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Jack Dempsey sent Manhattan newspapers five studio poses of his daughter Joan Hannah Dempsey, aged 7 mo. 24 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 8, 1935 | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...Born. To Hannah Williams Dempsey, 23, and William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 39, onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion: a daughter, Joan; in Manhattan. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 13, 1934 | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

Childless for 20 years were a rich & pious couple of Nazareth named Joachim and Hannah (Anne). Repulsed from the temple for his childlessness, Joachim one day went out into the mountains and groaned before his God. When Hannah learned why Joachim did not come home she, too, cried to the Lord to take away her curse, promising her child to His service. To Hannah at home, to Joachim in the mountains appeared angels, promising that their prayer would be answered, their child be blessed by all the world. Then Hannah conceived, gave birth to a daughter whom she named Miriam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Grandmother | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...Church councils belongs the doctrine that Mary, who gave Virgin Birth to Jesus, was without sin from the moment of conception in her mother's womb (Immaculate Conception). Since the apocryphal account of Joachim and Hannah is obviously a reproduction of the Biblical story of Samuel's conception by Hannah (I Kings, 1-2:21), Catholic theologians concede that from a scholarly viewpoint the life and even the name of Jesus' must remain in doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Grandmother | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...Hannah M. Egan, Ph. D. is grey, matronly, stoutish, wears dark wool dresses and is Acting Dean of the largest woman's college in the world-New York City's Municipal Hunter. This week the city's Board of Higher Education was to consider giving her a permanent appointment as Dean. At least 250 of Hunter's some 10,000 students do not want Hannah M. Egan to receive the appointment. That was the number who had signed a petition against it last fortnight when President Eugene A. Colligan made them stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miss Egan's Girls | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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