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...Other Washingtonians faced the embarrassment in various ways. New York's Laborite Senator Wagner fled from the picket-bound Shoreham to Manhattan. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, C. I. 0. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray moved out of the Carlton, Mrs. Mordecai Ezekiel (whose husband is economist in the Department of Agriculture) picketed in evening dress. SECommissioner Jerome Frank stayed on at the Wardman Park Hotel and Senator & Mrs. Millard Tydings at the Shoreham. Those who passed the Mayflower picket line included the Bankheads (Senator & Speaker), Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Carter Glass, Walter George, Arthur Capper, Clyde Herring, Kenneth...
...Among the founders: Drs. Lawson Gentry Lowrey, George Salvadore Stevenson and David Mordecai Levy of Manhattan; Dr. William Healy of Boston; Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger of Topeka, Kans...
CHARLES IVES: SIX SONGS (Mordecai Baumann, baritone, Albert Hirsch, pianist; New Music Quarterly Recordings, Bennington College, Bennington, Vt.). It has taken a generation for concertgoers to realize that shy, bristle-bearded New Englander Ives is no crackpot, but one of the pithiest, most individual, most authentically American of contemporary U. S. composers. The disc contains at least two top-notchers: Charlie Rutlage and Two Little Flowers...
...they arrived they were handed copies of the Alumni Journal, published by the university's General Alumni Association. Three hundred copies were distributed before police routed the distributors. On the Journal's cover was a large portrait of bald, pince-nezzed, light-skinned Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, first Negro president of the 71-year-old institution, now serving his twelfth year, and beneath it in large letters: "The Case Against President Mordecai W. Johnson...
...onetime Baptist minister, Mordecai Johnson has degrees from Harvard and University of Chicago. He has raised $5,000,000 for expansion of Howard, which today has 2,108 men and women students in nine graduate and undergraduate branches, gets most of its money for operating expenses from the U. S. Government. Abuse from disgruntled alumni has been the hairshirt of Howard University presidents, even of its first president, O. O. Howard, who was investigated by a Congressional committee and exonerated. All of it is due, President Johnson insists, to the hope of Negro intellectuals close to the Government that they...