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...sociological researches he supplements with quotations from many a source, including Mark Twain, the Chicago Commission on Race Relations, Negro poets, psychology professors. First, Professor Dowd explains whence the Negro came, what he does today and how he does it. In the North the Negro is essentially a city dweller, inhabiting segregated districts-Harlem in New York City, the "Black Belt" (old South Side) in Chicago. Since the '80s and '90s, his industrial significance has slipped a bit; the Italians beat him out of the bootblacking business; the Scandinavians made more alert janitors; both the French...
...Louis, to the 32d annual convention of the National Municipal League. They . talked feverishly about everything from city-owned taxicabs in Philadelphia to "half-baked vocational education." However, they all remembered the words of one man who stung the pride but revealed the feeling of many a metropolis dweller...
...whanged out on a fiddle wielded by John Wilder, the President's 80-year-old uncle. Rustics from miles around assembled in the hall over Miss Florence Cilly's general store, looked the President over, obviously pleased that he had not become "dandified" since becoming an Olympus-dweller. Asked to dance, Mr. Coolidge refused. He has never danced...
Albert Mazarak, callous Jersey City dweller, spaded recently in his back yard beneath a neighbor's inquiring...
...longer can the Harvard smile exist as some member of certain polytechnical institutions words his love of old Building 399B. Harvard too has her lapses into crispness of phrasing. Yet her sacrifice is far too great for comfort. Pity the future dweller in the waste lands beyond the freshman dormitories who must spend his college years in old D Hall. Of course that will not be like living in E, or even D. But it will be bad enough. The officers of the school should certainly admit their literary limitations and offer a prize for names. Luchre, Mammon, Rimmon...