Coal wage deal aims to avert strike but sparks inflation fears
The agreement between soft coal mine operators and miners led by John L. Lewis could avert a broad strike after 235 mines closed by wildcats. If approved, miners gain $1.30 per day while coal prices rise at least 25 cents per ton next winter. The piece questions inflation effects and wage resilience as prices and living costs climb.
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John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
Ter
Lewis
OPA
Victory Gardening as a National War Effort
The Enterprise highlights A. W. Blair’s view of gardening as a way of life and a practical war measure. It argues victory gardens can reduce famine abroad and stock food at home, framing increased home production as essential to the war and family welfare.
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Victory Gardens
Black market critique of OPA handling and price gouging
The piece argues the OPA downplays black market activity and repeats denial tactics. It cites New York and eastern city inflation, with ceilings ignored, meats traded off market, and Senator Wheeler pressed to back claims. It accuses OPA of defending itself instead of uncovering facts.
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Wheeler
OPA
New York
Senate
Community council vote misreported in High Point notice
Mrs. R A Her ring objects to yesterday's Enterprise story on High Point organizations. She says no vote occurred and no decision was made until each group reviews the council's purpose and cost to the community chest.
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High Point
R. A. Herring
Local comments mix at meeting on civil matters and politics
Attendees at Monday's meeting voiced astonishment over Friday's events while Judge D C Mac Rae warned that criminal court cannot settle civil disputes and urged civil courts for bills. Democratic chairmen struggle to allocate Jefferson Dinner tickets. one county stuck with a single seat. Vid Matthews praised courtesy in High Point after car repair.
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D. C. MacRae
Lynn Nisbet
Joe
High Point
Vid Matthews
Brooklyn Dodger
Dodgers
Thomasville
Evolution of European Alliances From Vienna to Berlin
The article traces post Napoleonic alliances starting with Vienna partitions like the Quadruple Alliance led by Metternich and the Holy Alliance of 1815. It notes Prussia’s rise under Bismarck and the 1872 Dreikaiserbund, ending with the 1882 Triple Alliance between Germany Austria and Russia as a non aggression pact precursor.
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Vienna
Europe
Congress of Vienna
Russia
Prince Metternich
Austria
Bismarck
Germany
Dreikaiserbund
League of
Berlin
World War II alliances traced from prewar era to Yalta
By George Sokolsky outlines a web of alliances from the Triple Entente to the Nine Power Pact and later moves, arguing the wartime world was shaped by pacts and spheres of influence. He cites Versailles, Munich, and postwar settlements, asserting the wartime alliance among United States Great Britain and Soviet Russia dominated global politics and partitioned Poland and Germany.
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Austria
Italy
France
Russia
England
Czecho-Slovakia
Jugoslavia
Rumania
Poland
Great Britain
Munich
China
Japan
Soviet Russia
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Greece
Sumner Wells
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Behind the News Washington column on journalism shifts
The column defends its shift from reporting to editorial writing while recalling past front pages and policy coverage. It cites Livadia San Francisco Crimea and MacArthur as examples and notes reader complaints about style and advocacy in coverage.
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Paul Mallon
House
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Club of Nations
Livadia
San Francisco
Russia
Europe
Crimea
United States
Japan
Big Five
MacArthur
Fred Vinson
Roosevelt era journalism proves dependable method
Paul Mallon discusses February 15 to March 2 developments around Franklin D Roosevelt. Vinson selected after Eccles refused. Vinson later named assistant president with Ed Flynn replacing Hopkins. He argues the journalism cited is formative, analytical, and dependable rather than scoop or editorial.
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Jesse Jones
Mr. Roosevelt
Fred Vinson
Financial Journal
Mariner
Europe
Roosevelt
Armed Services
Congress
Vinson
Harry Hopkins
Ed Flynn
Atever
Historians Urged To Coauthor North Carolina History
Secretary of State Thad Eure transmitted a resolution requesting Walter Pete Murphy to write a history of North Carolina and discussions favored collaboration with A J Maxwell. Both men, longtime public servants born 1872 and 1878, would bring accuracy and entertaining anecdotes. Financing for the project remains unsettled.
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Thad Eure
Assembly
Walter
Pete) Murphy
North Carolina
Capitol Square
Pete Murphy
A. J. Maxwell
Murphy
Maxwell
General Assembly
Senate
State officials smoke habits noted amid tobacco focus
In a Raleigh article Lynn Nisbet observes that many top North Carolina leaders rarely smoke, while tobacco remains a leading crop. The piece highlights varying personal use among state officials, including Thad Eure, Kerr Scott, and Gregg Cherry, contrasted with their roles in tobacco policy and public life.
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Council of State
Charles Johnson
George Ross Pou
William Hodges
Thad Eure
Kerr Scott
Clyde Erwin
Forrest Shuford
Harry McMullan
Gregg Cherry
Scott
Winchell on Broadway examines 1944-45 political and social chatter
Harry Hopkins says William O'Dwyer is the NYC mayoral candidate over LaGuardia and FDR to handle Brooklyn politics. Rumors swirl of Hollywood figures, contracts, marriages, and lawsuits. Drafts, V Day timing, and a surge of late-night social headlines fill a brisk, gossip-packed column with names like Crosby, Ellington, Sinatra, Hoover, and deceptions in postwar politics.
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N. Y
Wm. O'Dwyer
LaGuardia
FDR
Brooklyn
F. Kelly
Cashmore
Coasters
Pals Hope
Crosby
Bing
Duke Ellington
H. Ross
Cab Calloways
Lord Halifax
Lady Mendl’s
London
Eric Johnston
Hays
Joyce
F. Sinatra
Herbert Hoover
Dewey
Albany
Samuel Seabury
Hizzoner
Gracie
Jack Warners
Pola Negri
Peter Lorre
Kaaren Verne
England
Frank Fay
Twosomes and Water Cargo Linked to Getty Oil Wealth
A tank car carrying 10 135 gallons of drinking water shipped from Hereford Texas to J Paul Getty of West Los Angeles cost freight of 786 47 dollars. Getty once owned the Pierre Hotel in New York and is described as a wealthy oil man. Louis Woods holds the blue tees and was briefly married to Mary Duncan Sanford.
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George Jessel
Anita Williams
Jinx Falkenberg
Chuck Newman
Junior Laemmle
Estralita
Don Lopez
Ruth Brady
Hereford
Texas
J. Paul Getty
W. Los Angeles
Getty
Pierre Hotel
Louis Woods
Mary Duncan Sanford
Danny Kaye
Larry Ross
Luzon
Russia
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