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Once upon a time two brothers. Caesar and Moses Cone, founded a Proximity Manufacturing Co. in Greensboro, N. C. Proximity prospered, gave birth to three cotton mills: Proximity, Revolution and White Oak. To take care of his employes Caesar Cone presently founded the Textile Bank for the savings of his employes. Time passed. Caesar and Moses Cone died. Textile Bank was absorbed, became a branch of North Carolina Bank & Trust...
...mushrooms from Charlotte, onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits from Biltmore, hosiery from Morganton, coughdrops (Vick's) from Greensboro, thread from Gastonia...
...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Carlton Remsberg Souders 4M, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Douglas Aykroyd Sunderland 2M, of Glenside, Pennsylvania; William Graham Thompson 4M, of Andover; William Louis Wallbank 2M, of New Britain, Connecticut; Henry Stanley Warren 2M, of Melrose Highlands; Meyer Richard Whitehill 3M, of Norfolk, Virginia; Robert Wallace Wilkins 4M, of Greensboro, North Carolina; Robert Ory Wilson 4M, of Pleasant Valley, Connecticut; Hays Richman Yandell 4M, of San Antonio, Texas...
...seven years he headed the dramatic department of the Agricultural and Technical College of Greensboro, North Carolina Summer School. Young men came from all over the South to take his course in acting. "I taught them anything from Mother Goose to Shakespeare" said the prominent actor. "They kept me busy morning to night. When I was willing they would cut their meals to keep on with the class. They were so eager to acquire knowledge and so sincere, that I really regretted leaving to take my part in "Green Pastures...
...great tobacco buyer, Mr. Williams must be de scribed as a great tobacco lawyer. He was born on a North Carolina farm and always had more fun watching his father's lumber mill and cotton gin than he did doing chores. Moving from the practice of law in Greensboro, N. C. to Reynolds' assistant general counselship, he dropped the assistant portion of the title in 1921, added a vice-presidency in 1925. Now 47, he conceals beneath a soft North Carolina drawl a hair-trigger mind and a hair-splitting passion for accuracy in both spoken and written...