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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1940
Page
4
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Judge Smith of Alexandria leads a House probe into the National Labor Relations Board. Critics from employers and the AFL claim the board unfairly favors certain unions and infringes property and personal rights. Hearings before the Smith committee are cited as vital for due process protections.
Reprinted editorial notes E R Combs rose from Russell County clerkship to top Byrd era posts and his 1940 senate clerkship signals a climate change. It notes his restlessness for action and predicts the clerkship will be a stepping stone to broader opportunity rather than a quiet retirement.
New York medical specialists argue teachers with hearing loss over 20 percent should be dropped though the figure is debated. Psychologists warn of peculiar behaviorism and distortions in class as self defense to handicap awareness. Emphasizes student welfare and possible retention of brilliant exceptions.
Ernest Lindley argues the budget is a heavy concession to politics in an election year. The Philadelphia Record calls the cuts a strategic retreat to avoid a party split. Friends and foes claim motives, while critics say the president uses clever trickery. We insist the words misrepresent the President.
M H Rhodes becomes president of the Middletown State Bank for its 34th year. A new quarry opens near Middletown by the M J Grove Lime Co of Stephens City and Frederick Maryland. Roosevelt presents a 552000000 National Defense program to Congress.
Committees from the City Council and county Board meet to discuss definite plans for a combined armory, community building and public market place. Byron O. Brumback is installed as Master of the County Subordinate Grange. Mary Pickford and Doug Fairbanks are divorced in three minute court action at Hollywood.
President Hoover urges stronger Volstead act in a message to federal law enforcement officers. Mrs Bessie M Anderson dies after a long series of paralytic attacks.
Twenty five years ago Congressmen favor an inquiry into high wheat prices amid suspicions of speculation manipulating market. The nineteenth annual convention of the State Horticulture Society opens with T N Thompson presiding. J D Grim is elected captain of South End Hose Co.
Fortieth anniversary celebration noted for Mr and Mrs Robert Anderson at their home. Rouss Pire Co names committees to plan annual banquet honoring C B Rouss with budget of 1000 dollars or more. A buggy seat and whip were stolen from Jim Hott's buggy while he was in town on business.
A compilation of quiz Q A exchanges covering poll taxes in Alabama Georgia Virginia Mississippi Tennessee Arkansas Texas and South Carolina. It also includes facts on archery distances in 1939 polio epidemics infantile paralysis and other trivia about Mary Fidler Rome China and dogs turning around before lying down.
Learn to save and budget income with practical guidance from the Household Budget Booklet 1940. The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau offers a ten cent postpaid copy, with a coupon and space for name address and payment.
A fragment from Scott's Scrap Book notes sexual symbolism in clothing with a claim that men wear horizontal stripes and women wear an H motif vertically. The text is garbled and lacks clear attribution or date.
Alma Sioux Scarberry narrates Baxter’s struggle in a Chicago radio agency as Cain Delacorte rewrites his script Paradise Is Here. Tensions flare between Baxter and Delacorte while Lane polishes the project for a sponsor. Romany, Baxter’s friend, catches attention in the control room and a dinner date looms as Brent Nelson schemes to meet her.
A list of ten quiz prompts asks: chief coal constituent, Ebro country, Alberto Guani's republic, Beehive State nickname, tarpon meaning, definition of chronology, pronunciation of commandant, botanical term for hardwoods, Dodecanese ownership, and square yards in an acre.
A guidance note contrasts modern phrasing with older forms advising avoiding plain future tense. It cites an example urging readers to say I think I shall go down town to morrow rather than I calculate to go down town tomorrow.
Dr. Logan Clendening discusses acne in teens, noting emotional toll and varied responses to treatments. He cautions against extreme diet restrictions, outlines local skin care, comedone extraction, and other methods, and mentions seven pamphlets available for readers.
In Storrs Connecticut Dr Milton J Foter of the University of Connecticut describes why a professor should not stick out his tongue in a bacteriology class He recounts a student handling a syringe full of poison and a liquid splash striking him He notes that 84 ten millionths of a gram of botulinum taken orally could kill in ten minutes and a pint could dispatch all armies in the world.
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