Blue Ridge Parkway Name Debate Moves Through Senate
Discussion of highway parkway name changes references Blue Ridge Parkway branding and the potential impact on advertising. The Senate appropriations committee weighs shifting the designation back to the Blue Ridge Parkway after a prior change to mention of the Glowing by consolidating state right of way concerns and regional accessibility.
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Blue Ridge
Cat Smokies
Shenanah National Parks
Senate
Ughton
7Th Carolina
Pennsylvania
Thouse
Blue Ige Parkway
Blue Ridge Parkway
Aro Rth
Carolina
Virginia Lid
Skyline Parkway and Blue Ridge Parkway Naming Debate
Discussion notes that Shenandoah Great Smokies parkway names and the Skyline parkway are linked. The Blue Ridge Parkway name is a fairly recent adoption. The committee action is portrayed as logical and proper despite questioned reasons.
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Shenandoah
Great Smokies Parkway
Skyline Parkway
Blue Ridge Parkway
Slap in British Commons Reflects Diminishing dueling Spirit
The Commons clash shows Laborite Shinwell slapping Conservative Bower yesterday, who declined a fight and later accepted an apology. The piece notes a shift from combat to restraint in parliamentary conduct and contrasts it with earlier eras when dueling shaped political life.
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Bower
Shinwell
Congress
Alexander Hamilton
Historian Dodd on democracy, diplomacy, and fascism
The piece questions whether historical study or diplomatic contacts shaped W E Dodd’s belief that democracies must confront dictatorships with force. It notes Dodd’s advocacy for war to slow fascism and his view that conflict may be inevitable, while urging democracies to improve internal strength to avoid external threats.
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Caro
W E. Dodd
Dodd
Dr. Dodd
Why the Delay in City Housing Project Decision
The city board of education and promoters face ongoing delay over a large apartment house under federal housing guarantee. Officials warn that covert influences and time loss threaten the project, urging a prompt decision to proceed and protect the promoters’ interests.
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City Board of Education
Muni
Building funds urged to aid labor and housing relief
Local officials stress that spending nearly 400000 dollars on a building project would greatly help labor and housing relief. They call for timely action to advance relief efforts and support the community’s housing needs.
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Cipal
Aged Conductor Reflects on Losses and Daily Work
On March 1 1938 a New York Central passenger conductor retired at 70. He recalled a 1888 accident that cost two right hand fingers yet he says he does not miss them. He cites a one armed salesman as proof people adapt and shares a humorous clipping about sixWays to Fail. He concludes daily effort beats overlong plans, embracing one day's work.
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New York Central
Missouri
You
Albany
New York
A. J. McDonald
The
Knickerbocker News
McNaught Syndicate
Disillusion and Farewell in Mauveleen Holbrook Note
A heartfelt private note from Mauveleen Holbrook expresses disappointment with a failed prize and social disconnect. The writer rejects sympathy and friendship, rejects blame, and signs off with a quiet farewell and orchids. The tone mixes longing and resignation about love and outcomes.
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Mauveleen Holbrook
Penny funds outing for Methdist Protestant Children’s Home
The Enterprse notes that Mr Robert D Penny hosted a pleasant Monday afternoon for children from the Methodist Protestant Children's Home. They enjoyed free rides on hobby horses ferris wheel and the mixup. Penny offered to share his profits with the home.
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Robert D. Penny
Penny
Behind the scenes in Washington on holding company ruling
In Washington April 5 a New Deal legal team led by Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen won a key Supreme Court victory over major private firms in the holding company decision. They built a broad staff across RFC and TVA to defend PWA power loans and TVA, fighting through multiple suits and battles against John W. Davis and Sullivan & Cromwell, with Jackson and Frank shaping the strategy. The era's legal clash cements government lawyers over top private adversaries.
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New Deal
Supreme Court
PWA
TVA
Corcoran
Cohen
Tom Corcoran
Ben Cohen
Congress
H. C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric
New York
Davis
Baltimore
Coleman
SEC
Johnny Burns
Court of Appeals
Corcoran-Cohen
Cummings
Electric Bond & Share
Robert H. Jackson
RFC
Interior
Jerome Frank
James L. Fry
Department of Justice
Roosevelt
Governor Smith to Speak in High Point En Route to Asheville
Local page notes Governor Al Smith of New York will address a High Point Democratic club next Tuesday while passing through the city. Salvation Army Young People’s Division to open a state convention here tomorrow. Elizabeth Martin leads the Fire Department popularity contest with 13,60 votes. Easter holidays begin at High Point College today. George Leach Gurley returns Tuesday from Navy leave to spend time with his parents. Blanche Lynch a North Carolina College for Women student visiting family. Mr and Mrs Edgar Hargett guests of Mrs W L Hargett. Coolidge likely to veto Flood Relief bill. Nine rebels killed by U S Marines in Nicaragua this week. Chauncey M Depew dies at 93 in New York. Oklahoma battered by a storm. one dead, vast damage over 1,000,000.
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al Smith
New York
High Point
Democratic Club
Asheville
Young People’s Division
Salvation Army
Elizabeth Martin
Fire Departments
High Point College
George Leach Gurley
U. S. Navy
Charles Gurley
North Drive
Blanche Lynch
Edgar Hargett
Kinston
W. L. Hargett
Johnson Street
Coolidge
Nicaragua
U. S
Chauncey M. Depew
Oklahoma
Republicans of High to Convene at City Hall for Delegates
Republicans of High meet at City Hall on Jordan Street to elect delegates to the county convention in Greensboro, Saturday at 1 p.m. The meeting is called by W. P. Ragan W. L. Hepler and W. E. Snow. Major J. W. Long notes the base hospital 65 will operate strictly as a North Carolina unit.
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Jordan Street
Greensboro
W. P. Ragan
W. L. Hepler
W. E. Snow
J. W. Long
North Carolina
Hollywood culture poked at by New York notes and memories
New York dispatch recalls dummy libraries in NBC studios false alarms police watchfulness and the faded glamour of Fritzi Scheff tracking a failed tour. The letter writer adds personal recollections of Earl Browder’s reception at clubs and credits storefront bosses for early career help and lifelong enmity with communism.
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New York
Hollywood
N. B. C. Studios
Broadway
Fritz Scheff
Providence
Fritzi Scheff
Constume
W. C. Lengel
Guards Patrol George Washington Bridge For Despair Acts
Fifty two trained men patrol the George Washington bridge to prevent suicides on the Hudson port of New York Authority. Guards recognize despair and engage in conversation then pull back a would be jumper without touching until they step on the rail. Some saved people return later to thank their rescuers. Tragedies have decreased at the Bent Bend near 110th street where the elevated railway meets the bridge.
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George Washington
Hudson
Port of New York Authority
Suicide Bend
Elevated
110Th Street
Morningside
Local News and Notices Roundup
Draft age policy notes that all eligible persons may be accepted. Sinclair family heads to Arcadia Florida for orange grove time. Sechrest recovering at Montrose. Miss Mary Bentley returns to Camden New Jersey. Robert Prager lynched in Collinsville Tennessee for inflammatory remarks about President Wilson. French lines hold at Amiens. Six North Carolina flour mills shut for food regulation violations. mills used 264 pounds of wheat to produce 196 pounds of flour.
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L. C. Sinclair
M. C. Sinclair
Arcadia
Fla
Sinclair
Orange Grove
H. C. Sechrest
Montrose
Mary Bentley
D. H. Parsons
Camden
N. J
Robert P. Prager
Collinsville
Wilson
Amiens
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