Word: bookers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Booker T. Washington in Union--Will speak on "Negro Progress." "The Night Riders"--Cast of Dramatic Club's Fall play...
...Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, supporting himself by odd jobs. In six years at Iowa State College he won his bachelor's and master's degrees, showed such ability in agricultural chemistry that he was made a member of the faculty. Forty-one years ago the great Booker Taliaferro Washington summoned him to Tuskegee Institute to start a school of agriculture...
...Millions") Turpin, he too opened barrooms in St. Louis' black belt with Brother Tom Jr. Three years he spent in California selling a mouse poison of his own invention. Back in St. Louis he was elected constable, and next turned his hand to running a cinemansion, the Booker T. Washington, the present site of St. Louis' massive Municipal Auditorium. Showman Turpin prospered, built the gaudy Jazzland dance hall where brother Tom thumped the piano. When Charles Turpin died of an insect bite in 1935, he left a $119,000 estate consisting chiefly of 700 shares of American Telephone...
Earnings of a syndicate prostitute averaged $300 per week. Of this she paid 50% to her current madam, 10% of the remainder to her booker, $25 to $35 for a week's board, $5 for medical examination and care, $10 to the syndicate for bonding. That left $75 to $100 per week for herself. When a house was raided and a girl arrested, the madam would telephone a man named "Binge," who in turn notified one of the syndicate's bondsmen. The madam had to put up half the girl's bail, usually...
...Renee Gallo, 25, a pert, dark Italian who said she was born in New York, moved to Philadelphia at 8, first surrendered to a man at 18, took to the streets when he deserted her five years later. After six months a madam named Mollie introduced her to a booker named Pete. "Mollie says, 'This is the new girl, Renee.' And I says, 'Hello.' And Pete says, 'Wanna work steady?' And I says, 'Yes, I do.' And he says, 'You know what you hafta wear?' And I says, 'Yeah...