North Carolina Senate urged to fund schools before other projects
A North Carolina editorial argues the House bill giving raises to most state workers but not teachers risks a strike and urges the Senate to reallocate ten million dollars from secondary projects to public schools. It stresses education as the state’s primary function and calls readers to lobby for school funding.
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House of Representatives
N. C. General Assembly
Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
North Carolina
Assembly
North Carolina veterans face disreputable bonus march plan
The editorial condemns a proposed Raleigh motion by two veterans groups to lobby for a $500 to $1,000 state bonus. It likens the Washington DC bonus march to a dirty, communist driven spectacle and warns the Raleigh effort would misfire, provoke trouble, and burden taxpayers.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Washington
Hoover
United Press
Old Man Cliff Bolton Returns To The Ball Field
Sports writer Bill Hackney notes Cliff Bolton, a High Point staple, returning to form at Florida’s Hi-Tom camp. Once thought retired, Bolton shows healthy arms and legs, hitting and driving runs, lifting the crowd and promising more spring moments for fans.
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Bill Hackney
Florida
Cliff Bolton
High Point
Bolton
Cliff
Hackney
Mama Bear
Cubs
Jimmy Gruzdis
Jimmy
Hackney Bolton
Names in the Air Force Dominated by Presidential Echoes
Capt. Bob Addie profiles an antiwar era air force filled with namesakes of presidents and famous figures. He lists dozens of Budgets, including eight George Washingtons, eleven Woodrow Wilsons, ten Ted Williams, four DiMaggios, and twelve Eisenhowers, noting the playful persistence of naming across bases. The piece blends humor with a portrait of airmen who share famous names while serving in the postwar force.
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Ashington
Peng
Bob Addie
The
Force
Air Force
George Ae Abraham Lincoln
Herbert Er
Robert Taft
Douglas MacArthur
Ted Williams
Babe Ruth
Tyrus Raymond Cobb
United States
Trumans
Williams
Glenn
Farley
Donald
Charles
Carleton Arthur
Harry
Une
Roosevelt
George
Wilson
Woodrow
Thomas
Woodrow Wilsons
Kentucky
Texas
Illinois
M So
Florida
Arkan- Tennessee
Cpl
Warren Gama- Niel Harding
Hammonton
N. J
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Peewtee
Chicago
Herbert Hoovers
Andrew
Andre Jackson
Leve Pvt
Enid
Airlies
Dempseys
Jack
John
Tunneys
James
Tunney
Red Sox
Babe) Ruth
Pennsylvania
Raymond Cobb
Escandia
Ala
DiMaggios
Bradleys
Vandenbergs
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Jeff Davises
South
Sherman Road
Grover Hills
N. Y
Sumner Welles Leaves Big Claims in Controversial Book
The piece questions Sumner Welles 1951 revival via his book Seven Decisions That Shaped History and The Freedom International chairmanship. It argues Welles omits names and details about advisers in China and war strategy, calls for clear attribution of who influenced Roosevelt and Marshall, and urges Welles to name those responsible.
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Sumner Welles
State Department
Freedom International
Copdell Hull
Herbert Hoover
George Marshall
Franklin D. Roosevelt
China
Chiang Oeene
United States
Roosevelt
Teheran
Yalta
Welles
Chiang
Chiang Kai-shek
Perchance
Owen Lattimore
Lauchlin Currie
Marshall
Dean Acheson
Cairo
Stanley Hornbeck
Far East
Asia
General Wedemeyer
Alger Hiss
Ted
Hiss
Eisenhower on Atomic Bomb Use in War
The quote frames a personal calculus on atomic bomb use in war asking whether the device would advantage the user, attributed to General Eisenhower.
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General Eisenhower
Mauldin Cartoons Boost Broadway Scene On Rodgers Show
The week’s event highlights the premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I and praise for performances by Gertrude Lawrence Yul Brynner and others. Critics note musicals’ dominance and upcoming new works, with mentions of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and other Hollywood and Broadway titles.
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King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
Yul Brynner
Coretta Morrow
Aifleman
Dick Watts
Brooklyn
New Haven
Variety
Wilmington
Del
Gramercy
Violets and Verse in a Time of War Blues
A reflective column blends personal wartime mood with poetry about violets and spring. It cites casualty figures for Korea, ponders global tension, and closes with poems from Avery and Eva and a quip from George Ade.
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U.N
Korea
Russia
Free Nations
Albania
Isaac Erwin Avery
Charlotte
Avery
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Walter Winchell
Doris Day
Angelo
Italy
Pidgeon and Niven
Loretta Young
Ty Power
Susan Hayward
ABC
Agere
James Durante
Enga
Vaudiences
Air
Mas
Kefauver
Bertram Cannon
Iele
Firestone
Rex Harrison-Li
Nunnally Thien
Dick Kallman
Barbara Cook
Peere Geening
Doctor’d
Philly
Kate
Amenth
Sen. Tobey
Crime Committee
Time Mag
N. S. Times
la Prensa
Ate Foren
Tina
U. S
Montivideo
Orcas
Mutehell
Frank Costello
W. W
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Alexander Wiley
Jonal Record
W. A. Bivins
Times
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Tennyson
George Ade
Athetic Club
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