Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When newshawks turned up at the White House on the day of the conference, even veterans chuckled at the "truth party" the President had prepared. No sooner had the doors closed on the conference room where the three directors were seated in a semicircle in front of the President's desk, with Secretary Steve Early directing a battery of stenographers who took complete notes of the proceedings in relays, than a serious hitch developed in Showman Roosevelt's plans. Like a stern county magistrate, the President announced that he would take up Chairman Morgan's charges first...
...felt at this. Convict Mooney, dressed in the neat blue suit he wears on such occasions, began his story quietly into a loudspeaker which promptly required adjustment. While it was being repaired, newspaper and newsreel cameramen flocked about the celebrity. Said Convict Mooney: "I hope you people in the room will bear with me but after being buried for 21 years ... I sort of take to all this...
...years the Methodist Church has been on record against patronizing hotels where racial discrimination is practiced. Last February, however, when the United Methodist Council on the Future of Faith & Service met in Chicago's big (3,000-room) Stevens Hotel one of its speakers had trouble. He was the Rev. Karl E. Downs, A. B. (Samuel Houston College), B. D. (Gammon Theological Seminary), M. S. T. (Boston University School of Theology), a 26-year-old Pasadena Negro who had been invited to speak to the conference on behalf of "Methodist Youth." Last week in Zion's Herald, venerable...
...white co-religionist reserved a room together at the Stevens. The friend arrived and claimed the room. When Mr. Downs asked for his key "pandemonium broke out." Many excuses were offered, but the stock excuse, "all rooms occupied," could not be made. Finally another was found. Maids and hall boys hastily removed the twin beds from the room and replaced them with a double bed, and Mr. Downs was told "two persons cannot sleep in the same bed unless they are married...
...Freshman class will parade its talent in an another "amateur" show tomorrow night unlike the one given last fall, prizes will be given from the remaining profit of the first Yardling dance. The performance is to be given in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:15 o'clock Sunday and will be judged by three officers of the University, among them Colonel Apted...