Word: attender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed slowly by his open, candle-flanked coffin. When the cathedral doors were finally closed at 11 o'clock at night, 45,000 people of every race, creed and walk of life had paid a final salute. The next day, 10,000 people jammed the cathedral to attend his funeral. Thousands more stood hatless under overcast skies as his funeral cortege moved with slow music to Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx...
Last week St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter ripped down this racial bar. He announced that Negro children could attend any diocesan school within their parishes. More than 700 white Catholic parents banded together to protest the seating of Negroes next to their children. They knocked at the Archbishop's door; he would not see them. They threatened court action; they would hire a lawyer and ask for an injunction against the Archbishop...
...meeting, scheduled for 7:30 o'clock, the forms needed by the VA to insure prompt and efficient handling of checks for College men will be distributed, filled out, and collected. New veterans who fail to attend may experience serious delays in the receipt of subsistence allotments...
Almost all veteran upperclassmen continuing in the College have already filled out these forms during their registration on Monday, and will not be required to attend. Public Law 16 students are also excepted...
...cars read that statement in Chicago, uttered wounded cries about being scooped, piled out, found Taft at the Union League Club and got interviews of their own. The Senator got on a fast train after that, beat the newsmen to the coast by twelve hours. He had time to attend an outdoor steak dinner in a redwood grove, and to have a private chat with California's G.O.P. Governor Earl Warren...