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...Louisville, Mayor Andrew Broadus ordered municipal department heads to omit references to race in their help-wanted ads, start hiring the best-qualified candidates for city jobs regardless of color...
...luncheon in Washington, John Albert Broadus Broadwater, president of the Capital Transit Co., rose to state his business philosophy. "Capital Transit," he said, is not "a philanthropic organization whose trustees have dedicated its income to the public service," it is in business to make money. Most public-utility men, said Broadwater last week, are "scared somebody will accuse them of making a dollar. What in the hell goes on here in America? That's what we're here for, to make money...
Life in Montana. In Broadus, Mont., local news went on, war or no war: three residents killed three rattlesnakes, a cow allowed a cat to fall asleep on her back, another cow gave birth to a three-legged calf...
...from the Hopkins faculty and Maryland's public life (including Johns Hopkins' famed Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr) gathered at a dinner to praise Dr. Mitchell, speak guardedly of "loss of tolerance" at the University. But to friends Broadus Mitchell explained privately: "The thing got to the pass where resignation was the only course. Bowman was too protesting about his tolerance-and then insulted and browbeat me on the campus...
...Broadus Mitchell had long been a headache to President Bowman, who was campaigning for endowments to hold up the Hopkins' falling prestige. But after a violent quarrel with Dr. Mitchell, President Bowman once confided to students: "No mother hen is more solicitous of her chicks than I am of Broadus. Why, there are men downtown who would like to see his head on a platter...