Republicans Retain Martin as Party Chairman in Washington
Republican national committeemen kept Representative Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts as party chairman despite his plan to resign due to minority leader duties. The meeting avoided reference to Wendell Willkie and lend lease support while Ezra Whitla and Robert A. Taft observed with Martin.
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Republican National
Washington
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
House
Wendell J. Willkie
Ezra Whitla
Idaho
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Martin
Stringer Hopes to Stand Out Among Cubs Rookie Hopefuls
Gene Stringer of the Chicago Cubs, a second baseman previously with the Los Angeles team, stretches at Santa Catalina Island during training camp as he pursues a major league roster spot.
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Gene Stringer
Chicago Cubs
Santa Catalina Island
California
Stringer
Los Angeles
Aid Bill to F D R Passed by Both Houses in Rush
The 7 billion British aid measure moves through Congress and is sent by special courier aboard a plane to President Roosevelt who is on the White House yacht off Florida. Post office inspector L J White is photographed boarding a plane in Washington with the cargo.
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Congress
Roosevelt
White House
Florida
L. J. White
Post Office
Washington
AFL workers enter McCormick plant guarded by police
Guarded by 700 policemen in what police call Chicago's largest single detail, more than 3,000 members of a new American Federation of Labor union march into the McCormick plant of the International Harvesting Company.
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Chicago
American Federation of Labor Union
McCormick
International Harvest
Er Company
A. F. of L
Opera contract winners receive Metropolitan contracts
Arthur W. Steudel presents $1,000 checks to Mona Paulee Mary Van Kirk and Lansing Hatfield after Metropolitan Opera auditions. Mona Paulee, mezzo soprano from Edmonton and Los Angeles, Mary Van Kirk, contralto from Cleveland, and Lansing Hatfield, baritone from Franklin Virginia, are the trio awarded contracts. Edward Johnson, the Met impresario, stands at left.
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Arthur W. Steudel
Sherwin-Williams Paint Company
Metropolitan Opera Company
Mona Paulee
Edmonton
Alberta
Los Angeles
Mary van Kirk
Cleveland
Lansing Hatfield
Franklin
Edward Johnson
Metropolitan Opera Impresario
Metropolitan
Mary E. van Kirk
Select R. C. Keagy To Be Speaker at Ainsworth Banquet
Rev. Keagy of Washington will give the address at the Father Daughter banquet at the Methodist church Friday evening. Also noted are local social visits and attendance at a Masonic meeting in Kahoka Missouri by several men and women from Ainsworth and area.
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R. C. Keagy
Ainsworth
BE. K. Butterworth
Max Stewart
Charles Jenkins
Howard Stewart
O. R. Thoma
Orrie O'Connor
Ed Lambert
E. J. Evans
Harry
Trotters Visit and Moves Highlight Cedar Rapids to Ottumwa
Trotters visit Mr and Mrs Bill Trotter of Cedar Rapids on Sunday. They will move to Ottumwa where the Sawyer Biscuit company is opening a new plant and Bill has received a niece promotion. Grant Davis of Waterloo visited the Trotter home. Dorothy Pearson, a Libertyville teacher, was a weekend guest.
First Speaker Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania
Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania served as the first Speaker of the House. He helped shape early U.S. legislative practice beginning in 1790 as the chamber organized under the new framework.
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Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg
Pennsylvania
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Evra Whitla
Taft
Lou Stringer
James J. Bambrick
Building Service Employes Union
New York City
George Scalise
Bucharest
Davic
Grand Coulee
Grand Coulee Dam
Columbia River
Washington State
C.I.O
Bethlehem
C. I. O.’8 Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem, Pa
C. T.O
D. R
Joe Collins
Emerson Gross
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Kenneth Eggert
Harvill Aircraft Die Casting Corp
Britain
William Randolph Hearst
Mexico City
Manuel Avila Camacho
Mexico
Raoul Walsh
John Hearst
Avila Camacho
Marion Davies
David
Metropolitan Opera
J. D. Rabenold
Bobe Kurtz
Moline
FB. W . Sneseard
Faye Green
Columbus Junction
Alice Orris
Clara Orris
Columbus City
Mary Woodside
Wil Wallace
West Chester
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