Talmadge Rally Draws Sharp NC Backlash on Demagoguery
Sunday July 7 1935 readers condemned Eugene Talmadge in North Carolina as his campaign of demagoguery drew a hostile reception. The editorial denounced his attack as harmful to progress and warned against returning power to demagogues like Talmadge Long Coughlin and Townsend while praising Roosevelt's broader program.
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Overnor
Eugene Talmadge
Talmadge
North Carolina
Tar Heelia
Huey Long
Father Coughlin
Kokomo Dedicates Revival Plan To End Dole
In Kokomo Indiana citizens unite to lift the city from depression by rehabilitating idle plants and creating payroll through civic projects. With 2800 on relief and government work, an effort to establish a plant to employ 1000 men was heavily oversubscribed, raising funds by community drive.
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Kokomo
Ind
Kokomo Builds Hope Through Local Labor Drive
The Kokomo community turns to job creation with a plant re opening funded by $35,000 in donations to restart work for 900 workers. A recent campaign adds $7,000 from workers, showing a local spirit to lift employment and pride without burdening other towns.
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Kokomo
T Men Target Moonshine In North Carolina War On Illicit Liquor
Government T men idle in the Tax Unit report 12 months of action in North Carolina. Distilleries seized 1 005. liquor 27 849 gallons. mash 1 493 519 gallons. auto seizures 123. arrests 785. prosecutions 1 120. sentences 116 731 days and 46 116 dollars in fines. The drive claims record boots outlaws beyond prohibition era.
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North Carolina
Treasury Department
Narrow Thinking Hinders Rebuilding Says Oxford Historian
Dr. Robert McElroy of Oxford tells the Institute of Public Affairs in Charlottesville that narrow provincial thinking, rooted in tribal days, hamstrings reconstruction. He warns local thinking caused the Civil War and its horrors and calls for broader international vision as World War recovery lags. He cites Rotary International’s Mexico City meeting as boosting people-to-people ties beyond diplomacy.
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Robert McElroy
Oxford
England
Institute of Public Affairs
Charlottesville
Virginia
McElroy
Rotary International
Mexico City
Mexico
United States
Provincial minds block world reconstruction says eminent professor
The professor argues that age citizens of Mexico and Massachusetts share common humanity and that provincialism must end. He warns that only by learning facts about other peoples can broad vision emerge and credits like minds across nations for solving modern problems.
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Mexico
Manchuria
Massachusetts
Looking for a Leader
Tommy Alderman Sykes argues leadership is universal and demands action from all people. He links Moses’ call to today’s need for steadfast faith, personal experience with God, and a practical, unemotional religious life guiding leaders and citizens alike. He reflects on travel dreams and worldly wonders to illustrate imagination and movement toward moral leadership.
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Moses
God
France
America
Friendly Hand on Shoulder Poem Excerpt by Riley
Poem lines express comfort from a friend’s touch and faith in a benevolent world. The speaker notes the healing power of a shoulder touch amid hardship and praises a good God who made the world. James Whitcomb Riley is cited as author.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Everal
Jonethan Swift
Gulliver
Swift
Random House
James Branch Cabell
Sors
Esten
Jurgen
Cabell
Alya Rachmanova
John Day Company
Leo Tolstoy
Dodd, Mead
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Kahn
Dutton
John Vassos
After Thoughts Travel Echoes in Dream and Print
A reflective piece on travel as imagined journeys. The author describes a flair for exploration carried out from an easy chair and in dreams, using maps as portals to distant states and places through pictures and descriptions.
The Lovely Lady Who Sews Joy Through Scraps
A neighbor with a chronic disability quietly demonstrates charity like prayer. She assembles scrap-books from magazines and catalogs, pastes pictures and poems, then mails them to lonely shut-ins, sparking gratitude and uplifting hearts without publicity. Consider trying the same quiet kindness today.
Courts and Lawyers Reflections on Justice and Lawmakers
A reflective piece on lawyers and the courtroom, praising old and modern practitioners. It recalls circuit rider lawyers in Stanly County, including James A. Lockart Jr., Judge Montgomery, Judge Long, and Judge Webb, and highlights a moving murder-trial plea defending a boy. The writer expresses hope in justices and notes figures like Zebulon Vance.
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Charles Spurgeon
Superior Court
Stanly County
James A. Lockart, Jr
Wadesboro
Montgomery
Concord
Long
Statesville
Webb
Shelby
Lockart
Zebulon B. Vance
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