Legislature's Week End Critics Cite Waste and Delay
The House and Senate face a speedier 50 day session as lawmakers plan to curb the weekly week ends blamed for pay for nonwork. Critics point to Friday lunch adjournments Saturday futility and Monday night recesses costing taxpayers time and money. A push for reform follows war era concerns with efficiency and accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kerr
House of Representatives
Broughton
Lew” Wallace
Kinston
Kerr
Wallace
R. L. Harris
Senate
House
Assembly
Smoothy Congresswoman Luce Stirs Washington Press
The piece portrays Clair Booth Luce arriving at Union Station disguised as a government worker to dodge reporters. Reporters fail to recognize her, press questions about her motives, and Luce retorts that other labor leaders are more newsworthy. The fragment ends noting her as the sharp, stylish figure in politics and a satirical label about her future influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralphe Rochelle
Employment Service
Rochelle
Joe Doaks
Enterprise
Luce
Congress For World Unity and Peace
Congress
Claire
S.A
Thoughts on editorial pages and smaller papers from Raleigh to High Point
A collage of quotes from readers and officials across North Carolina. Topics include editorial Page dynamics in Chapel Hill, Raleigh lobbying, a Boston nightclub fire, rationing, and a quiet Christmas in High Point. Notable voices include Mel Broughton, Oscar Pitts, Henry Lauerman, T W Russell, Chief W C Friddle, Jere Sloan, Josephus Daniels, Woodrow Wilson, and Arch Schoch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Robertson
Chatham County
Points
East
West
South
North
Lincoln
News and Observer
Raleigh
Piedmont
Mel Broughton
Oscar Pitts
Mel
W. C. Friddle
High Point
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
England
Woodrow Wilson
Victory Book Campaign Urges Quality Donations for Troops
A 1943 drive invites readers to donate recent fiction and useful non fiction to American soldiers and sailors, stressing quality over quantity. Corporal Forbes cites preferred books and stresses morale over trash donations, with distribution to camps, naval bases, USO centers, and merchant marine libraries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corp
John Ripley Forbes
Napier Air Field
Dothan
Ala
Grover Cleveland
Forbes
Then
Navy
American Library Association
American Red Cross
United Service Organization
USO
American Legionnaire
Shortages and prices change home baking habits
Paragraphs describe how housewives compensate for higher costs by using the same amount of dough despite reduced baking. A full moon is linked to affection and illness. Family routines remain fixed as late arrivals clash with a younger sibling’s bedtime. Overseas boys faced turkey shortages but stuffing was not missed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
New York
Hargrove
Spitzenberg
Wall Street
Roosevelt
Random House
Alva Johnston
Goldwyn
Middle West
South
Publishing Wars and Pioneers Shape American Books
A historical look at how few publishing houses dominate the United States market, the wartime rush for war books, and pioneers like Alfred Knopf and Horace Liveright reshaping book design and advertising. The piece highlights readers, agents, and notable titles such as Guadalcanal Diary and The Raft, plus vivid anecdotes about editors, authors, and industry tactics.
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BOKS
Yesteryear
Ivory Towers
Moscow
Honolulu
Louis B. Mayer
Associated Press
Navy
Bill Sloane
Henry Holt & Co
Guadalcanal
Richard Tregaskis
Random House
Life Magazine
America
Alfred Knopf
Horace Liveright
Liveright
48Th St
Rockefeller Center
Beatrice Kaman
Manuel Komroff
Dick Simon
Saxe Cummins
Louis Kronenberger
Ted Weeks
The
Atlantic Monthly
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High Point Enterprise
R. B. Terry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
J.P. Rawley
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
National Resentative John Budd CO
Lexington Ave
N.Y. City
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
United States Employment Service
High Point Furniture
Clair Booth Luce
Washington Women of the Press
Africa
India
ODT
High Point, North Carolina
Boston
Henry Lauerman
T. W. Russell
Jere Sloan
Clerk of Draft Board No. Four
Arch Schoch
FBI
Burton Heath
John Bracken
Manitoba
Progressive Conservative Party
Dominion
Canada
Merchant Marine
South Portland
Shipbuilding Corp
Big Sister
Kid Brother
Hell
Broadway
Publiher’s Note
By Bennett Cerf
Liverright
Kronenberger
Hemingway
O'Neill
Faulkner
van Loon
Lewisohn
Hecht
Dreiser
Harcourt, Brace
William L. White
W. L. White
Walter Winchell
Continental
U. S
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