Politics in North Carolina campaign humor and irony
The piece jokes about raising 65 000 North Carolina dollars to back Roosevelt, noting collectors target people who may not support him. It notes surprising cross alliances and irony, including figures like Clyde Hoey and Earl Browder, and ends by saying politics, though serious, has laughs.
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North Carolina
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Litle
Political Action Committee
Sidney Hillman
Clyde Hoey
Earl Browder
Frank Graham
Chapel Hill
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh
Washington Liquor Lobby
Jean Harrington
St. Clare's
Mervyn LeRoy
Sally Wright
Joan Webster
School For Brides
Hollywood
Aachen’s Surrender Dilemma Aims for Reluctant German Holdouts
In a blunt wartime analysis, the writer argues German high command fights blind at Aachen preferring to hold rather than withdraw. The Allied pause to offer surrender terms backfired as Germans fortified escapes while relief forces moved, while Allied pamphlets failed to shift a stubborn defense. The piece contrasts German and English paratroopers and notes soldiers on the ground grasp the stakes better than distant commanders.
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Hitler
Aachen
G.I. Joe
England
Diligent FBI Operator Recovers 10-Cent Mat
A young FBI operator carried to a newspaper a mimeographed schedule of Director Scheidt speaking engagements and a mat of his photo. He promised to call back to recover the mat, saved the editor a trip, and waited to ensure publication. The episode cost several dollars in time and travel but shows tenacity. A beauty claim about 98 of 100 women having crooked noses is noted with a joke about readers. The piece ends with a political jab about this football season and the electoral college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Scheidt
War Chest campaign praised by NC officials
Chester A. Kerr lauds the October issue of The Enterprise for United War Chest efforts in North Carolina. J F Jones notes a large ration board meeting in Winston-Salem stressing inflation control, while Mrs. J F Hayden invites public attendance at North Carolina Division United Daughters of the Confederacy sessions at Wesley Memorial Methodist church.
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United War Chest
Chester A. Kerr
United War Fund of
North Carolina
Ruth Neve
Winston-Salem
J. F. Jones
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
I.d.c
Age of Pioneers Highlighted in Education Talk
Dr. L D Haskew of Emory University describes a coming era in North Carolina as The Age of Pioneers. He notes current labels like Century of the Common Man or Electronic Age but hopes for a name that endures in schoolboys 2544.
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L. D. Haskew
Emory University
Age of Pioneers
North Carolina
Bobbie Sock
Reginald
Butch
Roosevelt Circular Drives CIO White Collar Unit
A wartime style pamphlet features an image of Franklin D. Roosevelt and claims the President endorses a CIO white collar membership drive. The circular asserts Roosevelt helped organize unions, guided the NLRB, and opposes independent unions, urging workers to join and expand opportunity for white collar workers in America’s future.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
A. F. of
NLRB
United States
USO
CIO
America
Roosevelt
Roosevelt and CIO fusion sparks election debate
The piece argues Roosevelt's policies are the central issue in the November elections and warns about the CIO PAC and its ties to Hillman and Browder. It contrasts Sam Gompers and the AFL with the CIO’s political role, calling for voter registration and scrutiny of party alignment.
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Roosevelt
America
United Office and Professional Workers of America
White House
Convention of the
Union
United Office and Professional Workers of America, Cio
VOPWA
CIO
Sam Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Phil Murray
Franklin D. Roosevelt
PAC
Earl Browder
Communist Party
Mr. Roosevelt
New York
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
California
Sidney Hillman
Cio—-Pac
Hillman
Browder
Rosevelt
World postwar formula advances in Congress views
A Washington dispatch reports strong bipartisan support in Congress for the Dumbarton Oaks world peace plan. The proposal envisions a world council under a Security Council led by the United States with Russia and Britain, backed by sanctions and a league like framework to deter aggressors.
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Washington
Congress
Dumbarton Oaks
Senate
League of Nations
World Council
League
Kellogg-Briand Paet
World Court of Jus
United States
Russia
Britain
Security Council
U. S
Big Five United Nations to have six rotating members
Paul Mallon explains a proposed United Nations council where permanent members number five while six rotating seats from smaller nations form the decisive majority. The council could urge actions from social sanctions to invasion, though housing arrangements and unanimity rules remain undecided. Washington is urged as a natural headquarters for a world body with broader scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Council
Washington
League
Switzerland
Winchell on Broadway and Society Gossip Roundup
A whirlwind of celebrity tidbits from Broadway and New York society. Wendell Willkie rumors, Carole Landis and Lt. Bob, Celeste Holm salaries, Jack Warner Dewey politics, Al Smith remarks, Henry Kaiser and socialites, Ava Gardner, Eddy Duchin, Count Basie, and a flurry of marriages and engagements shape the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Willkie
Beatrice Lillie
U. S
Billy Rose
Shuberts
James Cagney
Jeanne
Spaulding
Midity
Carole Landis
Bob
Louella Parsons
Basin Street
Rio de Janiero
Tex
Maria Therestiniss de Mello
Joy Hodges
C.O.D. Accids
Eddy Duchin
Ava Gardner
Artie Shaw
Virginia
E. Durgeling
N . Fanchon
Robert W. Johnson
St. Padee
Betty Wold
Feme
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R. B. Terry
D. A. Rawley
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
Robert L. Thomason
Enterprise
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Incai
High Point
John Bodd CO
Lexington Ave
N. C
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Willkie
Herbert Hoover
FBI Diligence
Electoral College
Besore and
J. F. Hayden
Anding OF the
Jack Stinnett
Zelma Thornton
Looper
Melrose Hosiery Mills
George Sokolsky
Paul Mallon
MAN About Town
Celeste Holm
Bloomer
Oklahoma
War Labor Board
Zanuck
Ann Sheridan
Warner's
Sta
Jack Warner
Dewey
Col. H. I
Banking
Anittle
Frank L Pop
Ly Rays
Henry Kaiser
Jackie Heller
Lou
N Dy
Jackie
Star
al Capone
Doniel
Ann
Sechlangwidge
Clare Hoffman
al Smith
Fordham University
F.F.M
Alfred E. Fulton Fish Market
Empire State Building
5Th Avenue
Feds
Wheeler
Manville
Reno
Jimmy Ryan
52Nd Street
Cece Eames
Ington
Judge Vinson
Chester Bowles
Tha Henderson
H. Kaiser
Bill Batt
Jean Sutherlin
Lyne Smith
Armed Corps
Life
Count Basie
Waldorf
Hot Springs
Florida
Charlie Barnet
Terry
Rex Smith
John Carroll
Fillamy
Civvies
Sheila Rogers
Carlos Tresca
Private
Breger Abroad
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