[Ruhr District, Detroit Riot, John L Lewis]

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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Number 16.

Elmer Davis, Chief of Office of War Information, provides weekly update on the war.

-Air war in the Ruhr district
-Detroit Riots
-John L Lewis and labor strikes

Dated based on mention of General George C. Marshall's address to Conference of Governors, Columbus, Ohio, June 21, 1943.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


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Municipal archives id: LT199

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