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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paint things that will knock holes in the walls." In the same mood he turned Communist. Impressed, St. Louis began giving him one-man shows, more prizes. Joe sent a picture to the Sixteen Cities Show in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, with an autobiography: "Joe Jones. Born St. Louis, 1909. Self-taught...
...Born in Alabama, but not superstitious, Jesse Owens is the son of a onetime cotton picker, now unemployed, who lives in Cleveland with his wife and eight other children. Total income of the Owens family is estimated at $7 a week. When Mrs. Owens applied for relief, she was refused on the ground that the family had enough money to send a son to college. At Ohio State, her son helps earn his way as a State House page. Christened James Cleveland Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom...
Young Fred's mother who calls herself "Mignon" and fights for "enlightened temperance" did a real civic turn when she gave the festival her energy and name. Socialites needed her spur to be interested. But the 10,000 amateurs required no prodding. The foreign-born elements have been as faithful to their music as to their native food. The industrial groups have developed swiftly in the past two years. Chevrolet has a glee club of 40, directed by David Redwood who works in the die room at the forge plant. Hudson has a glee club and a band. General...
...cablegram of felicitations from the Pope. Priests celebrated mass. A choir of friars sang. But not a person in the jubilee throng laid eyes on the Reverend Mother Mary Seraphim. Poor Clares are strictly cloistered. Clad in a rough, grey robe and cloth sandals, that 73-year-old Irish-born nun heard the celebration in her honor from behind a screen...
This honorary officership in the army of the Church Militant was 65 years in coming to Father Quirk. Born in Ireland 91 years ago, he fought in the U. S. Civil War, became a priest in 1870, is supposed to have twice renounced his rights to an earldom. Alert old Father Quirk has ministered for half a century to three mountain parishes 15 miles apart. Devoted to his collie "Shep," his blackened pipe, his comfortable Congress gaiters and his crushed black hat, he refused until last year to accept an automobile from his flock, preferring to ride from parish...