North Carolina Politics From Gardner to Ehringhaus
The piece traces Governor Gardner’s rise and decline, noting his 1928 victory, 1930 backlash, and 1932 influence backing Ehringhaus amid Brennan era struggles. It covers Bailey’s Senate win, Reynolds versus Morrison, and Gardner’s enduring power as the state’s political power broker through the early 1930s.
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Max Gardner
Simmons
North Carolina
al Smith
Stacey
Brogden
Josephus Daniels
Josiah W. Bailey
Gardner
Bailey
Ins
Blucher Ehringhaus
Ehringhaus
Dick Fountain
A. J. Maxwell
Reynolds
Senate
Morrison
Overman
Whiskey Shortage Sparks Black Market Critique in South Carolina
In South Carolina, retailers report paying premium bribes to obtain whiskey from wholesalers amid a price spike and shortages. The scheme shows how a black market can thrive under apparent public sanction, leaving consumers paying the final steep prices.
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Pearl Harbor
South Carolina
State Tax Commission
Columbia
Public
S.C
Dangerous bus station on railway tracks urged moved in Thomasville
Five days earlier a warning highlighted the risk of heavily loaded buses crossing the Southern Railway main line. Last night a bus stalled on the tracks, narrowly missing a collision with a train, with 15 people and a driver escaping death. The incident underscores alleged negligence in station location and calls for an immediate relocation to prevent future near-tragedies.
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Thomasville
Southern Railway
Community Voices Debate Postwar Plans And Youth Centers
Residents from Gary to High Point discuss postwar disruptions and troop demobilization. Col McCormick cites communist agitation and naval fears, while local workers push recenter programs for youth and veterans and warn against predatory training schemes.
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Gary
Ind
Se Ee Oeante
Col
Robert McCormick
Great Britain
Great Tain
England
Canada
John Peacock
High Point
Bombing war shifts focus toward invasion and resilience
Analysis notes American and British plans temper German resistance as Teheran talks align with a staged invasion. Berlin air raids show limits of bombing alone, with Germans sheltering from raids while cities endure.
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Washington
Russia
Kiev
Teheran
Berlin
Germany
Arnold
Italy
Lemay
San Francisco
Winchell On Broadway And Other Big Guns Interred Abroad
Washington gossip and society notes from wartime Broadway as War Correspondent Winchell rounds up arrests in Britain internees, divorces in Nevada, lawsuits in Florida, political spats in Congress, celebrity maneuvers, and a parade of military stories and scandals from 1943.
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Hitler
Italy
Britain
Donald Nelson
Columm
Nevada
Jack Dempsey
Hannah Williams
Fla
Cong
J. Coffee
Congress
Enrico Cervantes
Narita
Savoy-Plazarh
Hudson
Bert Wheeler
Arch Gunnison
Manila
Princeton
Millicent
O. James
L Patton
England
San Francisco
Dec
Walter
Elmer Davis
Overseas Press Club
Davis
Cairo-Teheran
Reuter’s
Associated Press
J. R
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