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Word: hoey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four months ago Clyde R. Hoey, then Governor, and fellow board members adopted the Warren book, rejecting a more scholarly work written by Professors A. R. Newsome and Hugh T. Lefler, of the University of North Carolina, and recommended by the State Textbook Commi sion (educators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Political Stink | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Shrewd, old-style Governor Clyde Roark Hoey (pronounced hooey) of North Carolina heard Negro Contralto Marian Anderson at a Raleigh concert, was so pleased that he invited her next morning to a private, half -hour chat in the executive offices. Reported Governor Hoey, refusing to consider his action unusual: "I talked to her some about her singing. She asked about affairs in the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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