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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daniel Joseph Jenkins, born a slave in 1861 and soon orphaned. Turned off a plantation near Charleston, S. C., he said: "I took God for my guide. I got a job on a farm and got two pounds of meat and a quart of black molasses a week to live on." One day he came upon half a dozen shoeless, shivering pickaninnies huddled by a railroad track. He gave them his last dollar...
...parade. It appeared at the St. Louis Exposition, the Anglo-American Exposition in London. It has toured the V. S. from coast to coast, played in Paris, Berlin, Rome, London, Vienna. Dividing into sections as the orphans grew older and learned to play better, the Jenkins Band once had live units simultaneously on tour. Today its 125 players, aged 10 to 18, earn from $75,000 to $100,000 a year for the Orphanage. Once girls & boys played together in the bands but, says Daniel Jenkins, "They got too fresh and I had to separate them." Now the girls play...
Baldwin. "I don't believe," said President George Houston of Baldwin Locomotive Works last week, "that the railroads can live on less than 40,000 locomotives. ... In January 1927 there were 61,995 locomotives on line. In July there were 45,888. Many railroads need locomotives but it is impossible to say when they will...
...made him miserable. Only at Brighton could he find contentment. The great Pavilion he built there, with its full-blown domes, tall pagodas of porcelain, panels of lacquer, and strange Indo-Chinese style, was his unconscious assertion of his belief in the dignity of kings, of their right to live extravagantly, romantically, disregarding practical considerations of expense...
...sowed his architectural wild oats at a time when the power of monarchs was everywhere being curbed, and did not live long enough to experience regrets for their cost. Although Sitwell and Barton write long and authoritatively on the beauties of the romantic architecture he sponsored, a taint of snobbishness and affectation is discernible in their accounts. Despite Brighton and its patron's love of art, Thackeray was probably more nearly right about George IV than Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton...