Category: Women

  • NURSING NEWS: Friday, March 13, 1942

    Major Julia O. Flikke has received a temporary commission as a colonel in the Army of the United States. Her assistant, Captain Florence A. Blanchfield, has received a temporary commission in the grade of lieutenant colonel. Despite the appointment, neither receives the pay of that grade, as these women are not “persons” in the sense…

  • Nearly Half of All US Housewives Are Willing to Take War Jobs in Factories

    Source: Gallup, George. “Nearly Half of All US Housewives Are Willing to Take War Jobs in Factories.” Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 15 Mar. 1942, p. 63. https://www.newspapers.com/article/corpus-christi-caller-times/136825104/

  • Woman Who Socked Cop On Nose Finds Law Packs A Wallop Too

    Source: “Woman Who Socked Cop On Nose Finds Law Packs A Wallop Too.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 22 Mar. 1942, pp. 1”“14. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/129823575/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/129823597/

  • Designed for Men

    War or no war, Easter was at hand. Women headed for the millinery counters. Hatters were ready. In the next two weeks they expect to sell some 22,100,000 Easter bonnets””17% of all the hats women will buy in 1942. Neither Pearl Harbor nor the grey dawn of Tax Day (see p. 15) had cast a…

  • Washington

    Source: Stewart, Charles P. “Washington.” Republican and Herald, 31 Mar. 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/republican-and-herald/138114952/

  • So! Uncle Same Needs Nurses!!

    Source: “Letters From Readers: So! Uncle Same Needs Nurses!!” The American Journal of Nursing, Apr. 1942, p. 427. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415486

  • News About Nursing

    Source: “News About Nursing.” The American Journal of Nursing, Apr. 1942, pp. 446”“471. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415490

  • Editorials: What About the Married Nurses?

    Source: “Editorials: What About the Married Nurses?” The American Journal of Nursing, Apr. 1942, pp. 400”“401. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415480?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • News About Nursing

    Source: “News About Nursing.” The American Journal of Nursing, May 1942, pp. 572”“601. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415962?origin=JSTOR-pdf