War talk on Russia and Greece drives England to act
Amid wartime debate the piece weighs impact of Russian resistance, British aid, and Greece in shaping a broader Allied strategy. It praises Greek courage while questioning motives, and notes a divorce case involving the heavyweight champion Joe Louis, highlighting public interest in controversial domestic issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Germany
England
Moscow
Issia
Greece
Churchill
Budget tensions stir Guilford County in 1941 tax plan
Citizens from diverse groups appeared before Guilford County commissioners as they warned that the tentative budget threatens a higher tax levy for 1941. Critics blamed past spending, refunding bonds, and unauthorised projects for debt growth and warned that inflation worries loom with rising costs of essentials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford County
Guilford
Yale Professor’s Signal Idea Sparks Global Traffic Shift
Fourteen years ago Yale science professor Henry A. Haugh grew irritated by old crossing lights at Orange and Humphrey Streets in New Haven. He pursued safer, faster signals, tested them at the corner, refined the design, and partnered with Automatic Signal Corporation of Norwalk, whose devices are now widely used worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Yale
Sheffield Scientific School
Orange
Humphrey Streets
New Haven
Henry A. Haugh
Dunham Laboratory
Bermuda
Germany
Wake Up Call to a Fractured Nation in Reveille
Walter Winchell evokes a rousing, wartime tone urging Washington and American heroes like Paul Revere, Miles Standish, John Paul Jones, and General Custer to rise against perceived treachery and decadence. He condemns modern democracy as plagued by rackets, profit, and cowardice while warning of fascist threats and urging unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Washington
Miles
New England
Captain Standish
Captain Miles
John Paul Jones
Mole
General Custer
Battle-cry Across Time Reveals Union Defiance
A rousing verse invites Abe Lincoln Grant Lee to join a wartime chorus urging courage against the Axis. The speaker wields ghosts of Civil War figures to rally citizens from towns and farms to defend liberty and a renewed national resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ulysses Grant
Robert Lee
New Order
Grant
Lee
Guilford tax rate set at eighty two cents
Local observers report Guilford County will levy a property tax rate of 82 cents per hundred dollars assessed valuation as chairman George L. Stansbury announces the figure. The item notes tax policy while touching on community events and brief mentions of residents and local happenings.
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George L. Stansbury
Board of County Commissioners
Guilford
Tom Alderman Sykes
England
Edgar T. Hole
Guilford College
Central Friends Church
Brevities and Quotations on Public Life
A collection of short remarks and quips on celebrities, military life, sin, politics, and social behavior. Highlights include Archbishop Stritch on modernity, a Fortune poll director on alliances, draftee attire, furloughed soldiers boredom, flies naps, and views on dances and sports.
Hendersons OPACS aims clash with profiteering risk
Peter Edson reports from Washington on Leon Henderson and the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply as they seek to curb inflation and profiteering while facing evasions, rumored price control legislation, and political opposition from pro inflation advocates and buyers who want prices kept down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Henderson
Peter Edson
Enterprise Washington Co
Washington
Leon Henderson
OPACS
Prieur
Henderson
Germany
Baruch
Congress
Billy
Brickbat
Senate Agriculture Committee
Cotton Ed Smith
Lynchburg
S. C
John H. Bankhead II
Jasper
Ala
Elmer
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High Point Enterprise
Rawley
B. Terry
A Rawley
Ammetta
Cecil
Mgr
Scapus M. Waynick
Mign Point
Associated Press
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Dhatecfica
Migle Poins
Budd CO
Lexington Avé
New York City
Schiller
Joe’ Louis
Joe
G. W. Carver
Italy
Reidsville Review
Florence
Nazirone
Archibald Wavell
Middle East
India
Edward R. Murrow
London
Wavell
Charlotte News
Japan
John Barleycorn
Marne
Dale Carnegie
Walter Winchell
Reveille
George
Valley Forge
People
Paul Revere
Benedict Arnold
Mars
Broadway
Dewey
Manila
Farragut
Perry
Jerry
Abe
Harper's Perry's
Abraham
J. W. Harriss
Welch Harriss
Comer Covington
Harriss Covington
Wrightsville Beach
Esther Garris
Raleigh
Page Trust Company
A. B. Elam
Winston- Salem
Max Schmeling
Bill Stribling
Cleveland
Ohio
Professor Haugh
America
Attila Cortolani
Forth Worth
Twins
Winston-Salem
Pointers
High Point
High Point Hotel Company
Metropolitan Insurance Company
Frank Wineskie
Miss Frances Mof
Fitt
Birmingham
Fred Thomas
Bain Avenue
W. Lewis Tabb
Petersburg
Richmond
Ruby Thompson
Lumberton
Mabel Boyd
Main and
Howell Streets
A. D. R. Hancher
J. L. Morgan
United Lutheran Synod of North Carolina
F. W. Galbraith
American Legion
Indianapolis
Legionnaires
Veterans Federation
Fort Sheridan
Archbishop Stritch
Chicago
Soviet Union
Elmeo Roper
Fortune Magazine
Price’ Henderson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
California
South Dakota
Mixed Claims Commission
John W. Evans
New York
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