Students prove Colonel Hoop can win without promises
Lieut. Col. Oscar Winthrop Hoop, teaching politics at the University of Tulsa, had warned that only organization and promises win elections. His students formed a 300-strong get-out-the-vote effort, debated rivals, and Hoop won the Tulsa police and fire commissioner race 18,994 to 6,731, showing a candidate can win on merit and public service goals rather than a spoils system.
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NEA
Oscar Winthrop Hoop
University of Tulsa
Hoop
Baching
Thomas I. Monroe
Colonel Hoop
Monroe
Bowles
Tulsa
Pteran
University of At
Col
O. W. Hoop
Police and Fire
Ohio
Ggvene
School Man Thanks Paper For Editorial And Feature
Wade Marlett of High Saget N C writes to The High Point Enterprise praising the timely editorial If ever the teacher needed a friend and lauds the new Paragraphics feature added to the paper. He signs the note dated April 7, 1934.
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High Point Enterprise
Wade Marlett
Adequate Pay for Teachers
Bruce H. Carraway argues that North Carolina teachers are underpaid and underutilized, earning far less than post office clerks with similar education. He cites salary cuts since 1933, rising living costs, and calls for extending school terms and federal action, including a Cabinet level Secretary of Education.
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the Enterprise
North Carolina
Daily Smith Serps Call for Repentance
A brief patriotic piece extols the United States as a great nation with abundant resources including grain, fruit trees, vegetables, and rich deposits of iron, copper, silver, gold, oil, and coal.
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Daily Smith Serps
the Enterprise
United States of America
Two Day Pan American Congress In High Point
A two day sales congress for Carl Y Coley Agency members of Pan American Life Insurance to be run April 11 12 at the Sheraton hotel High Point. Officials Ted Simmons and John Murphy will conduct sessions with Coley, plus a luncheon and talks on trust funds medical underwriting and sales methods. The event includes a Lions Club address by Simmons and collaboration with the High Point Life Underwriters.
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Carl Y. Coley
High Point
Pan-American Life Insurance Company
Coley
Ted M. Simmons
United States
John W. Murphy
Pan-American
Coley Agency
Mare
Congress
Sheraton Hotel
Messrs. Simmons
Murphy
High Point Ration of Life Underwriters
Simmons
Lions Club
Fred Voliva
Trust Department
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
D. A. Stanton
H. C. “Potts” Twining
Swift and Company
W. C. Idol
Pan-American Life Insurance Co
New Orleans
Mr. Murphy
Pan-American Publications
Southern Round Table
Life Advertisers Association
Greensboro
High Point Association of Life Underwriters
Seven Raleigh Officers Hurt as Elevator Drops
In Raleigh seven policemen were injured when a municipal building elevator cable broke. Two officers were seriously hurt including Sergeant M. H. Harrie and Patrolman P. G. Massey with broken vertebrae and internal injuries and a leg fracture respectively. The rest suffered sprains and fractures.
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Raleigh
Municipal
M. H. Harrie
P. G. Massey
Harris
Massey
R. B. Brown
J. L. Hicks
N. E B. Cannady
A. C. Broughton
J. B. Bennett
Arctic explorer Stefansson to lecture at Duke
Vilhjalmur Stefansson renowned Arctic explorer and polar regions authority will deliver a lecture at Duke University in Durham on April 16. The event highlights his expertise on polar exploration and related topics for the campus audience.
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Durham
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Duke University
Is America Great or Failing to Share Its Wealth
Daily Smith argues that vast U S wealth and labor should feed and clothe all and faults lie in the distributive system. He calls for individual and national repentance aligned with the coming of Jesus Christ to rule over Israel.
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United States of America
God
Jesus Christ
Kingdom of
Israel
Daily Smith
Faith and Works Faith in the Rialto Sermon
Pastor John E. All preached at the Rialto theater at 7 30 p m on the subject Faith if it hath not works is dead. He defined faith as trust in God shown by works, citing Abraham Abel Jesus and Christ’s obedience to stress that without works faith fails and God and his commands are not honored. He warned that faith without works is not true faith and that when Christ returns he will reward each according to their deeds.
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Rialto Theater
John E
James
Abraham
Adam
Abel
God
Cain
Jesus
Christ
Youthful Bank Bandits Get $2,000
Three youths robbed the Farmers Bank at Seabood, securing about 2000 dollars. They fled toward Lawrenceville, Virginia, after forcing cashier JL F Spencer into a vault. A car linked to the heist had been stolen from Dr J O Matthews of Clinton, North Carolina.
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Seaboard
Farmers Bank
Virginia
Here
Lawrenceville
JL. F. Spencer
J. O. Matthews
Clinton, N. C
Driving at 35 mph Yields Best Gas Mileage
It has been estimated that under average conditions you can get the most miles to the gallon out of your car by driving 35 miles an hour.
Boundaries Bar Indian Man Over Birth Certificate
The United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua refuse Nomo Yakeon a 45 year old Indian, to cross borders due to the absence of a birth certificate.
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United States
Mexico
Guatemala
Salvador
Nicaragua
Nomo Yakeon
Danger from lightning rises when standing under a thunder cloud
A storm warning notes that a person directly beneath a thunder cloud faces about fifteen times greater risk of being struck compared with lying flat on the ground. The advisory emphasizes taking cover and reducing exposure during electrical storms.
Elliott Roosevelt Cleared In Probe of Dad's Fishing
MIAMI April 10 President Roosevelt went fishing in the Bahamas with officials from the NRA aboard the Now Mah. Reports claimed he landed a whale after eight hours but the press notes were disputed. The president remained genial and Elliott Roosevelt was praised for the outcome of the inquiry.
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Elliott Roosevelt
Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Bahaman Wat
White House
Kott
Hugh
Johnson
Old Richberg
NRA
Richberg
Washington
Billiott Tha
Eliott
Horse Beats Human in One-Mile Run Time
Statistics show a horse runs one mile in 1 minute 80 seconds while a human takes 4 minutes 10 seconds. The record suggests horses perform at more than three times the speed of humans in this metric.
Letter cost to government at 1.73 cents on average
The text notes an average government expense of 1.73 cents for sending a letter. It highlights a small per-item cost and implies a standard postage efficiency figure without broader context.
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