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':al« 1^7^ THURSDAY, MAT 1950 , ^ If*. 5,>. ‘f ,^i . .^*.#*»', j .,..Vy«Hvl-is-i' ’t -v . COMPARE THEIR RECORDS OF PUDLIC SERVICE!! t ■ ^ # ' Ifs Fair to Ask the Candidates For U.S. Senate Just What They’ve Done For Their Fellowma It. In Other Words, Does His Past Record of Performance Show He Is Interested In You and Your Family? ' ■ ^ ■ -i ■ ■ t ■ ' . ' • ' . ' ' ' ■ - Frank Graham Has Pevoted His To the Well-being of Others! Here Is His Unmatched Record of Public Service: \PB^- ■arji 1. 7. Vice-Chairman of the Consumers Board of the National Recov ery Administration, and in the fall of 1934 was appointed Chair man of the National Advisory Council to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Security. Twice President of the North Carolina Conference of Social Serv ice which prepared and sponsored the first Workmen’s Compen- sation. Act in North Carolina, still considered the best in the Southern States. Founded the Citizens Library Movement, the first in the United States, which seeks to expand the library facilities of every'North Carolina community. • Member of the President’s Committee on Education. \ In 1920-21 in charge of the statewide campaign for a $20,000,000 building program for state institutiins. Member of the U. S. Commission to study the University of Puerto Rico as a possible inter-American University. Given the responsibility by the Board of Trustees for writing the plan for the consolidation of the three institutions of higher learn ing which now constitute the University 6f North Carolina. President of Sigma Epsilon, national intercollegiate literary society. ■ President of National Association of College Writing Groups. Vice-President of Tau Kappa Alpha, national intercollegiate de bating fraternity. Chairman of the Industries Committee of American Railroads. Member of the National Defense Mediation Board, 1941-42. Public Member of the National War Labor Board, 1942-46. m Member of the Maritime War Emergency Board, 1^-1946. Chairman of the Public Hearings Committee of the President’s Labor-Management Conference, 1945. Chairman of the Oil Panel of the President’s Labor-Management Conference, 1945-1946. Member of the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, 1946. Member of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, 1946-47. Member of the Central Committee of the American National Red Cross, 1946-47, and elected to the newly-formed Board of Gov ernors of the American National Red Cross to serve from 1947 to 1950. One of the organizers and first president of the Oak Ridge Insti tute of Nuclear Studies at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1946-1949. President of the National 1947-48. Association of State Universities President of the North Carolina Historical and Literary Society. President of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of teaching, 1947; elected Vice-Chairman of the Board, 1947-48. Appointed by the President to serve as the United States Repre-: sentative on the Good Offices Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations on Indonesia, 1947-48. Appointed by the President on recommendation of General George C. Marshall to serve as Advisor to the Secretary of State with regard to Indonesia, February 1948. Appointed by Governor W. Kerr Scott as United States Senator on March 22, 1949, to succeed the late J. Melville Broughton. Sworn in as United States Senator from North Carolina on March 29, 1949. Appointed to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. VOTE FOR FRANK 6RAHAM FOR U. S. SENATOR ^^Champion of Democracy” (CONTRIBUTED BY SUPPORTERS OF SENATOR GRAHAM IN HOKE COUNTY)
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