War shift as radios and phonographs end for war work
The government orders radios and phonographs out of general production by April 22 and redirects plants to war work. This sweeping change affects 30,000 workers in five major radio makers earning about 240 million dollars in goods, signaling a temporary business disruption but a faster war effort. The piece warns tax policy must adapt beyond income taxes, suggesting a broad transaction tax to cover war costs.
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Mars
Congress
Treasury
Wider Latitude for Women in War Work
The piece argues that women may enter more industrial roles beyond secretarial work as war production expands. It notes a skilled worker shortage, suggests training in machinism and stenography, cites the Winston-Salem Journal on capable tax department workers, and references readers donating books to soldiers with personal fly-leaves.
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Winston-Salem Journal
State Department of Revenue
Journal
Christian Science Monitor
Jesus Only as Transfigured Hope in Troubled Times
In a reflection on the transfiguration, the piece recalls Peter James and John on a mountain with Jesus and Moses and Elijah fading away, leaving Jesus only. It argues that Jesus embodies fulfillment of prophecy, Law, and salvation, and calls readers to see Jesus only amid modern trials and moral decay. The sermon cites Fosdick and Napoleon Goethe echoes to urge humility, sacrifice, and steadfast faith in Christ as the remedy for world woes.
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Jesus
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John
Caesarea Phippi
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Galilee
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Moses
Ijah
Elijah
God
Jerusalem
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Napoleon Bonaparte
Weimar
Germany
Goethe
Napoleon
Pilate
Rome
National Whirligig news behind the news
Industrialists and manufacturers face wartime shifts with mixed nerves as they convert plants to arms, seeking a square deal from Uncle Sam while workers view their effort as patriotic. The piece also surveys Japanese landing tactics and a libel suit by Jimmie Cromwell.
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Ray Tucker
Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
The Old Plank Road and the Phrenology Trap
Carrick discusses phrenology as a historical deceit, tracing its origins with Gall and Spurzheim, its rise in 1840s America, and the quacks who exploited skull readings. It notes the method's conflict with new brain science and its lasting though diminished presence today.
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Dr. Gall
Vienna
Paris
John Gaspar Spurzheim
Germany
O. S. Fowler
America
Physicians
Physicologiet
Gall
George Cruickshanks
After Thoughts on Sleep by W A Bivins
W A Bivins offers humorous insomnia coping methods. He cites counting sheep, flea-walk auto-suggestion, the old shoe method, and other quirks while remarking on sleeplessness, imagination, and the value of staying awake for daily work.
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Sancho Panza
Morpheus
Abela
Zenobia
Viki Baum
Miss Baum
About Books About Books By Ruth Suckow
Review covers Ruth Suckow novels New Hope set in Iowa two years pastorate of Reverend Greenwood and characters like the Millers Broadwater and Delight Greenwood. Praises Suckow for beauty of line clarity of detail and gentle tenderness with strength. Also notes Instruct My Sorrows by Clare Shynes about a Chicago suburb widowhood and Jessica Drummond’s reinvention after husband’s death.
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Ruth Suckow
Farrer & Rinehart
Iowa
Mr. Greenwood
New Hope
Greenwood
Millers
Mr. Broadwater
Sues
John Budd
Clarence Miller
Delight Greenwood
Clare Shynes
Random House
Chicago
Jessica Drummond
Embezzlement probes hit State Revenue staff
Asheville reports ten former State Revenue Department employees indicted on embezzlement charges. Two have pleaded guilty or no contest. others face early Wake County Superior Court trials. Disclosures show long-running shortages, prompting Governor Broughton to push stronger auditing of public funds.
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State Revenue Department
Wake County Superior Court
Broughton
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