Welcome for NC State Grange delegates opens 17th annual session
The North Carolina Grange delegates gather in High Point for the 17th annual convention amid industry change. The Welcome message from The Eater praises soil, labor and seasons, noting historic roots in agricultural reform. The piece cites cooperative aims, rural education, better roads and taxation, and urges productive deliberations for rural North Carolina.
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North Carolina
Grange
High Point
W.A.B
CIOs National Maritime Union fights over ship use and troopship aim
The CIO News and Associated Press clash over shipping chaos and crew shortages. Union literature attacks wartime troopship aims while AP cites 121 idle vessels amid crew layoffs, signaling broader labor and wartime logistics tensions.
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CIO
National Maritime Union
Seamen’s Union
Associated Press
Caribbean
Capitol Square Roads and Highway Plans Budget
One week of fair weather could aid country road maintenance, but concerns rise if work is delayed. The commission schedules January 22 for bidding on fifteen main highway projects costing over a million dollars, to run parallel with routine maintenance. Chair Sandy Graham questions a new highway department building costing about three quarters of a million, needing legislative authorization.
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Sandy Graham
Commission
Highway Department
Graham
General Assembly
Broughton administration facing questions over filling station lot
Graham refuses comment on probable site and purchase of the New Bern Wilmington street lot east of the capital. Critics say the site is small and overvalued and leased to an oil company for years, hindering highway plans. Liquor rationing abandonment shows a dull first week with two explanations from ABC officials and a likely prolonged effect.
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Graham
Broughton
New Bern and
Wilmington Streets
Capitol
Highway Commission
Ted Gamble the wartime bond salesman of Oregon
The piece profiles Ted R Gamble a 39 year old Oregon movie chain owner who sold 157 billion dollars of war and victory bonds to 85 million Americans. He forced a top bond sales result for Morgenthau and left Washington with multiple accolades and small salary.
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Gamble
Morgenthau
Oregon
Washington
Ted Gamble
Oregon Movies
War Advertising Council
Gamble Led War Finance Bond Drive Says Historian
By Jack Stinnett the counter business in bonds and stamps. It never seemed to occur to him at all that the director of the war finance division which he was had a thing to do with it. Ted has gone home to his theaters family and his friends. The real reason he turned down those Hollywood offers is that he has five brothers getting out of the service and he wants to see them started again in civilian life on the right foot. There has been much inside treasury talk that he may be offered the job of undersecretary.
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War Finance Division
Gamble
Ted
Hollywood
Treasury
Vinson
Ted Gamble
Wool Surplus in Britain and US War Debts Point to Aid
In a wartime surge of distress, Britain holds four billion dollars worth of wool while millions lack clothing. Senator OMahoney notes Britain borrows four billion from the United States and may ration wool for export, urging the US to buy the wool and ship it to those in need worldwide.
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United States
Senator O'Mahoney
Great Britain
Conference of Gdom
Union of South Africa
Sokolsky questions British loan and wool trade strategy
By George Sokolsky argues Britain should sell wool and other exports rather than borrow 4 billion dollars. He cites 1945 stock and export figures and quotes Senator Wheeler and Mr Clayton on Europe’s clothing demand and Britain’s collapsed export trade. He criticizes the idea of a gift loan and urges normal trade to fund recovery.
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Wheeler
Europe
Asia
Mr. Clayton
Clayton
Great Britain
United States
Truman’s Labor Machinery Moves Ahead With Two Major Strikes
President Truman already had a fact finding panel at General Motors and a steel case set in motion as he urged Congress on labor reform. The GM panel pursued data despite the company's reluctance while steel faced a 700,000 worker walkout set for January 14 with February 10 to decide profits-based wage grounds.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
General Motors and Steel
General Motors
White House
Bowles
Mr. Truman
Phil Murray
Strikes Seen Shifting Tactics Amid Presidential Debate
The piece notes a cooling-off proposal through February 10 and questions the White House strategy to push strike pressure toward Congress. It argues unions seek a 30 percent federal wage rise and greater national economic control, while urging public interest and service rights over any side.
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White House
Congress
Truman aides push final report on U S wartime spendings
The Truman circle urges compiling an authentic total of U S aid and expenditures since World War II. Estimates run near one hundred billion dollars, covering lend lease cancellations, international loans, UNRRA support, FEA purchases, and other grants. Critics fear such a tally could rebut foreign charges of U S world inaction and materialism.
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Truman
United States
Europe
U. S
Axis
Japan
FEA
International Bank and Monetary Fund
Russia
China
France
Italy
Pacific Islands
Washington
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R. B. Terry
D. A. Rawley
H. A. Cecil
Robert L. Thompson
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Lexington Ave
N. C. City
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Christian Science Monitor
Canada
Armattee
God
A.W.S
Capitol Square
By Lynn Nisbet
ABC
Pearl Harbor
Uncle Sam
Ted R. Gamble
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Morgenthaur
Jack Stinnett
George Sokolsky
Paul Mallon
Harold Laski
Labor Party
Bertrand Russell
America
Lemion
Missouri
Fdr
Pat Hurley
Sumner Welles
South America
Philip Murray
H.S.T
Jesse H. Jones
Bernard M. Baruch
State Department
James Francis Byrnes
Moscow
Frank
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