Cab Calloway Reorganizes All Star Big Band Tour
Cab Calloway reborn the all star big band after a Havana success and Montevideo acclaim. The ensemble will begin a Philadelphia week of May 25 with legends like Jonah Jones Shad Collins and Doc Cheatham, touring major theaters nationwide after a Rustic Cabin run in Englewood New Jersey.
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New York
Havana
Cuba
Cab Calloway
Allstar
Cab
Montevideo
the Earl
Philadelphia
Calloway
Variety
Billboard
Cash Box
United States
ABC
Fred Robbins
Ella Fitzgerald
Rustic Cabin
Englewood
N. J
Jonah Jones
Shad Collins
Paul Webster
Doc Cheatham
Butch Burrell
A. N
Hilton Jefferson
Sam Taylor
Ike Quebec
Gene Michaels
Eddie Barefield
Dave Rivera
Milt Hinton
Panama Francis
Dr Bunche Receives Silver Buffalo From Boy Scouts
Chicago notes Dr Ralph J Bunche of New York, director of the UN Division of Trusteeship, among eight honored with the Silver Buffalo for distinguished service to boyhood. The award, presented at the National Council meeting luncheon, includes a miniature Buffalo medal and an inscribed citation.
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Chicago
ANP
Ralph J. Bunche
New York
Division of Trusteeship
The
United Nations
National Council of the Boy Scouts of America
National Council
Hotel Stevens
Bunche
Alburquerque
New Mexico
Boy Scouts of America
National Court of Honor
George J. Fisher
National Scout Commissioner
Move To Deny Law Schools Recognition For Bias
A committee of the Association of American Law Schools discussed denying membership to law schools that discriminate on racial grounds. The group, formed after Yale Law School proposed the resolution, did not act immediately but passed a condemnation of discrimination and will report this winter.
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Washington
ANP
Association of American Law Schools
Chicago
American Law Institute
Yale Law School
Aals
Association
Race Bias Is Most Costly Luxury
A National Urban League report released in New York states discrimination and segregation of Negroes is a costly civic burden. It argues that Negroes live in city slums which average six percent of municipal taxes yet drive about 41 percent of police costs, 35 percent of fire costs, and 55 percent of juvenile delinquency costs.
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NEW York
ANP
National Urban League
Chicago UNCF Drive Kickoff Dinner Sets City Goal
The Chicago UNCF drive held its initial annual dinner at the Parkway Blue Room. Speakers included William J. Trent Jr. and Porter M. Jarvis. John H. Johnson presided with Jarvis, Truman K. Gibson Jr. introducing him. James E. Stamps gave $2500 as initial South Side gift toward a $150,000 city goal. Theodore Charles Stone sang.
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Chicago
ANP
United Negro College Fund
Parkway Ballroom
William J. Trent Jr
Porter M. Jarvis
Swift and Company
John H. Johnson
Fbony
Brooklyn Numbers King Gets 5 Years
Louis Weber, Brooklyn's numbers king, was sentenced to five years and fined $2000 after a per jury conviction before the Kefauver crime investigating committee. Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey imposed the sentence Friday. Weber is free on $20,000 bond pending appeal. Weber, 51, was convicted for allegedly saying he never met James J. Moran, who was also convicted for perjury at the same hearing. Moran claimed he had met Weber several times when he was first deputy fire commissioner.
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Weber
Brooklyn
Kefauver Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Charles A. Dewey
James J. Moran
Moran
Guidance Through Extra Curricular Activities Highlighted at ITA Meeting
On May 17 the Intermediate Teachers Association for Childhood Education met at R. R. Moton Elementary School. Vice president Mrs. Iona Dukes presided. Miss D. Scott of Sylvania Heights School spoke on guiding through extracurricular activities. Music by the school chorus and Boys Glee Club. Officers elected for 1951-52. Irene Straughter re-elected president. Hostess principal Elizabeth Espy welcomed attendees to a fish fry. Mazie R. Smith, reporter.
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Intermediate Teachers’ Association For Childhood Education
R. R. Moton
Iona Dukes
F. Rivers
D. Scott
Sylvania Heights School
Eubanks
Boys’ Glee Club
Juanita Patten
Irene Straughter
Elizabeth Espy
Mazie R. Smith
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All Star Big Band
DR. Bunche
BOY Scouts
Lucky Curios
Lucky Star Supply Company
Carver Ranches
N.W. St. St
Chi
Louis
Liberty City
Brown
Coral Way
N.W
15Th Avenue
Arnold Cambridge
ITA News
Hallandale
Broward County
Cc. R. Area
Carver Ranches, Inc
West Carver
Miami, Fla
Magic City Driving School
N.W. 6Th Ave
Miami, Florida
John H. Braynop
Benny L. O’berry
Val
Fine Foods
17Th Street
Second Ave
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