War Manpower Figures Criticized as Harmful War Nerve Tactics
The piece argues Paul McNutt and General Lewis Hershey use a "war of nerves" on draft age fathers. It claims most fathers are ready to serve, warns against weekly speeches, and cites the president's draft threat as questionable. It predicts invasion timing influenced by bombing and industrial pressure, with surrender likely before ground troops reach Germany.
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Hether
Paul McNutt
Lewis Hershey
Selective Service
Russia
Strikin
Imany
Inston Churchill
Congress
Switzerland
Ruhr
Resignations Stir Speculation in Internal Revenue Office
The newspaper notes the resignations of Felix E. Alley Jr and Alvah Early from the staff of Collector Charles H. Robinson. It offers several theories tied to upcoming political contests involving Senator Reynolds and Governor Hoey, plus Hatch Act concerns, while acknowledging other personal or financial motives may be at play.
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Associated Press
High Point
N. C
Felix E. Alley, Jr
Alvah Early
Internal Revenue
Charles H. Robinson
Robert R. Reynolds
Clyde Hoey
Alley
Josiah W. Bailey
Mr. Early
Reynolds
Felix E. Alley
Early
Hoey
Alvan Early
Waynesville
West
Ahoskie
Hertford County
Condemnation talks and wartime talk mingle at High Point forum
Fire Chief Ingram pushes stricter condemnation rules aligned with state law while supporters praise a new realty plan. Lawyers discuss marriages balancing divorces, while leaders including Rev Dr Lockman and Gen Sorensen urge tougher action against the Axis. Public figures propose creative postwar ideas and pay plans as wartime rhetoric continues.
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FE. K. Ingram
The House in a Runaway Mood and War Agency Scrutiny
Peter Edson argues the House runs amok over war-time budgets while restoring funds in Senate corrections. He likens House sessions to a park soapbox with fights and noise, yet sees democracy at work and warns against overreaction to waste and muddling in OPA OWI WMPS NRPB FSA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
OWI
WMPS
NRPB
FSA
America
War Department eases V-mail for baby pictures
The War Department allows V-mail photos of children born after fathers left for foreign service and babies under one year. The photos may include the mother or another person, but soldiers most want pictures of their wives with their children, a powerful emotional link for servicemen.
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War Department
V-mail
Foreign Service
Verse Quotes on Fear and Love by Tennyson and Bible
A compact quotation note cites First John words that perfect love casteth out fear and notes fear as torment. It adds a Tennyson line praising love as more than lip service and dwelling deeply.
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John
Broadway Gossip Mix of Celebrities and City Tales
A lively column parades figures from William Saroyan Claudette Colbert and Mayor Hague to John Gunther and Gloria Anderson in New York anecdotes. It notes marital tensions, naval officers, theater set ups, and a war hero returning home, all amid playful captions and social glimpses.
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William Saroyan
Central Park South
Claudette Colbert
Mayor Hague
Jersey City
Hotel Plaza Stoop
General H. Morinigo
Paraguay
Joan Merrill
Versailles
New York
Havana-Madrid
Lila Lee
Gus Edwards
Dorothy Thompson
Radio City News Room
Dorothy
John Gunther
Fifth Ave
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Strand Theatre
Broadway
John A. Swank
Statler Twins
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Mgr
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D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
John Budd
Lexington Ave
N. Y
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Germany
Frank Spruill
Lexington
Hitler
Ralph W. Lockman
Ronald Hocutt
Rep
Joe Starnes
Alabama
Europe
E. P. Sorensno
Army Air Forces Intelligence Staff
Knox Wilson
CPA
Mary Sue Briggs
Rationing Board
Elmer Davis
W. G. Friddle
John L. Lewis
Charles Chakales
Japan
United States
Italy
Peter Edson
House of Representatives
Washington
Navy
Army
House
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
National Resources Planning Board
War Manpower Commission
Senate
Ity
Tennyson
Winchell
Big City
Marie Nash
Sandy
Durg
Paul Draper
Muriel
Paul
Ed Quinn
Palm Beach
59Th St
Paul Whiteman
Ford
Henry
Dora Maugham
Chas. Chaplin, Jr
Patsy England
Oona
Abe Attell
Gloria Anderson
Star and Garter
George Hale
Laurence Stallings
Dick Haymes
John Garth
WABC
Varga
P. Stack
Esquire
Eleanor Teeman
P. Central
Paramount
Bataan and
Corregidor
Music Hall
Lionel Hampton
Jupiter
Manhattan
80Th Street
42Nd Street
Madison
Journal-American
Taft Hotel
Hicktown
Eagle Squadron
U. S. Air Force
mid-West
Pat Off
Bill
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