Search Details

Word: happyland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...happyland for white-collared U. S. Negroes is a collection of buildings grouped around a grassy campus on the northwest outskirts of Washington, D. C. Howard University has many white friends as well: the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the General Education Board; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gave it nearly $5,000,000 in PWA grants for buildings and turned up last October to dedicate its new chemistry building; Eleanor Roosevelt, who has dropped in at Howard faculty meetings. Last week Howard's friends were shocked to hear that its 1,950 blackamoor students were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bison Strike | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

| 1 |