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Died. James J. Hoey, 63, Collector of Internal Revenue for the U.S.'s smallest collection area, richest revenue producer; in Baltimore. His area, the 2nd New York District-23rd Street to the Battery in Manhattan, will turn over at least $650,000,000 in taxes this year...
Banned from North Carolina schools last week was a fifth-grade history (Jule B. Warren's North Carolina Yesterday and Today) adopted last winter by ex-Governor Clyde R. Hoey's administration and recently denounced by scholars (TIME, April 28). An investigator appointed by Governor J. M. Broughton found more than 1,000 factual errors in the book...
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...
Nell Lewis' campaign had raised such a furor that Governor J. Melville Broughton (who succeeded Hoey Jan. 1) hurried home from a vacation in Mexico City and ordered that the Warren books, already in use by 90,000 fifth-graders, be recalled at the end of the school term for corrections. He also asked Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell to analyze the rejected Newsome-Lefler book. Maxwell, a Hoeyite, explained everything...
...Newsome-Lefler history continues to harp on the conservatives of the Democratic Party down to and including the administration of Governor Hoey and plainly intimates that both Governor Ehringhaus and Governor Hoey owed their election to election frauds. Such an implication . . . is entirely out of place in a proposed history for the fifth grade...