Postwar planning urged for High Point communities
A Greensboro Daily News editorial argues postwar planning should begin at local level with municipal boards and a strong foundation in community needs. It warns High Point must prepare to avoid population and business loss to other towns, citing Wake Forest and Wake Forest alumni as context.
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Greensboro Daily News
High Point
Greensboro
Guilford County
Washington
North Carolina
Raleigh
Broughton
Chamber of Commerce
Roy Braden
Braden
Judge Grady and Durham School Board Split Over Ban on Fraternities
The piece questions Judge Henry Grady's ruling for the Durham City Board of Education in a suit by banned student fraternities and sororities at Durham High School. It recalls Grady's Klan past and notes the tension between prohibiting secret societies and parental wishes for their sons to join such groups.
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Durham School Board
Wake Forest College
North Carolina
Wake Forest
Henry Grady
Durham City
Judge Grady
Durham
Grady
Invasion Money and Inflation Risks in Allied Occupied Areas
The piece argues that invasion money used in liberated territories risks inflation as paper currency issued abroad circulates back to the United States. It warns of yellow seals replacing blue and questions safeguards to retire inflationary dollars on return.
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Algeria
Sicily
Italy
United States
War wage hikes shift spending toward women’s goods and luxuries
A survey by Northwestern National Life reports war wage increases largely fuel demand for women’s and misses garments jewelry furs amusements playing cards and cigarettes. A roving reporter notes Eagle Grove jeweler selling two dozen high value watches by noon and Ames music store selling out pianos up to 565 dollars. A Chicago poker club bans married men.
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Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Eagle Grove
Ames
Community voices urge support for war effort and TB awareness
Citizens across Greensboro and High Point share appeals for wartime charity and efficient homefront measures. D W Stanley calls for hundreds of books for sick soldiers, while Frank Webster notes TB disqualifications in a mass draft. J F Jones promotes simpler wartime ration book four registration and Ruth Buckner contrasts USO access for service members. Capt Henry Heimann and Lieut Ira Baker speak on postwar debt and guarantees, and Roy Braden praised for leadership as industry presses production.
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J. F. Jones
Anglo American policy debate clouded by dust and divisions
The piece notes growing difficulty reporting on Anglo American talks as Churchill and British papers clash with U.S. senators over trade, bases, and lend-lease. It cites Roosevelt responses, Senate Mead’s stance, and calls for protecting American interests while wary of isolationist backlash.
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Washington
Churchill
United States
Sonny
Bank Fort
London
Azores
Roosevelt
Sekes
Foreign Oil Distribution Bureau
Capitol Hill
Mead
White House
Lodge
Russia
Japan
Asia
Chandler
Pacific
Europe
Germany
Senate
Quote from Pope echoes on empty heads and speaking
An old quotation attributed to the Pope comments that those with much talk have empty minds, suggesting hollow comfort from empty words. The verse from Matthew 6 7 underscores warning against repetitive prayer without meaning.
Wallaces lead in White House polls and Hollywood notes
Private polls show Wallace ahead for vice president, with opposition including Byrnes McNutt and Winant. A round of society chatter, theater gossip, and wartime politics follows from Washington and New York, mentioning Ann Sheridan, Leslie Howard, Berle Jr., Sinatra finances, and Ireland's Valera paying for a Dublin synagogue restoration amid postwar debates.
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Washington
New York
White House
Wallace
J. Byrnes
P. McNutt
Justice Douglas
J. Winant
Clare Luce
Capitol
Stork Club
America
Joseph Auslander
Adolf A. Berle, Jr
Leslie Howard
L.E.R
the Times
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
E B
Mgr
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
Ite
Associated Press
Locm News
N.C
National Native
John Budd CO
Lexington Ave
N. C
City
Audit Bureau OF Circulations
Invasion Money
Chicago
BTC 10
D. W. Stanley
Elks Club
Cecil
Frank W. Webster
The
North Carolina Tuberculosis Association
Kate Ragan
Mabel Burnett
Henry H. Heimann
USN
Association of Credit
Ira CC
Baker
England
Baltimore
Ruth Buckner
USC
USO
Williams
Jack
Cleveland
Mrs
Paul Mallon
Private
Breger Abroad
Pope
Winchell
Broadway
Ann Sheridan
Brazil
the Mirror
Colin Kelly
Kyle Critchton
H'wood
Collier's
Southwest
Scribner's
Bernard Baruch
Washington Stenogs
Doubleday Doran
Armand Vecsey
Fiddler
Ritz
Sinatra
Perfume Man
Irish Echo
de Valera
Eire
Hitler
Dublin
T. P. McKeever
Paul Scheffer
U. S
Herr Goebbels
Das Reich
Pearl Harbor
South Carolina
Scheffer
Bibble
N. Y
Alan Hynd
Kurt Malzahn
Philadelphia
Molzahn
Hynd
Congress
Siberian
Thawt
CBS
Howard K. Smith
Time and Life
Berne
Senator Bailey
Senator Wheeler
Len Bailey
Len Wheeler
Marshal Rommel
Sen. Wheeler
Walter Winchell
Bailey
Robert E. Lee
Wheeler
Montana
Britain
China
Franco
Spain
Fdr
Archbishop Spellman
Collier
Gen. Doolittle
N. Africa
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