Editorial Review of Judge Goldsborough’s Career and Newspaper Industry Trends
The piece memorializes Judge Goldsborough once a powerful House member and Roosevelt ally, noting his role in enacting the 1935 banking act and his controversial yet influential judicial style. It also discusses press consolidation, arguing daily paper economics drive losses and closures, tracing a decline from 2250 to 1775 papers over 25 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dudge T. Alan Goldsborough
House of Representatives
Marriner
Eccles
Rep. Goldsborough
Federal Reserve
Beckley Newspapers Face Higher Newsprint Costs
The Register reports a $10 per ton rise in newsprint price, guiding Beckley papers to use 1200–1300 tons this year and estimating an added $12,000–$13,000 annual expense. Editors warn of hard work to offset the burden as the delivered price reaches $119 per ton.
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Beckley
Story, Brooks & Finley, Inc
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Cleveland
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Ricaga
West Virginia
Beckley Newspapers ‘Corporation
Evils of Growing Up
A group of seven children from seven European countries visit Cincinnati for a month in an international village alongside American Canadian and Mexican peers. The sociological experiment aims to see how uninhibited youths mix amid potential personality clashes, language quirks, and leadership dynamics. The piece argues such troubles stem from learned prejudices, and concludes growing up is hard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Cincinnati
United States
Canada
Mexico
Reuthers
London
World situation lesson in a boys' school graduation
The piece recalls a graduation talk on the world situation. It outlines a four element problem with Soviet power and atomic capability, arguing for a strong Western defense by 1952-53 and confronting the USSR to prevent a decisive stockpile. It notes NSC 68 as a framework and questions the path to peace through strength.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Liefs
NSC
NSC 68
Tlis
Douglas MacArthur
Albert Wedemeyer
Europe
Korea
Truman
Louis
Johnson
Dorothy Gish urges moguls to return to early film era
Dorothy Gish says the movie industry lost its fun and collaborative spirit as it grew, noting television excitement with small crews and critiquing modern front office fear. She recalls stage days, her father’s comment on props, and praises D. W. Griffith for creative control and improvisation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dorothy Gish
Filndom
Gish
Dorothy
D. W. Griffith
Byrd targets government publicity men in cost cut drive
Senator Byrd leads a push to trim funding for government press agents citing 4 199 workers and 103 million dollars yearly in pay print and mail costs. He notes law from 1914 to curb hiring and cites a flood of publicity pieces received by his committee, including an ECA memo about elephants versus machinery in Burma. He warns about varying competence among public relations staff and highlights need for reliable information, while reporting a separate accident in Tralee where M L Jones of Tralee was treated for injuries.
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Washington
Byrd
Senate
House
Congress
ECA
Economic Cooperation Administration
Burma
West Virginia's Beginnings Kanawha State Formation Vote
In 1861 Northwest Virginia voted on secession amid Civil War turmoil. The Wheeling convention reestablished a union government led by Pierpont. By October 24, 1861 voters approved forming Kanawha with 18,408 to 431, setting the path for West Virginia's 35th statehood.
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Edilor
West Virginia
Herb Little
Charleston
Northwest
Virginia
Philippi
Letcher
Lincoln
George B. McClellan
Alleghenies
Alexandria
lPairfax
Hardy
Hampshire
Jefferson
Present Day
Arthur I. Boreman
Wood County
United States
Virginia General Assembly
Francis H. Pierpont
Marion County
Danial Palsley
Mason County
James S. Wheat
Ohio County
Peter G. van Winkie
Daniel Lamb
William Lazier
Monongalia County
William A. Harrison
Harrison County
J. T.paxton
Pierpont
Camp Carlile
Wheeling Island
Fierpont
Assembly
Robert M. T. Hunter
James M. Mason
Waitman T. Will
Double Wedding in the Rainbow Room Romance
Grant urges Stephanie to smile as they dance at the Rainbow Room and confronts the lingering ghost of her first love Sandy Waugh. Stephanie admits the past remains, while Grant vows to help her move on even as Sandy’s fate looms. The scene hints at unresolved marriage tensions and a return to old memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Stephanie
Rainbow Room
Sandy
Sandy Waugh
Grant Hale
Electronic Brain At Work on Census
UNIVAC, an eight hundred thousand dollar automatic computer, assists the U S Census Bureau in processing data. Invented by Presper Eckert and John W Mauchly, it promises rapid calculations for military and commercial use and demonstrates vast computing potential across payrolls taxes and billing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
U. S. Census Bureau
Univac
D. Presper Eckert
John W. Mauchly
ENIAC
U. S
Navy
Air Force
America
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corpporation
Remington Rand, Inc
James H. Rand
Roy V. Peel
Univae
Remington Rand
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Alexander Pope
Alan Goldsborough
Maryland
Roosevel
District Court
John L. Lewis
Goldsborough
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Learned Hand
Justice Holmes
Joseph and Stewart
Lillian
Mary Pickford
Miss Gish
Little Willie
East Lynne
Nation Today
James Marley
Tralee
Register
M. L. Jones
Grace Hospital
Welch
35Th
Kanawha
Adelaide
Che
Raleigh Register Svenings
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Beckley Wye
Binion
W. Va
Thomas F. Stafford
Associated Press
AP News
Toni
Don
Cohen's Drug Store
Neville Street
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