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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 12, 1940

Page

12

Dickens Readings in Boston and U S Radio Sets

Dickens gave his first American reading in Tremont Temple Boston on Monday December 2 1867. Longfellow’s diary notes Dickens read his Christmas Carol and the Pickwick trial scene. A Commerce Department report states forty five million radio receiving sets are in use in the United States.

Dickens Boston America Charles Dickens Tremont Temple Longfellow Pickwick United States Department of Commerce

Draft registration questions aim to classify 16 million men

The article outlines how the selective service will inventory 21 to 36 year olds starting with a lottery, then mail detailed questionnaires of over 100 items. Registrants face five day responses, with four possible classifications and no group exemptions.

E. C. Dantel Washington Selective Service

New Era in Relations With Labor in Auto Industry

Detroit reports a new era in auto labor relations with the appointment of a permanent umpire for disputes by General Motors and the CIO United Automobile Workers. Dr. H A Millis, University of Chicago economist, will rule on working conditions hours and stoppages beyond normal grievance procedures. Wage rates and timing of operations remain outside his jurisdiction.

Detroit General Motors Corporation CIO United Automobile Workers H. A. Millis University of Chicago Millis Chicago American Newspaper Publishers Association International Pressmen's Union National Labor Board National Labor Relations Board

Te Deum authorship attribution and origins

The origin of the Te Deum is uncertain. Tradition credits St Ambrose with composing it at Augustine’s baptism, but it is now generally ascribed to Nicetas, Bishop of Remesiana in Dacia.

St. Ambrose Augustine Nicetas Remesiana Dacia

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