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...creed drafted by the loo most representative Republicans in the U. S. All that remained was for the Republican executive committee to find 100 such suitable philosophers. So last week in St. Louis the committee, including New York's Old Guard Charles D. Hilles,* Illinois' Mrs. Bertha Baur, onetime National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher and the symbolic Mrs. Scranton, got down...
...cape and large felt hat, ordering rarebits and English ale, rolling his own cigarets. He preferred the circus to the opera, and disliked listening to music, though he accepted several jobs writing music criticism for Paris publications. He finally succumbed to cancer of the rectum one spring when Big Bertha was dropping shells into Paris...
...heard . . . after it was over and protested. ... I thought for a while that life had very little left for me but I have since changed and want to be a beauty operator. . . ." The mother of another Beloit inmate, a Mrs. Betty Benson, somewhat ambiguously declared that her sterilized daughter Bertha was "the best fitted of my six children to have babies." In Lyons, Kans., a man whose 19-year-old sister had been paroled to him said she had been sterilized "apparently . . . because accused of insubordination...
...Hambletonian record and enriched Shirley Hanover's 39-year-old owner, Lawrence Baker Sheppard, by $20,916 of the $38,000 purse, but made his Hanover Shoe Farms the only two-time winner in the history of the race. Shirley Hanover's dam, Hanover's Bertha, carried the stable's orange colors to victory in 1930. That was four years after Lawrence Sheppard, Father H. D. Sheppard and C. N. Myers, partners in the thriving ($4) Hanover Shoe Co. (128 stores), founded Hanover Shoe Farms near the Sheppard homestead at Hanover, Pa. A strictly blue-ribbon...
...Chicago she watched an old grifter friend hanged for a payroll murder, got jobs in transient bureaus which never lasted longer than the time it took to check up on her past record. When Bertha struck up acquaintance with a statistician working on a Federal transient survey and he offered her a job, she took it; her wanderlust was nearly sated. She decided to settle down in Manhattan, raise her own child. She was 30, and she had seen the world...