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...Corps to 6,000 planes, the Senate, at the behest of Wyoming's Harry H. Schwartz, voted to train Negroes in at least one school for Army fledglings. Behind Mr. Schwartz were flower-tongued Negro Edgar G. Brown of United Government Employes, Inc., Editor Robert L. Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, many another colored advocate of racial balance in the U. S. Army & Navy...
...WATSON: AGRARIAN REBEL - C. Vann Woodward-Macmillan...
...Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed mentor of Pennsylvania's Negro vote...
...After talking with President Roosevelt, uppity Publisher Vann repeated from the White House steps his advice to Pennsylvania Negroes to elect a Republican Governor (TIME...
This affront rankled, but this year Publisher Vann's chance to get even is none too good. Half of Pennsylvania's Negro vote is in Philadelphia-out of his immediate bailiwick-and in Pittsburgh much of the Negro vote is on WPA where it cannot easily be weaned from the New Deal. One acute Pennsylvania observer last week declared: "If I had a penny for every vote Vann can swing without Guffey pressure on the WPA, I could go to the movies...