Sales tax battle to be fought again in North Carolina
The 1931 sales tax fight resurges as Angus Dhu McLean, Beaufort County representative, urges a sales tax to relieve landowners and cover a shortfall from a 15 cent ad valorem levy. He warns of a looming deficit and insists relief must come from levy adjustments, not broad budget cuts.
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North Carolina
Angus Dhu McLean
State House of Representatives
Beaufort County
Winston-Salem
McLean
Washington Democrats Jab at Hoover On Credit Claims
Democratic leaders in Congress fault President Hoover and his advisers for trying to monopolize credit for reconstruction legislation. Senator Pat Harrison denounces the administration for claiming credit while urging that Republicans forced several relief measures through. Harrison cites the Glass Steagall bill and Lincoln Day speeches as examples of partisan credit grabbing amid a campaign year.
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Hoover
Congress
Pat Harrison
Mellon
Harrison
Senate
City Tempers Debt Law For Street Assessments
High Point residents face a ten installment scheme to repay street assessment debt totaling over 2.5 million dollars with first payments due before June. The new statute eases payments but forecloses if terms are not met, urging timely action and noting prior lax collection.
Outcry Over Hoover Pact Stirs Political Water War
A party backing a candidate to defeat Hoover resents being drawn into efforts to influence Hoover’s presidency. The metaphorical scene involves attempts to water Hoover’s political wheel, signaling strategic pressure and partisan friction.
Is the Williams Norris Furniture Co. Prospering?
The article notes a lively bid dispute in Thomasville over possession of a local plant. Two parties seek ownership for a substantial sum, with the Knox Upholstery Company having paid more in the past. The piece suggests improving business prospects if the purchase figures reflect confidence.
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Thomasville
Williams-Norris Furniture Company
Knox
Context Keys to Understanding Revelation Chapters
The article argues biblical context is essential for interpreting Revelation and urges reading the first five chapters before chapters six onward. It outlines the book’s structure: Chapter 1 introduction, chapters 2–3 letters to seven churches, chapters 4–5 heavenly visions of God’s throne and the Lamb, and emphasizes Jesus' sacrificial worthiness.
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Asia Minor
John
God the Father
Four Horsemen of War Rise Across World War I
The speaker interprets Revelation's first four seals as a brief history of war from white conquest to red blood, black famine, and pale death. He ties these images to World War I, noting how conflict, famine, and death shadow nations from 1914 onward and lamenting the lasting toll on humanity.
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God
Father
Christ the Son
Christ
John
Palestine
Britain
Mussolini
Italy
Rio Grande
Panana Canal
Woodrow Wilson
Congress
Wilson
White House
Wiertz
Brussella
Brussells
Napoleon
Hell
Flanders
France
Great Britain
North Sea
Tamerlane
Rome
Carthage
The
Tiber
Acropolis
Athens
Teuton
Frank
Artill
Heaven
Humble Apology Column Echoes Archie and Mehitabei
A newspaper snippet credits Dan Marquis for a revered comic line while noting a sequence of columns by John Mebane. The text praises subtle wisdom and honors enduring characters in American literary humor.
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Dan Marquis
Archie and
Mehitabei
Washington biography and new literary works reviewed
The column surveys Louis M Sears George Washington study, James Hilton novel And Now Good Bye, Ferenc Molnar The Good Fairy, and UNC press reissues of John Charles McNeill poems. It notes Washington’s era and nationalism, Hilton’s psychological drama, Molnar’s witty comedy, and North Carolina poetry renewal.
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James Hilton
William Morrow
England
Howatt Freemantle
London
Freemantle
Hilton
Ferenc Molnar
Ray Long
Richard R. Smith
Helen Hayes
Broadway
Mr. Molnar
University of North Carolina Press
John Charles McNeill
North Carolina
Edward Kidder Graham
Publication line offers new books and dates across authors
A barrage of release dates fills February and March with works by Sir Oliver Lodge Tiffany Thayer Alice Winthrow Field H W Freeman and others Debuts include Thayer s Thirteen Women and Fields Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Russia while Freeman s Fathers of Their People garners wider appeal Sullivan discusses Benedict Arnold and Cabell s These Restless Heads see multiple publishers and a note on Herbert Hoover Jr with verse by Lysbeth Borie and Cullen s Harlem novel One Way to Heaven appears from Harper s Brothers in February and White House Blues from Vanguard in April
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Alice Winthrow Field
Soviet Russia
H. W. Freeman
Joseph
Henry Holt and Company
Mr. Freeman
Surrey
Edward Dean Sullivan
Benedict Arnold
Vanguard Press
Moss & Kamin
Barbizon Plaza
Mr. Sullivan
Arnold
Sullivan
Branch Cabell
Robert M. McBride & Company
Young Herbert
Peter
Hoover
Lysbeth Boyd Borie
Washington
Countee Cullen
Heaven
Harlem
Harper & Brothers
White House
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H. A. Cecil
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the Enterprise
Four Horsemen OF the
Jennyson
Baudelaire
Comrade Homma
John Mebane
Jamestown
George Washington
Jack Field
Madge Hooker
Martinsville
A. D
Louis M. Sears
Crowell
Sears
Oliver Lodge
Scribners
University of North Carolina
Cottonland
Tiffany Thayer
George Slocombe
Houghton Mifflin Company
London Evening Standard
Paris
Europe
Brooks
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