"Quiet, Stupid! … Yeow!" 

The state Senate approves a bill that would license bookies and take 5% of their gross. I wonder what the lobbying was like on this bill.

A Ford executive says industry voluntarily reduced the workweek to 40 hours. "The charges that these improvements were made at the insistence of a morally outraged society is not tenable."   Talk about fuel economy: 23 mpg.

Maybe I'm an overprotective parent, but I really wouldn't want my kid doing this.

Maybe more than any other era, I find the artwork — and lettering — in the 1930s ads just remarkable.

I recently listened to a program on Winston Churchill. He certainly had a knack with words that put everybody in their place. Especially "Corporal Hitler."

The Times begins a contest on movie titles. I'll try to run some of the entries.

Lou Gehrig's career was over. The Yankees slugger, whose skills
had seemed mysteriously in decline, was diagnosed with what was then
called infantile paralysis.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is an incurable ailment that
attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Gehrig, who had
played in 2,130 consecutive games with the Yankees and took himself out
of the lineup in May, died in 1941.

The Times ran an Associated Press story with a horrible lead: "The
'Iron Horse' was consigned to the baseball roundhouse today — to
stay." The Yankees tried to be optimistic about Gehrig's recovery,
discussing a post-baseball job with the Yankees "in some executive
capacity."

The next day, The Times ran a short story on plans for a day in Gehrig's honor. Here's footage from the event.

— Keith Thursby

Update: Keith is on vacation so I'll pinch hit for him. The Times' original story indeed says Lou Gehrig had "infantile paralysis." Later stories also say he had "infantile paralysis" or "a form of infantile paralysis." His June 3, 1941,  obituary says he died of "a rare disease" called "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis." –lrh