Word: asheboro
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...many voters at her rallies, all that mattered was that she was offering something, even if they knew economists said the impact would be marginal. "She's going to do something immediately," said Brenda Moore, a retired social service worker from Asheboro, N.C., who planned to vote for Clinton over Obama. "He says, 'Change. We're ready for change.' But he doesn't get down to the specifics...
...Retaliation." Though authorities dispute him, N.A.A.C.P. Counsel Jack Greenberg contends that 500 of North Carolina's 11,792 Negro teachers will lose their jobs this year. Eight Negro teachers in Asheboro, for example, have been dropped with the closing of all-Negro Asheboro Central High School, and no Negro has been hired to teach next fall at the city's other, and now only, high school. Fired Negro Teacher Louis H. Newberry, who holds a master's degree from New York University and has pursued graduate studies at the University of North Carolina, says bitterly: "I think...
...years, quietly and unsung, workers at the tiny P. & P. Chair Co. in Asheboro, N.C., have turned out rocking chairs for a limited clientele, mostly old ladies and pensioners. Then word got out of a more famous customer: President John F. Kennedy, who has installed a P. & P. chair in his White House office and rocks as he chats with visitors. Last week the creak from Kennedy's rocker was being heard from Maine to California, and thousands of Americans, from housewives to executives, scrambled to buy "a Kennedy rocker" from...
...type rockers (it also makes chairs and stools) from 200 to 1,500 a month, raising his work force from 20 to 60 workers. Whether or not the rocking chair becomes a symbol of the New Frontier, its newfound popularity gives a boost to at least one Kennedy program: Asheboro's unemployment is about 5%, and P. & P. had cut its work force because of the recession...
Having left one fuse sputtering, Harriman took steps to stamp out another. Journeying south to be principal speaker at a dinner meeting of North Carolina's Stevenson-minded Young Democrats in Asheboro, he vigorously denied the oft-repeated statement that he had advocated the use of federal troops for enforcement of desegregation. "Such a suggestion is repugnant to everything that I believe...