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...Association for the Advancement of Colored People wanted an investigator who looked white enough to circulate among crowds at lynchings, and young White, recently graduated from the Negro Atlanta University, was well qualified for the job. Founded nine years before as the result of a disastrous race riot in Abraham Lincoln's home town of Springfield, 111. the N. A. A. C. P. was then a smallish but idealistic organization with a masthead of big names, among them liberal Editor Oswald Garrison Villard and famed Boston Lawyer Moorfield Storey...
...First Syndic (president) of the tiny 190-sq. mi. territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone...
Friend Bill. Said Hudson Motor's president, heavy-jawed A. (for Abraham, which he dislikes) Edward Barit: "If the automobile industry was able to lead the way out of the Depression, it seems reasonable to expect it to do something about leading the way out of the Recession. . . . While there are confidence-inspiring moves of a general nature that can and should be made, there is one specific job for industry...
...work as possible of the Rightist defense within the city, miners blew the remains of the Bank of Spain branch sky high, burying an unknown number of men, women and children in the debris. Soon the Battle of Teruel became a battle of all nations as the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Battalion and other foreign battalions moved into the Leftist lines. New Year's Eve saw Spaniards, Italians, U. S. citizens, Moors, Germans, Czechs and Frenchmen all fighting for a town on a river bank about the size of Emporia, Kans...
...Manhattan's 69th Street last week, in a white-tiled studio which was once a garage, a rangy man who looks a little like Abraham Lincoln and more like the Pied Piper ran his fingers through his long grey hair, folded his arms, grinned, yelled, gestured, strode to & fro, swung his spectacles. On this occasion Photographer Edward Steichen was not engaged in conjuring life out of some apathetic sitter. He was helping several assistants dismantle his studio for good. As of Jan. 1, 1938, Edward Steichen was through with commercial photography...