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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union's restaurant. These men, numbering over five hundred, seek a club life which the Governing Board attempts to satisfy. Toward this end a pool and billiard room is maintained which is equalled by none in the Square. Under the direction of a professional billiardist excellent instruction free of charge is given. The charge for playing is lower than elsewhere in the Square...
...Whatever goes on in the world there always seems to be a Negro there. When Columbus discovered America a Negro piloted one of his ships. Almost every early history of the western hemisphere tells of some part taken by Negroes. As early as 1645 there were free Negroes in New York, and it is common knowledge that the first Negroes in Virginia arrived in 1619, but a few years after the white colonists at Jamestown. In the French and Indian Wars, black men did their bit, and a Negro was first to fall in the War for Independence. They were...
...Detroit Civic Theatre possesses now an endowment of $200,000 which has been provided by 30,000 of its patrons. Box-office profits go back into the sustaining fund of the theatre. This year the Detroit Civic Theatre will present for children several free performances of plays selected by school teachers; also an outdoor performance of some as yet unnamed classical play with the assistance of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. In addition it will maintain its own school of dramatic...
...summer people are outdoors, have free opportunity to quarrel; commit acts of violence. In winter living becomes difficult; people steal and commit other acts against property...
...French Government and the city of Paris became aware of the situation and donated to the University of Paris a tract of land opposite the Pare Montsouris, close to the Porte d'Orleans. Sites in this tract were free and 15 foreign countries quickly accepted invitations to build dormitories to lodge their Paris students. There is, however, no U. S. dormitory; nor will there be until the important committee to which Banker Baruch made his donation gets enough money...