Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast is an interesting cross-section of the upper crust of Los Angeles' South Central Avenue (Negro district). Villain Maceo B. Sheffield was for ten years the meanest looking cop on the L. A. police force, now owns a piece of the 41 Club, the 833 Club, the Montmartre and the Last Round. Connie Harris, who works in the Paradise Cafe in Yuma, Ariz., has been described as a streamlined coffeecake; Comedian F. E. Miller once wrote an all-colored show (Shuffle Along), which was better than most white musicals produced in its time, ran two years on Broadway...
Last year the reading had to be postponed until February, and was held in the President's house, but this year it is planned to take place in the Upper Common Room of the Union, as usual...
Last spring the 1940 Union Committee appointed a sub-committee, headed by Philip C. Neal '40, to infuse new life into the then flagging organization. In an attempt to revive interest, upper-class officers resigned in favor of Freshmen, but remained active in an advisory capacity. Neal heads the society this year...
Alan R. Sweezy '29, instructor in Economics, will introduce a forum discussion on "The C.I.O. Digs In," tomorrow night in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
...Swarthmore's campus last week sprang up a successor to the Veterans of Future Wars. Undergraduates formed the United Scions of the Aristocracy, claiming 215 members, drafted a program for "uniting the scattered crumbs of the upper crust," planned to agitate for free caviar and champagne for 'Impecunious aristo-crats." First to receive their attention will be the "underfêted and undersoused one-thirtieth of the nation's population." Their legislative aims include pensions for indigent debutantes and for "well-bred worthies who can prove they have never soiled their hands with labor." Cried an aristocracy...