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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessean entered the morning newspaper field against the Nashville American- nearly a century old and an Institution there. We of the newly-born Tennessean never knew the connection, but nevertheless our Tennessean presses (they were secondhand) mysteriously developed sanded bearings and delivery of the newly-born newspaper child was delayed unaccountably. We Northerners weren't any too popular either...
...Chief." Robert Earl Clements was born 40 years ago in Amarillo Tex., son of a rich cattleman. After high school in Fort Worth, he migrated to Long Beach Calif, set up in the real estate business, prospered. His fortune reached a peak of $750,000 in 1929, slumped with Depression. Realtor Clements was not much impressed when one of his salesmen, an ineffectual old man who had been a Long Beach health officer, began talking to him about a plan to banish depressions for good. But after a while he took interest spent a few weeks brushing up on economics...
...advertisement had been inserted by Rev. Julius Sathmary, 27, Hungarian-born Lutheran who during the past three years had a congregation near Pittsburgh. He arrived in Manhattan last June to shepherd a congregation of 160 families which has no church of its own. With some cash and the backing of the Lutheran Board of American Missions, Mr. Sathmary & flock made ready to buy one. Of 56 replies to their advertisement, eight offered to sell apartment houses, one a saloon. Mr. Sathmary's building committee began a painstaking tour of inspection of the other...
...Virginia-born 68 years ago, Dr. Morehead is tall, handsome, white-haired. As president of Roanoke College (1908-19), his persuasiveness in money-raising gave rise to a saying: "No use going after money now. Morehead 's just been through." After 1919 he traveled through Europe working for the relief of poor Lutherans and their churches, earned the title of "best-known Lutheran in the world...
...time of the Russian Revolution. Mottke the Thief, excellently translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, reveals a fresh aspect of Sholem Asch's talent, tells a lively, picturesque tale of a Jewish vagabond who bounded among the pillars and posts of pre-War Polish society. Before Mottke was born his jealous mother had thrown a bottle of vitriol on his father, burning the flesh off his face. In return, the father married her so she would always be on hand when he wanted to beat her. Mottke fled from this violent household with a caravan of traveling acrobats...