Word: chautauquas
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Harrison was employed by the New York Federation of Churches directing Negro church festivals in Harlem when Destiny and Marc Connelly caught up with him in the autumn of 1929. On the road Actor Harrison lives with friends he made years ago while on Chautauqua tours, or in Y. M. C. A.'s. He has not squandered a liberal salary. A large part of it goes to the support of an invalid wife, whom he married 40 years ago with his friend, the late Negro Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, as best man. A son, who struggles with a jazz...
...Percy V. Pennybacker, octogenarian president of Chautauqua Women's Clubs: "While disappointed, I am not discouraged...
...Accustomed though it is to feeding large parties, the White House staff was worried la'st week. Mrs. Roosevelt had invited the Chautauqua Women's Club to lunch. As they began to arrive-Carrie Chapman Catt leaning on a cane, others in wheel chairs-Whitehousekeeper Nesbitt hastily ordered more dishes brought up, telephoned caterers for more paper napkins, ham, potato salad, buns, pickles, coffee, ice cream. In the East Room the great gold piano, suitably covered, was used as a serving table for angel cake. Mrs. Roosevelt carried a stool into the State Dining Room, mounted...
Last week President Roosevelt received another complaint about his Secretary of the Interior, this time from Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. The point at issue was Mr. Ickes' antipolitical administration of the Virgin Islands. Secretary Ickes had insisted that Paul Martin Pearson, sexagenarian Chautauqua organizer appointed by Herbert Hoover as Governor of the Virgin Islands, should not be removed to make room for a deserving Democrat. Senator Harrison had a job-seeking friend named T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson of Mississippi who in 1928 gave up a seat in the House to run for the Senate and lost. Lest...
...much Mrs. Edison, who accumulated so many millions of dollars during her husband's life that he did not need to mention her in his will, contributed to the rehabilitation of Chautauqua the Institution did not reveal. Biggest single gift in the campaign was an anonymous one of $5,000. Chautauqua trustees contributed $20,000. The Bird & Tree Club, of which Mrs. Edison is president, chipped in with $3,358 while the Woman's Club gave $2,507. By far the greatest bloc of contributions toward lifting Chautauqua out of its gentle dumps came from those who have...