City Council’s careful hunt for a new city manager
The editorial criticizes delay in selecting a new city manager after the death of E M Knox while praising the council’s deliberate approach. It argues for hiring a top qualified leader at a reasonable pay and discusses wartime economics, synthetic rubber advances, and the long road to automobile plant reconversion and repair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. M. Knox
Knox
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Schenley Distilleries
Baltimore Evening Sun
William Jeffers
New York
Jeffers
Thoughts of Others Echo War Era Hopes and Local Views
Readers share reflections on postwar furniture demand, American pride, and the war effort. Notables like Ralph Rochelle and Harold Gilmore discuss industry recovery, patriotism, and civic leadership while others comment on topics from golf to reckless driving and community roles in High Point and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Rochelle
Grand Rapids
Axis defense on Sicilian beaches undercuts Nazi reserves
The report notes a weak Axis stand on southeastern Sicily supporting Allied hopes of low Nazi resources. Bombing of Sicilian airfields and defenses is cited, with invasion points still reachable from Italy, suggesting Hitler overextended and failed to strengthen frontline positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily
Hitler
Italy
Feud Fallout Reshapes U S Government Agencies
Peter Edson outlines the Wallace Jones clash repercussions and a coming face lift for Henry Wallace. He notes the RFC reorganizations are vast, complex, and costly, with State Department control expanding and Foreign Service officers taking on business roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Wallace
Jesse Jones
White House
Budget Bureau
Mr. Wallace
Board of Economic Warfare
Henry
New Deal
Wallace and Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
General Electric
General Motors
RFC
Cuba
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
United Kingdom
United States
Russia
Congress
Sen
State Dept
Cordell Hull
State Department
Foreign Service
Hull
Board of Economic Operations
Dean Acheson
Department
State Deartment
Knowledge as Power in Bacon and Proverbs Echo
A compact reflection on wisdom and power, contrasting gold with knowledge. It weaves Proverbs 8 10 guidance with Baconian emphasis on knowledge as strength, suggesting intellectual wealth over material gain.
Political jests amid pie and temper jokes
The Ohioan arrested for intoxication blamed mince pie. The piece jokes about politicians and liquor shortages shaping the era, with satirical quips about Hitler and Mussolini testing tempers and lines at a recent meeting.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Winchell on Broadway and a parade of new books
A late 1940s Times review quotes Winchell praising Boeing’s new Flying Fortress and notes authorial success from sold pieces. The column surveys exchanges from Max Hill AP with critiques of Franco Spain and Nationalist media, plus summaries of works by Ullstein, Smith, Ickes, Williams, Cohn and Simon and Schuster.
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High Point Enterprise
R. B. Terry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
J. P. Rawley
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
Associated Press
High Point
N. C
John Budd CO
Lexington Ave
N. Y
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Wall Street Journal
WSJ
Iowa State College
Schenley
A. J. Liebman
Foxy Fox
Fox
Philadelphia
CPA
Mr. Fox
Brookings Institution
America
Harold Gilmore
North Africa
Joseph C. Grew
China
USO
Virginia Frank
USC
Bob Sechrest
Rupert T. Pickens
T. Carlton Kirkman
W. G. Friddle
James B. Lovelace
D. I. Clark
Ernest Kooles
Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina
MT. Etna
Peter Edson
Harry Flood Byrd
Office of Economic Warfare
Leo T. Crowley
OFW
Bacon
Winchell
Broadway
W. L. White
Harcourt-Brace
Boeing
the Times
Private Hargrove
Max Hill
Farrar-Rinehart
Franco
Spain
Thomas J. Hamilton
Knopf
Walter Graebner
Lippincott
Graebner
U. S
H. Ullstein
House of Ullstein
Simon Schuster
Germany
H. Allen Smith
W. W
Mirror
Page 10
Harold Ickes
Reynal & Hitchcock
Ben Ames Williams
Houghton-Mifflin
Mark
Massachusetts
Ohio
Georgia
Mississippi
California
Oregon
Minnesota
Wales
Michigan
Tony
David L. Cohn
Simon and Schuster
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