Women work for peace roles in U N setup headline
Helen Beckwith highlights women in the United Nations advancing peace through the new Commission on the Status of Women and behind the scenes work in the secretariat. It profiles Dorothy Kenyon and several women scholars translators and artists shaping UN communications and culture.
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Helen Beckwith
Kathleen Norris
Bell Syndicate
WNN
United Nations
Commission On the Status of Women
New International Agency
United States
Dorothy Kenyon
New York
Kenyon
League of Nations Committee
U.N
San Francisco
London
Economic and Social Council
Commission On Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt
United Nations Secretariat
Secretariat
U.N. Secretariat
Marion Dix
Miss Dix
Hollywood
Constance Rhodes
Miss Rhodes
Paris Sorbonne
ILO
Geneva
Andrew Cordier
Trygvie Lie
AID
Miss Beckwith
Mother goes to jail to save dog in East Detroit
In East Detroit Mrs Tsiletta Whitis 38 defied a city ordinance by letting Butch the white Spitz run free. Convicted of contempt she faced a 10 day term, three day jail already served and a $3 fine plus $7.60 costs with seven extra days if unpaid. Her children Phyllis William and Everett watched.
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East Detroit
Butch
Spitz
Whitis
Tsiletta Whitis
Macomb County
John McPherson
Phyllis
William
Everett
William McGowan
Rose Bamburger
Artificial textiles and silk history in English thought
An English philosopher long ago predicted synthetic fabrics. In 1664 Robert Hooke noted the possibility of artificial glutinous compositions resembling or even surpassing natural silk formed from silkworm excrement.
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London
Robert Hooke
Change in Russian policy misleads world, report warns
Western newspaper analysis says New York conferences yielded no US policy gains. It charges Russia with strategic discretion and notes Communist advances in Latin America, Europe, and Britain. The piece warns that surface agreements mask deeper Soviet growth in world revolution.
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Washington
New York
United States
Latin America
France
Italy
Balkans
Britain
Japan
China
Europe
Germany
Austria
Russia
Bits
Tito
Assembly
Parties of Liberty
Spain
Almanacs Endure in U S Long Lives Among Farmers
The article notes almanacs with long histories in the United States. Gruber's Hagers Town Almanac is 149 years old, the Old Farmer's Almanac 154, Cabell's New England Almanac 170, and Foulsham's Almanack 250 years.
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U. S
Sevee
Gruber
Hagers‘town
Old Farmer’s Almanac
Cabell
New England Mae
Foulsham
Telegraph Office Musings on Tra La Message
A tipsy man writes a playful telegraph to a friend in St Louis in eight words and a joking suggestion to add more. The clerk calculates 64 cents for the brief message, prompting a light exchange about the value of extra words and the silliness of repeating tra la.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telegraph
St. Louis
Prize Winning Crocheted Runner From Louisville
A prize winning crocheted runner from Louisville Kentucky captured a national contest. The 0 by 9 inch piece serves as a dining table runner, buffet runner or dresser accessory. To obtain complete instructions for Pattern No 5308 send 20 cents and your name address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Kentucky
Surprising Home Cough Relief You Can Make at Home
Learn to make a cough syrup at home with sugar, water, and Pinex from a druggist. Mix to create a pint of syrup that relieves throat and bronchial irritation, loosens phlegm, soothes membranes, and aids sleep with a money back guarantee.
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U. N
Trudy Weit
Visual Information Service
Audrey Langston
U. N. Photo Maison
Lucie de Vienne Blanc
Mme. de Vienne Blanc
America
Mary Ronay
University of Michigan
Detroit
Paris
Senorita Orellana
Chile
Columbia University
Smith College
Doreen Feng
Mexico
Marie Bordy
Andrey Langston
Andrei Gromyko
Bat Uwe
Western Newspaper Union
Stalin
Pioneers of America
Edison Institute School
Dearborn
Mich
Greenfield Village
Peggy Anne White
Joseph Eschback
Patricia Hood
Lake Pend Oreiile
Sandpoint
Idaho
Jeff
Laurence Hamilton
Reardon
Wash
Nippon
V. L P
Tokyo
Robert J. Smithdas
Pittzburgh Steel
Ralph W Barnes
Stockbridge
Mass
Win
Becaus
Charley Tripps
Pittsburgh
Georgia University
Maxwell Memorial Footbal Club
Philadelphia
Sewing Circle
South Wells St
Chicago
Heels
O'Sullivan
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