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...last month, President Roosevelt told Congress: "A great advance has been made in the opportunities and assurances of collective bargaining between employers and employes. Under it the pattern of a new order of industrial relations is definitely taking shape." Last week at Louisville, Ky. (see p. 15) and Wilmington, Del. the pattern of that new order was badly disarranged by two Federal judges who thought in terms of the Law rather than in terms of the social aspirations of the New Deal...
...more beautiful than our Great Smoky Mountains-Banners Elk, Linville Falls, Chimney Rock, Tryon, Brevard, Hendersonville, Blowing Rock and other mountain retreats; or our famous winter resorts-Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Camden, Aiken, Summerville; or Myrtle Beach, Kitty Hawk; and the beautiful gardens of Charleston, Orangeburg and Wilmington, to which we might add our world-known hunting and fishing grounds-Ocracoke, Lake Matta-muskeet and Morehead City...
...Wilmington, N.C. last week Francis Yonge Legare Jr. (pronounced Leegree), 21, was sentenced to 20 to 25 years in prison for killing a druggist named Mason during an attempted holdup. So extraordinary was this sentence that the judge felt obliged to comment on his own impartiality. Killer Legare is not only white but a member of a famed old Charleston, S. C. family. Druggist Mason was a Negro...
Back in the days of the Big Stick, New Jersey was the favorite mother of corporations. Today it is Delaware, whose charters permit a corporation to do about anything it wants except overthrow the government. Even New Dealers scurry up to Wilmington to charter pseudo-governmental agencies like Electric Home & Farm Authority, U. S. Public Works Emergency Housing Corp., Commodity Credit Corp., Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corp...
...that most other newspapers were headlining the du Pont's abortive contracts for rearming Germany, the Wilmington News put it thus...