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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1938
Page
4
A damaged excerpt cites Kinchi 2 10 with themes of treachery against a brother and covenants. The fragment hints at divine law, virtue as firmness, and the weight of name and oath in ancient moral discourse.
The Federation of Investors Inc. released a study showing taxes on 150 industries doubled from 1932 to last year. It warns rising burdens reduce corporate earnings and dividends, threaten investor buying power, and compel broader tax-funded financing to sustain prosperity.
Shortly after the turn of the century a riot or clash occurred in New York City as radicals disrupted a West Side event amid a surge of sentimental sociological interest and urban tension.
A Greenville newspaper man argues poverty exists in both the North and South, urging balance in economic appraisal and noting relentless poverty across regions. He questions taxation as a root cause of political disaffection amid debates on centralization and reform.
A Republican senatorial campaign line asserts appeal to women investors in public utility stocks and bonds. The chairman cautions the claim lacks authenticity and predicts a continued Democratic Senate. Voters favoring lower electricity costs may undermine the campaign, leaving the administration’s power policy largely unscathed.
A statewide survey by the North Carolina League of Municipalities probes city government and tax overlaps as the WPA funds most of the $165000 study. Officials note rising state influence on local revenue and the integration of taxation could shape policy beyond 1939.
In Alva Oklahoma Hugh S Johnson exemplifies taking responsibility. He joined West Point, led draft card printing in 1917 after Congress delayed, and earned promotion to brigadier general. His story urges embracing duty in small and large tasks to achieve success.
A jumble of quotes from Dr. G W Forster, Louise Weaver, W E Garnett, John D M Hamilton and Baroness Audrey Kargare touching on politics, work, soil and press freedoms. The passage then shifts to a light note about the President chasing fish off the California coast after a cross country angling trip with elephants and yahoos.
Mike Jacobs profiles Walter Winchell's guest column, detailing Uncle Mike's rise from a $2 Broadway room to promoting over a hundred boxing shows with $5,138,000 gross and two million spectators. He outlines schedules in Madison Square Garden, imports fighters, scouting, and ventures into jai alai while noting tax and travel costs and other sports ventures. Joe Louis and Henry Armstrong are central figures in his plans.
Gaston B. Means is released from the penitentiary after serving two two year terms with good behavior time. He is freed as a pauper after swearing lack of resources to avoid a $10,000 fine. The article notes his involvement with a conspiracy and prior thefts of government whisky and a ransom scheme.
The editorial notes German officials hide truth of a major Anglo American offensive in which U S forces fought. Berlin claims 20000 prisoners but omits American troops and warns that Franco American efforts will grow as the front extends toward Germany.
Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall, founders of the Theatre Guild, operate the Westport Country Playhouse in their remodeled barn seven miles from their Weston home. Their daughter Phyllis, 18, acts, and the couple sometimes write plays. Westport attracts New York actors for summer seasons with weekly bill changes and Monday first nights. Frazier Hunt buys a Connecticut farm with plans for year‑round use while working on a Saskatchewan ranch project.
The article profiles Louise Bryant, chief secretary to Grover Whalen at the New York World’s Fair, noting her London education, global travel, tactful staff management, and ability to manage visitors efficiently. It also recounts Tom Stix’s nerves about a window washer outside his 46th floor Radio City office and a beggar near the Booth Theatre referencing You Can’t Take It With You.
From a Times office view the writer recalls the sentimental pull of watching a great liner depart its pier and head downstream with mystery and romance. The scene evokes inland readers imagining the strangers aboard and the destinations beyond the harbor.
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