall income by over 500 million, while export losses dampen cotton gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Food For Defense
Ibis
Eco
United States Department of Agriculture
Eastern Iroquois Challenge At Gallup Ceremonial
Dancers from the Six Nations of New York state challenge Western tribes at the twentieth annual Indian Ceremonial in Gallup New Mexico August 13 to 16. Eastern leaders join Ny, Canada delegates like Awl Breaker Cayuga and Chief Big Kettle to vie for North American Championship honors amid parades races and exhibits.
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Gallup
N. M
New York State
North America
Big Kettle
Buffalo
N. Y
Canada
New York
Cayuga
Corn Planter
America
Mark Twain
British grain separation process eyed for UK crop gain
Sir Quintin Hill of the British food mission in Washington returns to London with details of a new American process to sort grain seeds by fertility. If adopted by English farmers, Britain’s crop could rise as much as 22 percent.
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Washington
Sir Quintin Hill
British Food Mission
London
England
Britain
National Grandmothers Club Expands Nationwide
Chicago leader Mrs. Marle K. Brown heads the National Grandmothers Club, Inc., now with nearly 2000 members across most states. The group pursues educational and charitable work for children, promotes a modern, active grandmother lifestyle, and maintains nonsectarian, nonpolitical aims.
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Chicago
National Grandmothers Club, Inc
Marle K. Brown
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio A. BR
Brown
National Grandmothers Club
Roosevelt Aide Read Blast Against Japan in Cabinet Room
In the secretary of state ante room Sumner Welles delivered a harsh critique of Japan. Ickes pressed for an oil embargo while Navy planners urged immediate strikes on Tokyo Yokohama Kobe Osaka. A curious note mentions Andre Maurois and a horned army tank.
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Sumner Welles
Japan
Welles
Ickes
Roosevelt
Indo-China
State Department
Philadelphia
Ickey
Coast Guard
White House
Dutch East Indies
Atlantic Seaboard
Tokyo
U. S
Singapore
Indies
Philippines
Paper and Bamboo
Yokohama
Kobe
Osaka
Navy
U.S
Andre Maurois
South America
Maurois
More Production Now Key to America’s Future
A 1930s style column urges boosting production on farms to cut imports, promote chemurgy, and raise living standards. It critiques policies favoring minorities, laments inflation risk, and argues for congress leaders with vision. It notes fast Senate spending and the impact on households.
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America
United States
Congress
English salesman-turned-soldier wins nurses’ surprise payback
An English high speed salesman who joined the army and was wounded recovers at a base hospital. On his first day of convalescence the nurses surround his bed offering payment for radios refrigerators and vacuum sweepers he had sold while unconscious.
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Stememoranda
Jimmy Gleason
Mr. Jordan
Wall Street
D.R
York
J. S. Evans
Wheeler
Lindbergh
Nashville
Lord Haw Haw
Victor Emanuel
White
Manhattan
Yorkville
Broadway
Times Square Street
James Stewart
Ware
Stewart
John Edgar Hoover
Easy Block
Goering
Hitler
Fatso
Adolf
Tarzan
Lucius Beebe
Dimitrov
Reichstag
Mildred Gilman
The
Journal
Miss Gilman
Frank George
Western Newspaper Union
Grandmothers Club
Washington, D. C
Panama
Stimson
Panama Canal
Merry
Wright A
Western Newspap Union
Europe
Senate
Aviaion
Orecon Institute of Technology
Portland
Gre
Ctesibius
Ene
Doan
Peils
Doans
HOTEL
Ben Lomond
Ogden, Utah
Ee Rotary
Kiwanis
Executivea Exchange—Optimists
Chamber of Commerts and
Aa Club
Ben Lomond Ogden
Utah
Hubert E. Visick
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