Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free publicity has been gained for Hazel Scott and against the D.A.R. in regard to the use of Constitution Hall in Washington, B.C. by Negroes [TIME, Oct. 15, Oct. 22], I should like to call to your attention certain facts which were given to me at the time Marian Anderson publicized this same situation a few years ago. Will you please corroborate these facts for us. Is there not a statute of long standing in the city of Washington specifying that Negroes cannot hire the use of public halls designated for white people? Does not the D.A.R. lease the auditorium...
...parade of scientists who took exception to the May bill's security provisions passed before Congressional committees. Others made statements to the press. Columbia's Dr. Harold C. Urey discoverer of heavy hydrogen, favored a worldwide ban on the manufacture of atomic weapons. Dr. Herbert L. Anderson, who worked on the bomb, feared that the May-Johnson bill's security provision would frighten scientists away from all nuclear research. Famed Dr. Arthur Holly Compton had similar objections. The scientists' main worries were...
...suffered war losses"). Then, running down the First Lady's social list, she announced that Mrs. Truman would attend a tea on Oct. 12 given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1939 Mrs. Roosevelt had quit the D.A.R. because it refused to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in the Society's Constitution Hall; now the D.A.R. was embroiled in a similar controversy with publicity-seeking Negro Pianist Hazel Scott. But the girls tactfully asked no questions about Mrs. Truman's racial opinions...
Windfall. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Presba Anderson beamed when he heard that 1.5 million tons of sugar had been discovered in Javanese ports. He hopes that the U.S. will get some 700,00 tons of the find. This was good news to housewives, although rationing is still scheduled to last till spring, but may be bad news to Cuban sugar growers. They are expected to arrive in Washington next week to demand a higher price for their 1946 crop...
...Africaine) have always been sung by whites. The staid Met says that its board welcomes "all operatically competent singers." By the Met's definition, those who would not make the grade include: Tenor Roland Hayes, Baritones Paul Robeson and Todd Duncan, Soprano Dorothy Maynor and Contralto Marian Anderson-five of the best voices in the U.S. or any country...