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They were almost more angry about method than money. The Brotherhoods are the orderly conservatives of U.S. unionism, with a long tradition of protocol in wage negotiations. Their pleas for a wage boost had been shunted about for more than a year. They had spent 45 years building their framework...
For 23 months and 13 days, the Navy had been conserving and rebuilding its strength, shattered at Pearl Harbor.* Despite the pleas of General MacArthur, and the demands of the Solomons campaign, the Navy had built up most of its strength in and for the Central Pacific.
Died. Benjamin Anzelevitz, 52, "Ben Bernie, the O-O-Old Maestro," genial, plush-voiced veteran of stage, radio, screen; of a lung infection with heart complications ; in Beverly Hills. An East Side New York blacksmith's son, at 15 he gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall, took up...
Thus Boss Petrillo won complete victory in the boycott he has enforced against new recordings-despite an anti-trust suit, pleas by OWI Director Elmer Davis and a Senate investigation-for 14 months. The "dough" was royalties ranging from ¼? to 5?, a tribute which Decca will pay into the...
The story, told in flashback, reports the private and professional experiences of several nurses (Barbara Britton, Mary Servuss, et al.), three in particular, who reached the Philippines just in time for Bataan. Lieut. Davidson (Miss Colbert) does her best to liquidate her love for a Medical Corps Lieutenant (George Reeves...