Answers to a 1920s knowledge quiz from a newspaper page
The quiz lists 20 questions with answers: equatorial Earth circumference 24,896 miles. William Henry Harrison. Water. The Mississippi. The functionless toe. Aleutian location in the Bering Sea. FM. Massachusetts. Duke of York. X. Roosevelt 1920 VP loss. Bay of Biscay. Oraibi Arizona Hopi Reservation oldest. Stephen. Frog teeth. Montana. Truman S has no meaning. bank moratorium day after inauguration. 150 psalms. seven octaves and three notes.
Magazine Attacks Marshall Conviction In Editorial Clash
The Churchman editorial calls Marshall’s conviction the most dangerous to constitutional rights as the Supreme Court denies a re hearing. Marshall faces three months in jail after refusing to disclose National Federation for Constitutional Liberties records to the Un American Activities Committee.
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The
Churchman
George Marshall
Supreme Court
Marshall
National Federation For Constitutional Liberties
the Un-American Activities Com
Negro Catholic Grads To Battle Segregation
Archibald T. LeCesna urged Xavier University graduates to urge Catholics to oppose bigotry. Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel awarded 170 degrees to 170 graduates from 20 states at New Orleans commencement.
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New Orleans
Catholi Church
Xavier University
Archibald T. LeCesna
Cook County
Ill
Joseph F. Rummel
Report All Earnings Ohio Warns Claimants
Columbus claimants for jobless benefits were told by Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation head Frank J. Collopy to report all earnings including vacation and severance pay for any week claimed. He cited prosecutions last year of about 50 Ohioans who received benefits while employers reported vacation or severance. Penalties reached up to 60 days in jail and $300 fines. Collopy said hundreds more claimants are under investigation for possible fraud by matching benefit payments with employers’ wage reports.
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Columbus
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Frank J. Collopy
Christ Back in Africa Missionaries Grow Churches
Missionaries from Oblates of Mary Immaculate and other orders helped restore Christian work in Africa amid the Pope's creation of three ecclesiastical provinces and 11 suffragans. Africa, three times Europe’s size and five times the U S, has seen rapid Christian growth in a century amid diverse religions and influences including Islam, animism, and Judaism.
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White Fathers
Oblates of
St. Francis de Sales
Priests of the Sacred Heart
Jesuits
Christ
Africa
Europe
United States
Dixieland Jazz Is Hot Again Revival Sparks Jazz Venues
Joseph Roddy in Look Magazine notes a nationwide revival of Dixieland jazz. New temples like Birdland and Bop City lose congregations as the native American art form regains appeal. He defines it as a ritualized style drawing from hollers, work songs, spirituals, blues, and marches rooted in New Orleans. Record companies reissue classic Dixieland works, including many by Black musicians. Roddy credits disk jockeys in several cities for igniting the revival.
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New York
Joseph Roddy
Look Magazine
Birdland
Bop City
New Orleans
Roddy
NEA Leaders Push Federal Aid at Colored Parents and Teachers Meet
In Kansas City Missouri Moss H Kendrix NEA representative urged strong support for federal aid to education at the 24th annual convention of the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers. He and Dr D F Martinez of Missouri discussed Equal Chance in School praising Missouri for equalized spending by race and noting 1946 figures of 137 for white children and 133 for Negro children.
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National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers
Moss H. Kendrix
NEA
Kendrix
D. F. Martinez
Missouri State Department of Education
Jefferson City
Missouri
U. S. Office of Education
Kansas City Students Shorted Nine Months Education
The report notes that Kansas City boys and girls faced nine months of education this year were reduced to eight due to funding shortfalls. The impact highlights ongoing budget constraints affecting local schools and student learning time.
Washington slums exposed as national disgrace report
Michigan Senator Homer Ferguson viewed Washington D C slums described as vile honeycombs of squalor with 44 000 substandard dwellings housing mainly Negro residents The TB rate is 99 percent higher than the nation The city suffers from one ill equipped hospital system and voteless Americans with an indifferent Congress amid segregation flowing beneath the Capitol as detailed by Howard Whitman in the February Women's Home Companion.
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Homer Ferguson
Washington, D. C
Capitol Building
Congress
Washington
Howard Whitman
Women’s Home Companion
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