Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Segregation. In the solid granite Capitol in Raleigh, white-haired Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges, 61, businessman turned politician, totted up some headline statistics that proved the vigor behind his fondest dream: from January to March, industry built some $25,000,000 worth of new plants in North Carolina to add 5,600 new jobs (up 40% over 1958) paying $16 million a year (up 46%) to the state's payrolls. Showing its heels to its industry-hungry neighbors, North Carolina would almost certainly better its 1958 total of $253,000,000 in new-plant investment, tops...
Business Governor. Chapel Hill beckoned early to Luther Hodges, born March 9, 1898, eighth among nine children of a poor tenant farmer who gave up and moved into the textile-mill town of Spray (1950 pop. 5,500). Though Luther quit seventh grade to work in the mill (50? a day), he later saved $62.50, at 17 went off to work his way through Chapel Hill (class of '19). After college, he resolved to go back home and make his mark in the mills, in 17 years worked his way up to production manager of Marshall Field...
...boss the U.S. show in Bolivia, the State Department last week named a career ambassador, Carl Walther Strom, 59. A onetime mathematics professor at Iowa's Luther College, Strom served eight years in Mexico, spent the last 2½ years in Cambodia. He replaces Careerman Philip Bonsai, now ambassador to Cuba...
...have some of the experiences I had as a Negro or that his mother had as a Jew," he says. "I don't necessarily want to save him from it." Harry devotes some time to Negro affairs (the N.A.A.C.P., the Wiltwyck School for Boys, the Rev. Martin Luther King's Montgomery Improvement Association), gives 20% of his income to his partly tax-exempt Belafonte Foundation of Music and Arts, designed to "get young people with talent out from under the hammer...
...Among past councils were Nicaea (325), which formulated the first Nicene Creed; Constantinople (869), which was the beginning of the final schism between the Eastern and Western churches; Trent (1545-63), which condemned Martin Luther as a heretic and tightened up Catholic practice and doctrine...