In the thirties Neville heard George Washington Carver speak at the annual New York Herald Tribune forum at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, where Carver told a thousand prominent guests that everything he wore came out of the peanut and that the Southern states alone could feed and clothe the entire world.
Date (happened)
between 1930 and 1939
unresolved
- between 1930 and 1939
- before 1972
- just before he died
- before 1965
- c. 1930
- before 1963
- before 26 March 1963
Place
Told / reported
- 17 February 1969
- 28 April 1972
- 9 February 1965
- 26 March 1963
Sources
Source
- The Rock ¶5 (Well, I go back into the thirties and I heard George Washington Carver at a forum in New York City at the Waldorf Astoria.)
- Consummation ¶43 (I heard him on the radio. I was not physically present at the banquet. You had to be invited. And only those who were prominent were invited. So, I knew it was on and it would be on the radio. So, I tuned him in for the entire banquet and heard it at the…)
- Creation ¶15 (I heard the great George Washington Carver just before he died and he said we could feed the entire world and clothe the entire world out of the products and the by-products of the Southern parts of the United States.)
- Blake On Religion ¶33 (I heard that gentleman the year he died. Just before he died, he spoke in New York City at a forum held every year by the Herald Tribune, always held at the old Waldorf Astoria.)