Our Ignorant Children and North Carolina Schools
The Sunday Enterprise feature argues state colleges offer refresher English to retrace basics neglected by schools. It blames overcrowded classes, unfit teachers, low salaries, and misprioritized curricula for poor reading writing and arithmetic, urging increased funding for public schools as NC’s prime duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State College
State
Chapel Hill
Greensboro
Women's College
North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Scott
Truman nominates liquor lawyer to DC commission amid controversy
Washington report notes President Truman nominated a so called liquor lawyer to govern the District of Columbia. Critics question ties to the bourbon industry and say the nomination bypassed Washington groups. The piece accuses Truman of machine politics and ties to the Pendergast era.
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Truman
Washington
District of Columbia
Mayne Albright
Frank Graham
Little Mayne
North Carolina
O. Max Gardner
Commission of
Roosevelt
Befuddled Liberals Bond With Communism and Imperialism
The piece argues that self styled liberals cannot reconcile opposition to democratic capitalism with Soviet communism. It citesWalter Reuther as examples of confusing thinking and asserts that communism and imperialism are inseparable, urging liberals to focus on strengthening liberty and free economy instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stalin and Company
Russia
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Reuther
McCarthy
Moscow
Texarkana Postmaster Fight Reflects Cross Border Politics
The Texarkana dispute over who should name the postmaster exposes cross border tensions between Texas and Arkansas. Senator Connally pressed for Texas to appoint Arthur Jennings, but Arkansas influence and a stalled senate nomination sparked a party and patronage clash.
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Washington
O' Tawm Connally
Texas
Texarkana
Arkansas
Senator Connally
Arthur Jennings
Lone Star
Foreign Relations Committee
Ol Tawm
Jennings
Senate
Connally
Boyd Tackett
Card carrying Reds mostly fiction says Senator Ferguson
Senator Ferguson argues that card carrying is an unreliable badge of loyalty and that cases like Remington show many underground communists did not carry cards. He questions conspiracy charges and warns of forces perverting youth including professors writers and clergymen. He condemns suppression of Laurence Duggan chapter as censoring historic truth.
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Homer Ferguson
Michigan
Remington
Communist Party
United States
Alger Hiss
Marzani
Perry
Institute of Pacific Relations
Ferguson
Gov— 8
Executive Department
Sareniae
Hiss
Hede Massing
Laurence Duggan
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc
Farrar, Straus & Company, Inc
Larry Duggan
America
Paris
Gacienas
Sam Becker
Damon
Ey Se Ho
Roger Bern
The
Maquis
Salvador
Mgr
Bernheim
Sam
France
Odds Against World War III Bookmaker Quotation
The excerpt cites Sid Hales offering 1000 to 1 against World War III in 1951. It includes remarks from Commerce Secretary Sawyer on economic controls and Rep. Sam Rayburn on national security, plus personal lines from Linda Darnell and Sam Rayburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sid Hales
London
Sugar Ray Robinson and Runyon Fund Update
A breezy New York column notes Sugar Ray Robinson proud to join The Runyon Fund Committee and mentions a $25,000 Runyon Fund check to U of Chicago. It previews Robinson presenting it before the fight while Mullins and other soap opera figures surface in gossip about Las Vegas plans and alimony cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Ray Robinson
Dan Parker
Sugar
Runyan
U. of Chicago
LaMotta
Villemain
Miami
Kefauver
New Orleans
Costello
Huey Long
Kingfish
Frank Costello
Louisiana
Howard University
Runyon
U. of Cal
U. of Chi
Howard
From Trinity College to dorms a freshman memoir
A 1898 diary style reminiscence recounts a sleepy Greensboro to Durham arrival at Trinity College. The narrator meets Bud, tours campus, submits to professors including Dr. Mims and Dr. Flowers, and recalls hazing contrasts, campus humor, and the freshman leap into college life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro - Goldsboro
Durham
Bill
Bud
Trinity Park
Edwin Mims
Comertenent
Tennyson
Ruyard Kipling
Bivins
Ruyard
R. L. Flowers
Duke University
Trinity College
Flowers
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Associated Press
George Dixon
Connally-Tackett
Cirlesis
Exarkana
Democratic National Committee
Economic Stabilization Agency
OPA
ESA
Bill Boyle
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Dakotas
Montana
Philip Neville
University of Minnesota
School of Business Law
Sclon
AFL
CIO
Humphrey
George Sokolsky
Commerce
Sawyer
Bernard Baruch
Linda Darnell
Sam Rayburn
Tex
New York
Sugar Ray’ Robinson and the
Runyon Fund
Walter Winchell
Tommy Manville
Las Vegas
New Rochelle
Eddy Duchin
Lou Rupple
Collier's
Cire
Post
Dorothy Schiff
J. H
W. A
Boston
Marc Connolly
Green Pastures
E. N
Herald A
Howard Barnes
B’klyn
Betty Betz
Arnold Gingrich
Arthur Goldsmith
Pegler
Bete Noir
Tobe
Herr Bing
Met Opera
Henry Luce
Met
Nottin
Bing
Patrice Munsel
Ima
Siepi
Christov
Flying Dutchman
Mr. Bing
Don Carlos
Life
Eddie Cantor
W. A. Bivins
Old College Inn
A. H. Merritt
Sophs
Pericles
Dr. Jack
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