Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Labor Building ten flat black & tan faces stared importantly out over a large audience. In the audience, hundreds of three-dimensional black & tan faces beamed pridefully back. The flat faces belonged to Federal Art Project portraits of men who have served the District of Columbia as Recorders of Deeds since Reconstruction days. The three-dimensional faces belonged to leaders of Washington's largo Negro population who turned out in formal attire to witness the unveiling of the portraits. They had come to pay homage to a little administrative island in the U. S. Government which has remained...
...Abolitionist Douglass became a potent leader of freed U. S. Negroes. In 1871, President Grant appointed Frederick Douglass Assistant Secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission. President Grant's appointment proved so popular with U. S. Negroes that President Garfield named Douglass Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia in 1881, allowed him to staff his office with Negroes. Since then U. S. Presidents have failed to follow President Garfield's precedent only twice. Present incumbent is colored William J. Thompkins appointed by President Roosevelt...
...Manhattan chambers of New York Supreme Court Justice Samuel I. Rosenman one day last week a man and woman signed their names to the foregoing contract. The woman was Dr. Myrtle Bryan McGraw, 37, child psychologist of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center's Babies' Hospital, campaigner for brighter and better-trained moppets, famed for her observations of twins Jimmy & Johnny, Margie & Florie, in each pair of which one has been carefully trained and the other raised like any other child (TIME, Sept...
...other sectarians who dislike to swear oaths. Nevertheless Bride McGraw and Groom Mallina did by no means avoid Godliness. Their contract stipulated that it was as good as a religious ceremony, and day after they signed it they repaired, for a short philosophic talk, to the home of famed Columbia Professor John Dewey, who believes in a vague humanistic...
...Valley's outdoor, glass-walled swimming pool, for which the water has to be cooled because it comes from natural hot springs, will paddle notables like Robert Pabst (beer), Julius Fleischmann (yeast), William S. Paley (Columbia Broadcasting), Ward Cheney (silk). Arrival of Hollywood bigwigs like Producer Sam Goldwyn and Actor Gary Cooper for Sun Valley's premiere, is likely to leave Ketchum profoundly bored. Because the town is too small for a cinema theatre, they are unknown. Proprietors of Ketchum's Brant Hotel and its $2-a-day tourist camp dislike their new rival, expect...