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With words of praise and affection, a bronze bust was unveiled during the commencement of Alabama's Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute last week, disclosing the image of an aged Negro with benign eyes and wrinkled brow, wearing an old-fashioned coat, a wing collar and flowing tie. It was a likeness of George Washington Carver, and its presentation climaxed his long, remarkable, well-publicized career. Made by Sculptor Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas of Atlanta, it was paid for by George Washington Carver's admirers, black and white, mostly in $1 subscriptions...
...1880s, war-weary Founder Abell began to turn the Sun over to three of his boys. Of these, rotund George William served as president until 1894. Benign Son Edwin Franklin then took over. To needy folk, Son Edwin would give bits of paper with "$10 - E.F.A." scribbled across them. These informal checks were always good for face value with the Sun's cashier. In the 1880's and 90's, the Sun tackled the Maryland Democratic political machine in a running fight...
Died. John Garland Pollard, 65, Virginia's benign onetime (1930-34) Governor, onetime (1920-21) Federal Trade Commissioner, chairman since 1934 of the Board of Veterans' Appeals; of bronchopneumonia; in Washington...
...wife was spending the evening in Manhattan, so when Harry Greene, a contractor of Weehawken, N. J., was offered a chance last week to see the inside of "God's Kingdom No. 1," headquarters of Harlem's benign black Major ("Father") Divine, he accepted eagerly. His friend Paul Comora, a process server, was to hand a summons to Father Divine, against whom a onetime follower named Jessie Birdsall had brought suit for $2,000 which, she said, represented savings she had turned over to the Harlem "God." Greene and Comora arrived at the Kingdom, a big brick building...
Three weeks ago Hitler's benign smile for Bernstein changed to a storm-dark cloud. Members of Hitler's secret police (Gestapo) collared Jew Bernstein secretly, flung him and two of his directors, also Jews, into a Hamburg jail. For a fortnight no journalist could learn the charges. Not till last week did Hitler, in the role of "Germany's Maritime Führer," come through with the statement that Jew Bernstein & colleagues were held "for violation of foreign exchange regulations," that a State trustee had been appointed to operate the Bernstein lines pending the trial...