Word: tubman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soap-box Reds whose favorite place for haranguing the public is the curb eater-corner from J. P. Morgan & Co. Once a year Wall Street's echoes are purged of Redness by a voice whose patriotism is matched only by its volume-the voice of one Roberta Keene Tubman, leading America's Good-Will Union* in "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the steps of the Sub-Treasury where George Washington took his inaugural oath April 30, 146 years...
...hours before this year's celebration. Father Washington's statue gleamed in a soft rain. City workers telephoned Mrs. Tubman, suggested that it would be useless to set up their public address system. Chided Mrs. Tubman: "No. go ahead, God has always taken care...
...noon the sun was shining and the 60-piece 16th Infantry Band from Governor's Island was tootling a patriotic concert, including "American Medley" and "Under the Double Eagle." Then portly Mrs. Tubman, who looks something like old Marc Schumann-Heink and boasts that she "can sing with or without a 60-piece band," mounted the stone platform in front of Washington's statue, launched into "The Star-Spangled Banner" while the band blared mightily and the crowd of 1,000 looked on. munching their lunches...
...years ago, bound for a meeting. Mrs. Tubman was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of Communists got on, lustily sang the "Internationale." Patriot Tubman flushed red, white & blue, burst into "The Star-Spangled Banner." As the angry Communists sang louder, she pitched her voice higher & higher. More Communists got on. Finally Mrs. Tubman had to get off to attend her meeting...
Roberta Keene Tubman, descendant of Signer of the Declaration of Independence William Hooper, a vice president of the America's Good-Will Union, was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of communists got on. Lustily they sang the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman boiled, then rose and gave voice to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Over & over she sang it, pitching it higher and higher. Louder sang the Communists. At the next station more Communists got on, joined in the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman pitched "The Star-Spangled Banner" still higher. At last she was obliged...