Word: bookers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rough Reefer. In Boston, police hauled Booker K. Miller into court on a charge of peddling marijuana cigarets, dismissed his case when a chemist's report showed that the cigarets consisted entirely of catnip...
June 24, 1942 was a hot, dull, newsless day at San Francisco police headquarters. The reporters were: bored, thirsty, broke. Then one had an idea: "Let's throw a party. This is Booker T. Washington Day." There really is no such thing, but the energized reporters called every politician they knew, gravely informed them that Booker T. Washington Day was passing uncelebrated. (They explained to doubters that Booker T. was the "founder of the American Newspaper Guild.") By mid-afternoon 64 quarts of assorted liquor, one case of champagne, scores of politicos, plain-clothes men and plain people...
Last week the newsmen celebrated again. In the San Francisco Hall of Justice press room, decorated with Shasta daisies and festooned with illuminated guests, 50 bottles of whiskey and four cases of beer were drunk up. Booker T. Day had become an annual affair...
President Barclay and President-elect W. V. S. Tubman were in America to return the visit paid by President Roosevelt when he stopped in Liberia, to inspect U.S. troops on his trip back from Casablanca. Not since Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to stay for lunch in 1901 had a Negro been a guest at the White House. Last week the Liberian President and President-elect became the first ever to spend the night there. Southern Congressmen shuddered-what would their people think...
When the new Liberty ship Booker T. Washington was launched on Sept. 29, the correspondents were not allowed to tell Britons the ship's captain was Hugh Mulzac, a Negro. Out of a British correspondent's story on the WAACs, U.S. censors slashed the phrase: "It has been agreed there will be no discrimination against color, which means Negro units will be formed...