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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1932
Page
4
The article discusses the governor's limited power in North Carolina under the McLean era, noting advisory influence without veto rights. It highlights Maxwell’s campaign rhetoric on banking laws, urging tighter limits on bank loan swaps and rediscounts to curb risky debt, and critiques past real estate investment looseness.
The article recounts Leap Year origins from Egypt’s Tanis Stone and Sosigenes’s calendar reform, notes Scotland’s 1288 statute allowing maiden ladies to propose, and discusses Roman counting quirks behind February’s Leap Day. It also mentions robberies and crime trends in the southern states, contrasted with urban risks.
The text advocates returning to sound principles and strict adherence, calling for banks to restrict real estate investments, whether held directly or indirectly, to a conservative share of capital and surplus. It emphasizes cautious oversight of stock ownership in subsidiary companies.
A Miami nightclub night crew attempts an easy crime but encounters two plainclothes Miami police officers dining in the club kitchen who draw revolvers, stopping the attempted hold up and foiling the robbery.
In a shift from prior restraint, Henry Ford plans large investments to reboot production and put 100000 workers back to work. He vows to risk all on plans to break the business jam, betting on the recuperative strength of the automotive market amid national distress.
The pastor Charles Haddon Nabers reflects on biblical vows in Ecclesiastes Numbers Deuteronomy and Psalms. He recalls historical vows by Presbyterian forebears in Greyfriars Edinburgh and contrasts sacred commitments with modern laxity. He warns against delaying or breaking vows and cites ancient examples.
A column narrator laments Eddie’s strange nocturnal messages in a humorous voice. The writer muses on Eddie’s playful taunts and tempers, then shifts to a practical note about building a 20 foot wide dog pen, asking how to fasten two foot high chicken wire into the ground for Skippy.
The Jamestown Weed discusses a math puzzle solution by Robert B. Davis and other entrants, notes about the Glass-Steagall bill and Ford plans, then shifts to literary reviews of Countee Cullen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Leonora Baccante, and public notices on obscene books legislation. It closes with a quip about an Irishman named Edgeworth and his many descendants.
Drops Name first from the last of these Edge worths and Martha Edgeworth praised as a letter writer and novelist. Houghton Mifflin publishes The Chosen Letters of Martha Edgeworth with introduction by F W Barry. Thirteen is a magic numeral for Tiffany Thayer and Claude Kendall with thirteen letter titles and thirteen printing. Beowulf set with eight lithographs by Rockwell Kent and new verse by William Ellery Leonard. The Chastity of Gloria Boyd by Donald Henderson Clarke to Vanguard in March. Jeno Heltai hailed as Hungary’s leading man of letters and sphere of influence noted by European critics.
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