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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trenton, N. J., Emil Law was arrested for fighting with his employer, tried to get his brother to bail him out. At the same time Rufus Law, also arrested for fighting with his employer, was trying to get his brother Emil to bail...
...Kippur, the Day of Atonement dedicated to fasting and turning toward God. At Yom Kippur's sunset, a blast on the shofar (ram's horn) brought to a close the ten-day high holidays of the new Jewish year. To Congregation B'nai Sholaum in Brooklyn, N. Y., the first day's sun of year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen Hadassah Levinthal, comely in academic gown and four-pointed choir-singer's cap, preached at the three big holiday services, as near to being a rabbi as a female might...
Died. Floyd Gibbons, 52, staccarticulating, patch-eyed cinema and radio commentator, veteran correspondent of every war since Pancho Villa raided Columbus, N. M. (see p. 54); of a heart attack; on his farm at Saylorsburg...
...brass industry, rolling mills near Waterbury, Conn., Rome, N. Y., in Baltimore and in Detroit, for the first time since World War I worked three shifts a day. Yet production was limited because only a few U. S. brass rolling mills are of the continuous (mechanized assembly line) type, and even such mills were held down to the pace of old-fashioned brass foundries integrated with them. Meanwhile, war orders piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales...
Other popular records of the month: Day |n-Day Out (Artie Shaw; Bluebird). Rube Bloom's popular-melody-of-the-month played by a sound dance band...