The Man About Town Dec 2 Look on Press and Public Life
The column notes S Spewack on Britain bombings and human rights over property rights, Life magazine’s mixed judgments on a baseball rookie and a Texas football team, and Flying and Popular Aviation features. It mentions Woollcutt’s Europe interview, a Defense of Hysteria scrapbook, a crime yarn The Chuckling Fingers, and reporters filming Young America Wants to Help. Despair and blooper notes include Tex McCrary, evacuees, and a Brooklynese mocked by English cameramen seeking a bath room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Spewack
Britain
Life Magazine
Life
Texas
Jim Young
Woollcutt
Baoks
Europe
England
Averell
FDR
Pathe
Tex McCrary
Innocent Bystander and Notable Historic Tales Update
Mrs. Roosevelt recounts the Bunker Hill Monument story showing New England pride in the race to raise 20000 dollars. Laurence of Massachusetts gives 10000 dollars and Judah Touro of New Orleans supplies the other half. also notes inebriated anecdotes about Hearst, Prince Romanoff, and a bank hold up with a comic police miscue.
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Roosevelt
Bunker Hill Monument
New England
Laurence
Massachusetts
New
John Hearst
Reuben
Hearst
Towns Stage Real Comeback With Decentralization of Industries
Young Tom Jones leaves city job plans to return home as decentralization drives a nationwide shift. Small towns expand factories from the South to the Northwest, aided by TVA Grand Coulee and new highways. Industry moves promise growth, but housing and trade lag behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Union
Tom Jones
The
State University
Tom
America
Main Street
Owever
Grand Coulee
TVA
Boulder Dam
Tennessee-Alabama
Missouri
Texas
Oklahoma
California
Pacific Northwest
Bonneville
Oregon
Washington
Middle West
Ilinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio River
Charles P Wood
Nation's Business
Champion Farmers Hold Third Reunion in Chicago
The Champion Farmers association, with over 100 prominent farmers, held its third reunion during the International Live Stock exposition in Chicago. Activities included sight seeing banquets luncheons and attendance at exposition events as guests of Firestone Tire & Rubber. The Christmas banquet at the Congress Hotel hosted by Leonard Firestone marked a highlight of the gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champion Farmers
Chicago
Champion Farmers’ Association
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Congress Hotel
Leonard K. Firestone
Composite Soldier Details Army Body Measurements Costs
Army figures describe the average enlistee as 5 feet 8 inches tall, 144 pounds with a 33% inch chest and 31 inch waist. Yearly feeding and clothing costs total about $404.65 per man, including $175.20 for food and $107.89 for initial clothing, with detailed issued kit lists and uniforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Army
War Department
Army Quartermaster Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Uncle Sam
Hidden Treasure Seized War Material Hoard By Government
Washington reports the Economic Defense board moves to seize a vast stock of semi manufactured war materials gathered for Poland and neighboring countries. The plan covers steel bars rods sheets ship plates tin copper wire with up to 25 000 carloads or over a million tons at stake. Most material will be seized and sold the same day with a $200 000 revolving fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Holland
Belgium
Export Control Board
Gen
Russell Maxwell
Near East
Henry Wallace
Economic Defense Board
Hoboken
N. J
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Three Generations of Fields in Chicago
Chicago shows three generations of Marshall Fields from the mercantile empire to the Field Museum and the Chicago Sun. The narrative traces wealth creation, jobs, and national impact through Field I and Field II, underscoring the American system and rising living standards. The piece also notes Dr Hal Orr’s early adventures and later return to dentistry in Chicago. It includes a section on information and public knowledge in government, criticizing biased interpretations and the cost of disseminating government information. It ends with a critique of labor unions and the national planning board’s wage dynamics in 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Marshall Fields
Field Museum of Natural History
America
Marshall Field I
Marshall Field II
Chicago Sun
National Resources Planning Board
Are You House Bound You Can Earn Money To
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Mike Romanoff
Wallopings
Hollywood
Romanoff
Mikes Place
Remenoff
7Th Avenue
41St Street
Wallace
14Th Precinct
Hormel Packing Company
Austin, Minn
Hamilton Manufacturing Company
Two Rivers
Wis
Schenley Distillers Corporation
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Frankfort
Lewis S. Rosenstiel
Schenley Company
Rosenstiel
Henry Ford
W. J. Cameron
Ford Motor Company
Ford
United States
Clark H. Minor
International General Electric Company
Urban Land Institute
Loop
Wall Street
Avenue of Progress
Ridgewood
Radford
Lewis Rosenstiel
Government
C.D
Fort Missoula
Mont
Italy
U. S
I Duce
Missoula
Japan
State Department
Army Air Corps
Wright A. Y Wee Onv
Western Newspaper Union
Hal Orr
Colorado River
Grand Canyon
Cuba
Aguinaldo
Philippines
Orr
AEF
France
Paris
San Francisco, Calif
Juvenal
Schiller
CSM Ne
John T. Shea
Sutter Street
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