Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...splashiest and most exciting opening night in Federal Theatre history flocked jitterbugs, Nosey Parkers, Harlem, Cafe Society. To it also, with hands upon their apprehensive hearts, marched Gilbert & Sullivan diehards, to endure an hour and see injustice done. To it also-one of her rare first nights since her husband became President-went Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, brought the audience applauding to its feet as she sailed down the aisle...
...bloomed in the spring gave way to a jamboree that had nothing to do with the case, but proved mighty, mighty tra-la. The Federal Theatre boldly moved The Mikado from Japan to the South Seas. It should have been bolder still and moved it, shag and shaggage, to Harlem...
...punctuated by a speech from the leading Republican Presidential possibility. Scene was the Manhattan courtroom of General Sessions Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. There 62-year-old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines, a New Deal patronage dispenser in Manhattan, was on trial for serving as prop and protection dispenser for Harlem's $20,000,000-a-year numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29)* There, too, 37-year-old Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey was on trial for his political life...
...Advertised by the two Hines trials, numbers is now played by thousands of New Yorkers outside Harlem, attracts more money than ever...
Huey ("Every Man a King") Long has been dead for three years and five months. Gerald ("Share the Wealth") Smith is forgotten. Father Coughlin ("Social Justice") still radiorates, but not so many listen as used to. Father Divine ("Peace, It's Wonderful!") still operates from Harlem his "heaven" across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt's mother's place. Principal demagogues in the Democracy currently audible are Martin Dies (see p. 13) and Doctor Townsend...