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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative Arthur W. Mitchell of Chicago, only Negro member of Congress, last week lost his case before ICC against Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway for kicking him out of a Pullman seat when one of its trains entered Arkansas, making him ride in a Jim Crow day coach (TIME, May 24, 1937). ICC ruled that demand for Pullman accommodations by Negroes is so small it would be unfair to ask railroads to Supply separate Pullmans so as to comply with local Jim Crow laws...
Happiest of the lot was a handsome Viennese youth. Two years ago he began to correspond with then 14-year-old Lillian Wolfram, member of "The Pen Pals," a Glenside, Pa., high-school club which encourages boys & girls of different countries to write to each other. When Lillian's distant Pen Pal found himself getting into trouble with the Nazis, Father Wolfram undertook to get him out of the Reich and last week he arrived, a robust 18 to Lillian's sweet 16. "I am a Jew and just call me Harry," he smilingly told ship-newscameramen...
Doctor Maurice O'Connell of the hospital reported that he was suffering from serious under-nourishment, and though he probably would recover, his name was placed on the danger list. Emery is the last surviving member of G. A. R. Post 26 of Roxbury, and served in the 64th Massachusetts infantry, during the Civil...
Henry L. Shattuck '01, member of the Board of Overseers and former Treasurer of the University, will be the guest of honor at the fourth luncheon, which will be held in Winthrop House on Tuesday under the direction of E.L. Richardson...
...perhaps the finest gesture came from the workers at the University press. A committee member ready to pay $30 printing bill was informed that the bill would be only $17 because the printers had voluntarily contributed their time...