Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daze. In appearance he is the most crushed of all the defendants. He has lain for at least ten months in the same prison cells to which he has consigned so many others. He sits lackadaisically in a rear seat of the courtroom. He is dressed in a dark suit. He is only 47, but his hair has whitened in the past year, and his face is lined with despair...
...tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand up against a white one. His two main interests: tuberculosis research in Louisville, Ky., a U. S. Negro theatre...
...assembled by Leonard Sillman; produced by Elsa Maxwell). Elsa Maxwell, the plump swizzle-stick of Manhattan's Cafe Society, stood sponsor last week to Manhattan's latest revue. On opening night, most of Café Society found their seats quite nimbly in the dark, came through like little majors with applause. Bursting with bright ideas, Who's Who usually fumbled them in either the writing or the acting. Possibly Producer Maxwell would have considered it not quite suitable for the show to seem too professional...
Meanwhile, a member of the President's Committee, dark, bushy-browed Rev. George Johnson, of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, snorted that Dr. Strayer's charges were "utter nonsense." Catholic children, said he, "should not be deprived of their rights as Americans because they do not happen to be attending public schools." Arriving in Atlantic City to address the convention, the Committee's chairman, wiry Dr. Floyd Wesley Reeves, tried to smooth the waters by explaining the Committee had not suggested that Federal money go directly to parochial schools, but that States and localities receiving Federal...
...Depression president of the Stock Exchange, is a brother of Morgan Partner George Whitney. Richard Whitney & Co. had always been known as "the Morgan brokers." It was in behalf of a Morgan banking group that Richard Whitney strode across the floor to U. S. Steel post on a dark day in 1929 to bid $2.05 per share for 25,000 shares of steel -15 points above the market. That spectacular bid temporarily stayed the avalanche and the tall figure of Richard Whitney became the hero of the crash...