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...Addressing some Young Republicans last June, Representative Bruce Barton held up Tommy Corcoran as a model of industry for Young Republicans to emulate if they want to save their party. "It can be said truthfully of him," said Mr. Barton, "as was said by a contemporary of Sir Walter Raleigh: 'I know that he can toil terribly...
...Richmond, Va., his Assistant and Regional Director for the South. Parker, like Cahill, was devoted to the idea of building up community art centres. They began in the South, where Holger Cahill had observed the greatest need. The First Federal-sponsored community centre was started by Director Parker in Raleigh, N. C., in January 1936. Since then Assistant Parker, operating from his office in the Project's old building on Washington's G Street, has planned and planted centres from Harlem to Key West and in ten western States. In all cases the project starts by getting...
Editor of the Raleigh, Va. News and Observer, son of Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to Mexico, 36-year-old Jonathan Daniels began his tour of exploration at Arlington National Cemetery. On through Williamsburg, Author Daniels drove his Plymouth, wondering if he could locate in Warrenton the poker game that is said to have been going on ever since the Civil War, with hands descending from father to son. After he had driven through the textile towns of the Carolinas-Gastonia, Kannapolis, Spartanburg-he began to note the mansions of the Coca-Cola millionaires, and to speculate about their significance. "Wealth...
Josephus Daniels, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and publisher of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, and Addie Bagley Daniels celebrated their soth wedding anniversary. Said Addie Daniels: "My husband has four loves: first, newspapers, next, the Democratic Party, third, the church, and fourth...
...fumes, a husky, 20-year-old Negro in white trunks coughed, clenched his fists, expanded his chest and fiercely cried: "Joe Louis!" Such was the death two years ago of Allen Foster, first criminal to be executed in the lethal gas chamber of the North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh. The Foster execution lasted eleven minutes, provoked a storm of newspaper criticism. Today lethal gas executions are legal in six States besides North Carolina-Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, and Cali-fornia-and are increasingly efficient, but to many conservative criminals and laymen alike the humdrum noose or electric chair...