Greensboro ABC raid nets 30 bootleg arrest warrants
Greensboro ABC officers sweeping High Point seized 30 alleged violators on 52 counts in a major Prohibition era operation. Warrants were ready as dawn broke, signaling a bold move to enforce control after Greensboro liquor stores opened. Prohibitionists say legal sales curb bootlegging and corruption, and the raid supports that view.
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Greensboro Abc
Greensboro
High Point
ABC
Nquor
Sedgefield Inn Faces Sale and New Public Face
The Sedgefield Inn is to be sold under mortgage amid questions about hotel demand. The piece argues the town needs a publicity push and a strong hotel personality, suggesting a bold rebranding and enhanced guest amenities once a highway improves access.
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Sedgefield
North Carolina
Sedgefield Inn
Bevan Gains Stir British Labour After Oct. 25 Vote
The piece notes Labour's overall popular lead over Conservatives, with Bevanites performing best. It casts Bevan as a rising power within Labour and compares his appeal to Henry Wallace’s in the United States. Bevanism is labeled an empty, defeatist outlook posing risk to global security.
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Labour
Aneurin Bevan
Attlee-Morrison
Bevan
Evan
Britain
Henry Wallace
United States
Wallace
Progressive
West
AGWA
Doctors’ Union
Desire
Bob Merrill
Guy Mitchell
George London
Jeevy
James Dunn
Elizabeth
Duke of Edinburgh
Liz
Bet
Betsy
British Commonwealth
Conscience and Scandal in Washington Tales
A humorous Washington column recounts Rep. Ralph Harvey of Indiana handling a farmwoman's sugar confession from wartime rationing. It mocks bureaucratic jargon and explores a Potomac River pollution probe led by the Banking and Currency Committee, noting absurdities and political theater.
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Rep. Harvey
CPA
Washington
Congressional
Potomac River
Committee On Interior and Insular Affairs
Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Suhcommittee
House Banking and Currency Committee
Potomac
Capitol Hill
Sirloin steak and Negress at the Stork Club debate
The column discusses Josephine Baker visiting the Stork Club's Cub Room, noting she received a sirloin instead of filet mignon and faced racial prejudice. It questions Walter Winchell's role amid protests, picketing, and political pressure, and defends the owner's prerogative to manage entry. The author criticizes media hype and defends personal privilege and decorum.
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Josephine Baker
United States
Stork Club
Sherman Billingsley
Miss Baker
Billingsley
Yam
Jong
Eleanor Roosevelt
United Nations
Walter Winchell
Winchell
Fillingsley
Quotes on responsibility love and eugenics from era voices
The excerpt presents quotes from Arthur Rodzinski Humphrey Bogart a biologist and Charles E Wilson. It contrasts blaming others with self examination in failures and comments on marriage patterns and economic emergencies reflecting era concerns.
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Arthur Rodzinski
Broadway Gossip and Star Moves From New York
A hectic read of industry maneuvering and fortunes with Harvey awards, Cary Grant, Jessica Tandy, and Harold Ross in focus. Notes on The Fourposter touring plans, Kaufman’s recovery, Debra Paget’s pay, Churchill and Muir in gossip, and club rivalries plus bids from Lindy’s and the Stork Club. davantage a collage of 1951 showbiz chatter and Oscar signals.
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Playwrights’ Company
Fourposter
Cary Grant
Jessica Tandy-Hume Cronyn
New Yorker Magazine
Harold Ross
Ross
The
New Yorker
Doubleday
Benchley
Eaf’ly
Paris
Debra Paget
George S. Kaufman
Billy Rose
Eleanor Holm
Dignity and Race Relations Highlight Local Observations
A High Point reader recounts a visit by a courteous Negro pastor and reflects on improving race relations. The piece cites Ralph C. Holmes’s monitor letter praising educated Black progress and the gradual erasure of discriminatory laws, while noting regional contrasts and broad social hope.
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Christian Science Monitor
The
Monitor
Ralph C. Holmes
Shreveport
Northwest
West Coast
Deep South
Louisiana
Butes
Holmes
North Carolina
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