Perkins Appraises Men as She Steps From Cabinet Post
Harold Ward dispatches a Washington report on June 1 recounting Frances Perkins’s remarks as she prepares to leave the labor secretary post after 12 years. She recalls how men treated her with respect, while noting the cabinet’s first female member faced scrutiny. Garner, Roosevelt, Schwellenbach, and changes at the labor department frame the piece, highlighting her influence and plans post tenure.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
United States
Frances Ferkine
Labor
Desbate
Garner Geares
John
Garner
Roosevelt
Hingry
Momon
Miss Perkins
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Spokane
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Post Mess Halls To Be Classrooms At Fort Sung Houston
Conversion of 16 mess halls at Fort Sung Houston Interlapsrcomus awarded for 77 993.64 to Cunningham and Ding of San Antonio per Lieut. Col. M. Wi Parse San Antonio district engineer. Also announced: 140404 contract to Automatic Sprinkler Corporation for an automatic sprinkler system at Kelly Field and 399.70 to Colmer and Hoff of San Antonio for site preparation for Fort Swat Fauaton buildings.
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Cunninghwn and Ding
San Antonio
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M. Wi Parse
Gineer
Colner Parse
Knife Hold Up Described to Police
Police pursued two men described by Monvac Pintols age 6 of 117 Magendte Street as the suspects in a bus stop robbery on Walters Street and Virginia Boulevard. Pintols said a shadowy figure threatened him with a knife while the other took $1 from his pocket. OPA releases cabbage retail rules in Washington.
Balloon fears and war balloons in U S skies
A wartime column argues that Japanese incendiary balloons released toward North America pose moral and practical threats. It discusses propaganda, potential forest fires, and the idea the balloons may have limited strategic value while inflaming American civil defense sentiment.
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Greater East Asia
North America
Japan
America
Newcastle
Czechs Regain Stolen Farms Amid Exile of Germans
Prague reports show Czechs reclaiming farmland taken in 1939 as Germans are expelled from the Sudetenland. Officials estimate a two to three year process to restore farms. Agriculture prospers though rationing remains tight due to looting of food and livestock.
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Prague
Sudetenland
Czecho-stovakia
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