University of North Carolina Defends Academic Freedom
The essay praises UNC President Gordon Gray for defending students rights to think express and criticize while criticizing Catawba College for silent handling of alleged indiscretions. It calls out lack of transparency and warns leaks undermine trust, urging openness as a lesson to public state schools.
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North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Catawba College
Carolina
Gordon Gray
Catawba
Southern Drawl and Southern Speech Heritage
Florida Times Union reports on Southern dialects and attitudes toward regional speech. Experts note many distinct Southern varieties and Southerners' ability to identify origins by pronunciation. A anecdote contrasts New York mimics with a Southern woman’s corrective remark.
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Dixie
George P. Wilson
North Carolina Woman's College
American Dialect Society
Atlanta
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Classical Association of the
Middle West
South
Professor Wilson
Virginia
South Carolina
Texas
Georgia
Robert Emery Park
University of Georgia
Habersham
Hall
Deep South
New York
Mason-Dixon Line
Florida Times Union
Monroney proposes fair elections commission to curb mudslinging
Senator Mike Monroney of Oklahoma calls for a three or five member fair elections commission to hold on the spot inquiries into campaigns and censure unfair practices. He argues elder statesmen are needed to stay above partisan strife and elevate political conduct.
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Mike Monroney
Oklahoma
Fair Elections Commission
Congress
Monroney
United States
Norblad Attacks Ewing Over Federal Projects
Rep Walter Norblad of Oregon rails against federal administrators accusing them of socializing and stirring up the unthinking public. He intended a gentle lampoon but grew furious as he dictated a letter to Oscar Ewing about research projects he finds wasteful.
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Washington
Walter Norblad
Repeneee
Oregon
Oscar Ewing
Ewing
Mr. Norblad
Oscar
Rep. Norblad
Mr. Ewing
Public Health Funding Critics Cite Taxpayer Strain and Research List
The speaker accuses public health grants of wasting taxpayers money while debt and taxes rise. He highlights several funded studies including environmental stress in livestock, Navajo Peyote movement, Hutterite mental health, and marital adjustment. Senator Kefauver and Texas figure Connally figure in a congressional exchange.
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Roomnstyt
Library of Congress
S$hildren
Cabinet’s waning influence in Truman era politics
The article argues the President’s Cabinet lost clout by the Truman era with power shifting to the White House staff. It notes frequent state, defense, and interior secretaries, clashes between policy and presidents, and a growing, obscure senior staff led by John R. Steelman.
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Washington
Jefferson
Hamilton
Edmund Randolph
Warren G. Harding
Charles E. Hughes
Andrew Mellon
Herbert Hoover
Emery
Onry L. Stimson
San Mille
Patrick J. Hurley
Charles Francis Adams
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Roosevelt
Hull
Raymond Moley
Sumner Welles
Edward Stettinius
Mr. Hull
Ee Aerey Ho
Harry Truman
James F. Byrnes
George C. Marshall
Dean
of ‘Defense
James V. Forrestal
Louis Johnson
C. Marshall
Dean Acheson
Oscar Chapman
Interior
Arles Brannan
Sore
J. Howard McGrath
Eee Seceral
Maurice Tobin
Labor
John Snyder
Secretary of the Treasury
Leon Keyserling
Omale
Treasury Cenarale
Federal Reserve
RFC
Senate
Racing crowds, chaos at Hialeah. plus a showbiz recalling
Subbing for Winchell, crowded tracks at Hialeah spark talk of a madhouse outdoor slot machine scene. The column then shifts to memories of performers and Hollywood figures, including Charles nae and Adele Rowland, with notes on early TV, theater contracts, and the fading wanderer archetype.
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Wilson Mizner
Music Ears
Miami
Hialeah
Gaia
California
Charles
Charlie
Losles- Chicane
New York
Claridge
Adele Rowland
New Jersey
Washington theme and communism judged in Patriot piece
A Washington anniversary tribute calls him a patriot with flaws and leadership qualities while a section on communism defines the ideology, its police state features, and the need for Western education on the topic. The editor urges schools to teach Soviet realities and quotes Littleton perspectives. DISCOVERY Ex: “I see you are back from your visit to one of North Carolina's finest men in Washington.”
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George Washington
Harry Lee
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Lord Fairfax
Jefferson Andamilton
Russia
Stalin
Communist Party
Littleton
Col
America
Soviet Union
United States
U. S
Communism
Littleton School Board
Discovery
North Carolina
Senator Hoey
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High Point Enterprise
High Point
N. C
Aan Lerrshi
D. A. Rawley
W. Patterson, JR
B. Loflin
THE
Associated Press
Middle East
Norblad
George Dixon
Tom Yonnally
Arthur Vivian Watkins
Utah
Greece
Turkey
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Watkins
Connally
Ray Saene
A. B
Ll.d
Sen. Estes Kefauver
George Sokolsky
Winchell
By Jack Lait
Maxwell Bodenheim
Helene
George E. Phair
Daily Variety
Les
Globe
Maine Borneo
Hyee Pee
Edna Wallace
Saunders
Lola Menzell
Oscar Hammerstein
Arthur _ Murray
Bill
South ‘Pacific
Getti Rush
Dreds
Washington, the Patriot
W. A. Bivins
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