Word: hobos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis, Perpetual King Jeff Davis opened the 29th annual "greatest and best" convention of the Hoboes of America. In a grimy hall in the flophouse district, 100 delegates heard greetings from Ohio's Representative Herbert S. ("Brother Bo") Bigelow, New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing who sent a $10 contribution, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. Unanimously the hoboes voted to lobby for benches and cots in railroad boxcars and a special 1?-a-mile hobo rail rate, applauded King Davis when he thumped for enforcement...
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Sentenced. Thomas Alton Tully, 25, son of hard-boiled Hobo Novelist Jim Tully; to a 25-year prison term; for rape; in Los Angeles...
...platform material by leaders of blocs and factions, economists, radicals, cranks. Heard by the committee were A. F. of L.'s William Green, American Farm Bureau Federation's Edward A. O'Neal, the National Grange's Louis J. Taber, Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun, Hobo Fellowship's Ralph E. Dalton, many another. When the perfunctory examination of unordered lumber was over, the drafting committee settled down in room No. 717 at the Bellevue-Stratford to an all-night job. Their job was to make their work last all night. Waiters came & went with trays...
...hobo that Handy began the musical career that has earned him mention in the Encyclopaedia Britannica for his fathering of the blues. He was the son of a Baptist preacher who considered it disgraceful to be a musician. Young Handy liked nothing so much as his battered cornet or a bit of close harmony with the boys on the street. When they heard of the World's Fair of 1893, four of them organized a quartet, hopped a freight to Chicago. There they remained jobless, finally had to work their way back South. But Handy's ambition persisted...