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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like home towns, native States wait to see how their wandering boys turn out before they boom their claims to parenthood. Early U. S. frontiersmen, born in the Original 13 States, were doubtful characters. Even those who made good generally had to bury their crudities a long time in the grave before the genteel seaboard was ready to honor itself by claiming them as native sons. Few have waited so long as great Sam Houston...
...Houston ruled Tennessee and practically created Texas, but there were plenty of times when Virginia was glad to forget that he had been born at Timber Ridge Church, seven miles from Lexington. He lived as a boy with the Cherokees in Tennessee, got to be Governor at 34, quit late in his term because his aristocratic new wife had left him under tongue-wagging circumstances. Sam Houston went back to the Indians to forget. The Indians admired him, trusted him, gave him a squaw, but changed their name for him from "Col-on-neh" to "Big Drunk...
...Bloomington, Ill. was running his family's 99-year-old Pantograph, and running it well enough to make it top-flight among small-town papers. For their first step, Messrs. Cowles & Merwin sought a community with a high rating of literacy and education, a high percentage of native-born U. S. citizens, preferably of northern European stock, an even distribution of purchasing power with few rich, few poor. The paper they wanted was to be an evening sheet with strong reader loyalty and strong emphasis on home circulation. The specifications led them to Minneapolis and the Star...
...Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Irving Thalberg (Norma Shearer); an 8-lb. daughter; in Hollywood. The Thalbergs have a son. Irving...
...Author, now 67, published his first book, The Suppression of the Slave Trade, almost 40 years ago, considers it "not entirely unreadable" today. Of mixed Dutch, French and African blood, Author Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Mass., educated at Fisk University, Harvard and the University of Berlin, has taught school and served for 14 years as professor of economics and history at Atlanta University. Famed among Negroes as editor of The Crisis, which he founded in 1910, Author Du Bois became widely known beyond intellectual circles of his own race as an executive officer of the National Association...