Richard B Johnston builds American Drew into a Southern furniture leader
Enterprise profile details Richard Blaine Johnston, eight-year-old hand tool gift that sparked a lifelong woodcraft passion, his leadership of American Drew Furniture Co. since 1928, and his roles across the industry. It covers his wartime service as a jet test pilot, education at the University of North Carolina, multiple company positions, family, and civic involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Drew
Johnston
American
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
Home Furnishings Council
Andrew B. and
Gertrude Hunt Johnston
North Wilkesboro
University of North Carolina
American Furniture Co
Drew Furniture Co
American Drew Inc
Sperry and Hutchinson Co
New York
The Quota Foolishness
An editor argues against quota based hiring and admissions across fields. He cites The Washington Post open enrollment and CCNY’s open admissions, questions fairness, and cautions that quotas can harm earned credentials while noting minority representation in sports and academia. He ends with a satirical forecast on women presidents through 2156.
Bipartisan shift to isolationism debate on U S policy
The piece argues that from 1941 to 1963 the United States pursued bipartisan world intervention, but under Johnson and later Nixon the policy flipped to bipartisan isolationism. It condemns Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Secretary Rogers, predicts danger from Soviet buildup, and labels current nonintervention as moral and diplomatic bankruptcy threatening Vietnam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Republican Party
Vandenberg
Michigan
Wiley
Wisconsin
Sam Rayburn
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Eisenhower
Johnson
Democratic Senate
Capitol Hill
Berlin
Greece
Iran
Lebanon
Korea
United Nations
Kremlin
Mediterranean
William Rogers
Senate
Nixon
Vietnam
Russia
Force Of Change From South Growth To City Renewal
Governor Bob Scott cited a Brooklyn College lecture by Josh Haskett arguing urban decay in big cities and urging South and North Carolina to build smaller urban centers with balanced growth. Haskett urged preserving land and not abandoning cities, while Scott emphasized rural development and quality public services as key to North Carolina's future.
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L. Q. C. Lamar Society
Birmingham
Ala
Bob Scott
Josh Haskett
Brooklyn College
New York
Haskett
New York City
Los Angeles
Britain
California
Berkeley
South
Chapel Hill
Carolina
America
Gov
Scott
Hackett
North Carolina
Piedmont Crescent
The
Foundation
Josh Hackett
Cheery egg people and bottle drive aid Mills Home
Mrs. Patricia Dawson and her Hasty Elementary fifth graders made cheery egg people for elderly rest home residents and collected bottles to fund a Mills Home donation. They raised 32.37 dollars after merchants added generosity. A separate note recalls a Ranch Wagon fire truck at No. 1 station and a crop report warns of frost damage to strawberries in North Carolina.
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Piedmont
Patricia Dawson
Hasty Elementary School
Howard Matthews
Thomasville
Spank
No. 1
Howard
State Crop Reporting Service
Old North State
Wallburg resident letters reply to downtown columnist
Wallburg locals fire back at a column about their town with four letters. Mrs. Ben King accuses sloppy reporting and notes a tulip bed by the post office and a central church revival. 12 year old Marsha Motsinger praises Wallburg amenities and chides the columnist for negativity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallburg
Enterprise
Ben King
U.S
Marsha Motsinger
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Richard B. Johnston
N. Weesboro
BY Robert Marks
Air Force
Elicia Caroon
New Bern
Bill
Furniture Company
Joe
Keith
Sturdivant Life Insurance Co
North Carolina National Bank
Southern Furniture Exposition
YMCA
United Fund
Boy Scouts
Lions Club
Chamber of Commerce
Yadkin River
Kerr Scott
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Washington Post
the Post
Post
City College of New York
CCNY
National Women's Political Caucus
Ernest Cuned
North American Newspaper Alliance
Davidson
Ven Carver
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