Peace and arms debate as Mussolini shifts troops to Tunis border
The article discusses European tensions with Mussolini moving troops toward the Tunisian border and Germany’s growing armaments. It questions how lasting peace can be maintained amid internal economic strains, with France and Italy facing popular pressure and the risk of broader conflict. It also notes a Virginia court case over a man in prison for unpaid alimony and court orders.
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Italy
France
Germany
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Virginia
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Judge Harding Honored After 25 Years on North Carolina Bench
The Winston-Salem Journal lauds Judge William F. Harding for 25 years on the Mecklenburg County Superior Court noting his intense humanity and rejection of robotic justice. The Charlotte Observer says he will retire January 1 with little show or pomp. The Virginian-Pilot criticizes Duke’s Rose Bowl bid as hippodroming harming student health and education.
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Mecklenburg County
William F. Harding
North Carolina
Webster
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Mecklenburg
Charlotte Observer
Duke University
Norfolk-Virginian-Pilot
Virginian Pilot
Civil liberty and debt imprisonment in civil process
The text argues that imprisonment for debt is forbidden by fundamental law, questions the civil criminal boundary, and suggests that any imprisonment for nonpayment should end after a reasonable period while permitting contempt punishment, not indefinite confinement. It notes courts may punish contempt but questions ongoing imprisonment when payment is not made.
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Point
Guarding the Dangerous Escaped Convict Trouble in Alamance Case
State penal director warns of the risk posed by dangerous inmates after three men died in a clash with Alamance officers. He notes killers like Huffman are hard to contain and criticizes light guard camps where the Alamance escape originated in Anson county.
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Huffman
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Anson County
Twain on Correspondents and the Petri Fied Truth
The remark treats the act of writing as a wary craft. It notes how correspondents shape facts, filtering reality through perception and bias to yield a version labeled as truth.
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Twain
Paris Luncheon of Kings and Queens A French Feast
A narrator recalls July Paris during King George and Queen Elizabeth's visit. The French spent 27500 dollars on one luncheon with 20 courses, wine from 1895 and 1900 vintages, amid Parisian custom of two hour noons. A tomato salt exchange and tomato oil anecdote punctuate observations of French gastronomy and etiquette.
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Roosevelt Speech Praised for Unity and Prosperity
A High Point North Carolina reader praises Franklin D. Roosevelt’s address for promoting free moral agency and national prosperity. The writer stresses belief in living peacefully, resisting war-mongering money interests, and hopes Congress and Senate support the President’s plans with divine guidance.
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Would Hold Jobs For City Dwellers
Editor The Enterprise notes High Point added plants from 125 in 1931 to 153 in 1938. In 1930, 111 plants reported 11 041 workers. in 1938 to date, 98 plants report 12 133 employees, an increase of 1 092 since 1930, with many unreported plants.
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Broadway Gossip and Celebrity Sights Tonight on Broadway
Walter Winchell sketches of stars in town including Babe Ruth Doris Duke Toscanini and family Irving Berlin and Tallulah Bankhead. Clips cover Hellzapoppin Lillian Hellman Nat Kenny and a streetwise roundup from the Elysee to Broadway clubs with witty banter and theatrical misadventures.
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S. Claus
Clifford Odets
Doris Duke
James Cromwell
Fats Waller
Japan
Nippon Warior
Hankow
Aileen Whelan
Katharine Cornell
Irving Berlin
Jim Farley
Midtown
Marian Nixon
Tallulah Bankhead
the Elysee
Lillian Hellman
Dorothy Parker
Broadway and Screen Notes on Music and Fame
New York arts scene features Les Brown Rodgers and Hart songs Sing For Your Supper Lee Grant rhythms Jimmy Walker Sabbath program March of Time film Uncle Samthe Good Neighbor Theatre Arts Centre aims to be Lambs or Players Club for actors New York music and stage gossip covers Zanuck Thanks For Everything and Jack Haley numbers Falling In Love With Love from The Boys From Syracuse Teddy Powell Singin In The Saddle romance tale of a writer and a model their breakup and a tale of a staged success turning into publication Jeet ee eee ee
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Revelove
Boys
Syracuse
Teddy Powell
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Kiwanian President Named. Local Man Dies at 92
L R Terry was named local Kiwanian president for 1929 at a dinner meeting at the country club. R O elected vice president. W F Gold, father of Thomas J Gold Sr, died last night in Shelby at age 92. Colonial Life Insurance agents banqueted at the Sherman hotel after a home office meeting. Lois Welborn and Mrs John Lindsay Jr reported travel and visits. Mrs Kendall Hunter departed for Roanoke Va.
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Country Club
R. O
W. F. Gold
Thomas J. Gold
Shelby
Colonial Life Insurance Company
Sheraton Hotel
Home Office
Commercial
Local Notes and Political Updates From The Day
Several short items report travel and visits including Mrs John Lindsay Jr returning from Baltimore and Mrs Kendall Hunter heading to Roanoke Virginia. Charles M Hoover of Thomasville elected chairman of the Davidson County Board of Commissioners. Bolivians greet President Elect Hoover as ParaguayBolivia tensions over the Chaco district rise. Republican leaders in the state set a Greensboro meeting for Friday.
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Thomasville
Davidson Board of County Commissioners
Herbert Hoover
Paraguay
Bolivia
Chaco
Greensboro
Hard Up Peace At The Door In Walt Mason Verse
A fragment from The Enterprise dated December 7 1918 features Walt Mason verse about winter hunger and war ending with peace at the door. It includes lines on lacking food coal and clothes yet finding solace in peace while other notes mention harmonica playing and reflections from scholars and doctors.
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Private telephone lore from the Gifford and Roosevelt circles
Charles B. Driscoll recounts anecdotes about Walter S. Gifford and the Roosevelt family showing extreme secrecy and heavy use of telephones. Alice Roosevelt Longworth travels with multiple lines and dictates dispatches. Henry L. Mencken shuns secretaries. Count Gosta Morner unsuccessfully pitches a 375-item collection to Rockefeller’s donation arm, noting the $100,000 threshold.
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Birger Morner
Africa
South Sea Islands
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Count Morner
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Morner
The Duke of Windsor hailed as world’s greatest lover
Elsa Maxwell recalls her claim that the Duke of Windsor was, in her view, the world’s greatest lover while noting he never liked her, a striking personal aside from a famed social figure.
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Elsa Maxwell
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