Senate Light on Verve and Old-Ground Gaffs
A reader-desk collage of light political anecdotes from Washington. Norris Cotton muses the Senate feels like a hot steel mill. Joe Martin recalls a gate miss with an Elks card. Sinclair Weeks jokes about repeated oaths with Rothschild. Daphne Robert Leads is noted as a prominent patent official and hat designer. Kerr considers a basement bomb shelter and Petra Peterson weighs in on warnings. Barkley delivers a maiden speech centered on salary raises and attendance in the chamber.
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Washington
Congress
Sen
Norris Cotton
N. BH
Senate
Daphne Robert Leads
U. S. Commissioner of Patents
Reteam
Robert 8. Kerr
Okla
Civil Defense
Val Peterson
Capitol
White House
Peterson
Kerr
Alben W. Barkley
Veep
Exc Barkley
Water authority bill faces two week review by power firms
Officials from Piedmont area power companies say two weeks are needed to digest the 14 page water legislation before commenting. They critique the plan for lacking conservation aims and warn against transferring use of water without stewardship. Local leaders lament missed pre meeting copies and urge expedited cooperation to avoid delaying the measure further.
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Piedmont
J. B. Holmes
Carolina Aluminum Company
Power Company
Winston-Salem
General Assembly
Stassen Appointed Special Assistant on Disarmament
President Eisenhower creates a cabinet rank post for Harold E. Stassen to handle disarmament, replacing the head of the Foreign Operations Administration. The move follows stalled progress at the five power talks and signals a potential shift toward unilateral and international controls to out law war.
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Harold E. Stassen
Eisenhower
Stassen
Foreign Operations Administration
London
White House
Soviet Russia
Canada
Soviet Union
Russia
North Carolina City Managers Laud Sen. Kirkman Statesmanship
Mrs. Davetta Steed of the North Carolina League of Municipalities released a letter thanking Sen. O Arthur Kirkman for wise counsel at the North Carolina City Managers Conference in Sedgefield. City managers commended his outstanding contribution to state and local government and praised his inspirational guidance.
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O. Arthur Kirkman
North Carolina
Davetta Steed
North Carolina League of Municipalities
Sen. Kirkman
North Carolina City Managers Conference
Sedgefield
High Point
Federal report urges states to fund education without federal control
The expert committee urges President Eisenhower to keep hands off public education. It argues states, not the federal government, should fund schools and notes only 85 cents of every dollar sent to Washington would return. The piece defends state responsibility and questions adequacy as a state decision.
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Eisenhower
Uncle Sam
U. S. Commissioner of Education
Washington
North Carolina Eyes New Lynn Nisbet Office Building
The state moves toward financing a large new office building from surpluses across departments and existing funds totaling about 1.14 million. Plans cap state funding at 1.5 million including grounds and equipment, with site eyed on the old Confederate Home parcels in east Raleigh. Governor Hodges notes selected agencies have funds without new taxes.
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North Carolina
State Board of Buildings and Grounds
Highway Fund
Wildlife Resources Commission
Banking Commission
Council of State
Board of Buildings and Grounds
Popes
East
Raleigh
Hodges
Raleigh wrestles with future state office buildings plan
Governor Hodges backs centralized downtown offices near Capitol Square while considering long range needs. Debate covers whether to concentrate state offices around Raleigh or decentralize. A legislative building core near the capitol is envisioned, with wings or underground levels amid traffic and space concerns. Safety campaign notes emerge from the Governor's Traffic Safety Council meeting.
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Adjutant General's Department
National Planning
Hodges
Capitol Square
Raleigh
Scott
Umstead
Capitol
Yeo
Governor’s Traffic Safety Council
Life of Lee Schooler Tested by Corridor Woes
A humorous profile of Office of Defense Mobilization chief Lee W. Schooler during wartime strain. It recounts his bureaucratic salary, impatience with press agents, and a mock struggle to gain a connecting door between offices. The piece lampoons cost and procedure in Washington.
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Washington
Southeastern
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
General Motors
Ford
Office of Defense Mobilization
Lee W. Schooler
Schooler
Muezzin
Agenc
State Department
Hildegarde
Congress
General Services Administra
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Vernal Equinox Reflections and Century Decades Notes
A bus conversation marks the vernal equinox with sun timings and spring arrives. The piece recalls 19th century events, the Curie discovery of radium, and U S milestones in Cuba Puerto Rico Guam and the Philippines, plus notes on literature and a liquor referendum bill.
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Paris
Spain
U.S
Puerto Rico
Guam
Philippines
Republic of Cuba
Pierre
Mme. Curie
American Senate
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Massachusetts
Bertha Adkins
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Leonard Hall
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Martin
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Joe
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Sinclair Weeks
Louis
Rothschild
Weeks
Inland Waterways Corporation
Maritime Administration
CDA
Vance
N. C
R. BL Terry
Holt McPherson
D. A. Rawley
Co. W. Patterson, JR
Charles B. Loflin
Associated Press
Carlsbad
London Bridge
Lynn Nisbet
George Dixon
Odm
New England
Charles Pearson
W. A. Biins
Gray O'Neal
Hawaii Island
Summerfield
Los Angeles
Post Office Department
Turlington
Horace Greeley
Greeley
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