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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labored mightily to whip up interest in flying among Negroes, get them a share in C. A. A.'s training program. She runs Brown's Lunch Room at Harlem Airport near Chicago, is partner in a flying service there. White people are sometimes surprised when they find her piloting them on pleasure hops ($1 for 10 minutes). She hopes to get an instructor's rating in the spring, teach flying at some Negro school certified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: School for Willa | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...flight comic strips are today consciously comic, few still appeal primarily to children. Like movies and pulp fiction, they are mostly simple narratives for the unsophisticated of all ages. First comic-strip character to find high adventure in Europe's war was the Register and Tribune Syndicate's Jane Arden girl reporter for a mythical newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: First Strips | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...largest committee is the Social Service Committee, which takes care of a great deal of the entertainment for underprivileged children that are tended by thirty settlement houses scattered all over Boston. Every talent that volunteers can show will find an audience among these youths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE STARTS YEAR WITH OPEN HOUSE | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

Through college assistance, on the average over a thousand Harvard students a year ordinarily find term time and summer employment, and in good years earn between $200,000 and $300,000 to help finance their schooling, Sharpe said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Employment Office to Provide Part-Time Jobs for Students | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...parsons who had spent the summer exchange-preaching in Manhattan hastened to do their British bit. Said Rev. Dr. Donald Davidson, Bournemouth Presbyterian: "This dictator will find that he has not only France and England to reckon with but our Lord as well. God made the world and has every right to control it. If He did not take action in what we have seen at the present time, we would think He was indifferent." Dr. Frederick William Norwood, onetime pastor of London's City Temple, reproached the U. S.: "You are a little too big to cover yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gott Sei Mit Uns | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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