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...laborers in packing plants and steel mills, have a community feeling; New York's are less homogenous, work mostly in hotels and apartments. Great majority of Chicago's Negroes live in a south side section known as Bronzeville. Here the principal shopping districts are on 43rd, 47th, sist and syth Streets. Virtually all of this property belongs to whites, most of them Jews, and they make it tough for Negroes to go into business in these prize areas. Leases generally have clauses forbidding Negro tenants; and if a Negro manages to wangle a lease anyway...
...President to send polite greetings to every large gathering of U. S. Jews, Catholics or Protestants is a routine amenity usually executed by a White House secretary. But to the sist triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, meeting during the past three weeks in Atlantic City, went no word, polite or otherwise, from Episcopalian Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week General Convention, winding up its affairs, came within an ace of reciprocating in kind...
...middle-sized, middle-aged lawyer stood on the rostrum one day last week before the House of Deputies of the sist General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, continuing its deliberations in Atlantic City...
King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olaf, members of the Cabinet and Oslo's diplomatic corps politely clapped their white kid gloves. The occasion was the sist annual meeting of the Nobel committee, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1931 to two U. S. citizens: President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and Social Worker Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House. The award this year is $31,369; each will receive half...
...Alfred Letourner & Marcel Guimbre-tiere, French "Red Devils": the sist riding of Manhattan's Six-Day Bicycle Race, at Madison Square Garden. Second, by a lap lost in the last hour, was a team of French unknowns, Georges Coupry & Michel Pecqueux...