Word: receivee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> Mitchell Sviridoff, 48, head of New York City's Human Resources Administration, is attempting to bring all of the city's "human" programs together in one coherent plan. On the theory that welfare recipients will cheat no more than ordinary taxpayers, 300 welfare families have been allowed to...
Magnesia & Matzo. According to the few doctors who have studied the subject, the craving for laundry starch is an offshoot of the clay-eating habit still prevalent among some Southern Negroes. Those who migrate North sometimes receive packages of clay (known as "Mississippi Mud" in Los Angeles) mailed by friends...
Pioneered by a turn-of-the-century Kansas Methodist preacher, Charles F. Parham, Pentecostalism asserts as its basic tenet the need for baptism by the Holy Spirit, the supreme manifestation of which is glossolalia, or speaking in tongues. Dissatisfied with the institutionalized quality of Methodist worship and spirituality, Parham took...
Three portrait painters are included in the show. Laura Wheeler Waring is represented by a picture of W.E.B. DuBois '90 (1868-1963), one of the most formidable intellectuals in American history. DuBois was the first Negro to receive a Harvard Ph.D. (in 1895), and his doctoral dissertation had the honor...
All stamp designs (for which commissioned artists receive $1,000) are reviewed by the Postmaster General's eleven-member Stamp Advisory Council, which is trying to avoid turkeys like the 1948 stamp celebrating the poultry industry. Still, the department must occasionally wince and yield to pressures from Capitol Hill...