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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1934
Page
4
The High Point Enterprise discusses tobacco growers pushing for cigarette tax cuts. It argues the four major manufacturers benefit from reduced competition, while NC tobacco leaf farmers seek market expansion and state welfare considerations amid a heavy tax regime.
The writer chronicles a March morning in New York observing literary agents, theater connections, and social visits. He notes conversations with figures like Verne McKenzie Clifton Webb Westbrook Pegsler and C Fred Kenking,Plus Will Rogers and Edith elite. He praises agents for their industry and recalls George Arliss thirty year marriage and sunset routines.
A compact collection of a Bible verse urging hardening not hearts in temptation and a line from Shakespeare about forgiveness. The two quotes contrast divine caution with human clemency.
In Yugoslavia King Alexander forbids Louis Adamic’s The Native’s Return and bans mention of the volume. Subjects with copies face imprisonment up to ten years, while bringing or circulating it carries five to ten years. Newspapers and critics are forbidden to acknowledge its existence. The book, a US bestseller, recounts Adamic’s return to his homeland. The martial tone of suppression contrasts with the author’s candid praise of Yugoslavia’s potential.
Miss Frances Perkins argues in Good Housekeeping that firms should set aside profits as an Unemployment Reserve to fund supplemental pay when workers are laid off. She contrasts old use of surpluses for dividends and expansion with a safety fund to stabilize purchasing power and prevent wage loss.
A reflective essay urging Holy Week devotion in High Point. It asks Christians to share meditation, walk the Saviour’s path, seek sincere communion, and resist distant or depersonalized images of Christ. It emphasizes fellowship, humility, and living the gospel in daily life.
The piece portrays Samuel Insull as a fugitive figure roaming between continents, a stranded magnate haunted by a deep compulsion. It calls him a strange, self exiled utilities mogul whose ascent and fall illustrate a relentless pursuit by consequence.
Once a powerful industrialist financier and patron of the arts, Samuel Ansull amassed vast wealth and influence in a world that tolerated ruthless energy. Now his vast dominion has shrunk to a rusty Greek freight steamer and a tenuous reach only to her bridge, fading like yesterday’s mist.
The ship roams eastern waters as Insull hunts a hiding place beyond charts. Whether captured or not, his punishment follows him, a haunting memory of a ruined kingdom and shattered reputation that cannot be escaped. Retribution, long overdue, has already caught up with him.
A New York judge warned of a flaw in automobile injury protection after a motorist who struck a couple faced bankruptcy. The couple won $6500, but the driver discharged the judgment by bankruptcy, leaving them unpaid. The judge advocates compulsory liability insurance to ensure victims can be compensated.
The article notes 17 Japanese army and navy pilots killed in crashes over the past month amid harsh winter training. It contrasts Japan's aviation woes with the American air force which continues regular war training without similar wholesale tragedies.
In Brooklyn New York the CWA reportedly paid 70 dollars per unit to eliminate a rate. The article notes the use of a rare imported cheese in the process.
Aimee Semple Mc Pherson-Hutton proclaims “Never again” about marriage and warns on kidnapping. The note then shifts to sports, stating baseball grows in Russia while golf is declared Germany’s national sport, reflecting politics and cultural exchange.
Workers march to multiple auto plant sites in a coordinated action. strikers converge city streets, calling for higher wages and better benefits as managers monitor the demonstrations. Police maintain traffic flow and ensure safety during the rally.
A humorous remark from Postmaster Farley asserts that politicians are more honest than other groups yet accuses them of being inveterate jokers. The quote reflects a sharp, ironic view on political integrity.
The theatre scene saw its longest sustained cheers this season for Dodsworth with seven curtain calls. Walter Huston and Fay Bainter received a grand reception after long absences, while producer Max Gordon attended a nearby cinema on premiere night.
A playful observation notes bankers counting sheep to fall asleep, with the speaker joking about being one of their shorn rocks and expressing a bleating sentiment. The lines mix insomnia with whimsical metaphor about finance and grazing imagery.
W. L. Gordon presents guidance on word usage pronunciation and spelling with examples. The daily lesson emphasizes proper forms for titles, common mispronunciations, and synonyms. A daily vocabulary note highlights the word abnormal with an example sentence about an athlete.
A Q and A style piece lists: 1 Zachary Taylor as president who never voted, 2 top states in highway mileage New York Texas Ohio Pennsylvania Louisiana, 3 point of meeting of a system of rays Focus, 4 average annual book spend 25 to 30 cents, 5 one scrambled egg serves six persons.
A reader asks how to keep curtain rods from catching when threading through hems, how to launder sweaters properly, and how to make steak tender. Solutions include covering rod ends with a glove finger, washing sweaters in a cotton bag with warm soapy hands and drying flat, and pounding steak then simmering briefly in hot lard and water for tenderness and gravy.
Roberta Lee answers etiquette questions about whether a woman should rise when introduced and if a married man can be a best man. The hostess role dictates rising, while the groom may choose any trusted friend as best man regardless ofmarital status.
A crossword style grid lists clues across and down for a refresh puzzle with multiple definitions across kings ports animals words and letters. The grid includes numbered entries from newly crowned king of Belgium to seven note and ends with seventh note.
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