Open government urged against secrecy law
Governor Umstead and State Treasurer Edwin M. Gill decry growing news censorship and urge open handling of public money and meetings. They advocate public access to state business, citing prior secrecy trends and signaling a push for repeal of the secrecy law in 1955. The piece compares Florida and North Carolina practices and blends calls for accountability with defense of press freedom.
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Umstead
Edwin M. Gill
Board of Conservation and Development
Gill
State Banking Commission
Florida
Faith in God as refuge across scripture and history
The text discusses similes and metaphors in Isaiah and Psalm 46, noting God as refuge and strength. It traces biblical interpretations, the temple and tabernacle as divine presence, and the people’s history from Abraham to the Persian return, concluding that faith in God brings stability across trials.
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Christ
Israel
Messiah
Jesus
Galilee
Tabernacle
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Sheol
Egypt
Moses
Joshua
Promised Land
Babylon
Jehovah
Cyrus
Persia
God
Tough Place To Work Pass On Fireworks Bill And More
Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, seen as an old China hand, faces a labor scene colored by turnover and criticism. Sen Bob Kerr notes Speaker Joe Martin’s bachelor status while anti labor themes arise as the AFL starts a new weekly effort.
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Washington
Eotary
Walter S
State Department
China
Douglas MacArthur
Vinegar
Joe Stilwell
Robertson
General McArthur
MacArthur
Bob Kerr
Oklahoma
Joe Martin
Senator Kerr
Frank McNaughton
Mara Prather Eames
Tarkio
Martin
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Anti-Labor Congress
American Federation of Labors League For Political Education
C.I.0
Political Action Committee
A.F. of L
Marguerite Church
Manston
Ill
House
A. L. Brody
Chicago
Ilinois
Railway Express
Illinois
Church
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
George H. Bender
Ohio
Judiciary Subcommittee
Kenneth Keating
New York
Bender
Clifford R. Hope
Kansas
House Agriculture Committee
U. S
Charles B. Hoeven
Iowa
New England
Middle Atlantic
Canada
Mexico
Ocean
Ivers
Pentagon
Defense Department
Debate on Protestant Clergy Marxism and Public Policy
A wide-ranging essay argues Protestant ministers are a small minority and questions claims of widespread Communist infiltration. It cites Dr J B Matthews and The Dallas Morning News while contrasting Christianity with Marxism and noting public misperceptions about clergy influence and anti-American propaganda.
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United States
Bureau of the Census
J. B. Matthews
American Mercury
Dallas Morning News
Russia
Red Dean
Canterbury
Matthews
Europe
Asia
Thurman Sensing National Debt Burden Debate
Commentator Thurman insists the federal debt is not a state debt though states and people bear the obligation. He argues the national obligation transcends borders but questions how much states should contribute and whether fiscal policy should shift.
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South
North Carolina
Kentucky
Pull Up A Chair and Odds and Ends From The Times
A collage of notes and curiosities from 1953 covering health psychology jokes and gadgets, a Pulaski farmer joke tease, new chalkboards with less dust, a misread ESP joke, Eisenhower ad policy, garbage disposers in Shorewood Hills, a lone African naturalist with an elevator, a bridal shower tally, June gifts and car windshields, a debate on national debt prorating, and Abel Buell and early U S coin dies.
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Lumbia University
U. S. Air Force
Carbondale
Eisenhower
Shorewood Hills
Madison
Wis
African Jungles
Prize Winning Essay My Ancestors In the Westward Movement
Miss Mary Carolina Cridlebaugh recalls German ancestors who migrated to North Carolina in the 1700s seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity. The narrative traces land grants near High Point, settlement efforts, intermarriage with Scots Irish, a son joining Daniel Boone, and German contributions to American independence and nation building.
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Our Nation
Our Land
United States
Free Society
Mary Carolina Cridlebaugh
Route 2
High Point
Southern Appalachian Historical Association
West
Boone
Mary
Cridlebaugh
North Carolina
Germany
Criddlebaugh
America
Pennsylvania
William Criddlebaugh
Delaware
Earl of Granville
Criddiebaugh
Coriddlebaugh
Daniel Boone
Iowa
Europe
England
Carolinas
Virginia
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Peter Edson
George Sokolsky
Thurman
By Neal O'Hara
Weather Bureau
Noah Webster
Connecticut
Abel Buell
Alabama
Louisiana
Maryland
North
West Virginia
Fredrick
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