Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro, as it led John Bunyan, to regard life as a pilgrimage through many pitfalls for gay rewards. This is the import of almost every Negro spiritual; it is the import of a morality play called Heaven Bound which has made its appearance in Atlanta, performed by the choir of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. First wide public to hear about Heaven Bound was the theatrical world. Theatre Guild Magazine for August called it "the first great American folk drama" and said: "It should and probably will make Georgia an American Oberammergau." Recalling the power of The Green Pastures...
Heaven Bound was performed publicly for the first time at the Atlanta City Auditorium last October. Eight thousand saw it then, 5,000 more failed to get in. Subsequently it has been performed in Savannah and Macon, copied by other Negro churches. In September it will be presented at a church in Philadelphia...
...days after the hearings recessed, the I. C. C. announced that, in accordance with the railroads' request, the date for opening the opposition would be advanced three weeks to Aug. 10. Other hearings scheduled were at: Portland, Me. (Aug. 4), Portland, Ore. (Aug. 12), San Francisco (Aug. 17), Atlanta (Aug. 17), Dallas (Aug. 21), Salt Lake City (Aug. 24), Kansas City (Aug. 26), Chicago (Aug. 31). Shippers were instructed to keep their argument on a broad basis and not single out individual roads for attack. The tenor of the opposition was to be, apparently, that the roads would...
...Atlanta...
Clark W. Parker and his son Wyman stood before Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey in Manhattan last week, were fined $11,000 each and sentenced to five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiracy and using the mails to defraud. Worthless was not only $1,250,000 worth of stock in Automotive Royalties Corp. but also that of two previous companies Mr. Parker had formed. Many a mulcted clergyman sadly agreed when Judge Woolsey called him "an enemy to society." Swindler Parker shrugged...