PM, May 20, 1941, pages 1, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

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PM, May 19, 1941, pages 1, 5, 9, 12

“7 Pages: Are Prices Going Up?”

“U.S.A. Is Warned…”

“Ten Firemen Overcome in Washington Market Blaze”
“Joe Balierwalter was just one of 10 firemen overcome while fighting a smoky blaze in the heart of Washington Market early today. The fire started in the basement of a three-story brick building occupied by Kraemer & Klie, banana dealers, at 373 Washington St. The firemen had a tough enough time getting their apparatus past the numerous trucks and drays that clog the market. But when they got into the cellar, they dropped like flies as 400 crates of bananas, wrapped in wet straw and burlap, threw off carbon monoxide gas. All the firemen were revived. PM Photo by Weegee.”

“Ickes Calls for All-Out Aid in Talk to City’s Biggest Crowd”
“…Secretary of the Interior, was cheered by the largest audience ever assembled in New York when he called for all-out aid to Britain in the fight to save democracy…”
“I Am an American Program Drew 750,000 to Central Park Mall.”
“Mayor LaGuardia wielded the baton.”
“Photos by Gene Badger, PM”

PM, May 18, 1941

“What Are We Going To Do About It?”
Abraham Reles… (Murder, Inc.)
Artists don’t live in the Village anymore…
Aquarium may move to Coney Island…
Governors Island… (photos by Alan Fisher)
“New York Enjoying Spring Fever,” Hippos (Rosie and Schlemiel), etc. (Great series of photos by M. Engel)
New Citizens Day: Alexandra Tolstoy, “daughter of Russian author Leo Tolstoy…” (photos by Gene Badger)
Weather Photography, edited by Ralph Steiner…
International Society for Contemporary Music… (icsm.org)
Re. Utah Smith at MoMA… (photo by Irving Haberman) (Rev. Utah Smith on The Hound Blog)

screenshot from moma.org

“The fourth program in the series of Coffee Concerts at the Museum of Modern Art will be Jubilee, a Negro revival meeting, on Wednesday evening, May 21, at nine. The prayer meeting and “anniversary,” complete with gospel singers and elocutionist, will be led by the Reverend Utah Smith, evangelist, as master of ceremonies. The Reverend Smith delivers his religious messages with the aid of an electrical guitar. Some of his preaching is extemporaneous; some is part of his original repertoire. His theme song is “I Got Two Wings.”
He has preached as an itinerant evangelist for twenty years, mostly in the south where “folks is more church goin’ than Northerners.” Louise Crane, who has arranged the Coffee Concerts for the Museum, first heard the Reverend Smith in a small church in Newark and invited him to participate in the series. Appearing with him are twelve singers, members of his flock in Newark…” (pdf: moma.org)

PM, May 16, p. 15, “1001 Afternoons in New York” by Ben Hecht

“Murder in Broome Street
Let’s have a love story for a change.
There’s a dearth of amour in the press these days that gives you a lopsided picture of our town…
We’ll pick up our heroine (as they say in Hollywood) in Room 29 of the Hotel Commercial. This is a stained and giddy inn at the corner of Broome St. and the Bowery…”

(Commercial Hotel, 341 Broome, CAnal 6-9165, across the street from the Spring Arrows Social and Athletic Club, 344 Broome, site of “Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup,” February 3, 1942.)

NY Times, March 31, 1966 (Pioneer Hotel, 341 Broome)

PM, May 15, 1941, p. 15

Murders in NYC according to NYPD:
335 – 2016
649 – 2001
2262 – 1990

Felonious Assault in NYC according to NYPD (obviously this is not accurate since many people are brutally assaulted and are not counted in the statistics of the NYPD):
20,847 – 2016
23,020 – 2001
44,122 – 1990

Burglary in NYC according to NYPD:
12,990 – 2016
32,694 – 2001
122,055 – 1990

PM, May 15, 1941, p. 15

Population of Metropolitan New York:
1940 – 11,690,620
2017 – 20,300,000

PM, May 14, 1941, p. 18

PM, May 13, 1941, p. 22

PM, May 12, 1941, p. 8

“The hoboes are holding their annual convention today in Jersey City, and crums, gandy-dancers (railroad workers) and guys in a mokus (drunken stupor) ain’t welcome…”

PM, May 11, 1941, p. 58

Louis Armstrong, photos by David Eisendrath, Jr., text by Heywood Hale Broun.
Looked great for another 30 years…

In May 1941 $_________ has the same buying power as $_________ in May 2018 (according to bls.gov).

$697,048 – $12,079,938.65 – Louis B. Mayer
$478,144 – $8,286,301.93 – Pres. Bethlehem Steel
$332,267 – $5,758,233.26 – production superintendent, Loew’s Inc.
$278,324 – $4,823,393.58 – Pres of GM
$255,000 – $4,419,185.42 – W.C. Fields
$251,849 – $4,364,578.15 – VP of American Tobacco
$247,965 – $4,297,267.89 – VP of GM
$209,833 – $3,636,435.03 – Deanna Durbin
$150,000 – $2,599,520.83 – Bing Crosby

(Hazel Scott, photo by Steven Derry)

(Artful spat with Moses.)

(Lepke)

(Esposito bros start a hunger strike)

(Manufacturing in New Jersey… On strike… “…They expect a long battle for their little jobs.” Photos by Leo Lieb.)
PM, May 9, 1941, pages: 9, 11, 14