Word: carvers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department's first venture into the cartoon field is a simply written, effectively illustrated biography of eight Americans: Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, Poet Walt Whitman, Social Worker Jane Addams, Scientist George Washington Carver, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. The first shipment (65,000 copies), on the presses this week in Manhattan, will go to Viet-Nam. Later, 65,000 apiece will be sent to Indonesia, Korea and Thailand...
REVOLT IN SAN MARCOS (433 pp.)-Robert Carver North-Houghton M/'f-flin...
...Sept. 15, 1946, the first of the 229 houses of her (George Washington) Carver Manor went on sale at $11,400 and $11,200 each. Some 500 Negroes swarmed over the lot. Most buyers had steady jobs as schoolteachers, policemen and firemen, were good credit risks, earned enough to furnish their homes comfortably and keep them in good repair. Mrs. Grant signed up 110 buyers the first day, had waiting lines for weeks. She is now building an additional 33 units and a $140,000 shopping center for a new 95-house annex to Carver Manor, besides the bigger...
...courtroom. He wanted sentence deferred for a month. Two days earlier, in his 130-minute summation, corny Counsel Palmer had invoked St. Matthew ("Judge not, that ye be not judged"), Omar Khayyam ("The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on"), Abraham Lincoln, the golden rule and George Washington Carver. Now he was abusing Shakespeare: "They've got their pound of flesh," he trumpeted. "Do they want the blood with...
...essential gift of the novelist-to let his characters live their own lives-but he sacrifices too much of it for the sake of his propaganda point. This apparently had less weight than the book's solid merits with Doubleday & Co., which has been awarding the George Washington Carver prize since 1945, for "outstanding writing by or about American Negroes." The current award has gone to Bucklin Moon...