Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens, white and black, for Fair Ground mutuel totals are currently used in the best numbers games. It was particularly important last week because the play was heavy in the hope of a Christmas Eve killing. Last year a Negro on Relief in New York's black Harlem dropped dead from shock when...
...dropped dead when the magic 799 came up last week. But a few days prior a numbers runner was murdered in Washington, and a Harlem numbers collector, who was a WPA worker on the side, was shot to death by another WPA worker for welching on a 6? bet which hit. This was a fairly routine budget of blood for the biggest, richest racket in the U. S. today...
Richest and most inexplicable cultist in the U. S. is Major J. ("Father") Divine, "God" to many a blackamoor and moody white in New York's Harlem and elsewhere. Slick little Father Divine lives well, maintains a Rolls-Royce, flies about in an airplane, provides abundant low-price meals to his followers. But he keeps no books, has never paid an income tax. Leaving it to his followers to assert blandly, that he "manifests" money out of nothing, the black "God" has seemed to take poker-faced delight in evading questions about his income. Since he has a good...
...mechanic in Father Divine's "Peace" Garages swore that the Harlem "God" paid him his weekly $30 in cash from a fat roll of bills. An Ulster county realtor said that Father Divine paid him $8,000 in bills from a satchel for a tract of the cult's "Promised Land" (TIME, Aug. 31), although title to the property was conveyed to a Divine disciple. One of 30 cashiers in Divine restaurants, a girl who had taken the name of "Humility Consolation," reported that all receipts were paid to Father Divine, that on many a night the clinking...
...faces removed from, or new faces added to, the House. Most picturesque Congressman-reject was a woman, California's chunky, wisecracking old Florence Kahn, beaten after six terms by San Francisco's County Supervisor Franck Havenner on a straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform. In New York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled William Lemke, whose Union...