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April 16-18-Third Fact-Finding Conference on the American Negro; at Durham, N. C. Presiding officer: Dr. James Edward Shepard, president of North Carolina College for Negroes...
Gratified, the N.A.A.C.P. announced that 22 daily newspapers capitalize the black race. Four of the dailies, significantly, are in the south: Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Durham (N.C.) Sun, Raleigh (N.C.) News, Columbus (Ga.) Ledger...
...born in Peoria, Ill., sold newspapers, worked with his family's construction company, played the piano in a cinemahouse at night. He won local dancing contests, sang in minstrel shows, acted in neighborhood dramas. Finally he too became a professional coach. One of his assignments was in Durham, N. C., where he had to teach the business to a neophyte named Freeman F. Gosden. For six years they staged musical shows, plays and circuses for such organizations as the Elks, American Legion and Shriners, carried properties and costumes around the country in innumerable trunks. In 1924 they were made...
American Tobacco Co. handles about one-third of the cigaret and smoking tobacco, about one-fourth of the plug tobacco sold in the U. S. Among its many familiar brands are Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike cigarets, Bull Durham and Half and Half smoking tobaccos. Sales last year totaled some $200,000,000. The advertising appropriation on Lucky Strikes alone was estimated at $12,300,000. As the largest fragment of Thomas Fortune Ryan's Tobacco Trust, which the government dissolved in 1911, American Tobacco Co. occupies in its field somewhat the position held by Standard...
...Giusti. In none of these institutions has Dottoressa Montessori actively participated since 1914 because of bureaucratical opposition to her method. Although she dislikes travel save by automobile or airplane, she went abroad the previous year. In England she fared well, establishing institutions, receiving an honorary D.Litt. from Durham University. In the state of Victoria, Australia, mental defectives are corrected by her system. South Australia subsidizes Montessori kindergartens...