Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with Canada that it would involve, the impact on the traditionally isolationist Middle West in finding its harbors linked to the docks of Amsterdam. If the St. Lawrence Seaway had half the effects claimed for it, the inland U. S. would be a vastly shrunken area, since even Duluth would be part of the Eastern seaboard...
Even Harlem's pro-Roosevelt Amsterdam News joined in the outraged hubbub. Jim Crow Army Hit, ran its page 1 banner over a story denouncing the Army's policy...
...Harlem's Amsterdam News (35,841) also is for Roosevelt, like its Editor Clilan Bethany Powell, who is the Democratic Party's Negro publicity director...
Louis Raemaekers lives modestly in Manhattan with a few of his possessions. He had sent to the U. S. some 600 cartoons-he contributed about 350 a year to the Amsterdam Telegraaf - forwarded for safekeeping to Herbert Hoover's war library at Stanford University. For two months during the summer Raemaekers drew a cartoon a week for the New York Herald Tribune. Now he works for the afternoon tabloid PM. During World War I, Raemaekers made two cartoons a day, saw his work blown up in posters as big as 15 by 20 yards, was so powerful that...
...York Herald Tribune, was one of the 1,000-odd newsmen at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia last fortnight. Last week, still hoping to be cleared by the Negro press, Earl Brown knew he could make a living (as he did before he joined the Amsterdam News in 1936) writing for white men's publications...