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...life of the sixth largest State in Europe. It would deprive our country of its own direct communication with the countries of Europe. It would reduce our free and sovereign State to an impotent and pitiable land between Prussia and Russia. It would make Poland a cripple and a slave. We do not wish to be crippled and enslaved again...
...program for the Pops Concert at 8.30 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall will be as follows: Coronation March, Meyerbeer; "Mignon" overture, Thomas; "Kammenoi Ostrow", Rubenstein; "Carmen" fantasia, Bizet; Finale, violin concerto, Mendelssohn; "Kol Nidrei", Bruch, (Cello solo, J. Langendoen); "Marche Slave", Tschaikowsky; "The Skaters" waltz, Waldteufel; Volga Boatmen's Song; "Strike up the Band", Gershwin...
...Eugen Onegin" Fantasia, Waltz from Serenade for Strings, and "Marche Slave," by Tchaikovsky, Prelude in G Minor by Rachmaninoff, Volga Bargemen's Song, Jacchia arrangement, and "Panaderos," Spanish Dance, by Glazounov...
...John Torthi was really a onetime slave, it was for him and his kind that Chicago's Representative Oscar De Priest, only Negro in Congress, last month introduced in the House a relief bill (H. R. 10098). The measure provided that all Negroes over 75 who were freed from slavery by President Lincoln's proclamation should be pensioned by the Federal Government at the rate of $30 per month.* According to the 1930 Census, there were in the U. S. 118,446 Negroes aged 75 or more of whom Congressman De Priest estimated not more than...
Congressman De Priest's argument for his pension bill: The first 20 Negro slaves were brought to America by a Dutch trading vessel in 1619. By 1863 there were in the U. S. 3,500,000 slaves and 500,000 free Blacks. During this 244-year period, at $50 per year, slaves earned $3,365,177,850 which they never got. Simple interest at 3% since Emancipation has raised this debt to the Negro race to $11,332,070,000. H. R. 10098 would wipe out the "debt." The Congress seemed distinctly uninterested in the De Priest proposal...