Word: piedmonte
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...valley of humiliation between two mountains of conceit," last week had something to crow about. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which ordinarily renews the certificates of "feeder" airlines for only three years, broke precedent by issuing a seven-year renewal to North Carolina's tiny but fast-growing Piedmont Airlines. In addition, CAB awarded Piedmont four new routes, and gave Piedmont a public pat on the back for its "outstanding record...
Dean A. R. Van cleave of little Piedmont College in Georgia resigned yesterday following a long dispute over the acceptance of money from the anti-Negro, anti-Jewish capitalist, George Armstrong...
...incident at Piedmont came as the result of acceptance of funds from the Texas Education Association, which has been giving $500 monthly for more than a year to the school. Financier of the TEA is Armstrong, the wealthy Texas cattle and oil magnate whose money has been turned down by other institutions for his prejudiced views...
...Piedmont College of Atlanta, Georgia, will continue to accept grants financed by an avowedly anti-Jewish, anti-Negro millionaire, it announced this week...
...campus of Georgia's little (210 full-time students) Piedmont College had been in a turmoil ever since the news leaked out that the college was accepting $500 a month from antiSemitic, anti-Negro Judge George Armstrong's educational association, headed by Major General (ret.) George Van Horn Moseley (TIME, March 12). Last week the uproar boiled over. President James E. Walter, who had already fired one instructor for objecting to the gift, fired Treasurer David B. Eddy, who had never made any secret of his anti-Moseley feeling. Cracked one trustee about all the protests: "The only...