Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contributors to the American Mission to Lepers, which now supports 184 leproseries, own toy pig banks in which they deposit their odd coins. The idea developed 20 years ago when Wilbur Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch...
...McAlester, Okla., John Chapman went to look at his 39 chickens, found all but a rooster and two hens stolen, and this note...
...Madesin Phillips, Manhattan lawyer, organizer and onetime president of the Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs. She opened the conference with the gavel used by Susan B. Anthony. To help settle the conference question, "How best can we serve our common cause-civilization?" came Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Authoress Mary Ritter Beard, and many a foreign notable. From England came Dame Rachel Crowdy. only woman ever appointed a section head (Social Questions and Opium Traffic) of the League of Nations, and Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, first woman member of a British Cabinet (Labor, 1929-31). From...
Martin, 3B Chapman, LF Frisch, 2B Gehringer, 2B Klein, RF Ruth, RF Hafey, LF Gehrig, 1B Terry, 1B Simmons, CF Berger, CF Dykes, 3B Kartell, SS Cronin, SS Wilson. C R. Ferell, C Hallahan, P Gomez...
...last World's Fair 40 years ago. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico, to be a U. S. Circuit Judge after adjournment of Congress; Oscar L. Chapman, Colorado lawyer, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Alexander Wilbourne Weddell of Virginia, former career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Argentina. ¶ Few reports have excited Washington so much as last week's to the effect that President Roosevelt might attend the London Economic Conference next month...