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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother tells me that his informant was the type of person who does not, as a rule, make false statements or spread rumors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...younger brother Wally," testified Noah Beery, "lost $80,000, but my brother also wants Gilbert Beesemyer to be given another chance." The former movie villain had scarcely done talking when he suffered a heart attack; he had to be assisted out of the room. "My doctor told me not to come," he gasped. "But hell, I couldn't let this fellow down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mercy and Justice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Miss O'Leary, daughter of an East Side garageman, got interested in politics when her brother John founded a small Democratic club in their district. She even ran for State Committeewoman, and after hours from her secretarial job made a housewife-to-housewife campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lady and Tiger | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Educational opportunities are unequal: Allyn Burleson's children in California get twice as much schooling as Brother David's in Nebraska, three times as much as Brother John's in Kentucky. At least 800,000 have no schools at all. >The teaching profession, says Smith College's retired President William Allan Neilson, consists largely of "timid and unimaginative persons to whom moderate comfort, a moderate competence, moderate security are the reward for a moderate amount of moderately conscientious drudgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Challenge | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Wealthy estates brought riches to institutions, individuals. Steelmaster Charles Michael Schwab bequeathed the bulk of his unlisted wealth to his brother, Edward, his sister, Gertrude Barry, and the children of his late brother, Joseph. Genevieve Brady Macaulay, made a Papal Duchess for her philanthropy by Pope Pius XI, left $1,000,000 in cash to Husband William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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