Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zooming through Harlem, two days later, between dark rows of its populace drawn up along the sidewalks of Seventh Avenue, President Roosevelt, in the back seat of an open Pierce-Arrow, waved his tan felt hat. At the entrance to the Polo Grounds, the car crossed the sidewalk, went through a gate usually reserved for groundkeepers' trucks, rolled across the outfield, stopped at a box near the Giant dugout. The President threw out the first ball of the second World Series game, postponed 24 hr. on account of rain...
...clamoring for the dusky speedster's services at $10,000 a week. Hotfoot to a radio telephone trotted Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. "Don't do anything till you see me!" implored the world's greatest tapdancer. When the Queen Mary docked, "Bojangles" took Jesse up to Harlem, lined up a bevy of Lenox Avenue high-yellow girls on a nightclub stage, posed for photographs and hoped that he and Owens would soon have an act together...
Nearly 1,000 Negro physicians, surgeons and dentists assembled last week in Philadelphia for the 42nd annual convention of the National Medical Association. As a symbol of interracial fraternity, Dr. Peter Marshall Murray, 46, gynecologist of New York City's Harlem Hospital, removed a multiple fibroid tumor from a patient in Philadelphia General Hospital, first piece of surgery ever performed by a Negro practitioner in that white hospital's long history...
...Major J. ("Father") Divine. The little man boarded one of two excursion boats moored at the pier. "We got the Body!" shouted Negroes hanging over her rails. Then Father Divine boarded the other boat whose passengers cried: "Now WE got the Body!" At a quiet signal from Harlem's benign cult leader the two boats churned out, headed up the Hudson...
...biography of Father Divine, God in a Rolls-Royce,* by John Hoshor, 37, a white Manhattanite, onetime stockbroker, now a free-lance adman and investment counsel. Impressed by Father Divine as a self-advertiser, Biographer Hoshor claims to have spent six months in & out of a Divine "heaven" in Harlem, pretending to be a convert and, he says, almost becoming...