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...that the first task of the Administration was to restore private enterprise, that national defense depends mightily on a highly productive, Federally encouraged domestic economy. But Mr. Willkie still had more friends than delegates, and G. O. P. bosses were still leery of a Wall Streeter, no matter how homespun his appearance...
From the three-man band, the broadcast rapidly built up to 25 or 30 men a week; now boasts numerous guest stars, a white string ensemble, a colored quartet. Star of the Negro harmonizers, Lifer Joe Johnston introduces their numbers with homespun sermons; repents his past, bewails the future in haphazard doggerel. Sample...
After attending four colleges (Wake Forest, Holly Spring, Carson-Newman, University of North Carolina), Blanford Dougherty went back to Boone and with his brother, Dauphin Discoe, built a two-room cabin, there in 1900, they opened the Watauga Academy. Today, thanks to homespun Dr. Dougherty's political skill, his school has grown to be the Appalachian State Teachers College, one of the South's best, with nearly 1,000 students and a $2,500,000 plant. Dr. Dougherty, president of the college, is a power in the State. At 69, he has lost none of his sharpness, none...
...were comparatively unexcited by another Ohio G. O. P. victory, the expected 2-to-1 election of plutocratic Frances Payne Bingham Bolton* of Cleveland to succeed her late husband, Chester C. Bolton. Sharp-witted Mrs. Bolton was a gilt-edged financial asset, but Coshocton Contractor McGregor was a real homespun portent...
...overtly to straighten out the difficulties of these self-governing units. But there was also increasing trouble in a corner of the Empire which does not run itself, and here London could and did decidedly act. At New Delhi, lavish capital of India, a little skinny man dressed in homespun cotton garments, with a shawl drooped around his shoulders, passed through the imposing gates of The Viceroy's House...