Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, March 6 there appeared an article dealing with the refusal of the Daughters of the American Revolution to permit the Negress Anderson to sing in Constitution Hall in Washington. In this article, Washington was referred to as "provincial." This was spiteful and entirely unjustified. Remarks of that nature show that all small people do not live in small towns...
...between April 15 and April 30 pass on the plan at special conventions, to be followed "not later than June 1, 1939" by a joint convention with the Big Four Brotherhoods in Washington "in the hall owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution" (who last year barred Mr. Lewis' United Mine Workers from Constitution Hall...
...stood in a large hall in Moscow one night last week and spoke with the dry air of a professor giving a lecture he has delivered several times before. He talked in a drowsy monotone, occasionally taking long pauses to sip mineral water. No foreign newspapermen were present. No radio apparatus was set up. The speech was dreadfully long. But when the session was over and official typewritten copies were handed out, correspondents rushed to cables and telephones...
Manhattan's conycatchers used to do a profitable business in selling City Hall, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park to innocent strangers. Last September in Harlem, an innocent and querulous Negro Methodist named Rev. Davis Frazer, preaching in a shop for which his congregation was growing too large, let it be known that he was in the market for a church. Two strangers approached him, told him they were agents for a bank which had a fine, large church for sale, price $96,000, on the installment plan. Parson Frazer paid $22.50 down, was told that it would...
...Einstein walked into a League of Nations hall in Geneva where a peace conference was going on. He had been officially invited to attend. But an anti-Semitic delegate jumped up and shouted, "Who sent for him? What does he represent? Whom does this Jew represent?" A U. S. newspaper correspondent slapped the delegate's mouth. Einstein was so angry at this display of race prejudice that he went back to his hotel, made horrid sounds on his violin until his feelings were soothed...