Duke Alumni Rally Highlights Endowment Driven Growth
Alumni meetings this week show strong support for Duke University as it expands its endowment and influence. Professor McDermott of the law faculty spoke after dinner praising a southern university with ample funds to become excellent by any standard. The article notes Duke's financial independence from political entanglements and cites Yale and Princeton as precedent for religious or denominational ties not hindering progress.
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Duke University
McDermott
Law Faculty
Duke
Tennessee
Yale
Princeton
Picking the First Among Good Citizens 1931
The Publix Kincey theatres aim to name High Point’s best civic contributor for the year through community groups. The Enterprise may nominate several worthy individuals. Miss Davis, longtime Souther Chair Company figure, is noted for business prowess and public service, and her death is a loss to the community.
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Publix-Kincey
High Point
Solomon
Miss Davis
Southern Chair Company
Culbertsons Win Behind Bidding Clash With Lens and Jacoby
In a bridge match Culbertson and partner beat Lens and Jacoby as Jacoby accused Lenz of improper bidding. A 800 point swing followed Peaceby’s redouble of the Culbertson double, and Lenz and Jacoby fell three tricks short. Culbertson blamed the bid analysis and the official conventions for the misstep.
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Culbertsons
Lens
Jacoby
Lenz
Culbertson
Lenz-Jacoby
The Neighbors View of Married Life
A college professor on trial for his life for his wife’s murder faces conflicting neighbor testimony on their marriage. Some say the home was a madhouse while others describe a loving couple. The jury should not rely on neighbors’ opinions of marital life.
Rhodes Scholarships Under the Regional Plan
The regional Rhodes committee chose four southern men for Oxford scholarships from twelve candidates across six southeastern states. A North Carolinian from Charlotte named Ted Burwell is among the winners, while South Carolina and Florida had no winners. The shift from state to regional selection is criticized for diluting geographic balance and the original intent of American-British student exchange.
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Rhodes
Oxford
Southeastern
Ted
Burwell
Charlotte
South Carolina
Florida
Cecil Rhodes
North Carolina
Foundation
Union Cross votes to repeal six months school levy
In Forsyth, Union Cross repealed its two month addition to the six months minimum through a special election under an enabling act. The petition by 25 percent of voters carried the measure, returning the district to six months’ class despite protests from school supporters.
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Union Cross
Forsyth
Hinsdale
Wake
Miss Estelle Davis Remembered In Industrial Community
The death of Miss Estelle Davis removes a significant figure from the local industrial business scene. The article notes women quietly occupy executive roles in the community and emphasizes their substantial, unostentatious contributions to commerce.
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Estelle Davis
The Rise of Amateur Bandits Alarms Cities
Reports from several cities show amateur competition in crime rising with robberies by unemployed workers. A bank robber who died in a shootout was a previously respectable family man, while others were ordinary jobless workers. Society faces a new, puzzling criminal type needing wiser policing and justice.
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Amny
New Wheat Hope Regime May Lift World Prices
Pravda reports rationing of bread in Soviet Russia. If sustained for a year, higher domestic bread need will shrink exports, reducing global wheat supply and potentially boosting prices, which would aid American wheat farmers.
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Russia
Pravda
Moscow
Lowell Bayles Sacrifice Ends Aviation Speed Quest
The death of aviator Lowell R. Bayles, a speed specialist who won the Thompson trophy, highlights the dangers of pushing land plane speed records. His effort to beat the world record, held by France at 278 plus mph, underscored the drive to improve commercial and military aviation through faster craft.
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Lowell R. Bayles
Bayles
Hounter
Bridge rivals in New York settle scores in six weeks
A six weeks match in New York pits rival bridge players against each other to determine who holds the advantage as tensions flare. The contest promises strategic plays and steady nerves across multiple sessions.
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New York
They will fight to the last rubber in dramatic showdown
The report sketches a tense contest where both sides push to the limit, with the losing system likely to be bounced. The wording hints at a high-stakes struggle and a decisive outcome.
Bridge metaphors hint at tense duel between experts
The passage uses vivid bridge imagery to depict a tense clash between two experts. It suggests reputations may suffer as plays unfold and a critical bridge may collapse, leaving the survivor to endure dawn’s scrutiny.
Contempo dispute stirs after Alabama trial coverage
R. R. Clark questions Contempo's contempt claim as editorials in the controversial issue criticize the Alabama nine and a capitalistic attack on communism. The piece notes Governor Gardner declined to intervene and UNC officials separated from the magazine while emphasizing high quality past contributions by its young editors.
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CBS
Anderson
Gardner
Chapel Hill
R. R. Clark
Clark
Alabama
Contempo
University of North Carolina
Magasine
Idle men, crime rise as unemployment grows say editor
The Enterprise letter argues idleness breeds degeneracy and raises crime and vice as unemployment lasts. It claims work channels energies, builds fortitude, and prevents temptations, warning society risks an emerging inferiority complex when people regard life and events with diminished spirit.
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Enterprise
Satan
Open Letter Attacks Tobacco Interests By Mr Williams
An open letter to Mr Williams accompanies an enclosure critiquing the tobacco industry. It accuses tobacco firms of buying raw leaf below production cost and selling finished goods at high prices, noting tax avoidance and wage conditions while alleging price shifts after legislative sessions. It argues for farmer harm from tobacco monopolies.
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the Enterprise
Burlington
Cr. L. van Noppen
Clay Williams
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Williams
Open letter denounces tobacco firms and calls for reform
Charles L. Van Noppen of Greensboro criticizes the tobacco industry for price fixing and heavy lobbying. He argues for removing bonuses, cutting watered stock, and paying fair wages, warning that lax taxation and grip on profits risk democracy and provoke drastic measures. He cites wealth inequality and urges action in North Carolina.
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Williams
North Carolina
Manufacturers Must Pay Insurance Claims
Raleigh December 11. The state industrial commission rule states manufacturers with Great National Insurance policies now in temporary receivership must pay claims themselves. About 20000 dollars in payments are outstanding according to J Dewey Dorsett a commission member.
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Raleigh
Great National Insurance Company
Dewey Dorsett
State Industrial Commission
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