Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever Negroes gather in the U.S., hands rise just as quickly to such a question. To them Lift Every Voice and Sing is the No. 2 song to the national anthem. While white people bemoan the lack of suitable patriotic songs, even find fault with The Star-Spangled Banner's annoying octave-and-a-half range, colored people have quietly adopted a rousing anthem of their...
...publisher's prospective son-in-law. But he went to town as an advertising salesman, quickly became advertising manager, then business manager. Last week Salesman Doorly, publisher of the World-Herald since 1934, helped Donald Nelson sell other U.S. publishers on a worthy idea: arousing the people to gather steel scrap...
This week the U.S. Army launched its first football offensive. In Los Angeles, where Army officials have limited sport crowds to 5,000 since Pearl Harbor, 55,000 football fans were permitted to gather in the Memorial Coliseum to watch an All-Army team tackle the Washington Redskins, the first of eight games with big-league professional outfits. The goal: $1,000,000 for Army Relief...
Wearing white uniforms and, for the first time, full insignia, more than 500 student officers of the Naval Training School, Indoctrination, will gather at Sanders Theatre this morning at 11 o'clock for their graduation ceremony...
...potentialities of the Devens team are totally unknown to the Crimson coaches and managers, but the soldiers warn that they will throw the best men they can gather into the meet which may or may not spell disaster for the Crimson. One thing is sure, it will probably be no draw but a smashing victory for one side or the other...