Word: mckinney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in its 40-year history, Cleveland's Ministerial Association (representing virtually all Protestant denominations) chose a Negro president. He was Dr. Wade H. McKinney, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church. Last year Dr. McKinney investigated Detroit's race riots for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, later wrote a report which Cleveland's Mayor Frank J. Lausche used in organizing that city's Committee on Democratic Practices...
...Army's most unusual brother combination received a new honor last week. Barney McKinney Giles, Chief of Air Staff, was boosted from major general to lieutenant general. The promotion put Barney two steps ahead of his twin brother, Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Giles, in their private family competition, now about to enter its 25th year...
Three times in the last four years Hollywood's popular Painter John Decker has turned from screwball to serious art. Artist Decker's latest and most successful turning took place last fortnight over rum cocktails in Beverly Hills' Little Gallery. Said Los Angeles Museum Director Roland McKinney: "I would say [Decker] has become one of the significant contemporary American painters...
...high and learned salute to her talent came when she was only 15. One morning at 3 she was jamming with McKinney's Cotton Pickers at Harlem's Rhythm Club. The great Louis Armstrong entered the room and paused to listen to her. Mary Lou shyly tells what presently happened: "Louis picked me up and kissed...
LIEUT. COMMANDER J. M. McKINNEY...