High Point urged to fight for outside highway route
City and its committee pressed for an outside-the-city route for the new highway, criticizing state engineers for pushing a south-end inside path. The mayor, council, and planning officials were urged to mount a strong campaign to Raleigh and Washington, possibly even a court challenge, to secure the outside route.
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High Point
State Highway Commission
T. E. Hinson
Malcolm Little
Davidson County
Groometown
Raleigh
Washington
Presidential Letter Sales Erode Collector Value
A column notes that Truman letters mocking the Marine Corps and Margaret Truman aroused bids and donations to charity but warns that repeated presidential gaffes devalue such items as collector's pieces. The piece argues supply and demand apply to presidential mistakes and that more letters may lower value.
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Truman
Marine Corps
Marine Corps League
Margaret Truman
Damon Runyon
Excess profits tax: a symbolic battle with practical limits
The piece argues a wartime excess profits levy is politically valuable as a sacrifice symbol but may fail in practice. It notes that many corporations paid no excess profits due to loopholes and that inflation and complexity favor moving to a higher regular corporate tax instead. It urges Congress to strengthen practical provisions and protect growing firms while avoiding the wartime distortions.
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Congress
Ing
Senate
House
Capitol
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Finster
Stalin
Reasonable to Communists Won’t Save America
A fiery wartime era denunciation condemns appeasement and “reasonable” talks with Communists. The speaker attacks intellectuals, media figures, and politicians for lip service to peace while praising loyalty to the FBI and urging open confrontation with Stalinists and their imitators. He lambasts officials and elites for leniency and warns Americans to speak up or stay silent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Joe Stalin
Karl Marx
Westbrook Pegler
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Hitler
Mussolini
Franco
Stalin
Mao Tze-tung
New York
Lake Success
Waldorf-Astoria
Waldorf
Korea
Chang Hase
FBI
Family devotions shape a Trinity man’s memory and faith
An account recalls a father’s evening Bible readings and prayers guiding his four sons. It details the warning and comforting verses, the shift to personal devotion, and the family’s enduring faith amid later life reflections and public notices about Trinity College alumni William Brame.
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Father
Prp
Book of Common Prayer
Cardinal John Enry Newman
Trinity
Trinity College
Duke U
Brame
William Anderson
Old Trinity College
Randolph County
Pharmaceutical Hospital
U.S.N
Rocky Mount
N. C
Buggs Barringer
Greensboro News
William Brame
W. A. Brame
Ricks Hotel
Colonel Brame
Yarborough House
Raleigh
Carolina
Sharpe and Do
Franklin County
Randolph
Navy
Weldon
Ricks
Frank P. Spruill
Banksident
P. Brame
North Wilkesboro
John D. Brame
Ince
Lack of Organization Delays Price Controls Across Government
Washington notes delays in imposing price controls due to staff shortages and disorganization. DiSalle named Price Administrator may speed actions in 1951 while officials debate selective controls on materials driving inflation. Census recounts and army anti guerrilla training also touch on wartime pressures.
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Toledo
Michael V. DiSalle
Korea
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Army
Fort Benning
Political gaffes and hallway humor from Washington
A column recaps lighthearted jabs in Congress and White House circles. Horace Coats and Paul Squires mock stingy campaign funds, a driver offers aid, McDermott clarifies VOA critique, and Kenneth Wherry clashes with Attlee. A cold wall bust scene ends with a reader note about Francis Case.
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Washington
Horace Coats
William E. Jenner
Indiana
Paul Squires
Cecil M. Harden
Negne
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Reperson
Walter Kreuger
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Capehart
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George Dixon
Michael J. McDermott
Secretary of State
Voice of America
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Mr. McDermott
Acheson
Clement Attlee
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Fierry
Wherry
Harold R. Beckley
South Dakota
Francis Case
Col. Beckley
Dixon
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