Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They worked with the efficiency of long practice. New York's tough, rabble-rousing Harlem Congressman Vito Marcantonio and his staff wrote the keynote speech for Negro Charles Howard, a Des Moines attorney, who had once been suspended by the Bar Association for misusing funds. Marcantonio himself took charge of the Rules Committee. At his left & right hand sat Hugh Bryson, leftist boss of the C.I.O. marine cooks, and John Abt, smart and sardonic New York labor lawyer, who managed to be everywhere at once throughout the convention's three days...
Balcony Rescue. When Joe Louis pulled up in front of Harlem's Theresa Hotel after the fight, 10,000 hysterical admirers crowded around his car. They kept him prisoner at the curb for half an hour. Then they tore off the car hood, broke the windows, ripped off the tires, danced on the car roof. It took a balcony speech from Joe to disperse them. Joe didn't mind the damage much; he had earned an estimated $413,000 that night...
TIME had no need to apologize to Superintendent of Schools Jansen for its report on Harlem [TIME, May 17]. Eight years before his ". . . two-year-project to reduce delinquency in Harlem," I established a psychiatric clinic at P.S. 89, in deep Harlem, under the sponsorship of the boss of the Truant Officers, George Chatfield. My final report, after two years of zealous effort, is so close to your April 5th [review of] the present Harlem Report, that I shall spare you the actual comparisons. And this was six years before Jansen's special pleading that Harlem gangs "mimicked...
...world's greatest port, the world's greatest tourist attraction, the world's greatest manufacturing city and the world's greatest marketplace. Between the Battery and the Harlem River it is possible to buy anything from a ton of powdered whey to an ounce of marijuana; both bees and locomotives are on sale within a stone's throw of City Hall...
...Rome. It has 412,000 Poles, 57,000 Czechs, 54,000 Norwegians, 53,000 Greeks. Half a million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous responsibilities. He is the commander of a sizable army-19,000 policemen, 11,000 firemen, 120,000 other municipal employees...