Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost as white as the white robe he wore, Negro Actor Richard B. Harrison ("De Lawd" of The Green Pastures) sat under a spotlight before 30,000 spectators in Chicago's Soldier Field one night last week. Three blacks to one white, they were there to see and hear 0 Sing a New Song, a gigantic three-act pageant of the Negro race. The solemn words of Narrator Harrison put in motion a sight & sound spectacle that required the voices of 5,000 U. S. blacks, the wild antics of a handful of Basuto tribesmen brought from Africa...
...President had had a month earlier when he drove through the green fields of Maryland to Annapolis to board his ship for a vacation in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Canal Zone and Hawaii. When he departed he needed rest?and he got it. He hoped that, with the spotlight turned off Washington, the country would get a rest, too. But when he landed in Portland last week and was met by an anxious conclave including two members of his Cabinet and two of his White House secretariat, the President did not have to be told that the kind...
General Johnson fumed with rage as the spotlight was turned on his dealings with union labor. When the union prepared to carry the Donovan complaint to the National Labor Board he snorted: "I'll be glad if they...
...afternoon last week climbed Pilot Clyde Hoi-brook of American Air Lines, onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...
Perhaps it was not meant to take the spotlight off Henry Ford's enormous new building at Chicago's Century of Progress but such was certainly the effect of a party given by General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. on the eve of last week's Fair opening (see p. 12). To the General Motors Building he invited an army of U. S. leaders for a prophetic symposium on "Industrial Progress in the Next Century." What some of the guests saw ahead...