Asheville racketeers warned by Judge Nettles in public call
Judge Zeb V. Nettles accuses Asheville and Buncombe of harboring racketeers and calls for a full public cleanup with potential high place accountability. He demands follow up with state investigative help and warns heads may roll. The column also notes local debts of Mary’s political group and media firms.
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Zeb V. Nettles
Buncombe
Asheville
al Capone
High Point
Greensboro
Mountain Resort
Judge Nettles
Superior Court
State Bureau of Investigation
Progressive Party Leader Mary Price Seeks Telegraph Help
Mary Price of the Progressive party claims political persecution and Martyr status as she fights with the Durham Telephone Co. over a $500 deposit required to install a line at the party HQ in Durham. The state utilities commission ruled the deposit reasonable under the circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Mary
Henry
North Carolina
Mary’s Boys and Girls
FCC
Greensboro
Bell Boys
Mary Price
Progressive
Wallace
State Board of Elections
Elizabeth Bentley
Durham Telephone Co
State Utilities Commission
Progressive Party
Durham
North Carolina’s income shows progress but stark needs
The News & Observer notes NC per capita income reached 890 in 1947, highest in state history yet only 67 of the U.S. average, with wide gaps across counties and families. It urges federal aid for health education housing and welfare and calls equality in the union far from fulfillment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Department of Commerce
Mecklenburg
Camden
Wake
News & Observer
Policy and youth in American politics quoted remarks
The passage cites Andrei Vishinsky on sovereignty and an UN observer at Danubian talks, Alvin Jones criticizing Congress for ignoring youth, and William Green calling the 80th Congress the blackest in American history. It presents partisan views from 1947 era figures.
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Andrei Vishinsky
William Green
AFL
Three Types in a Sermon by W A Bivins
W A Bivins reflects on Dr Hershey’s National Vespers sermon using the parable of the Good Samaritan to illustrate three human types and choices. He notes thieves, priests and Levites, and the Samaritan as examples and praises Uncle Sam as a modern Good Samaritan to suffering peoples.
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Dr. Hershey
Jerusalem
Jericho
Sam
Pop’s Manger to the Cross Artistry Gift
A reader showcases a bottle art piece by W. E. Pop from 620 English Street. The bottle contains a cross on a wooden beam and a tiny manger scene with a star guiding shepherds to the Child. The label reads From the Manger to the Cross.
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W. E
Pop
English Street
Christ
Tom Thumb Town Miniature Village Inspires Visitors
From Friends magazine distributed by Chevrolet dealers comes a description of Roadside America in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The lifelike model village by Laurence Gieringer features tiny farms, steepled churches, gabled houses, and a two mile network of electric wiring allowing dancing figures, singing organs, train whistles, and day turning to night.
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Chevrolet
Tom Thumb
Lilliputians
Pennsylvania
America
Hamburg
Allentown
Harrisburg
Laurence Gieringer
Appreciation for an Anonymous Adventists Magazine
A reader thanks an unnamed friend for sending Signs of the Times, a California based Seventh Day Adventist publication. The writer values the magazine for linking modern events with past history and notes its many articles by biblical scholars.
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the Times
Seventh-Day Adventists
California
Berlin Airlift Reaches Over Four Thousand Tons Daily
The Berlin blockade enters its ninth week with no rail or canal traffic into Berlin. Supplies are flown in by fleets of aircraft. The airlift has grown from 2,000 tons daily to well over 4,000 tons of food and other supplies each day, but autumn weather threatens to ground planes.
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New York Times
Berlin
Germany
Pretty girl awaits fiancé medical officer’s marriage plan
A darts of dialogue notes a young woman's cheerful mood as her fiancé, a medical officer in Germany, plans to marry her next month. The exchange hints at an ongoing romance while awaiting the groom’s arrival.
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H'm
Germany
Soviet Russia’s Europe strategy and Vienna’s central role
The piece argues Soviet aims to expand into Eastern Europe, focusing on Berlin and Vienna as pivot points. It warns that Western interference in Danubian affairs is unwelcome and that Vienna could determine Eastern Europe’s fate, implicating U.S. policy and leadership in a tense postwar balance.
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Russia
Europe
Tito
Yugoslvia
Communist International
Georgi Dimitrov
Bulgaria
Balkan
Russian Empire
Soviet Russia
Berlin
Stalin
Vienna
Mark Clark
Presidio
San Francisco
Moscow
United States
Greece
Turkey
Middle East
Italy
Hapsburgs
Ottoman Empire
John Sobieski
France
England
Holy Roman Empire
Bismark
Prussia
Austria
Congress
Truman
Missouri
Republican Party
John Foster Dulles
Vandenberg
State Marshall
Secretaries and praying for Dewey stir a stiff neck
In a Washington byline piece, a secretary confronts a GOP big shot at national headquarters asking him to kneel and pray for Governor Dewey. The anecdote links a secretary’s domestic office scene to broader debates about espionage and treatment of informants like Miss Elizabeth Bentley.
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Washington
Miss Reid
Guardian Angel
Republican National
Crimson
Dewey
Mr. Dewey
G.O.P
Tauber? No. Sophie Tucker Recalls Harry Lauder’s Tour Tales
Sophie Tucker recounts her England return and Harry Lauder, now in his eighties, planning a final U.S. tour. He trusted her to book ahead of his shows across 48 states, with improvised venues, trains, and bold stunts. He refused big contracts, kept his word, and drew huge crowds from mining towns to opera houses.
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Sophie Tucker
England
Harry Lauder
Hale
America
United States
Canada
Lauder
William Morris
Cleveland
Denver
Buffalo
Chicago
Springfield
Elgin
Peoria
Kalamazoo
Fort Wayne
Klaw & Klanger
Shuberts
Nashville
Tenn
New Orleans
Grand Junction
Col
Harry
Washington
White House
Ill
Chatterton Opera House
Chatterton
The Con Man's Lot in Politics From Hal Boyle
A Washington talk through a con man's lens contrasts senate six-year terms with two-year house terms. The piece notes campaigning, expenses, seniority delays, party shifts, and constant reelection drives. Rep Dewey Short voices weariness, while the author vows to steer clear of politics.
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Arthur Edson
Hal Boyle
Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Rep
Dewey Short
R-Mo
Puzzle of Puns and Clues Alias Horizon 1
A dense word list mixes names, places, deities, and abbreviations. Clues cover dawn goddesses, Hebrew leaders, and various categories from astronomy to tools, with scattered political references and abbreviations.
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Young America
Alvin Jones
Young Progressives of America
W. A. Bivins
Paradise
George Sokolsky
George Dixon
Rie
Ihelangelo Kelly
Kenneth L. Dixon
Elbe
Dixon
Bub
Michelangelo Rembrandt Kelly
Murmansk
Nce
Siberia
Garry
Kelly
Broadway
Jack Last
Metropolitan Opera House
Liverpool
Morris
The
Lambs
Friars
U. S
Israel
Isaac
CAPRA
Spain
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