Free Enterprise At Stake In Postwar Planning
An editorial urges High Point to appoint a local CEO for postwar planning, arguing free enterprise must prove its right to exist by creating jobs and avoiding government control. It warns of totalitarian risk if planning fails and calls for city, county, and state cooperation to build a model city with strong labor, racial relations, and public works.
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Membex
Associated Pr4&ss
Associated Press
High Point
N. C
Poday
High Point Comttee
Free Enter
America
PWA
Koonce
YMCA
USC
Edgar Hardy
High Point College
Sedgefield
Wilson O. Weldon
N. Y. Post
CBS
H. V. Kaltenborn
The Gospel Call and the Missionary Duty Explored
A devotional essay reflects on Romans 10 13 15 and the need to hear and believe the gospel. It cites revival stories, Athenians, and the necessity of preaching in foreign missions, urging readiness to answer the Lord’s call and spread good news worldwide.
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Moffatt
Paul
Christ
Brotherhood of Man
Kingdom of God
High Point voices urge bonds and home front support
Local residents discuss war finance and civic duties amid remarks from W L Hunt North State Telephone, J J Ellington and Edgar Hardy. Veterans and students share plans from YMCA services to touchdown clubs while others recall football triumphs and wartime sacrifice.
Political Confusion Over Confederation and Election Strategies
The piece parodies a late 1940s political landscape with claims that Republicans and Democrats conspired over conferences at Quebec Mackinac Island and a push for an Atlantic Charter. It argues Roosevelt Dewey Churchill Bricker Hopkins and Frankfurter figures and asserts maneuvers to influence voters while debating unity and policy, highlighting alleged tricks and internal party tensions.
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Quebec
Mackinac Island
U. S
League of Nations
G. O. BP
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lake Huron
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Union
Governor Bicker
Ohio
Bricker
Mackinac
Italy
Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Harvard
Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Churchill
Frankfurter
Washington
Harry Hopkins
White House
Georgetown
No immortal will come from sloth or idle prayer
The fragment urges that immortality is not earned by ease or prayer but by living honorably. It cites Psalms 39:4 and Sallust to stress virtue, duty, and upright conduct over comfort or prolonged life.
Victory War Bonds Push Drives Public Support
Citizens are urged to buy more War Bonds to fund military campaigns and support national security. Officials emphasize immediate purchase through banks and post offices, highlighting patriotic duty and collective financial strength.
On Broadway Notes Of An Innocent Bystander
A breezy roundup of theatre and media chatter. The Nazi issue in a lone drama sparks mixed reactions from critics and audiences, with new plays, film fare, and media critiques shaping a volatile week on stage and screen.
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Greece
Beatrice Straight
Whitford Kane
Norman Rose
Beatrice de Neergaard
Ward Moreehouse
Burton Rascoe
George Jean Nathan
Nathan
Shuberts
Kronenberger
Mag
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Terry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
John Budd CO
Lexington Ave. N
Audit Bureau OF Circulations
Harve
CED
North Carolina
Ady
W. L. Hunt
North State Telephone Company
Boys
J. J. Ellington
Cpl
Carl Moeller
Point, North Carolina
William Gilbert Beaver
U. S. Navy
Navy
Georgia Tech
U.C.L.A
Washington Redskins
Charlie Trippi
Georgia
Uncle Sam
Avis
Robert Martin
Peter Edson
Sleury Wallace
Winchell
Broadway
James Cagney
Johnny Come
Grace George
Ed McNamara
Robert Donat
Sighs
Sinatra
Tartu
Czechoslovakia
Valerie Hobson
Abbott and Costello
Pola Negri
Wendel
Willkie
Mr. W
H. F. Armstrong
Russia
F. Davis
Ben Hecht
Colliers
Bennett Cerf
William Lyon Phelps
Esquires
International Teamsters’ Organ
American Federation of Labor
Walter Winchell
Ham Fish
House
Ham
P.S
Fish
Marshall
Congress
Sen. Whatsis
Hitler
Gen. Marshall
Times
Honduras
Diario
Mussolini
O. Henry
A. Woollcott
Phil Baker
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