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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days later the Government, through Shipping Controller Captain E. S. Brand of the Royal Canadian Navy, began to operate 100-odd ships belonging to 29 companies. The Upper Lakes and St. Lawrence Navigation Co., which signed with the Seamen's union, will still sail its own ships. The Government was operating only freighters, leaving the passenger lines, which normally do a big business with U.S. tourists, at the docks. While Captain Brand runs his ships a Government-appointed Commissioner will mediate the dispute itself...
...Straw hats" are back in style. When war cut short the Great American Summer Vacation, summer stock companies began folding fast; some 125 were operating in 1941, only 25 last summer. Last week,100-odd-91 of them employing Equity actors (at a $46 weekly minimum)-were already onstage across the nation; others were lurking in the wings, ready to pounce on July vacationers...
With his 4,000-odd Protestant minority on the police force, perennially suspicious ,that their 13,500 Catholic colleagues were getting the breaks in salaries and promotions, Chaplain Nesbitt had something to work with. For his model he took the Catholics' 130-year-old Holy Name Society, which maintains a chapter in every U.S. parish and has enrolled most of New York's Catholic cops. In 1937 Chaplain Nesbitt gathered a nucleus of 500 Protestant policemen in the line-up room and put it up to them. That evening the St. George Association was born...
Expansion & Collaboration. The St. George Association now numbers 23 chapters (all in New York) and 20,000-odd members-firemen, post office, utility and transit workers, Treasury and hospital employes. Last week, the Association's National Committee decided the time had come for national expansion; requests for information were coming in from potential chapters in other U.S. cities. This summer 61-year-old Chaplain Nesbitt plans to start things moving in Washington, D.C., Wilmington and Cape Cod while on "vacation" from his trim, tree-shaded St. Luke's Church in The Bronx. Alive to the perils of bigotry...
...Perry won a long battle for control of W.N.U., which has been syndicating boilerplate for weekly papers since 1875. Ever since, he has been buying up its securities, today boasts that "W.N.U. and I are practically one & the same thing." His 20-odd other corporations include newspapers, paper companies, trade magazines (American Press, Publishers' Auxiliary), realty firms, printing-machinery plants, radio stations...