Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williams, urbane pastor of Olivet, has been president of the Negroes' National Baptist convention for eight years. Last week he called the convention to order in Chicago. More than 50,000 delegates were in the city. They thronged through the streets. They filled the Coliseum. They conducted a "grand musicale" (1,000 choristers), street parades, an athletic carnival on Soldiers Field at the lake front, a "jubilee pageant of progress'' (2,000 participants). Quite visible were delegates in Chicago, yet not one of the important white Chicago daily papers reported their activities last week. Negroes attributed that...
...Kansas City, Mo., the Rev. Carl C. Walker, operator of a prayer tabernacle, left town without paying his divorced wife's alimony. Mrs. Walker went to the tabernacle, seized 193 chairs, a vacuum cleaner, an electric refrigerator, a grand piano, a xylophone, a shotgun, offered them for sale. The congregation paid the alimony to get the church furnishings back...
...London's famed Haymarket theatre. Nine years ago he crossed the retiring line for members of the British Civil Service, but not until last week, after two special extensions of his appointment, was he ordered definitely to withdraw at the close of the year. He has been the grand old man of foreign consuls in the U. S. Named as his successor: Gerald Campbell, British Consul-General at San Francisco since...
Marion Nevada Talley, Kansas farmerette, onetime soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, went to Manhattan to make a series of phonograph records. Said she: "I never knew just what made me leave the grand opera stage. ... I couldn't say that I'll never go back. . . . You know, it's a woman's privilege...
Anastasia Tchaikovsky, protégée of various Eastern socialites who say she is Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, was reported about to be deported from the U. S., could nowhere be found. But Assistant Secretary of Labor William Walter Husband announced: "We could not deport her to Russia because we have no diplomatic relations with that country. There is no other country to which we could lawfully send...