Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forlorn note of cheer: marine underwriters lowered war-risk rates 1% on belligerent flag vessels to and from Europe and on U. S. flag vessels cargoing imports on the northern route; on the southern route, 1½ on belligerent vessels, ½on U. S. ships. Rates both ways for belligerents...
In the '90s, John Sloan was a staff artist on the old Philadelphia Press. Newsphotos had not yet been developed, and artists covered fires, parades, elections like reporters rushed back to do their drawings from notes or memory. In 1905 Sloan moved to Manhattan, settled in Greenwich Village as...
So absorbed in the U. S. scene is Artist Sloan that he has never left its boundaries. He and his miniature wife Dolly ("the little woman who has been my right hand man") spend their winters in Manhattan, their summers in New Mexico. Liked by everyone are Artist Sloan'...
A bustling yet other-worldly order are the Roman Catholic Little Sisters of the Poor. Familiar sights in many a U. S. city are the sisters, with their black habits, white starched caps tied under the chin. For sweet charity, to care for the aged poor who are their charges...
Little Sisters today maintain 307 old people's homes throughout the world. The 52 U. S. homes care for 50,000 oldsters-men & women over 60, of all faiths. Upon entering a home, inmates surrender their belongings, if any, to the order, thus become members of a "Little Family...