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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commissioner-designate Studebaker could earn his living as a brick mason if he needed to. As such, he worked his way through Toledo. Iowa's Leander Clark College (since merged with Coe), still holds a union card. Des Moines credits that experience with saving it many a dollar during a $7,000,000 school building program, and architects from all over the world go to see the building he planned for Des Moines' Smouse Opportunity School for the crippled...
Though most midgets who earn their own living do it by exhibiting themselves, Authors Bodin & Hershey list midget architects, realtors, brokers, restaurateurs, watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news...
...schoolboys-the Paul Street Boys and their larger rivals, the Red Shirts -for possession of a corner lot. Smallest, feeblest, most loyal member of the Paul Street army is Private Nemecsek (George Breakston). The only non-commissioned officer in the organization, he is eager for promotion and tries to earn it one evening on a spying expedition to the Red Shirts' headquarters in the botanical gardens. When he and his companions are observed, Nemecsek has to hide in the conservatory pool. Next day he wakes up with a bad cold, disobeys orders to stay at home, goes...
From a sanatorium last week which she temporarily left against doctors' orders to see a show of Georgia O'Keeffe's art, Zelda Fitzgerald was hoping her pictures would gratify her great ambition-to earn her own living...
...social betterment, announced a prospective profit-sharing program for General Electric's 50,000 workers. For the past 17 years ending in 1932, 30,000 workers have received a 5% bonus. Hereafter each & every General Electric employe will share up to 12½% of the company's earnings available for common stock after 8% of its book value is deducted. Before the plan can become effective G. E. must earn 83? a share on common stock. Last year it earned...