Word: orrick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevailing WPA wages, averaging $93 a month in northern cities, $85 elsewhere. Now so highly organized that its officials boast that in a week it can gather the material for a guide to any Federal highway, in its early days the Project had its temperamental riffles. In Manhattan Poet Orrick Johns had his jaw broken by a literary longshoreman to whom he had refused a job. In St. Louis radical Novelist Jack Conroy (The Disinherited) went on strike. Along with such editorial problems as deciding how much space strikes should take up in community histories, directors were also handicapped...
Following Borle's talk, William H. Orrick of the Yale News, adjourned the meeting and officially closed the 1937 Conference, promising at the same time that when the 1938 edition opens in New Haven, Yale will endeavor to maintain the high standard of interest set by Princeton and Harvard
...Orrick Johns, noted author, and Eugene Gordon, well-known negro journalist, will speak this evening at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House on the Scottsboro and Herndon Cases...
...Scottsboro and Angelo Herdon cases are the principal subjects of speeches which Eugene Gordon, prominent Negro journalist, and Orrick Johns, poet and writer, will deliver Friday, December 7, at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House under the joint auspices of the Liberal Club and the National Student League...
...Orrick Johns, who is the author of two books, "Asphalt," and "The Wild Plum," is an active member and representative of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners...