Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chanting "Kill Jews! Kill Jews!", the crowd marched off through the streets, smashed Jewish-owned store windows, stoned a Jewish pool hall, converged on the auditorium of the Jewish Chamber of Commerce. There many of Mexico City's Jews had gathered to hear a lecture by Leon Forem, a Yiddish novelist from The Bronx. Prevented from entering by a barricade of tables and chairs hastily thrown up by the audience, the demonstrators besieged the building and hurled rocks through the windows. Finally police and firemen, armed with submachine guns and fire hoses, forced the mob to disperse...
...building has been provided for all of the present members of the Government and Economics departments, who will be moved into their new quarters next year according to present plans. In addition to these offices the Center will have a library with a 200,000 book capacity, an auditorium, lounge, reading room, and eight arge seminar rooms...
...builders put the finishing touches to the Littauer School of Public Administration, the final plans are being concluded for the beginning of the regular seminars on Monday when the building will be opened for regular use. The first floor of the building contains the administrative offices and the large auditorium and lecture room in the west wing, while library and reading rooms are in the cast wing...
...expected it to amount to much: Jewel Tea Co. would make up the deficit. The plan itself was simply to get as many Barringtonites as possible to go to a series of lectures (free to all regardless of "economic status, or any other reason") in the High School Auditorium, with an invocation by a local minister and community singing...
...Bethune was in her glory last week. To her second National Conference on Problems of the Negro & Negro Youth came 125 delegates to urge abolition of poll taxes, attack discrimination against Negroes in the Army & Navy, TVA, Federal Housing Administration. To address the convention, in the Department of Labor auditorium, came Mrs. Bethune's friend, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Speaking as an "individual," Mrs. Roosevelt urged passage of the Anti-Lynching Bill which Southern Senators filibustered to death last year...