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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McIntire became a minister in the Northern Presbyterian church. But his violent accusations of "modernism" and corruption against the leadership of his church soon earned him a painful formal expulsion from the Presbyterian fold. Ever since then, Carl McIntire has been on the outside looking in-and not liking much of what he sees...
...friend Helen Valentine was running. Since then Mrs. Thompson has commuted to Manhattan every day with her adman husband, John Beaton (twice-married Alice Thompson uses her first husband's name in business) from their ten-room farmhouse in Fairfield, Conn. At home, Mrs. Thompson does much of her work and at home she often finds out exactly what her readers want to hear about. Her daughter, Judy, is just...
...George's Training School for Negroes got its heat out of old oil drums converted into makeshift stoves. It had rickety outside privies and so little classroom equipment that not even the most elementary science courses could be given. When the N.A.A.C.P. found that conditions in Gloucester followed much the same pattern, it decided to go to court. Result: last summer, a federal judge in Richmond ordered the Gloucester and King George school boards to "equalize" facilities...
...became a founder and later the second president of the Woman's College of Baltimore, and he and his wife spent much of their fortune building its campus. It was the first accredited women's college below the Mason-Dixon line, and its prestige grew. By 1910, when the school was renamed Goucher College in honor of its benefactors, it was one of the top colleges for women...
...Fannie still worked hard in their little garden, and once in a while they still showed up in church. But no matter how much money they made, they seemed to spend less & less. They never painted their house, never allowed any-repairs. Fannie kept their money tied up in little packages which she hid around the house. When she died in 1930, it took Charley quite a while to find...