Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve-year-old girls. In his senior year he pleased his social-minded father, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., by winning a fellowship which exempted him from examinations and permitted him to dig into the fine arts as well. Just before graduation in 1930 he said: "I don't claim to have sprouted wings. . . . But I have de veloped a growing enthusiasm and appreciation [for art] which will stay with...
...193rd or 96th St. and can't recall which one. and this particular person has almost broke up my home, telling my wife he is God and she will live always and never die. she turned in her insurance with the Metropolitan after 12 years, surrendered her policy claiming this man say they don't want no colored people in this insurance and will live forever., when I come in off the Road she put on her coat and hat & run out say father Divine tell her to make me take care of her and live like sister...
...write and he tell them to get all in the cult, he is going to give all colored people work, if you follow him you will have fine automobiles and everything. . . . my wife say she came in from the meeting and a big light was flashing all around me, claiming it was God coming & calling me ... he don't take no money, all is turned over to his secretary . . . [my wife] claim they the government got something on Garvey for receiving money through the mail, but he will send it back if you send him any through the mail...
Sirs: TIME is becoming fatuous,* fat and pudgy in the intellect. Witness: its claim that Dean Hill is "crawling." If he's wrong, he's wrong. Grantland Rice can say whether. I hope he will. But to accuse Mr. Hill of anything but sincerity is all those things mentioned above (and below...
Ostensible point of dispute: Governor Talmadge's claim that CWA paid such high wages that Georgia farms were being denuded of cheap labor. Probable real point: politics & patronage...