Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Chicago's Black Belt, Harlem's businesses are run practically without Negro participation. A handful of professional blacks live in the fine old Stanford White block known as Strivers Row. In good times they aped the manners of Park Avenue, subscribed to a social register, gave their daughters debut parties. Theatrical folk like Duke Ellington, sporting characters like Harry Wills, live farther north in Sugar Hill. But even Harlem's unique assets are flagrantly exploited by whites. Jews own the successful colored bands, the Cotton Club, the Savoy Ball Room, all Harlem's saloons...
When Mr. Stephens did lose his seat to Bilbo, his old friends, John Nance Garner and Pat Harrison, were afraid that The Man Bilbo would block Senate confirmation of an RFC appointment for Mr. Stephens. They undertook a diplomatic mission to Senator Bilbo...
...much to the development of Harvard and the nation, is composed of two buildings of the former Gold Coast connected by a third section built several years ago as the culmination of the House Plan. The most centrally located of all the Houses, it fronts on Bow Street, one block from Massachusetts Avenue...
...them out, Jack Dempsey last week crossed Eighth Avenue, entered Madison Square Garden, clambered into the ring and nodded morosely to the crowd. Into the ring immediately behind him climbed the two muscular lightweights whose fight the crowd had paid to see: scarred Sammy Fuller of Boston, perennial stumbling block for lightweight contenders, and chipper young Lou Ambers who had nothing but a purse to gain by winning, stood to lose a chance at Barney Ross's title in a bout this summer...
Finally, wrote Mrs. Bro, the Sunday School "offers an insufficient interpretation of religious experience." By its very existence it "tends to block off more adequate interpretations." Parents pack their children off to Sunday School, feel no further responsibility. And most children who go to Sunday School do not go to church afterward...