Word: brauer
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Last summer passed painfully for Margie Brauer, 60, and her husband Ernie, 69, one of the thousands of American farm families who have been battling hard times. Mired in debt, the Norlina, N.C., couple declared bankruptcy in April 1986. Then, facing foreclosure on the 228-acre farm that she and Ernie had worked for 40 years, Margie wrote an eloquent letter to a court-appointed trustee, expressing the hope that she and her husband might somehow retain their self-respect as they went through the agonizing process of giving up their home and land. TIME reprinted that letter (NATION, Sept...
...electorate, however, seems far more interested in stability and continuity than in new social programs. "Social justice isn't particularly relevant for most Germans these days," says Hartmut Brauer, a judicial administrator and a Social Democratic politician in Schweinfurt...
Every now and then TIME publishes a story that stirs an unusually strong response among readers. Margie Brauer's moving letter to a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee detailing her family's losing battle to hold on to their North Carolina farm (NATION, Sept. 8) has elicited just such an outpouring. In the two weeks since Mrs. Brauer's account of hardworking folk facing bankruptcy appeared, TIME and the Brauers have been deluged with phone calls and letters from strangers offering to help. "People are very concerned," reports TIME Letters Chief Joan Walsh. "I think that the Brauers' decency has obviously...
Associate Editor Gregory Jaynes, who wrote the story that accompanied Margie Brauer's appeal for understanding -- in which she complained mildly about her old eyeglasses and her need for dental work -- is not surprised by the burst of sympathy. Jaynes first read her missive last July, after it was passed along to him by Senior Writer Frank Trippett, who received a copy from a friend at a North Carolina newspaper. "I was about halfway through reading it when I started crying," recalls Jaynes. "I thought, if I'm crying, this letter should reach daylight." His instincts proved correct. "Margie...
...Brauer and her husband Ernie have received some 200 or so communications from as far away as Hawaii and Great Britain. Many have included cash donations ranging in size from $5 to several hundred dollars. There have also been preliminary inquiries by investors interested in purchasing the farm as trustees who would allow the Brauers to stay on as tenants. "We've heard of so many suicides," says Margie. "Ernie and I thought our own story might open up another viewpoint to someone in the same predicament...