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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1939
Page
4
A reflection on Christmas mood in High Point with holiday windows, lights, and civic spirit. The piece contrasts generous cheer with poverty while spotlighting Jim Massey the Long Street resident known for repeated legal troubles yet steadfast in facing charges, court cases, and community scrutiny.
Thackeray praised Dickens A Christmas Carol for boosting hospitality and Christmas cheer across England. The New York Sun long shaped American belief in Santa Claus through its famous editorial There is a Santa Claus. The Charlotte News offered a striking editorial pen-picture of a
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne share a lifetime of devotion amid fame asking how they live such an ideal marriage. The couple turned down MGM's four picture offer to stay together, and their romance includes a Central Park hansom cab proposal. They admit quarrels but insist on making up daily.
Jacques Bustanoby now Joe Pani, famed maître d and restaurateur, returns to New York dining after retirement to poultry farming on Long Island. He once served Lilian Russell, Vernon Castle, Irene Castle, Constance Bennett, Marilyn Miller, and many others at Knickerbocker Grill, Woodmanston Inn, and Castles by the Sea, with ties to Flo Ziegfeld and Anna Held.
Wesley Memorial Church will hold a White Christmas service Sunday night. Gifts will be sent to the Children’s Home at Winston-Salem. Also noted is a banquet for the Diamond Hosiery Mill board of directors and a warehouse burglary with $40 in cigarettes stolen.
The male half of the Medrano and Donna duo, a graceful outdoor type, performs in the Plaza’s Persian Room. He plans a fishing expedition with Dr. Beebe after the engagement, boasting a record 10 sharks caught in a day and skill as a marksman and boxer.
A nostalgic roundup lists Max Wall visiting relatives and students returning home for Christmas. It also notes Governor Bickett pardoning eight prisoners, a border shooting near El Paso, and remarks by U S ambassador Joseph E Davies and Senator Taft on diplomacy and federal spending.
A collage of odd notes notes a beaver detachment seized by Soviet troops sent to Leningrad zoo as prisoners of war. Secret Service probes reveal forged federal checks while refugees urged to speak English to cows. An oyster yielded 47 pearls on the East Coast.
Bruce Catton analyzes White House budget cuts and congressional pressure amid calls to protect spending for the National Youth Administration and jobless youths. He predicts continued fights over expenditures as the 1930s budget debate intensifies in the House and Senate.
The German embassy in Washington resolved its liquor crisis after swapping English and French drinks it had bought for American products with a local liquor dealer. Washington guests now drink American whisky wine and champagne at embassy parties.
Virginia Frank lauds the Messiah concert at Wesley Memorial on Sunday December 10 praising the direction solos and choruses and accompanists as a major cultural musical advance for the city with far reaching effects.
National Labor Relations Board member William M. Leiserson testified to a congressional committee about the derisive reactions and criticisms his board faces regarding its rulings. Finnish delegate Dr Rudolf Holsti suggested that when Finland asked to meet, it hoped to turn global sympathy into a practical plan.
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