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...first place I am a resident ol No. 19 sided in Berkeley Los Square, Angeles Los practically Angeles, all and of my have re life. Your Circulation Department has my Los Angeles address. I am the President of the South west Air Fast Express and not J. C. Halliburton as published in your magazine (June 16). The Southwest Air Fast Express represents an investment of slightly over $1,300,000 and my personal investment only amounts to about average $750,000, yearly which is income during considerably the less last 12 than years. my My income has not been wholly...
PAUL ROBESON, NEGRO-Eslanda Goode Robeson-Harper ($2.50). Many a U. S. citizen, white and colored, has heard Paul Bustill Robeson, in the flesh or on a phonograph record, sing "Ol' Man River," "Water Boy" and many another movingly mournful song of his race. Those who have seen him know he is young (32), tall, powerful, coal-black, has a modest, engaging stage presence. Singer Robeson is married. His wife, much smaller, much less dark than he, sings for an audience too, but only sings her husband's praises. Paul Robeson, Negro is partly biography, partly propaganda...
...voice training, thought he needed none; but at a concert in Boston a bad cold made his voice "tight and hard and unrecognizable." After that he took lessons. He has been abroad three times: to play in The Voodoo, in The Emperor Jones, to sing "Ol' Man River" in Show Boat. Now he is in London playing in Othello. The Robesons like London, have decided to live there permanently, have taken a house on Hampstead Heath. Fortnight ago U. S. radio-listeners heard Actor Robeson broadcast from London a talk on "How It Feels for an American Negro...
...Their purpose was to furnish funds for the establishment of two state banks. In 1841, alter the banks had failed, Mississippi defaulted on her payments, and has been in default ever since. The Supreme Court of Mississippi in 1842 declared the bonds to be binding obligations ol the State, but still the default continued. Indeed, in 1875 the Slate incorporated in its constitution a provision forbidding the payment of any ot the defaulted bonds...
Today the U. S. has but 80,000 tons ol such cruisers, of which only 20,000 tons, or. two cruisers, are in commission. At the prospect of building 100,000 more tons, that is, of more than doubling the U. S. large cruiser fleet, honest workmen rejoiced in shipyard cities throughout...