Ackland art museum case stirs UNC prospects and Duke rivalries
The Ackland bequest dispute ends with the US Supreme Court denying review, leaving UNC favored to receive 1.3 million for an art museum with a tomb memorial on a Chapel Hill campus. Duke’s neglect of the offer fuels Carolina pride and rival grins as the state weighs art funding and other needs. The piece closes with a note on rationing and public reaction to gas coupon denials.
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O. Max Gardner
Ackland
University of North Carolina
Gardner
University
William Hayes Ackland
Washington, D. C
Duke University
Rollins College
Duke
Mr. Ackland
Chapel Hill
Rollins
District Court
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of the United States
Carolina
Finland's Tragic Drift in World War II Alliances
The text traces Finland's shift from sympathy in the United States after Russia attacked, to joining Nazi Germany to regain losses. It argues this made Finland Russia's enemy and reduces American options to aid. It notes the United States is not at war with Finland nor Russia's broader aims.
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Finland
United States
Russia
Germany
Japan
Willkie Calls for Change to Win War and Peace
The piece reports Wendell Willkie announcing his Republican candidacy and arguing that victory in war and peace requires a change in administration. It notes distrust among Republicans and the public toward both the party and Roosevelt over policy, with Willkie as a rare critic of party leadership.
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United States
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Roosevelt
Will”kie
Old Guard
Republican Party
New Deal
Citizens give opinions on bonds war focus taxes and social issues
Residents discuss war bonds and stamps drives, home repairs and rentals, tax extensions, and national service. They debate Roosevelt's fourth term, veterans support, wage policy, age aid, and school pay for teachers amid wartime concerns.
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Ed Ellison
Sam
Noa
Resignation of State Welfare Commissioner Mrs Bost
Mrs W T Bost resigns as State Commissioner of Welfare after 14 years in office. Her quiet tenure is praised for steady work and the state owes her a debt of gratitude for her service.
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W. T. Bost
Doukhobor Protesters Stage Naked Demonstration
Four hundred Sons of Freedom members, an extremist Doukhobor group in Canada, protested government actions in California style by stripping in freezing weather and burning ration books and legal papers as a mass action.
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California
Canada
Sons of Freedom
Maumee Valley students form BONDS club over inflation
Luette Goodbody and Betty Jay of Maumee Valley School in Ohio explain how excessive dollars drive rising prices and wages. They describe forming BONDS Buy Only Necessities for the Duration to curb postwar inflation and illustrate with a $100 example showing value loss by spending now versus investing in bonds.
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Luette Goodbody
Betty Jay
Maumee Valley
Maumee
Ohio
B.o.n.d.s
Luette
Betty
Washington politics drive quiet senate subsidy clash
News analysis notes a staged subsidy fight over Roosevelt food subsidies as inner deals extend subsidies to June 30 and set up a renewed clash on OPA rules. Administrations insiders push for value of veteran draft endorsement while critics warn of politics guiding Senate tactics in a campaign year.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
White House
Bankhead
RFC
Congress
Philip Murray
Aet
OPA
Admiral Land
Maritime Commission
Patterson
Johnson
Texas
Mr. Roosevelt
Austin-Wadsworth
Notes of an Innocent Bystander on Broadway
Daily column reviews many entertainment items and political squabbles. The writer references the soldier vote debate in Congress and editorial counterpoints, then moves through film and radio reviews, noting The Sullivan Brothers tribute, Song of Russia, In Our Time, The Fallen Sparrow criticisms, and industry voices from Kingdon to Marshall.
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Free Press
N.Y. Mirror
Congress
House
Prohibition
Guam
United Nations
Russia
Poland
Columbia
Sullivans
Uncle Samson
Sullivan Boys
Mitchell
Anne Baxter
Robert Taylor
Susan Peters
Stalin
Ida Lupino
Paul Henreid
Archbishop Spellman
Tim
Elmer Davis
Robert E. Sherwood
Mr. Sherwood
Click
Mickey Walker
Mickey
Harry Conover
General Marshall
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Mgr
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High Point
N. C
John B
Lexington
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
British Columbia
J. F. Jones
Dan Gorman
Ter
Matt Wall
Austin Clark
BR. J. Herring
WAC
Ralph Cramer
Cecil Haworth
Frank
Frettion
Charlie Roosenecker
Howard Wright
J. N. Potts
James H. McGraw, Sr
McGraw Hill Publishing Company, Inc
Mamie Currie
North Carolina
Mrs. Bost
Paul Mallon
Dae
Eey
Land
Private
Breger Abroad
Winchell
Broadway
Frank Kingdon
Rankin
Bob Hope
Billboard
Fred Waring
Intelligenstia
McClelland Barclay
Konrad Heiden
FDR
Wilson
H. Allen Smith
John Kieran
Madine Connor
Met
New Republic
Louis Bromfield
Bromfield
USA
the Post
New York
Gazette
Archer Winston
Hitler
Raymond Clapper
Clapper
Lord Dewar
Groucho Marx
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