Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged child labor law, david clark, frank porter graham, gastonia strike of 1929, nc historical review, southern textile bulletin, walter clark on March 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Why I read footnotes: “Interestingly, the first 18 years of the journal included dozens of often lurid accounts of suicides among textile mill workers, in most cases young women. Then, in 1929, such reports suddenly ceased. Perhaps Clark realized [such] stories provided ammunition to critics [of] living and working conditions in mill villages.” – From [...]
Posted in History, Memorabilia Moment, tagged frank porter graham, john umstead, nc mental hospitals, william umstead on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In addition to being a Chapel Hill insurance agent, John Umstead was the brother of Gov. William Umstead, the UNC roommate of Frank Porter Graham and, as a legislator, the impassioned reformer of the state’s mental health hospitals. He seems to have given this paperweight-mirror to policyholders such as Mrs. W. S. Kutz. Insurance mirrors [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged athletic scholarships, d. w. "dutch" seifert, frank porter graham, north carolina state, robert maynard hutchins, southern conference, university of chicago, university of north carolina, wolfpack club on October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Because ‘the peculiar advantages of football [to a college] arise only from winning football,’ University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins concluded that he must either: 1) hire a winning team (against Big Ten rules), or 2) abolish football. He abolished football. “Last week North Carolina Staters decided to try a different system. D. W. [...]
