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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1940
Page
10
Babson warns labor and employers to balance defense boom with controlled costs. He cites high construction wages, potential union trouble, and fatigue in France and Germany as warnings while urging moderating hours and resistance to wage hikes to fuel America's defense buildout.
A new book titled Virginia, the New Dominion by Agnes Rothery offers a fresh outsider view of Virginian life. The author, though not native, portrays Virginians as having an instinct for graceful living and captures the spirit and personality of the state. Rothery, known for novels and essays, resides in Charlottesville where her husband teaches at the University. The Handley Library may carry the work.
Station WRVA will air a four week Sunday series on National Unity Through Moral Rearmament from 12:30 to 1:00 PM. The first program discusses National Moral Defense with Mrs Benjamin H Brinton and Douglas Holt offering perspectives. Subsequent topics include Youth With A Plan Women the Creators of a New America and How We Can Help. The Dionne quintuplets weighed 13 pounds 6 ounces at birth.
In Times Square a gunman killed himself after wounding Patrolman Joseph Schecker and porter James Mitchell during a lobby confrontation at Plymouth Theatre. Schecker pursued the armed man after a warning, firing as the assailant fled, while Mitchell was struck in the jaw and left leg. No identification was found on the shooter.
The original portrait titled Spirit of 76 is located in Abbot Hall in Marblehead Massachusetts. It is a renowned early American work often linked to depictions of the revolutionary era.
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