Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among Negro journalists the World ("Dixie's Standard Race Journal") is known as "a good little sheet." Its circulation of 14,000 is exceeded by at least ten other Negro papers. Editor William Alexander Scott Jr., 29, founded the Atlanta World four years ago, founded also Southern News Syndicate serving thrice-weekly Worlds in Memphis, Birmingham, Columbus (Ga.), Greenville (N. C.). Like all other Negro papers it concerns itself solely with news of or affecting Blacks. In its first daily issues it exhorted its readers to vote against the recall of Atlanta's Mayor James Lee Key (TIME...
...fight against the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill and succeeded in lowering a number of the rates at which he aimed his guns. He led the fight on the Scott-Hawley tariff bill and on the Mellon tax plan. Credit is given him for the graduated income...
...suspense is kept until the final unveiling of the Gray Shadow at the end of Act Three. Humor is provided by the village constable, and Joe Pepper the Taxi Driver, while Love is rather cursorily introduced by Diana Trent, the Ward of one of the villains, and Martin Scott, an inspector from the insurance company when the rest of the cast is excitedly chasing a man in a gray sheet. In fact this play has a little bit of everything. There is even a trick Ford, which when driven on the stage, proceeds to fall apart piece by piece...
...while William Samuel Paley was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story called "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," published it in his Tales of the Jazz Age. Buried on his remote estate a man found a massive diamond; he could buy anything he wanted by merely chipping off a sliver. He lived in super-Oriental luxury, owned hundreds of shirts, hundreds of neckties, socks, shoes. His house was fitted with every kind of comfort-giving device: buttons that brought soft music from an unseen orchestra, beds that tilted and slid...
Last week the year's list of 57 Guggenheim Fellowships, 20 less than last year's, was made public. Fifteen of the winners will visit the U. S. from Latin America. Among U. S. names: Authors Lewis Mumford, Evelyn Scott, Louis Adamic. Caroline Gordon Tate; Dancer Martha Graham; Painters Andrew Michael Dasburg. Ernest Fiene, Peter Blume; Sculptor Antonio Salamme; Critic Isaac Goldberg; Composer George Antheil; Moscow Correspondent William Henry Chamberlain of the Christian Science Monitor...