Public Pulse reflections on prohibition and miner's rights
The column surveys public opinion on prohibition, cites a supporter who argues the 18th amendment reduced vice and saved money, and notes John L. Lewis's impact on miners. It includes a reader letter from High Point, NC proposing a one day wage memorial for mine disaster victims. The Heckler ends with a joke about a Scot in an English political speech.
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Mr. B
Times
New York
Chicago
John L
John L. Lewis
High Point
N. C
United Mine Workers
Washington, D. C
Lewis
Krug
Englishman's Pride in Life and Death
An Englishman declares lifelong identity with England in a public hall. A lighter verse by Ina S. Stovell contrasts human and canine leadership in walking a dog. A Manila report notes a shoe maker uncovering a gasoline drum filled with millions of Japanese invasion notes.
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Manila
Federico Samodio
Samodio
Virginia Carolina warehousemen meet in Winston-Salem
The annual Virginia Carolina old belt warehousemen association meeting at Winston-Salem on Thursday will elect officers and discuss problems of the flue cured tobacco industry.
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Winston-Salem
Virginia-Carolina
Old Belt Warehousemen’s Association
North Carolina approves 34 municipal boundary extensions
The 1947 general assembly cleared the way for 34 North Carolina municipalities to extend corporate limits mainly via local elections. Gastonia faced strong opposition to a large expansion, while cities like Charlotte Greensboro Wilmington Rocky Mount and others gained authority to annex. A Vanderlinden act allows municipalities to extend by notice and ordinance, with optional referendums. Asheville loses Beaver Sage Golf course land as part of a separate act.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
North Carolina
Gastonia
Charlotte
Greensboro
Wilmington
Rocky Mount
Tarboro
Monroe
Mount Holly
Whiteville
Sanford
New
Vanderlinden
Asheville
Beaver Sage
U. S. Ambassadors to Great Britain and Byrd’s Antarctic Trips
Answers reveal Lewis W. Douglas as the current U S ambassador to Great Britain and W Averell Harriman as the last one before him. The piece notes Admiral Byrd undertook four trips to Antarctica. It also reports on Easter lambs in a San Francisco department store and a Duke Power dam bill before the House.
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U. S
Great Britain
Admiral Byrd
Antarctic
Lewis W. Douglas
Roosevelt
W. Averell Harriman
Commerce
San Francisco
San Jose
William Walsh
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International
Sante Fe Magazine
Ina S. Stovell
The
Wall Street Journal
Wachovia
Pedecal Deposit Insurance
Bari
Wyour Money
Com
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
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Tpool's
Washington
Dan River
Leaksville
Duke Power Company
Belk Stevens Company
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White Batiste
Belk-Stevens Company
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