Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The convention cost the 101 girls (aged 16 to 20) nothing. Its funds were provided by the Juliette Low Memorial Fund. It was the late Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low who, after she had met Boy Scout Founder Robert Baden-Powell, founded the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Ga. 27 years ago...
In convention in Chicago last week gathered the men who control the third largest U. S. unmanufactured crop export. Largest is cotton, next is tobacco and third is the humble apple. To safeguard this precious fruit the International Apple Association met for the first time 42 years ago in Chicago...
Last week the National Bar Association (Negro) held its annual convention at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia, surveyed the place of the Negro in the legal profession, found it discouraging. With a U. S. Negro population of 11,890,000 there are but 1,247 Negro lawyers...
Not at the convention was Richard D. Evans, of Waco, Texas, a hero among Negro lawyers for his able but vain Court fights against the State law barring Negroes from registering in Democratic primaries. Philadelphia's lanky Raymond Pace Alexander, Harvard Law '23, who claims to be the...
The thud of broken skulls continued to be heard on U. S. city streets last week and country highways continued to resound with the crash of battered, torn and twisted metal. Removed during the week from the scene of automobile accidents in the U. S. were approximately 1,000 dead...