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During the 1936 campaign, Negro James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice president, visited Durham, ate dinner in a restaurant with English Professor Franklin Carl Erickson. A committee of angry trustees descended on Graham, demanded that he fire Erickson. He answered: "If Professor Erickson has to go on a charge of eating with another human being, then I will have to go first...
...leave their husbands outside but not their dogs, passed a bill barring dogs, cats, and other pets from hotel rooms and tourist camps. In Nashville, for the protection of married men, a bill was introduced in the Legislature which would make the wearing of lipstick a felony. In Durham, N.C., State Senator R. A. Whitaker introduced a bill to forbid public, habitual drunkenness among judges...
...Albert Forster of Seaham, county of Durham, had prompted these observations by a letter to the Lancet on the mild nutritional disease common in Britain's "one-ration-book households." Women living alone often do not get enough meat and fruit, fail to eat raw vegetables. Many would rather just have a meal of tea, bread and margarine than bother with vegetables...
...Durham, N.C., 34,000 saw Duke knock Georgia Tech from the unbeaten ranks, 19-to-13, with a touchdown pass in the final quarter...
Purist. In Durham, N.C., one A. E. Lloyd insisted that "stoping" meant an excavation method in mining, refused to pay a fine for parking beside a "No Stoping" sign. The court docilely dropped charges, ordered the misspelling corrected...