Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between the States (or the War of the Rebellion) brought freedom to tall, blue-black Daniel Joseph Jenkins, born a slave in 1861 and soon orphaned. Turned off a plantation near Charleston, S. C., he said: "I took God for my guide. I got a job on a farm and got two pounds of meat and a quart of black molasses a week to live on." One day he came upon half a dozen shoeless, shivering pickaninnies huddled by a railroad track. He gave them his last dollar...
...Daniel Jenkins became a Baptist minister. Soon Minister Jenkins preached a sermon on "The Harvest Is Great but the Labor ers Are Few." persuaded his congregation to help him found an orphanage for poor black moppets. That was in 1891. Daniel Jenkins proceeded to rid Charleston of its roaming, thieving "Wild Children." In two buildings in the city, in farms and schools outside it, he has cared for as many as 536 orphans at a time, today has some 300 in his charge. Of the thousands of Negroes turned out of the Jenkins Orphanage at 14, he claims that less...
...orphans grew older and learned to play better, the Jenkins Band once had live units simultaneously on tour. Today its 125 players, aged 10 to 18, earn from $75,000 to $100,000 a year for the Orphanage. Once girls & boys played together in the bands but, says Daniel Jenkins, "They got too fresh and I had to separate them." Now the girls play in their own bands or sing to the boys' accompaniment. Each band-section is chaperoned and guided by a ministerial graduate of the Orphanage. Boys wear dark blue uniforms, girls simple print dresses...
...study at Rome's Accademia San Luca. U. S. sculptors presently found that the Piccirillis could finish their works in marble better than they could themselves. Through the years the six brothers faithfully executed such work by other sculptors as Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue in Manhattan, Daniel Chester French's great Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., and Robert Aitken's pediment for the west portico of the brand new Supreme Court Building in Washington, into which Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall...
...with audiences of from 15,000 to 50,000, believes he has played to more people than anyone else in the world. Backed at first by a number of rich New Yorkers, the Goldman concerts later became the private benefaction of the Guggenheim family (copper), are now called the Daniel Guggenheim Memorial Concerts for the charitarian who died five years ago (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930). At last week's celebration Mayor LaGuardia presented his city's Certificate of Honor for Distinguished Service to modest, greying Widow Florence Guggenheim. Turning from her toward the audience and the band...