Word: bookers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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System of the syndicate was simple and efficient. Every Sunday or Monday each prostitute would telephone her booker who would tell her at which "house" she was to spend the following week. Girls were shunted from apartment to apartment, said Prosecutor Dewey, "in the manner of an Orpheum circuit," usually spending a week in one place, sometimes two or three if they were popular. Most places were two-girl houses; some had only one, a few three. Each house was run by a madam whose job was to rent the apartment, hire a maid, solicit customers...
...Charleston's No. 1 Negro citizen, prosperous enough to have been touched for a loan by a white Charlestonian stranded in London in the early days of the World War. The fame & fortune of the Jenkins Orphanage, however, did not come from piety alone. Taking a leaf from Booker T. Washington, who successfully raised money through his Tuskegee Singers. Daniel Jenkins began early to exploit small Negroes playing band music...
Proudest Negro job in the world is the presidency of the institute which the late great Booker Taliaferro Washington founded at Tuskegee, Ala. in 1881. Tuskegee's two leaders, Dr. Washington and Dr. Robert Russa Moton, who succeeded him two decades ago, have done much to set the course of Negro education and culture in the U. S. They have had the friendly ear of tycoons, statesmen, a dozen Presidents. Again & again the heads of Tuskegee have spoken for their race...
...Negroes took a searching look last week at President-elect Patterson. Rich and famed though Tuskegee is, what the Negro Press calls "race men" are sharply divided on the merits of the vocational type of education it offers. Booker Washington founded the Institute "to put brains and skill into the common occupations of life." Raw, gangling black boys go to Tuskegee from all over the South. They work on and around the campus to pay for their keep and the small tuition: $31 for students in the high school department, $52 for those in the college. When they leave Tuskegee...
William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony had a few exciting moments when drum beats drilled out a climax in true African fashion. But for the rest Composer Dawson appeared to have forgotten his primitive background. After his shoe-shining days in Anniston, Ala., he worked ambitiously at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. He studied music in Kansas City, later in Chicago where Conductor Frederick Stock chose him for his first trombonist. He returned to Tuskegee in 1930, to head the music department, direct the choir...