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Among the native Bellykness dancers were B. W. Brain, Francis Morgan, Philip O'Brien, James Oliver, Elbert Osserman, and Frank Williams, while Emil Wold was the cannibal king and his potboiler cook was portrayed by A. H. Rosset...
...labor leader got excited: since 1938 many anti-union bills have passed the House only to get lost, frayed or pigeonholed in the Senate's powerful Education and Labor Committee. There, session after session, year in, year out, union-loving Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah, committee chairman and New Deal labor watchdog, quietly, firmly, fatally sits on the bills...
...Senate Considers. The National Education Association was doing what it could about it. Secretary Givens was in Washington last week leading the fight for a Senate bill sponsored by Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill. Major features: a federal fund of $200,000,000 for each emergency year to pay teachers' salaries; a permanent federal fund of $100,000,000 annually to help relatively poor states raise educational levels. The bill would increase teachers' salaries, bar cuts in state school budgets, leave distribution of federal funds to state authorities, forbid Federal control...
Promotions and Dispersions. Last week the 19th Group got its orders. A few would remain at Pyote as the nucleus of a new 19th under command of Major Elbert ("Butch") Helton, 27-year-old Texan who led one of its old squadrons for a year. At least a record dozen pilots of the 19th would get commands of other groups stationed from Kansas to California...
...famed "message to Garcia"; in the Army's Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. He was sent by President McKinley at war's outbreak to learn from Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia the strength of Garcia's forces. He carried his instructions in his head, but uplifter Elbert Hubbard's editorial, A Message to Garcia, put a letter in his hand, later put money in Hubbard's pocket, ultimately sold more than 40,000,000 copies. Rowan's reward was a promotion, a D.S.C...