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...every little simple expression, you can see the outward expression of the oppression of those who are as the hireling and the fatherless, the poor and the needy, the laboring class of people. It is indeed Wonderful! . . . When I am participating with My Comrades, the Communists . . . I know they are fulfilling the Scriptures more than many of the Preachers and those that are called Religious.-Rev. Major J. ("Father") Devine of Harlem...
Miss Reed discovered one unmarried mother who was only 11 years old and a 14-year-old girl who had two fatherless babies The number of women who had illegitimate children after they were 40 was negligible. When Miss Reed realized that only 1% of the mothers were normal school graduates and only 2% were college graduates, she hastened to denounce "a belief prevalent among some social agencies, that unmarried mothers now come largely from the better educated classes...
Born in Virginia, George Caleb Bingham moved with his family to Howard County in 1819. Left fatherless at the age of twelve he worked as an apprentice cabinet maker and cigar roller, turned to painting as a profession when he met an Eastern artist named Chester Harding who had gone out to the frontier to paint the portrait of the aging Daniel Boone. A severe attack of measles left Bingham as bald as an egg at the age of 19. For the rest of his life he wore a succession of handsomely curled wigs. Quick success in painting portraits...
Born in Walkerton, Ind., Harold Clayton Urey was left fatherless when he was 6. His mother and later his stepfather helped him through University of Montana, from which he emerged a zoologist. The War shunted him into chemistry. Later he took his Ph. D. at University of California, studied in Copenhagen under Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr. He is married, has two daughters. He is a neat, square, plump-faced man who likes to extemporize on the piano, make charcoal sketches. Once he smoked two packages of cigarets per day. Now he chews gum instead...
...nominate an opponent for her in the November election. No one was happier over her success than her bosom friends, the Franklin D. Roosevelts. Simultaneously Arizona became the 21st State to ratify the Repeal Amendment to the Constitution. Nominee Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky. Fatherless at 8, she went to private school in Manhattan, there met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She was bridesmaid at the Roosevelt-Roosevelt wedding on St. Patrick's Day, 1905. Next year, aged 19, she married Robert Monroe Ferguson, bore him a son and a daughter, went West to homestead...