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...second-class car full, he made himself comfortable in first class. When the conductor tried to put him back in second class, the sharp-witted hillbilly pointed to a sign forbidding passengers to change cars while the train was in motion. He rode first-class all the way to Raleigh...
...president of the college, is a power in the State. At 69, he has lost none of his sharpness, none of his homespun ruggedness. Bald and stoop-shouldered, he always wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat and stiff collar. When he has a political chore to do in Raleigh, he collars legislators in hotel lobbies, doodles with a pencil stub on one of his shoe soles while he talks to them...
...years ago he sat down in a Raleigh hotel room with a State Senator, wrote a bill. Then he toured the State, sold his bill to county politicians. Result: the Legislature passed the bill, levied a Statewide school tax. Year by year he got the Legislature to up this equalization fund, in 1933 got what he wanted: passage of a bill giving the State complete financial responsibility for the public schools. Today every North Carolina locality has a standard eight-month school term. All the money ($26,000,000 this year) comes from State revenues...
...third participant, the Achilles, is still on duty off South America). Aboard stepped Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who made a stirring speech in which he invoked the shades of Drake and Raleigh, praised the action as "a flash of light and color" in an otherwise drab war, prophesied that it "will long be told in song and story...
...York; Presidents Charles Seymour of Yale University, Mildred Helen McAfee of Wellesley College, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (acting) of Smith College, John Alexander Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary, Henry Sloane Coffin of Union Theological Seminary; Theologians Niebuhr, William Adams Brown, Howard Chandler Robbins, Henry Pitney Van Dusen; Church Laymen John Raleigh Mott, Robert Elliott Speer, Charles Phelps Taft...