Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid clouts. Governor Futrell and the local sheriff protested that the Weems "funeral" was only propaganda, that Frank Weems...
Until the last two years no effort had ever been made to gather material which would trace the history of the Harvard dramatists. An intensive campain was then put on, graduate members were canvassed, and college archives were searched for articies pertaining to the Club. The collection is now nearly complets, and it will he housed permanently in the Widener Theatrical Collection until the Club is able to provide an adequate place...
...gone, destroyed in precisely 32 sec. before 1,000 appalled spectators. It was almost as if it had been done as a laboratory experiment, like a discarded battleship blown up for target practice before experts. If such an experiment had been planned, it would have been hard to gather a more competent battalion of onlookers—Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, No. 1 U. S. airship man; representatives of Deutsche Zeppelin Reederai; aviation editors and reporters from all important newspapers, magazines and press services; pilots and hostesses of American Airlines ready to ferry the Hindenburg's passengers to Newark...
...Economics Concentrators has been organized, the question arises, "What is the function of such a Council?" Naturally, it is the more eager concentrators who form such a body, and it somehow works out that the more eager are the more radical. There is thus danger that the Council may gather together a fervid little knot of propagandists, eager for the Call, and bent on missionary work among the economic heathens. Any insistence on generally unaccepted doctrines would be bound to alienate great numbers of potentially valuable followers, and would end in futility. The harder but wiser course...
Whether or not the Harvard songs will be broadcast depends on whether the program starts on time and how soon it is concluded. For that reason it is hoped by the Glee Club that the audience will gather early...