Lincoln-Douglass Club considers expelling Taft supporter
Walter Houston, attorney and funeral director, disclosed in a Thursday statement that he backed both Robert Taft and Charles Taft for governor and faced possible expulsion from the Lincoln-Douglass Republican Club after a Tuesday meeting. He said the club’s members feel similar and he will defend himself after the primary election.
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Lincoln-Douglass Republican Club
Walter Houston
Gilbert Avenue
Houston
Taft
Lincoln-Douglass Club
Charles Taft
Hamilton County Republican Organization
Robert A. Taft
Charles P. Taft
Racial outbreak among U S soldiers shocks Paris crowd
Parisien Libere reports French police and American MPs broke up a midnight bus clash in Nancy between Negro and white soldiers. Authorities used nightsticks and sub machineguns to quell about 40 combatants with no serious injuries reported.
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Paris
INS
Parisien Libere
Nancy
U. S
Mp’s
Inter-Racial Church in Bronx Builds Unity and Growth
The Forest Avenue Community Church in southeastern Bronx New York City reduced a thirty year debt raised attendance from 30 to 180 and expanded activities after becoming inter racial a decade ago. Rev R Francis Jones notes white exodus left a small white core yet the majority chose to sustain the church serving the community ninety years. Negro members joined the church as trustees deacons and officers and took part in choirs school and other functions. A genuine spirit of Christian love now unites both races with improved cooperation.
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Bronx
New York City
Forest Avenue Community Church
R. Francis Jones
Congregational Christian Church
Taft Support Tied to Locker Campaign Help
Houston has repeatedly supported Senator Robert A. Taft in his last two senatorial races and served on the campaign committee backing Councilman Jesse D. Locker three consecutive times, per Times-Star reporting.
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Republican Party
Houston
Charles Taft
Roscoe Walcutt
FEPC
Robert A. Taft
Jesse D. Locker
Times-Star
Brookyn leaders urge repeal of Smith Act in public protest
More than eighty Brookyn community leaders called for a public protest against the Smith Act and urged citizens to petition representatives and support repeal. The Call, issued by the Sponsoring Group for the Brooklyn Committee for the Repeal of the Smith Act, cites support from CIO ADA and ACLU and includes ministers rabbis trade unionists attorneys physicians and businessmen. It quotes Supreme Court justices Douglas and Black on the act and notes past court reversals, urging ongoing defense of the Bill of Rights./>
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Brooklyn
The
CIO
Americans For Democratic Action
American Civil Liberties Union
Brooklyn Committee For the
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Hugo Black
United States Supreme Court
Record release of W C Handy life portrait LP
A letter from Ken Murray announcing a 12 inch long playing record on AUDIO ARCHIVES featuring W C Handy with narration, singing, and instruments. Katharine Handy Lewis, New York Choral Ensemble, Dr Charles L Cooke, and others listed. Includes track list and album details with price and future publicity notes.
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W. C. Handy
Father OF
Audio Archives
Charles L. Cooke
Katharine
ST. Louis
New York
Karl Adler
Robert Vincent
United States
United Nations
William Forrest
Robert A. Israel
Audio Archives Enterprises Inc
Katharine Handy Lewis
Beale Street
New York Choral Ensemble
Lazarus A. Aaronson
Robert Arnold
Ken Murray
Capitol Records
Mohandas, Gandhi
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas A. Edison
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
South Africa Court Strikes Down White Supremacy Law
Bloemfontein March 20 AP The highest court unanimously invalidates a key Nationalist act restricting colored voting rights, signaling a constitutional crisis for Malan's government. Protests planned nationwide threaten destabilization ahead of a 1953 general election as talks arise of curbing judicial power.
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Bloemfontein
South Africa
Daniel F. Malan
Malan
Ludlow W Werner to Speak on Public Relations
Ludlow W Werner president of Ludlow Werner Associates in New York City will speak on Public Relations and the Negro in Business at the 7th Conference on the Negro in Business in Washington DC. Adviser Emmet Lancaster praised the firm as outstanding among Negro‑run PR agencies. Werner, with 25 years in newspapers, cites Civ il Defense work for New York and Urban League consulting. He recently joined Navy Atlantic Fleet maneuvers observing integration.
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Wahington
D. C
Ludlow
W. Werner
Ludlow Werner Associates
New York City
Department of Commerce
Commerce Department
Werner
Emmet Martin Lancaster
125Th Street
Park Avenue
W. 142Nd Street
New York State Civil Defense Commission
National Urban League
United States Navy
Clean-Up Paint-Up Campaign Aims to Boost West End Blitz
The Ninth Street Y M C A Bronze Men s Club Troop 55 and city agencies sponsor a week long Clean Up Paint and Beautify campaign from April 20 to 26 with a special Blitz in the West End bounded by Mound Cutter Eighth and Richmond Streets Residents will receive help stickers lapel emblems and instructions to prepare premises for curb side pickup on April 21 followed by inspector team visits starting April 23 Fire department health and building officials will lead the blitz culminating in certificates of achievement for cooperating families.
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Ninth Street Y. M. C. A
The
Bronze Men’s Club
Boy Scouts
Fire Prevention Bureau
Cincinnati Fire Department
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
West End
Mound
Cutter Streets
Eighth Street
Richmond Street
Mound, Cutter
Eighth
Richmond Streets
Health Department
Goodwill Industries
Leniency in Law Fuels Repeats of Criminal Acts
The text argues leniency breeds more violations as repeated arrests erode shame. Once convicted, a man’s reputation is tarnished but continued offenses lead him to feel respected among Dabney, diminishing deterrence and increasing risk of further penitent repeats.
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Dabney
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Charles O’neil
Negro Political Club
Ohio
Roscoe R. Walcutt
Walcutt
Hamilton County
Thomas J. Herbert
Lincoln ‘Douglas Club
U.S
Inter-Racial Church
Garfield
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company
Father of the
Blues
N. Y
W. P. Dabney
Cincinnati
South
Africa
British Commonwealth
Ludlow W. Werner
Blitz
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