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The Era -- Day By Day

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(And at 227 Midwood Street in East Flatbush, just off Rogers Avenue, upstairs over Lieb's Candy Store, Mrs. Nora Sweeney opens her door at an urgent knock to find her daughter, her son-in-law, and her granddaughter shivering in the hallway. "I'm gonna kill 'at lan'loehd," mutters Sally as her mother silently beckons them inside. "Wateh SPOOOSH!" laughs Leonora. "T'pipes froze, mutters Joe." "Set your grips down," sighs Ma Sweeney. "Joseph -- why is this bag movin'?" "MEOWRRRRRRRRR," from within the bag, replies Stella.)

House Republicans are planning to ask for an investigation of all domestic shortages and their relation to Lend-Lease shipments to the United Nations, it was learned today. Sentiment is said to be still divided on the best method for conducting such a probe, with some favoring an independent inquiry by a budget subcommittee of the House and Senate, while others have proposed that the House Appropriations Committee take up that investigation as part of hearings on President Roosevelt's proposed 1944 fiscal year budget of $109,000,000,000. One Republican spokesman declared that he will "present evidence that Lend-Lease materials are being used for the manufacture of foreign products which shipped back here in direct competition with domestic producers." That concern is reported to be of particular significance to farm bloc Republicans, who will call for no limits on the manufacture of American farm equipment on the grounds that Lend-Lease goods are being used in the manufacture of farm equipment abroad.

A Windsor Terrace boy who gave up a job with the Brooklyn Trust Company to join the Navy was listed today as one of a Navy patrol bomber crew that sighted a "wolf pack" of at least six Nazi U-Boats and sent at least one of them to the bottom. Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class James J. McGuire of 82 Prospect Park Southwest is a member of a nine-man crew that combed the North Atlantic for German submarine activity for six months before catching sight of a single U-Boat before the six-sub pack was spotted. His mother, Mrs. Catherine J. McGuire told the Eagle that she had recently received a letter from her son last Monday in which he mentioned that he was "getting along fine," but didn't say anything about exactly what he was doing.

In North Kingston, Rhode Island an Army private was turned loose by kidnappers who searched him and his truck without finding whatever it was they wanted. Private First Class Raymond L. Mosher of Springfield, Massachusetts told FBI agents, Army Intelligence officers and the Rhode Island State Police that he was driving along the Boston Post Road near the Jamestown Highway when he stopped for a traffic light. Two men approached the truck, and, "in a friendly fashion," asked the way to Boston. While Pvt. Mosher was giving directions, one of the men drew a revolver and commanded him to keep his hands on the wheel. Two other men then emerged from the shadows and all four boarded the truck. Ordering the soldier to drive into a remote wooded area, the four men then searched the vehicle and its driver. Pvt. Mosher told authorities they made no effort to rob him of money, but examined all his papers, and all documents on the truck, with careful attention before declaring "it's not here." The gunmen then released Mosher and drove away in an automobile parked nearby.

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("A lurid and for the most part an unprintable story." Well, that depends on the paper.)

A drop in the registration in city public schools of nearly 52,000 students during 1942 is being blamed for the current surplus of school supplies, the Brooklyn Eagle was told today. Commission of Investigations William Herlands reported that thousands of surplus textbooks are on hand, but a school official stated that this may easily be explained by noting that every student receives seven or more books at the start of each term. Enrollment as of October 1942 totaled 949,468 pupils, down from 1,001,450 at the start of the fall term in 1941.

In Albany, opposition looms to the plan put forward by Transport Workers Union president Michael Quill to have Governor Thomas E. Dewey appoint an independent board with authority to settle wage and other differences between the union and the Board of Transportation. Senator Arthur Wicks, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, declared that he is "unalterably opposed and will fight any attempt to compel a unit of Government to arbitrate questions with its employees." Governor Dewey and his advisors continue to maintain a rigid "no comment" declaration on Quill's proposal, in which the union leader and his aides have gone over the head of Mayor LaGuardia to seek state intervention in their clash with Transportation Board chairman John Delaney. The Mayor told the City Council last week that he "would not tolerate a transit strike."

A bill that would make the teaching of United States history compulsory in all New York State public schools for students from the eighth grade up has been proposed by Assemblyman William J. Glancy, a veteran of the First World War and an official of the State Democratic Committee, who declared that the measure would have the support of veterans' and patriotic organizations in the state. "The surveys have shown that some of the schools have not been teaching U. S. History," he explained, "and with the youth of our state, especially those of the teen-age groups, facing the call to duty, it's time that this condition was corrected." The Glancy bill specifies that students receive at least 40 hours of history instruction per school year, and mandates that the subject may be taught "only by U. S. citizens." Non-citizens, under the bill, would be specifically banned from teaching history in any New York State school.

A plan to bring down the retail price of milk is under consideration by the Office of Price Administration for the New York Administrative Area. Under that plan, the sale of milk in pint bottles would be banned, as would the production or sale of all "special kinds" of milk, including but not limited to chocolate-flavored, homogenized, and high-butterfat varieties. Under the new regulations, only one grade of milk with a standardized butterfat content would be allowed to be sold. OPA officials indicate that the new rules would be expected to reduce the retail price of milk by approximately one to one and a half cents per quart.

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("Springtime in the Rockies" and "Cat People." And to think people complain about double features.)

The Eagle Editorialist congratulates Brooklyn Trust Company president George V. McLaughlin in advance of tonight's testimonial dinner at the St. George Hotel, where a record crowd is expected to salute the former Police Commissioner, vice president of the Triborough Bridge Authority, highly respected Brooklyn civic leader, and devoted Dodger fan, for his many accomplisments.

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(Hey, how are you people getting heat?)

Dodger president Branch Rickey told the Brooklyn Rotary Club yesterday that it's time for the borough to "have its day in the sun," and his belief that this is so motivated his decision to come here after twenty-three years as general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Mr. Rickey stressed that he did not "come here by compulsion -- there was a modicum of election above and beyond the inducements that were offered. Brooklyn to me as a city, as a baseball crowd, as a baseball opportunity, was not uninviting. Brooklyn appealed to me as a municipal entity, as a part of America, with a very genuine jealousy that Brooklyn should have its own place in the sun, that it should have its own entity in its own right. That is my viewpoint." Rickey pledged the Rotarians that the Dodgers will win the pennant this year, "if a lack of manpower doesn't interfere, and if, further, Brooklyn wants it enough," and he stressed that his philosophy in operating the club will be to "ask no quarter -- and give none!"

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(If you don't think Dixie is wearing those glasses in order to impress upon Mr. Rickey the seriousness of his committment to his new executive duties as a way of encouraging him to sweeten the pot for 1943, then you haven't been following Dodgerology very closely. No doubt we'll see Camilli next wearing a pair of farmers' overalls.)

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("All right, Pola Negri, you can tone it down now. I'll see what I can do.")

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(Maybe they're just being distracted by the ju-jitsu classes.)

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("They'll never suspect we are spies! I mean, look at us!")

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("'Such a crust?!!!' explodes George Bungle. "STEALING MY CATCHPHRASE? SUCH CRUST!" "Hmph!" hmphs Jo. "The bold faker!")

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(Serves you right for not cleaning up the rocks in your yard.)
 

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And in the Daily News...

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There *is* still a war going on...

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After his resignation from the OPA, Leon Henderson moved to Queens....

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"Several years! Why, I bet you remember when he fought Axel on board that ship! And Axel threw me an' Sandy into the sea!" "Yes, yes," chuckles Uncle Malcolm. "Oh I remember that well, heh heh. How you struggled!" "What?" "Nothing."

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Actually, you probably should shoot him before he runs down the battery.

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"Well, you might as well get busy. The lug wrench and the gas siphon are in the kitchen closet."

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"For cat's sake!"

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"And perhaps you do sometheeng about that reeking leethair coat..." "Are you kiddin'? I finally got it broken in!"

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"Now! If only the mailman notices!"

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Willie's expression in Panel One is some mighty fine cartooning.

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It's the same woman, it's just that these night shifts are brutal.
 
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(And at 227 Midwood Street in East Flatbush, just off Rogers Avenue, upstairs over Lieb's Candy Store, Mrs. Nora Sweeney opens her door at an urgent knock to find her daughter, her son-in-law, and her granddaughter shivering in the hallway. "I'm gonna kill 'at lan'loehd," mutters Sally as her mother silently beckons them inside. "Wateh SPOOOSH!" laughs Leonora. "T'pipes froze, mutters Joe." "Set your grips down," sighs Ma Sweeney. "Joseph -- why is this bag movin'?" "MEOWRRRRRRRRR," from within the bag, replies Stella.)
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Oh dear Lord, this should be a fun storyline.

That said, the most exciting part of this development, so far, is finding out that Sally's Mom lives above a candy store. There is no way she's not involved in that "business" in some way or another. I'm hoping bookie.


...One Republican spokesman declared that he will "present evidence that Lend-Lease materials are being used for the manufacture of foreign products which shipped back here in direct competition with domestic producers."...

With convoys being torpedo all the time, how in God's name could that be profitable?


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In North Kingston, Rhode Island an Army private was turned loose by kidnappers who searched him and his truck without finding whatever it was they wanted. Private First Class Raymond L. Mosher of Springfield, Massachusetts told FBI agents, Army Intelligence officers and the Rhode Island State Police that he was driving along the Boston Post Road near the Jamestown Highway when he stopped for a traffic light. Two men approached the truck, and, "in a friendly fashion," asked the way to Boston. While Pvt. Mosher was giving directions, one of the men drew a revolver and commanded him to keep his hands on the wheel. Two other men then emerged from the shadows and all four boarded the truck. Ordering the soldier to drive into a remote wooded area, the four men then searched the vehicle and its driver. Pvt. Mosher told authorities they made no effort to rob him of money, but examined all his papers, and all documents on the truck, with careful attention before declaring "it's not here." The gunmen then released Mosher and drove away in an automobile parked nearby.
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This is intriguing. Sounds potentially spy related.


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A plan to bring down the retail price of milk is under consideration by the Office of Price Administration for the New York Administrative Area. Under that plan, the sale of milk in pint bottles would be banned, as would the production or sale of all "special kinds" of milk, including but not limited to chocolate-flavored, homogenized, and high-butterfat varieties. Under the new regulations, only one grade of milk with a standardized butterfat content would be allowed to be sold. OPA officials indicate that the new rules would be expected to reduce the retail price of milk by approximately one to one and a half cents per quart.
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Were they still making U-Bet and Ovaltine during the war? If so, all is good, carry on. Otherwise, we need to talk about this banning of chocolate milk.


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Dodger president Branch Rickey told the Brooklyn Rotary Club yesterday that it's time for the borough to "have its day in the sun," and his belief that this is so motivated his decision to come here after twenty-three years as general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Mr. Rickey stressed that he did not "come here by compulsion -- there was a modicum of election above and beyond the inducements that were offered. Brooklyn to me as a city, as a baseball crowd, as a baseball opportunity, was not uninviting. Brooklyn appealed to me as a municipal entity, as a part of America, with a very genuine jealousy that Brooklyn should have its own place in the sun, that it should have its own entity in its own right. That is my viewpoint." Rickey pledged the Rotarians that the Dodgers will win the pennant this year, "if a lack of manpower doesn't interfere, and if, further, Brooklyn wants it enough," and he stressed that his philosophy in operating the club will be to "ask no quarter -- and give none!"
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Okay then, I can hardly wait for spring training to start. Did the Dodgers settle on a training site south of Canada yet?


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("All right, Pola Negri, you can tone it down now. I'll see what I can do.")
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I get you about the heavy emoting, but looks-wise, I was thinking Gail Sondergaard.
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There *is* still a war going on....

The Flying Fortresses, in their day, really were one formidable weapon of war.


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Actually, you probably should shoot him before he runs down the battery.
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These idiots didn't tie him up to start? Skeezix, who's done pretty well so far, just dropped down a notch.
 

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("Huh," says Joe. "Wes' Pernt. Heh. Make way f' Lieutenan' Durocheh!" "Don't read at th' table, Joseph," says Ma Sweeney. "An' finish ye ootmeal. Put some beef on ye." "Beef, she says," eyerolls Joe, as Sally furiously shakes her head. "Show me some beef!" "What?" snaps Ma? "Nut'n," mutters Joe. "Well, ye said somethin'," retorts Ma. "Ouuut with it." "No," stammers Joe, "y'don' unnehstan'. See, when Sal says 'what', I go 'nut'n,' see, it's kind of a lit'l joke we..." "Well, I don't see the humor in it," declares Ma. "Now finish ye ootmeal, ye need the strength for ye worrrk. Don't ye know there's a waaar on?" "How was work today, Ma," interrupts Sally. "Betcha meet a lotta innehrestin' people woikin' downeh Lieb's." "Hmph. Loafers an' no-account layabouts sippin' on egg creams when they oughta be in the saarvice like me Michael." huffs Ma. "I only took that job t'look after ye brother's interests." "Innehrests?" mutters Joe. "Oh, y'mean..." Sally ostentatiously drops a spoon on the floor to interrupt that remark as Leonora giggles. "Uh-ohhhhhhhhh...")

In Waterloo, Iowa Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan resolutely kept her chin up today even though she no longer had any reason to hope that any of her five sons had survived the sinking of the cruiser Juneau in the South Pacific. The Navy, in notifying Mrs. Sullivan that her boys were "missing" had given her the hope that they might yet turn up alive, but a letter from a Juneau survivor dashed that hope. As they went back about their daily routines -- Mr. Sullivan as a railroad conductor and Mrs. Sullivan a housewife -- Mrs. Sullivan continued to insist that she still hoped even if there is no hope. The Sullivans have permitted publication of excerpts from the letter they received from their sons' shipmate, although that sailor's name was withheld. In it, the shipmate stated that of the five boys, only George Sullivan made it off the wrecked ship, but he died on a life raft as the ship sank. The other Sullivan boys, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert, were all seen, according to the sailor, to have gone down with the ship. The five Sullivans had joined the Navy to avenge the death of a pal, Bill Ball of Fredericksburg, Iowa, who was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

President John L. Lewis and other leaders of the United Mine Workers will appear before the War Labor Board today to explain why 15,000 anthracite miners are now on strike. According to local union officials, the workers are striking to protest an increase in union dues from $1 to $1.50 a month, but Senator Harry S. Truman (D-Missouri) told the Senate late yesterday that the walkout appears to be caused more by a demand for higher wages than by any demand for a lowering of union dues. There is considerable expectation as to the attitude Lewis will assume before the WLB. He has expressed his personal disapproval of the anthracite strike, but has been at odds with the WLB since its predecessor, the National Defense Mediation Board, denied his demand for a closed shop in the "captive" bituminous coal mines. The strike has also been vigorously denounced by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who has stated that the Government should seize the mines if the matter is not settled soon. Mr. Ickes has already arranged for the delivery of soft coal to areas not receiving hard coal due to the strike.

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("I'm not worried," chuckles Mr. Flynn. "Its in the bag! You know that saying, 'in like Flynn!'" "Uh, sir...")

As weird an assortment of Hollywood characters as ever flitted across a picture sheet paraded in the courtroom today to complete the story of Betty Hansen's evening with screen star Errol Flynn. There was the handsome actor himself, worried about the prospect of 50 years in San Quentin Penitentiary if he is convicted on statutory rape charges, and there was the 17-year-old Miss Hansen herself, whose story about her relations with a succession of men "made for the sort of literature the train butchers used to peddle." There were also the Misses Lynn Boyer, who changed from blond to brunet in 30 seconds flat, and Chi-Chi Toupes, a strip-tease dancer, both of whom entertained at a dinner in a mansion which, according to Miss Hansen, ended with Flynn attacking her. Miss Hansen is to finish her cross-examination today under defense attorney Jerry Giesler. In yesterday's testimony, Miss Hanson proved the truth of her statement that she never finished school when she responded to Attorney Giesler's question asking if she had objected to Flynn's alleged attack. "I didn't have no objections," she calmly replied.

Brooklyn musical circles are buzzing today over the news that Sir Thomas Beecham has obtained a divorce from his wife, Lady Utica Celectia Beecham," on the grounds of extreme cruelty. Sir Thomas, conductor of the Brooklyn Symphony, who recently made news for his strong criticism of Brooklyn culture, also alleged in his complaint that Lady Beecham "belittled his success." Much of the comment concerning the divorce came from admirers of Sir Thomas who had never seen his wife. It was revealed that the Beechams have been separated since 1909. The couple was married in 1903, and has three sons. Sir Thomas is 63, and wealthy.

Local rationing jobs have been given punitive authority by the New York District Office of Price Administration, and will hereafter exercise their own judgement in penalizing violators of the rationing regulations. The change comes as OPA inspectors fan out across the city in what is declared to be a campaign to force every single pleasure driver off the road. Local boards will be notified by OPA agents of gasoline rationing violations, and will set dates for hearings, where motorists will be given three days notice of "a fair and reasonable chance" to explain themselves. If found guilty, the local board will determine the penalty in each case, up to and including the revocation of part or all of the violator's gasoline ration. Any motorist failing to appear before the board will be found guilty.

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(I miss Herb Cohn. Miss Corby writes a good plot summary, but Herbie was more astringent in his commentary.)

"Brooklyn Music Lover" writes in to say that someone should tell "Sir Tom" Beecham to button his lip. Has he never heard of the outstanding Sunday concerts given each week by the Brooklyn Museum? Has he never seen for himself the crowds of music lovers that turn out at the Museum to enjoy their favorite diet "in a real democracy?" Music Lover has gone to "London events which are attended mostly by brokers' wives, store clerks, and stenographers who believe it's the proper thing to do, school teachers who have nothing else to do, and a handful of music lovers who might know the difference between Wagner and Debussy." But at the Brooklyn Museum, "you will find entire families with lunch box in hand who attend from one until six. Listen to their conversations, if you can find a seat. Even the young ones know their Brahms and Haydn. These people really represent Brooklyn. Look at their hands. They are not of the cultured set, so called, but they know their music."

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(The Ruling Clawss.)

Two horse meat packing companies have opened in Linden, New Jersey. The Man O'War Packing Company will operate a retail store selling horse meat at 101 North Wood Avenue, while The National Horse Meat Market will sell at 1664 East St. George Avenue. The latter establishment was formerly a regular butcher shop under the management of Harry Krantz of Newark.

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("Why I haven't even thought about it" = Mr. Camilli and Mr. Rickey are deep in negotiations. And it really isn't a bad idea at all -- if Fitz doesn't want it, and Dressen is out of the picture, Camilli is the most logical choice. After all, the man has six kids, so he ought to know all about management. Meanwhile, Mr. Rickey must get in his dig at Dixie -- "a job which is not definitely essential to the war effort." Oooh, burn!)

Thomas Jefferson High School in Brownsville indicated today that it would dissolve its football program for the duration of the war. School officials feel that the drafting of 18-year-old would hereafter make it necessary to use boys who are too young for the "strenuous gridiron game." It was also noted that the Jefferson team has played poorly in recent years, and turnout for the games was low.

It was revealed this week that "Amos 'n Andy" will terminate their contract with their present sponsor on February 19th, after that concern, a soup manufacturer, proposed changing the broadcast from a five-night-a-week fifteen minute program to a 30 minute weekly program. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who have portrayed the Harlem characters on the networks since August 1929, did not care to make that change, and it is believed that they will continue on CBS after that date for a new sponsor, or may possibly continue as a sustaining broadcast. "Amos 'n' Andy" have been with the soup concern since January 1938, and broadcast for eight years prior to that for a toothpaste manufacturer.

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("Mary Worth, Confidential Investigator.")

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(Squirrel? I'm picking up more of a chipmunk thing.)

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("In Like Irwin...")

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("I've hired this great lawyer I met downtown! He says he used to argue as King's Counsel in India or something, I dunno, he went on for so long I had to leave, but he says his name is J. Harvey Oakwood!")

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("But stick around -- they may -- uh -- need -- um -- a hand later.")
 

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Florabel Muir used to be a police reporter before the News assigned her as its Hollywood correspondent. And it shows.

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Two words: "Lindbergh Avenue."

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"I haven't even shown you the -- ah -- sub-basements!"

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Poor Skeez. Always has to be the good guy.

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"OH, and I don't mind an upper berth!"

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Well, at least there's a needle in this haystack.

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Tilda has worked for Good Ol' Andy Gump for nearly 25 years, and one would think she would understand the full implications of his statement.

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Face it, chum, you're out of your league.

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Everything's going according to plan.

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Molasses on pancakes? How do you even get 'em off the plate???
 
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("Huh," says Joe. "Wes' Pernt. Heh. Make way f' Lieutenan' Durocheh!" "Don't read at th' table, Joseph," says Ma Sweeney. "An' finish ye ootmeal. Put some beef on ye." "Beef, she says," eyerolls Joe, as Sally furiously shakes her head. "Show me some beef!" "What?" snaps Ma? "Nut'n," mutters Joe. "Well, ye said somethin'," retorts Ma. "Ouuut with it." "No," stammers Joe, "y'don' unnehstan'. See, when Sal says 'what', I go 'nut'n,' see, it's kind of a lit'l joke we..." "Well, I don't see the humor in it," declares Ma. "Now finish ye ootmeal, ye need the strength for ye worrrk. Don't ye know there's a waaar on?" "How was work today, Ma," interrupts Sally. "Betcha meet a lotta innehrestin' people woikin' downeh Lieb's." "Hmph. Loafers an' no-account layabouts sippin' on egg creams when they oughta be in the saarvice like me Michael." huffs Ma. "I only took that job t'look after ye brother's interests." "Innehrests?" mutters Joe. "Oh, y'mean..." Sally ostentatiously drops a spoon on the floor to interrupt that remark as Leonora giggles. "Uh-ohhhhhhhhh...")
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Oh, this is going to be good. You knew she wasn't living above a candy store by accident.

Frances Farmer's story is a sad one.

"The Fuehrer knows best," had to be wearing thin in Germany by 1943.

A state-of-the-art indoor baseball facility less than an hour from NYC sounds like the perfect solution.

Crowley's got to do a better job of explaining how that notation got there. What an evergreen battle.


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("I'm not worried," chuckles Mr. Flynn. "Its in the bag! You know that saying, 'in like Flynn!'" "Uh, sir...")
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So much of it depends on someone having done the hard work of building a detailed and credible case against Flynn. To date, Flynn's team has proven to be more disciplined than his accusers, despite the facts being to the latter's advantage. Sometimes, it's presented as an either-or, but in truth, most success comes from a combination of working hard and working smart - that's what is needed now to stop Flynn.


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Brooklyn musical circles are buzzing today over the news that Sir Thomas Beecham has obtained a divorce from his wife, Lady Utica Celectia Beecham," on the grounds of extreme cruelty. Sir Thomas, conductor of the Brooklyn Symphony, who recently made news for his strong criticism of Brooklyn culture, also alleged in his complaint that Lady Beecham "belittled his success." Much of the comment concerning the divorce came from admirers of Sir Thomas who had never seen his wife. It was revealed that the Beechams have been separated since 1909. The couple was married in 1903, and has three sons. Sir Thomas is 63, and wealthy.
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That's quite the long separation they had, way longer than most marriages last.


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(The Ruling Clawss.)
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Don't fear, it doesn't last long: "A groundbreaking 20-year study conducted by wealth consultancy, The Williams Group, involved over 3,200 families and found that seven in 10 families tend to lose their fortune by the second generation, while nine in 10 lose it by the third generation."


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Two horse meat packing companies have opened in Linden, New Jersey. The Man O'War Packing Company will operate a retail store selling horse meat at 101 North Wood Avenue, while The National Horse Meat Market will sell at 1664 East St. George Avenue. The latter establishment was formerly a regular butcher shop under the management of Harry Krantz of Newark.
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I thought some wealthy east coast racing family owned the name Man O' War. It's hard to believe they won't be suing shortly. It's not like someone could name his/her cracker company Seabiscuit Crackers.


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It was revealed this week that "Amos 'n Andy" will terminate their contract with their present sponsor on February 19th, after that concern, a soup manufacturer, proposed changing the broadcast from a five-night-a-week fifteen minute program to a 30 minute weekly program. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who have portrayed the Harlem characters on the networks since August 1929, did not care to make that change, and it is believed that they will continue on CBS after that date for a new sponsor, or may possibly continue as a sustaining broadcast. "Amos 'n' Andy" have been with the soup concern since January 1938, and broadcast for eight years prior to that for a toothpaste manufacturer.
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Any idea what a "sustaining broadcast" means? I'm guessing, truly guessing, so I could be completely wrong, it's a show without on contractual sponsor, but one, much like today, that sells advertising time on its show as it goes and to all takers.


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("Mary Worth, Confidential Investigator.")
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"Officer, please arrest this creepy old lady. After I refused to roll up my sleeve for her, she grabbed my arm and stared rolling it up herself."

"Please come with me lady, we have a nice place with kindly attendants who'll take good care of you."

And Mary Worth was never seen nor heard from again.


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Two words: "Lindbergh Avenue."
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Name it whatever the heck you want, whenever the heck you want to, but just know it, quite likely, will be renamed later either because we'll learn new information about the person, like Lindbergh, or some segment of the population will decide it no longer likes the prior generations' heroes, which we've seen plenty of lately.


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"I haven't even shown you the -- ah -- sub-basements!"
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Gray likes the double interjection. Doesn't Daddy (annoyingly) say "Ha! Ha!" a lot?
 

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I think Whirlaway brand washing machines would be a big seller.

A "sustaining" program is one that's stustained by, or broadcast at the expense of, the station or network itself without sponsorship. The model you suggest does exist in 1943, called "co-operative sponsorship," in which the program is sold to many different sponsors around the country for each local market. The Mutual network goes in big for this, but CBS and NBC scoff at it as small-time. Correll and Gosden were making a lot of money working for Campbell's Soup, and it's difficult to imagine CBS being willing or able to match that for any length of time. It seems, incidentally, that Campbell's is just the first of many canned-food sponsors forced to curtail their advertising program in the face of metal shortages and, now, rationing. Radio performers take note.

I can't imagine what you might be intimating concerning dear Mother Sweeney. She is a perfectly respectable woman who bowls twice a week at Freddie Fitzsimmons Lanes, and I'm sure even Fitz himself would vouch for her.
 
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I think Whirlaway brand washing machines would be a big seller.

A "sustaining" program is one that's stustained by, or broadcast at the expense of, the station or network itself without sponsorship. The model you suggest does exist in 1943, called "co-operative sponsorship," in which the program is sold to many different sponsors around the country for each local market. The Mutual network goes in big for this, but CBS and NBC scoff at it as small-time. Correll and Gosden were making a lot of money working for Campbell's Soup, and it's difficult to imagine CBS being willing or able to match that for any length of time. It seems, incidentally, that Campbell's is just the first of many canned-food sponsors forced to curtail their advertising program in the face of metal shortages and, now, rationing. Radio performers take note.

I can't imagine what you might be intimating concerning dear Mother Sweeney. She is a perfectly respectable woman who bowls twice a week at Freddie Fitzsimmons Lanes, and I'm sure even Fitz himself would vouch for her.

One wonders what else Mother Sweeney is doing while at Fitzsimmons Lanes as the overlap between bowlers and people who like to wager on sporting event, a horserace or the last three digits of the stock market's daily volume probably isn't zero.
 

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Flippo does have a ladyfren, an Army nurse named "Taffy" Tucker, who is extremely wholesome and has shown little indication of being interested in anything more than a relatively chaste wartime arrangement with him. He is nowhere near the international dawg our friend Pat Ryan is, nor is he as straightforward about going after what could be gone after as Dude Hennick was before falling in love with Raven. He may be a chump, but he may not be that kind of a chump.
 
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Flippo does have a ladyfren, an Army nurse named "Taffy" Tucker, who is extremely wholesome and has shown little indication of being interested in anything more than a relatively chaste wartime arrangement with him. He is nowhere near the international dawg our friend Pat Ryan is, nor is he as straightforward about going after what could be gone after as Dude Hennick was before falling in love with Raven. He may be a chump, but he may not be that kind of a chump.

"...nor is he as straightforward about going after what could be gone after." :)
 

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("Boy," exhales Joe as he arrives back at Ma Sweeney's apartment a little after 8:30 AM after a long night at work. "Where's Sal?" "Ouuut pooshin' the baby," Ma replies, hoisting a heavy canvas bag onto the kitchen table. "I kept her old pram all these yearrs, knowin' one day she'd need it." Joe slaps himself around the chest to absorb a dim wave of warmth from the simmering coal stove. "I could put away some ham'n eggs." "Y'could," agrees Ma, not looking up as she carefully unties the bag, "but tharr ain't no ham to be pootin' away." "Well, maybe a coupla eggs t'en?" "You're havin' ye funny again, eh Joseph? You're a right Charlie Chaplin, you arrr. Well, I'll tell you now I don't find this wawrrr any fun at'all." "Ah," ahs Joe, taking off his coat, turning around a chair, and straddling it. Ma shoots him a look and he quickly rises, turns the chair around, and sits in it the proper way. "Whassallis?" inquires Joe, as Ma dips her hand into the grimy bag, withdraws a handful of nickels, and begins to arrange them in careful stacks. "I'm a collectorrr," replies Ma. "Ah," nods Joe. "My pal Solly Pincus is a collecteh. Y'know, he's got one'a t'em nickels wheah t'buffala has got t'ree legs. He showed it to me." "Well, I don't know nottthin' about that," replies Ma, intently counting the coins. "I heah," continues Joe, desperate to make conversation, "if ya fin' a nineteen t'oiteen nickel wit' a Libetty head onnit 'stead of a Indian, it's woit' fifty bucks. I seen it in a Sunday supplement oncet, but I never run acrost one." "I'll keep my eye out," replies Ma, the nickels clinking in a soft and steady rhythm between her fingers.)

Congressional sources said today that some form of "Pay As You Go" income tax will probably be enacted this year, but not before the regular 1942 tax returns are due on March 15th. Six days after President Roosevelt, in his budget message to Congress, asked for $16,000,000,000 in new revenue and indorsed the "pay as you go" principle, Congress and the Treasury Department appeared far away from reaching an agreement on such a program. The chief stumbling block seems to be the provision in most proposals so far for "forgiving" 1942 payments for those in lower tax brackets to prevent a double burden.

Six men arraigned before Judge Louis Goldstein for the December robbery of a package liquor store in Bensonhurst have pleated innocent, and are being held on combined bail of $300,000. The indictment charges that the six men -- four from Brooklyn, one from Manhattan, and one from Staten Island -- entered the store at 311 Kings Highway on the night of December 30th, slugged clerk Mark Graf twice over the head with a blunt instrument, and fled with $70 in cash. Two other men, both from Queens, are also charged with taking part in the robbery, and will be arraigned next week.

Forty years ago, stage actress Katie Hartland scrawled a message on the back of a photograph of her baby commemorating the last night she would spend with her husband -- and now, forty years later, that same photograph turned up on court as evidence that Mrs. Hartland is not entitled to file for the annulment of her husband's second marriage. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Isaac R. Sweezy ruled that the photo, dated June 23, 1902 constituted an indication of her intention to abandon her marriage to husband Henry Hartland. Mr. Hartland married for a second time in 1920, and lives with that second wife, Harriet, in Bay Shore, Long Island. Katie Hartland also married a second time, to Louis Warner DeHamon, a famous astrologer known professionally as "Chiero," and traveled the world with him until his death in 1936. She returned to New York in 1941, and noted the name of her first husband in the telephone book, and after learning that he had remarried, sought to have his marriage annulled.

A widow's plea for leniency saved a 42-year-old Edgemere man from a jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to second degree assault charges in an incident that led to the death of a member of the church where he had served as sexton. Edward J. Davis had been charged with manslaughter in the death of 31-year-old John F. Doyle, an active member of St. Sebastian R. C. Church in Woodside, where Davis was employed. Doyle and Davis had fought over a collection outside the church last May 25th, and that Doyle fell and struck his head after Davis hit him. Doyle died of a fractured skull three days later. A letter from Mrs. Doyle read in court by Judge Thomas Downs described how Davis visited her husband in the hospital just before his death, and stated that they shook hands as friends, and Doyle "expressed his forgiveness and told him not to worry." Judge Down sentenced Davis to two to four years in Sing Sing, but stayed that sentence while placing Davis on probation for two years. "The greatest punishment that Davis can receive," said the Judge, "is living within the prison of his own conscience."

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(And this is why fan club members shouldn't serve on juries.)

The Eagle Editorialist warns against undue optimism that the war is nearing its end, noting a recent report from former President Hoover on the deterioration of conditions among the civilian population of Europe which, while acknowledging that the situation is grave, emphasizes that "Germany is by no means close to the end of its tether." So far the Russians -- with the Red Army driving relentlessly forward -- are the only Allied forces actually achieving an offensive against Germany, with the fighting in North Africa merely preliminary in nature, focusing on obtaining advantageous positions from which an attack on the European continent may be launched. "Germany cannot be brought to its knees until Allied forces are surging across the Continent from across the Mediterranean and possibly across the English Channel." Mr. Hoover's report notes that while conditions are severe for the civilian population of Germany, those conditions are still better than for the civilians of any Allied nation in Europe, and German military might remains supreme on the Continent. "We face a long war, a hard war, in which no quarter will be asked and none given."

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"But they still won't give him a B card!"

Police investigating the assassination of radical Italian newspaperman Carlo Tresca are in Philadelphia today on the trail of a mysterious gun known NOT to have been used in the slaying. Tresca, an outspoken anti-Fascist publisher, was shot to death by an unknown assassin outside his office building in Manhattan earlier this week, and an autopsy revealed the murder weapon to be a 32-caliber gun. Detectives, however, have traveled to Philadelphia seeking information on 38-caliber revolver found in an ash can in an alley behind the 5th Avenue building where the shooting took place. Police believe that gun, fully loaded but with none of its cartridges fired, may have been abandoned by a second gunman staking out the rear exit of the building, who fled after a confederate killed Tresca in front of the front entrance. Meanwhile, known Brooklyn gunman Carmine Galante denied any knowledge of the Tresca slaying. Police picked up Galante as a material witness shortly after the shooting, but Giuseppe Caladi, who was with Tresca when he was shot, failed to select Galante out of a lineup. Police noted that Galante was arrested after he was seen to enter an automobile with a license plate bearing a number believed to be that of the gunman's car.

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(Mr. Holmes has not quite learned yet -- when you dance with Branch Rickey, he always leads.)

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("Stars on Ice at West Point?" Just keep them away from the batting cage.)

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("Hey Uncle Bill, Grandma never spends time with us anymore. Is it OK if we put in our names over at 'Hugh Striver?'")

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(Never mind her, worry about the OPA!)

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"Must be one of them new clock radios. You can hear it ticking!"

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(THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS, PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEW GUEST WRITER THIS WEEK, MR. HARRY J. TUTHILL! OH, AND TOOTSIE SAYS TO SAY HI!)

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(Point of Odor: clouds of acrid, monoxide-laden oil smoke. WHY ARE THEY STILL CONSCIOUS?)
 

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And in the Daily News...

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Careful now, Polly could argue that hers is an essential wartime industry. How about it, Donald L. Nelson?

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Ew.

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Four-dimensional chess.

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It's only paranoia when people *aren't* actually out to kill you.

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Shoulda dumped it in the river.

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"And watch that 'du' stuff, you don't know us THAT well."

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"I never miss Helen Worth!"

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"As long as I can get back my old numbers route..."

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"Nah, it's more fun this way."

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Those are ink smudges, not deliberate shading. Right, Carl?
 

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Oh, and...

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Dixie Walker, in 1943, is the most unpopular most popular player in the history of most popular players. Go figure.

And speaking of UNPOPULAR...

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"I shall show them!" thunders Mr. Rickey to the moosehead in the corner. "They think they know how to troll, yes sir, they do, but I, ah yes, *I* shall show them just WHO is the MASTER TROLL OF ALL!"
 
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("Boy," exhales Joe as he arrives back at Ma Sweeney's apartment a little after 8:30 AM after a long night at work. "Where's Sal?" "Ouuut pooshin' the baby," Ma replies, hoisting a heavy canvas bag onto the kitchen table. "I kept her old pram all these yearrs, knowin' one day she'd need it." Joe slaps himself around the chest to absorb a dim wave of warmth from the simmering coal stove. "I could put away some ham'n eggs." "Y'could," agrees Ma, not looking up as she carefully unties the bag, "but tharr ain't no ham to be pootin' away." "Well, maybe a coupla eggs t'en?" "You're havin' ye funny again, eh Joseph? You're a right Charlie Chaplin, you arrr. Well, I'll tell you now I don't find this wawrrr any fun at'all." "Ah," ahs Joe, taking off his coat, turning around a chair, and straddling it. Ma shoots him a look and he quickly rises, turns the chair around, and sits in it the proper way. "Whassallis?" inquires Joe, as Ma dips her hand into the grimy bag, withdraws a handful of nickels, and begins to arrange them in careful stacks. "I'm a collectorrr," replies Ma. "Ah," nods Joe. "My pal Solly Pincus is a collecteh. Y'know, he's got one'a t'em nickels wheah t'buffala has got t'ree legs. He showed it to me." "Well, I don't know nottthin' about that," replies Ma, intently counting the coins. "I heah," continues Joe, desperate to make conversation, "if ya fin' a nineteen t'oiteen nickel wit' a Libetty head onnit 'stead of a Indian, it's woit' fifty bucks. I seen it in a Sunday supplement oncet, but I never run acrost one." "I'll keep my eye out," replies Ma, the nickels clinking in a soft and steady rhythm between her fingers.)
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I haven't seen two people talk past each other like that since "The Bungles" went away.


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Forty years ago, stage actress Katie Hartland scrawled a message on the back of a photograph of her baby commemorating the last night she would spend with her husband -- and now, forty years later, that same photograph turned up on court as evidence that Mrs. Hartland is not entitled to file for the annulment of her husband's second marriage. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Isaac R. Sweezy ruled that the photo, dated June 23, 1902 constituted an indication of her intention to abandon her marriage to husband Henry Hartland. Mr. Hartland married for a second time in 1920, and lives with that second wife, Harriet, in Bay Shore, Long Island. Katie Hartland also married a second time, to Louis Warner DeHamon, a famous astrologer known professionally as "Chiero," and traveled the world with him until his death in 1936. She returned to New York in 1941, and noted the name of her first husband in the telephone book, and after learning that he had remarried, sought to have his marriage annulled.
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One, seriously?

And, two, this story belongs in the comicstrips. With a little tweaking, it could be made into a "The Gumps" storyline.


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("Hey Uncle Bill, Grandma never spends time with us anymore. Is it OK if we put in our names over at 'Hugh Striver?'")
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Kids, you might want to rethink that request. The first rule of career management is to never jump onto a sinking ship.


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(THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS, PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEW GUEST WRITER THIS WEEK, MR. HARRY J. TUTHILL! OH, AND TOOTSIE SAYS TO SAY HI!)
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I'm not just saying it, I had the exact same thought, it's such a George Bungle move.


And in the Daily News...
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Careful now, Polly could argue that hers is an essential wartime industry. How about it, Donald L. Nelson?
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And she certainly wasn't lying when she listed her occupation as saleswoman - that about gets it. Do you think any of her, umm, employees will be shipped off to one of the new detention homes?


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Four-dimensional chess.
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Flip needs to familiarize himself with the well-known poker expression: "If you have been in a poker game for a while, and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy."


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It's only paranoia when people *aren't* actually out to kill you.
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"All four panels today; I'm going to have to start bringing Gray his slippers everyday."


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"And watch that 'du' stuff, you don't know us THAT well."
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"But he'll probably figure we'll do the opposite of what he says, so we should go in the direction that he points, but then, he'll probably figure that we'll figure that, so we should do the opposite, but he might figure that we'll figure, oh screw it, just flip a coin." It's a variant of Keynes' newspaper beauty pageant contest dilemma.


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"As long as I can get back my old numbers route..."
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I thought Michael Sweeney was in the infantry.
 

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