Tax Bill Brings Mixed Reactions and Political Gossip
The article notes disappointment with a 75 percent tax forgiveness for high incomes and hopes for a broad pay-as-you-go shift. It discusses Ehringhaus and Jonathan Daniels as possible NC political players, and warning that future tax bills will push higher levies on all, with no lasting relief for the affluent.
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Congress
North Carolinas
R. L. Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
The
House
Tom Best
Greensboro Daily News
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
Jonathan Daniels
North Carolina
Hoey
United States Senate
Ehringhaus
John L Lewis in the A F of L clash and labor unity
A skeptical assessment links John L Lewis ego and power drive to re affiliating the United Mine Workers with the A F of L. The piece warns he seeks greater control, risks union integrity, and may side with strikes against wartime security. It notes subsequent mention of German captives in North Africa possibly being sent to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
Lewis
Mr. Lewis
Federation
A. F. of L
United States
S.B.H
North Africa
New York
Hitler
Opinions on council votes and war effort voices
City councilman Dr J G Groome says he will vote with Democrats when equal on merit. various figures discuss war work, fundraising for the Milk Fund, hospitality for soldiers, camping memories, and international leaders Winston Churchill and Per Albin Hansson with remarks on price controls and resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Groome
Real Danger On Home Front Warns Peter Edson
Peter Edson argues inflation threatens the home front while production wins momentum abroad. He cites WPB reforms, wage and price control clashes, Opposition in Congress, and the War Labor Board as contributing to indecision and potential defeat if reorganizations do not occur. He warns the nation could lose the inflation battle and the war at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephus
Jonathan
Cleveland
Wilson
Roosevelt II
United States
North Carolina
National Committee
Ehringhaus
Danielses
Tunisia
Attu
War Production Board
Army
Navy
WPB
Congress
Office of Price Administration
Ferdinand
Sean Henderson
OPA
Prentiss M. Brown
War Food Administration
WLB
War Labor Board
Boeing
Chrysler
John L. Lewis
Office of Economic Stabilization
White House
From Inferior Farmer to Poverty Mark Twain Quote
A thought cites Isaiah about thorns and land while noting Mark Twain’s remark on a once inferior farmer rising from affluence to poverty. The brief reflects a literary attribution.
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Mark Twain
Patchy World War II Nonsense Mixed With Odd Sayings
The text parrots rumors about Hitler and Mussolini and adds quirky lines about poultry, egg prices, and loving neighbors with garden tools. It reads like a collage of misreported claims and jokes from a chaotic era.
Broadway Gossip Parade Features Stars and War Plotlines
A collage of New York social notes details encounters at the Colony and Stork with figures like the Marquis de la Falaise, Gene Markey, Morton Downey, Loretta Young, Geo Jessel, Mary Pickford, Paulette Goddard, and Kay Kyser. It notes book deals, premieres, romance rumors, and stage shows, plus war-time cinema spins and club chatter around Manhattan venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquis de la Falaise
Gene Markey
Morton Downey
Bennett Sisters
Connie
Joan
Barbara
Bing Crosbys
Stork
Byron C. Foy
Harry McNaughton
Paul Lavalle
Loretta Young
Monte Carlo Beach
Geo. Jessel
Mary Pickford
Burgess Meredith
Paulette Goddard
Warners
J. Davies
Moscow
Kay Kyser
Eunice Musgrove
San Fran
Morton
Reno
Aresi Rinaldo
Copacabana
Pierre
Mary Howard
MGM
Dorothy Fox
Florida
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Jerry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
Ite
Associated Press
Igh Point
Noc
Carrie
Mational
John Budd CO
Lexington Ave
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
William Green
Junior Service League
A. B. Henley
High Point Council of Jewish Women
Eugene Mihaly
Soldier's Hospitality Committee
Sedgefield
Service Men's Center
J. F. Hayden
Carlton Kirkman
Cpl
James J. Pilcher
U. S. Army
Jim Ryan
J. P. Few
High Point
North Main Street
Lexington Avenue
C. N. Cox
Marjorie O’brien
Comintern
Stalin
Ed O'Hara
Winston-Churchill
Tokyo Radio
Permier Per Albin Hansson
Sweden
Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina
Aleutians
Peter Edson
Mussolini
Winchell
Broadway
Bigtown
Jessel
Benny Ruilen
Italy
Benny
John P. Monroe
Porter
Monroe
Kaplan
Powers
New
Vaughn Monroe
Ray Hutton
Indiana
New Yorker
Orient
Java
Australia
Mutual
Africa
Lisbon
Casbah
la Conga
Hollywood
Casablanca
Clark Gable
Harrington and Hyers
Manhattan
West 42Nd Street
H. P. Spences
Yank
Soldiers’ Weekly
Heaven
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