Word: hille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juan Hill," a settlement of some 40,000 on the middle West Side of Manhattan, was the Negro quarter before the War. The War and post-War industrial boom of 1917-18 brought thousands of unskilled workers North. In New York they spilled out of San Juan Hill into the Italian-Spanish colony of Harlem. By 1920 New York's Negro population had jumped to 250,000. The recession of the boom stranded the blackamoors, changed New York's "Nigger Heaven" into a "Nigger Hell...
Beautifully printed and well bound by the Chapel Hill Press of the University of North Carolina, the book itself is a worthy medium for the conveyance of its many valuable and refreshing ideas...
General MacArthur's first assets in his assault on Capitol Hill were charm and eloquence. He was able to call many members of the House Military Affairs Committee by their first names. Democrats were moved when the Army's No. 1 fighting man, relating his financial woes in Hoover times, declared: "I have humiliated myself seeking allotments to replace leaking, slum-like barracks housing our soldiers. I have almost licked the boots of some gentlemen to get funds for motorization and mechanization of the Army. . . . Unless we move quickly we'll be a beaten nation paying huge...
...Newspaper") restrained itself. Withholding epithets and stock denials, the Chronicle's Editor Thomas J. Hamilton promised to investigate the Caldwell charges, to report accurately, fearlessly. With the author's father, Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell of nearby Wrens, Ga. as guide, two Chronicle newshawks scoured the bleak "sand hill" section between Wrens and Keysville-setting for Tobacco Road. True to promise, the Chronicle front-paged their findings in five straightforward reports which, in any Northern publication, might well have drawn the hot fire of Southern boosters. Dutifully the investigators described the worst cases they found...
...HILL OF LIES-Heinrich Mann- Dutton ($2.50). The meteoric rise of a German peasant girl. The author's chief claim to fame is that he is Thomas Mann's brother...