The Teacher Force and State Politics
Raleigh observers note the North Carolina Teachers Association plans a political push with a tax levy on teachers to fund a broader school program. The convention in Charlotte signals stronger input on education funding, pay, eight month terms, and board reforms, while warning against overreach or self interest.
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Raleigh
Teachers’ Association
Charlotte
Board of Equalization
Board of Education
Association
White Russian Women Stranded in Manchuria Activates Despair
Will Rogers reports from the Orient about white Russians trapped on the edge of civilization. In Manchuria they cannot return to Russia nor safely move elsewhere and fight to survive in harsh conditions. He notes the women suffer extreme degradation as a result of their precarious status.
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Will Rogers
Orient
Far East
Saturday Evening Post
Russia
Manchuria
Rogers
Sales tax plan loses ground amid broad opposition
The House Ways and Means plan to raise federal revenue via a national sales tax faces increasing resistance from lawmakers and the public. Critics argue the proposal would require an expanded tax base, while supporters note its potential, but doubts grow as senators and representatives push alternative income tax increases. The piece contrasts local and national tax fairness and recalls historical examples of reverence, courage, and hope as guiding values for public policy.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Doughton
Fate of Russian exiles and women in destitution cited by Rogers
Rogers warns that even privileged Russians under the Czar face starvation and degradation if not aided. He argues the white world’s callousness toward this homeless group, including women, will backfire in the East, costing more than preserving their decency would.
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Rogers
Russia
East
Reelection bid ties to tax policy and exemptions
The announcement by Dr. Ira M. Hardy of Kinston seeks reelection to the seventh state district seat with planks favoring property revaluation and exemption for small landowners. He argues no parcel valued under 2,500 should be taxed, on a platform noting his long-run role in North Carolina education.
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Ira M. Hardy
Kinston
North Carolina
Reconstruction money and building hopes for workers
The Jamestown Weed Editor notes March 16 report that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation provided $400,000 to the Perpetual Building and Loan Association for building aims. The writer questions the ripple effect for unemployed workers and how the funds will boost local building when debts to lenders may be paid off, potentially limiting new lending.
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Perpetual Building and Loan Association
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congress
Building and Loan Association
High Point
Depositors urged to organize after bank closure
A letter to the paper calls Commercial National Bank depositors to form a meeting and create a committee to represent their interests. It notes closed director meetings and offers to sell the building at a high price, urging action rather than passively waiting for outcomes.
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Commercial National Bank
Weaving Epochs and Echoes Across Time
In reflective prose the piece contrasts fallen ages with present desolation and rising myths, invoking Rome’s ruins, a fogbound voyage off Labrador, and a Boxer era martyr’s son who carries on. It recalls wartime posters urging volunteers and a Bible verse urging steadfast faith through adversity.
Archaeology finds first known horse in Palestine
Sir Flinders Petrie reports the discovery of Palestine’s earliest horse remains over 4000 years old. He leads his 52nd expedition, while 18th century Jewish mysticism is explored in a new English edition of The Golden Mountain by Meyer Levin. Dorothy Rice Sims, famed bridge player, publishes a book on psychic bidding to Vanguard in April.
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Palestine
Heaven
Main Street
Chamber of Commerce
God
Moses
Jethro
Chateau Thiery
Vimy Ridge
Washington
Raleigh
George Horace Lorimer
Helen Keller
Edison
Steinmetz
Roger Babson
Rome
Greece
Athens
Cervantes
Don Quixote
Dragon Press
M. J. Benardete
Angel Flores
Spain
Ramon Menedez Pidal
Ivan Turgunev
Modern Library
Theodore Dreiser
Carrie
Caroline Meebers
Bram Stocker
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Bb. G. M
Tiber
Bosphorus
Labrador
China
America
Great Britain
France
British Empire
Jesus
Fpliners Petrief
Henry Holt and Company
Sir Flinders
Ren
Meyer Levin
Rabbi Israel
Rabbi Nachman
Jonathan Cape
Robert Ballou, Inc
Dorothy Rice Sims
P. Hal Sims
Four Horsemen
Vanguard Presa
Sims
Vanguard
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Terry
B. Kate Special Advertising Agency
New York City
Chicago
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Mt. Nebo
Israel
Elisha
Elijah
Jericho
David
Bethlehem
THE
Enterprise
Charles Haddon Nabers
D. D
First Presbyterian Church
Jamestown
the Enterprise
Weed
Kaiser Wilhelm
Holland
Germany
von Hindenberg
Wilhelm
Hindenberg
Hindenbrg
Hitler
Ali Baba
London
England
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi
Chicago Daily News
Wyndham Lewis
Robert McBride
Mr. Lewis
Greenwich Village
Mama Eve
William Faulkner
Thomas Hardy
Keats
Shelley
Tolatov
Victor Tingo
Boswell
Samuel Johnson
Boston
Norwood Young
George Washington
McBride
John Adams
Johnsey
Eden Phillpotts
Stormbury
Oliver LA Fargh
Houghton Mifflin Company
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