Word: zora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These hard words were written, in a recent American Mercury article, by Zora Neale Hurston, B.A., Litt. D., Rosenwald and Guggenheim fellow, about some of the U.S. schools fostered by her own Negro race. The better U.S Negro colleges, long aware of the unsavory reputation of such institutions, combined their fund-raising efforts two years ago under the sponsorship of John D. Rockefeller Jr.* This week the United Negro College Fund, headed by Sperry Corp.'s President Thomas A. Morgan, opened its second annual drive, for $1,550,000. The Fund may not include every good Negro college...
...Grand Hotel, diplomats, students and businessmen gather every noon to discuss the coming attack, pore over maps put out by a local Fascist organization showing Istanbul (called "Tsarigrad-City of the Kings") as part of the new Bulgaria. But Berlin-made propaganda has not impressed everyone. Said the newspaper Zora: "We are struck by the confused psychological conceptions of a small section of our intelligentsia. . . . Their nerves do not quiver if the Allies achieve a victory. There is no single grimace at the announcement of bad news...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was once U. S. consul at Fiume, was once official interpreter at Ellis Island, speaks eight languages. Morning after the news of Belgrade's coup d'etat, he paused in a turmoil of annual budgetmaking, announced in spotless Serbian: "Zora puca bit ce dana!" (The dawn is breaking...
Died. Mrs. Zora Cooley Dickinson, 75, home-loving, God-fearing wife of Michigan's home-loving, God-fearing Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 81; in Charlotte, Mich...