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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their dinner guests Dr. & Mrs. Walter N. Thayer. Good friend of the Roosevelts, Dr. Thayer is New York State Commissioner of Correction. Another guest was Geoffrey O'Hara, who owns a copyright to "The Star-Spangled Banner" by virtue of having transposed it to a lower key and who wrote the War song "K-K-K-Katy." After dinner the President listened appreciatively while Singer McGregor McKnight rendered a number with music by Composer O'Hara, lyrics by Dr. Thayer and dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The title: "I Have a Rendezvous with Life." Sample...
...Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave him its Spingarn Medal as the outstanding Negro of 1930. Howard University made him a Master of Arts. From North Carolina State College of Agriculture & Engineering and Lincoln University he received Doctorates of Dramatic Literature. Boston University presented him its Sigma Key. He was asked to speak at Rotary Clubs, to colleges and congregations wherever the show went, and his most prized possession is the Bible from the Clergy Club of New York, with the names of all its members inscribed. Governors of States shook his hand as, like an ancient patriarch...
...years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly he made his headquarters around Haines Institute at Augusta, Ga. At commencement time he would put on plays. In return, Headmistress Lucy Laney literally kept him from starving during the rest of the year. She died the day that The Green Pastures came to Augusta...
Miami, Fla., Feb. 28--National Guardsmen sped tonight toward lower Matecambe Key where 400 war veterans were is revolt against living conditions on a government relief project...
...carried a brief case containing a short-wave transmitter just powerful enough to flash buzz signals to a telegraph operator upstairs in the courthouse. Locked in his tiny room in the cupola, at 10:29 p. m. the operator heard four sharp buzzes in his earphones, leaped to his key. By A. P. code, four buzzes meant "Guilty-recommendation mercy-life imprisonment." Over the A. P. wires to 1.200 member newspapers and to Press-Radio bureau for broadcast went the flash...