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

PM, May 8, 1941, pp. 6, 10, 15, 20, 21

(Esposito brothers, etc.)

PM, May 7, 1941

(entirely irrelevant)

PM, February 23, 1941

“America Discovers Its Own Musical Culture,” by Henry Simon. Photo by Sid Grossman: “Emma Dusenberry and Waldemar Hill,” 1939.
“Plain People, Caught Off Guard, Make Good Pictures,” by Ralph Steiner, photos by Fred Gund and Lou Stoumen.
“This Is How Youngsters React to Saturday Movies… ‘Dr. Maniac Was the Main Feature Seen by This Audience,” photos by Paten-Davis.

PM, February 21, 1941

“Court reports say the Esposito brothers, who set Fifth Avenue into a murderous uproar last month, killing two men and wounding two others, are feigning insanity at Bellevue Hospital. When psychiatrists are present, the two murders go off into a variety of fits but when no one but nurses are around the two prisoners are gallant, talkative and otherwise quite sane…”

PM, February 20, 1941

“Feast of the Bums”
by Ben Hecht

“It’s a dirty day around Houston Street and Bowery. The wind’s blowing. The cold takes a bite out of you. There’s a stale smell in the air as if something were dead…”