Weatherspoon Recalls a Century of Duke Progress
Everett B. Weatherspoon at the High Point Duke Alumni event traced Trinity college beginnings in 1938 39 through the 1924 indenture that formed Duke University and its growth under Kilgo Crowell Few and Flowers. He cited key moments like the Bassett affair 1903 and postwar expansion with faculty, training, buildings, and the push for a living endowment.
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High Point
Duke University Alumni Association
Everett B. Weatherspoon
Trinity College
John Franklin Crowell
New York
Durham
Crowell
John C. Kilgo
South Carolina
Duke
Bassett
J. B. Duke
Duke Foundation
North Carolina
Duke University
William Preston Few
Kilgo
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
R. L. Flowers
Few
Union Institute
Braxton Craven
York
Trinity
Randolph County
Julian S. Carr
Washington Duke
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
John S. Bassett
Atlantic Quarterly
Booker T. Washington
Institute
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Board of Trustees
Unions Sign Affidavits Under Taft-Hartley Rules
Washington reported that about half of CIO and two thirds of AFL national unions filed non communist affidavits with the NLRB. Nearly 30 percent of affidavit forms were faulty and returned for correction, with common errors in distributing financial statements to members and filing procedures.
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Washington
CIO
AFL
National Labor Relations Board
Robert N. Denham
NLRB
Labor Department
Denham
Textile Workers
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
United Auto Workers
Rubber Workers
Shipbuilding Workers
United Electrical Workers
Food and Tobacco
United Mine Workers
Independent board eyed for Europe aid policy role
Senator Taft urged creating an independent operating board with full authority to decide aid to Europe and US productivity. He criticized state department for pleasing abroad and pressed ahead with the senate action on a stop gap bill of up to 597 million for winter relief in France Italy and Austria alongside the Marshall plan debate.
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Vandenberg
Taft
Rohio
Truman
Europe
United States
State Department
Senate
France
Italy
Austria
French strikes threaten economy as labor split widens
Civil war style party lines in France show De Gaullists blaming Communists for winter strikes. The anti Communist coalition warns the disruption endangers production and bread supply while coal, electricity, and transport falter amid labor division led by the General Confederation of Labor.
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de Gaullists
Cominform
France
General Confederation of Labor
Workers’ Force
Syndicalist Action Committee
Paris
Robert la Coste
la Coste
1947 UN Partition Plan Sparks Broad Reactions
Arab representatives denounce the charter as destroyed while Iraq, Syria, and Britain react to the vote. Dr. Fadhil Jamali calls partition undemocratic. Emir Adel Arslan says the charter is dead. Dr Abba Hillel Silver praises the move as a turning point for Jewish history. Cadogan urges Britain to discuss withdrawal terms. The plan creates a five nation commission, a UN budget up to 2 million dollars, and calls for Security Council care during formation.
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Sembly
Saudi Arabia
Fadhil Jamali
Iraq
Emir Adel Arslan
Syria
Abba Hillel Silver
Jewish Agency For Palestine
Dr. Silver
United States
Soviet Union
Palestine
Alexander Cadogan
Britain
Assembly Commission
Assembly
Holy Land
Security Council
First Woman Named Minister in Czechoslovakia
Ludmila Jankovcova becomes the first woman to join the Czechoslovak cabinet as Minister of Industry replacing Bohumil Lausman who resigned. The appointment marks a historic milestone for women in the government.
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Ludmila Jankovcova
Bohumil Lausman
Industry
International
President weighs lists as wartime retirements spark probes
Charles Ross said the president wanted the lists for information. Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, retired air force procurement officer, drew 550 dollars a month disability pay and faces possible prosecution. The army stopped Meyers disability pay and his decorations after a Senate inquiry. A federal grand jury is examining the case. Forrestal said he had not yet received the directive but expected it.
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Cers
Charles Ross
Pres
Ross
Senate
Benett E. Meyers
Air Force
Meyers
Army
Forrestal
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Mason and Dixon Line
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Chaiman
Pakistan
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Flushing Meadows
W. Commerce
Manger
Cross
Holy Bible
Peter
Zeus
Rwee Er
Rta
Koonce Funeral Home Inc
Mbulance Service
Preett
Sowice Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company
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Venetian Blind CO
Main ST. Speedway
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