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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus was started one of the most publicized bets of the past decade-a golf marathon for half of a $30,000 plantation and $2,500 in side bets. Only stipulations were that Golfer Ferebee must 1) make good his boast between dawn and dusk; 2) get 95 or less for each of the eight rounds...
Next day, as all La Salle Street speculated whether he would ever get Tuerk's share of the 290-acre farm (the title is in Mrs. Tuerk's name), Golfer Ferebee was back at the Olympia Fields course, playing his regular Saturday afternoon foursome...
...living. When Evangelist Minister U. G. Harding of Portland, Ore. heard that such an operation might restore sight to his failing left eye, he sent a form letter to twelve condemned men in California's San Quentin prison, asking for a cornea. But not one could he get. Fortnight ago, Rev. Mr. Harding visited his 80-year-old friend, Mrs. Margaret Carr, who lay dying in Berkeley, Calif. Just before she closed her eyes, last week, the old lady raised her head and cried: "I see Heaven. How beautiful...
...Christian churches of the U. S., feminists give much credit for the emancipation of U. S. women. Yet in church matters women are still denied equality with men. A few large churches* ordain women as ministers, but few women ever get important appointments as pastors...
...Behind this softening attitude toward the New Deal's spending policy is a Hearstian conviction that Recovery will be the big story of the coming months. Having muffed the big story of 1936 and suffered immeasurable lowering of prestige, Hearst now seems determined to get back on the side of the People...