Penny liquor referendum bill faces uncertain fate in North Carolina
The editorial praises Senator George Penny’s state wide liquor referendum plan while noting its slim chances. It compares options for ABC store control with county and municipal referendums and weighs dry county resistance. It urges honest enforcement if a statewide vote results in prohibition or stores and predicts high cost but calls for clarity and honesty in the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Penny
Kerr Scott
Penny
Tar Heels
Scott
Johnson
Truman
Dewey
Kansas
Charles M. Johnson
Hhis
ABC
North Carolina
BAD GAMBLE British policy in Near East draws criticism
The piece argues Labour's two way policy risks war by mixing domestic socialist aims with imperial tactics abroad. It questions Britain's actions over Israeli Arab conflict, UN stance, and defense pacts, suggesting miscalculation and overcaution aimed at countering Soviet influence. It faults diplomats and unions for mixed signals.
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Attlee
Subcontinent
India
Britain
Russia
Palestine
Egypt
Trans - Jordan
United Nations
United States
Israel
Mak
American Export Lines Repays Ten Years of Operating Subsidy
The American Export Lines has repaid the Maritime Commission the full subsidy it received over the last decade, totaling 5,252,628.66 plus interest with 61 percent allocated to seamen’s wages. The move signals the line’s efficiency and profitability amid foreign competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maritime Commission
Capitol Square Senate Report Signals Possible Long Session
Excerpts note many members seek leave for Friday and Saturday as Raleigh lawmakers begin a week of budget discussion. Governor Scott’s budget message and the advisory budget commission report frame conflicts over roads funding and revenue balancing.
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Kerr Craige Ramsay
House of Representatives
Raleigh
Advisory Budget Commission
General Assembly
Budget Commission
Scott
Assembly
Education Commission
Capital Square
North Carolina
J. Elmer Long
George Ross
Markets
Broughton
Oscar Pitts
Emery B. Denny
State Supreme Court
The Collecting Boss and the Future of American Savings
George Sokolsky argues collection and taxation shape society. He recalls his own rise from a summer office boy to a payer of income taxes, warning that high taxes erode independence. The piece urges saving, life insurance, and self reliance to preserve freedom for the future.
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United States
Internal Revenue
America
Four Power trip stories and postwar aims in Israel and Germany
Army Undersecretary Draper recalls a goodwill trip with M Sergeant Sir Percy Mills and Generals Shabolin and Zorin to the French Riviera. Zorin allegedly taught Russian 21 to the group as they traded views on world peace. Also notes Israel aims to become a top diamond cutting and pony center shifting from Amsterdam during Nazi occupation and seeking skilled cutters to Palestine.
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Washington
NEA
William H. Draper, Jr
Big Four
Germany
French
Riviera
M. Sergeant
Percy Mills
Shabolin
Zorin
Berlin
Nice
France
Fourpower
General Draper
Israel
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Netherlands
New York
Palestine
Air Express
Winchell Column Sparks Airport Bride Tale and Political Jabs
The column cites Winchell joking about a Cincinnati airport manager marrying a New York dancer, identifying Carolyn Ayres as the bride-to-be. It notes Isenberg will bring his New York bride elect to Cincinnati after the wedding, and comments on a broader anti-Communist and political debate era, including references to Forrestal, Vaughan, and the Dies Committee.
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Columist
Winchell J .W
Cincinnati
New York
Winchell
Carolyn Ayres
Copacabana
Robert M. Isenberg
Airlines Terminal Corporation
Greater Cincinnati
W. S. Delaney
Washington Times-Herald
Harry S. Vaughan
Wall St
James V. Forrestal
Vaughan
Un-American Activities Group
Dies Committee
National Planning Association warns against civil liberty erosion
A report by the National Planning Association, filed by prominent Americans, warns officials claiming to guard military secrets are imperiling civil liberties at home. The association urges Americans not to compromise with those who advocate or practice repression domestically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Planning Association
Ass'n
Forrestals
Hopleys
Eliot Attacks Against Forrestal Questioned
A columnist accuses George Fielding Eliot of venom over his attacks on Lec’y Forrestal and says no underlying reason for the grievance exists. The paper asserts the Hopley Report, sponsored by Forrestal, is a blueprint for dictatorship and claims to prove it with direct quotes. A San Francisco radio calm cites a December 16 statement about Winchell and a decline in popularity.
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Air Force
Germany
San Francisco
Forrestal
Winchell and Pearson
Farina
George Fielding Eliot
Lec'y Forrestal
Eliot
Hopley
Winchell
Ex-Hitler troopers arrive. dispersed with force
The report notes a group described as former Nazi storm troopers arriving recently. They triggered alarm by misplacing themselves, prompting authorities to act and remove the group with decisive measures.
Little Flyer Horizontal Puzzle Clues Solve Word Corners
A compact word list revealing crossword like clues across vertical and horizontal entries. Beads of hints include feathered creature fabric loom social insect shrubs and more. Answers span common terms like onager hammer riches dawn and many others.
Hitler quote on world peace and disaster misused for antiwar appeal
A reader is urged to mail a paragraph to U.N. delegates to help halt a war. The text cites Hitler from January 29 1930 in The Voelkischer Beobachter claiming an Allied conference would trigger misfortune and blood and fire, praising him as a clairvoyant.
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U.N
Germany
Tax cut promises in 1948 election year
A 1948 broadcast notes that voters are promised a tax cut of about 40 dollars per person for the year, roughly 80 cents a week, while warning the national budget will rise by at least two and a half billion dollars. The piece suggests the saving in 1948 will be offset by higher costs in 1949 due to election-year politics.
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United States
United States’ Treasury
Engagement Set for Racia Cohn and Henry Jame
Mr and Mrs Morton M Cohn of 131 Dover Street Manhattan Beach announce the engagement of their daughter Racia to Henry Jame of 150 Riverside Drive New York City We note the couple's future plans are not disclosed in this notice.
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N. Y
Morton M. Cohn
Dover St
Manhattan Beach
Racia
Henry Jame
Riverside Dr
N. Y. Co
Quotes on power and ethics from Raymond B. Fosdick
The statement warns that humanity’s pursuit of physical power without ethical and social safeguards could lead to self-destruction of society. Fosdick, former Rockefeller Foundation president, speaks on risks of unchecked scientific progress.
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Raymond B. Fosdick
Rockefeller Foundation
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