Easter Personal Notes and Local Society Bits
A column of Easter greetings and society notices items include Miss Wilda Gunn of Cleveland gaining renown as a commercial artist and editor of the Cleveland Key. Vocalist Nadyne Roberts Waters to appear on WLW Zoo Opera Auditions of the Air March 24. Madam Alice Leland visiting Newark New Jersey with Dr and Madam Bythewood. Suddath testimonial banquet planned Monday night. Union Baptist Church events and an Easter Roll fundraiser. Dabney speaks on keeping the Union going amid holiday season references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilda Gunn
Cleveland
The
Cleveland Key
Nadyne Roberts Waters
WLW
Zoo Opera
Alice Leland
Newark
N. J
Madam Bythewood
New Jersey
Mixed claims of discrimination and notable recognitions in 1950s civil rights era
An informant says color bias affected treatment in area services with blacks first then whites. Mentioned experts include Dr Kenneth Clark and Sophia M Robinson, both white, along with Claire Sellitz. Other items note Bunche and Green receiving awards, a Colorado legislative vote on the Fair Employment Practice Bill, Josephine Baker’s non speaking at Golden Gate, and a Life Assurance Society claim promoting whiskey for those over 40, all reflecting era debates and personalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Clark
Northside Center For Child Development
Sophia M. Robinson
N. Y. School For Social Work
Claire Sellitz
New York University
Swanson Lost Furs At Broadway Show
Gloria Swanson, in Twentieth Century at Fulton Theater, reports mink wrap and black broadtail coat missing valued at 18000. Discovery by her maid Carrie Heard after Saturday performance. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company won eviction of 31 white tenants at Peter Cooper Village on discrimination grounds. Justice Genung ordered move by Sept 1, challenged by Paul O Dwyer. Race prejudice reportedly still rampant. civil rights survey notes ongoing concerns.
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Gloria Swanson
Fulton Theater
Broadway
Miss Swanson
Carrie Heard
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Peter Cooper Village
Lower East Side
George L. Genung
Municipal Court
Paul O’dwyer
O’dwyer
Hadacol Relieves Aches and Digestive Distress
Mrs. L. H. Keith of North Little Rock says Hadacol eased persistent aches and pains and indigestion after meals. She credits the remedy with eliminating the gassy aftereffect and notes she has used more than a dozen bottles and recommended it to friends.
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L. H. Keith
W. 24Th
North Little Rock
Arkansas
Mrs. Keith
LeBlanc Corp
Bond Principal Speaker at Howard Charter Day
Washington Atlas Dr Horace Mann Bond president of Lincoln University was the principal speaker at Howard University's Charter Day exercises marking the 84th anniversary of the founding. In Rankin Memorial Chapel at 10 AM awards for distinguished postgraduate achievement went to Dr F D Bluford of A and T College Greensboro NC for education Dr Leonard H B Foote medical director of Florida A and M College Hospital for medicine and Attorney Spottswood W Robinson III of Richmond VA for law.
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Washington
Atlas
Horace Mann Bond
Lincoln University
Howard University
Rankin Memorial Chapel
Howard
F. D. Bluford
A. and T. College
Greensboro
N. C
Leonard H. B. Foote
Florida
A. and M. College Hospital
Spottswood W. Robinson, III
Richmond
15th Annual U C Party by Cincinnati Teachers Alumni
The University of Cincinnati Teacher's College Alumni Association hosts its 15th annual Card and Game Party on Saturday April 7 1951 at 8 pm in the Student Union Building. Activities include cards games a general store candy refreshments parcel post white elephant table prizes and door prizes. Proceeds benefit worthy students in the Teacher's College with a $1.00 donation requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teacher’s College Alumni Association of the
University of Cincinnati
Student Union Building
U. C
Alumni Association
Teacher’s College
Good News From Tokyo Mixed Units Boost Front Line Morale
A dispatch from Tokyo reports that white and colored troops and officers are serving together with notable success. In a mixed hospital two surgeons, a Black man and a white man, earn high praise from all, and the arrangement challenges Jim Crow traditions. The piece suggests the war may help erase racial segregation in America after peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nell
America
Judas Iscariot in a Tale of Nationalist Passion
The text portrays Judas as an ardent nationalist in old Jerusalem who sees Christ as the savior who can drive out Roman rule and restore the chosen people's kingdom. He is drawn to Jesus by the idea of miraculous power but grows disillusioned when Christ rejects an earthly throne and Judas aids in the passion through greed and compromised conscience.
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Old Jerusalem
Christ
Son of God
Palestine
Chosen People
Earth
Judas
Schools need 50 percent more classrooms in next decade
A report by a 29-organization committee, released by Commissioner Earl J McGrath, warns that U S schools must add at least 50 of space over ten years. By 1959 60, about 270000 new classrooms for K 12 and 150000 for replacements are needed, at a total estimated cost of 14 04 billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl James McGrath
Tennessee May Drop Poll Tax
Nashville reports Tennessee moves to erase the 1871 poll tax with a Senate approved bill 29 to 1. The sponsor says no man living will pay the tax, observers expect the Governor to sign. The measure aims to ease Negroes' access to voting in the South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
South
Senate
Lawyer Writes Play About Thirty Pieces of Silver
Houston lawyer and former Prairie View A and M College dean Francis Scott Key Whittaker interprets the betrayal of Christ in the Exposition Press pageant Thirty Pieces of Silver. Whittaker casts Judas as a tragic but human figure, framed in gospel style on a grand stage.
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Francis Scott Key Whittaker
Houston
Prairie View A. and
M. College
Christ
Exposition Press of
New York
Mr. Whittaker
Judas
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W. P. Dabney
East Fourth Street
Main
Cincinnati
God
Bertie Mae Price
Union Baptist Church
Page
Dabney
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations
William Green
League For Industrial Democracy
Commodore Hotel
House of Representative
Colorado
Josephine Baker
Golden Gate
Willie McGhee
Paul Robeson
Vito Marcantino
Elmer Carter
Urban League
George Lawrence
Dayton
Ohio
Negro Press Week
John Russwarn
New York City
Detroit
Harry E. Ungerleider
Life Assurance Society of New York
Frederick S. Swartz
St. Lawrence Hospital
Lansing Mich
Count A. J
Committee On Civil Rights
East
Manhattan
Hadacol
Renfro Funeral Service
Inez L. Renfro
Jenifer W. Renfro
Marietta
Renfro
Glenn
Ninth Street
Henry H. Grandison
Stanley Spragens Insurance Agency
American Building
Parkway and
Walnut Streets
Lavina Ave
Walnut Hills
P. W. Whitson
Central Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio
You
BOND
U.C. Party
Tokyo
Office OF Education
Washington, D. C
Citizens.” Call Office
of the Union
Kentucky
Madison St
Louisville
Freeman
Cherry
Kit Cafe
Kitty Kat Lounge
Goodman
West Fifth Street
M. L. Zeigler
Avondale
Walnut Hi
Wyoming
Lockland
Madisonville
East End
Glendale
Woodlawn
Chapel Street
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Horwitz
Clark and
Cutter Streets
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