Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of '13, was the ad with the big, black heading "Lost Men." Under it ran "The following members of the Class are listed as "lost" on the records of the College. If anyone could send me an address that was good even ten years ago, it might help in locating them. Any information as to roommates in College or other associates at that time might be useful...
Preparations are now under way for a mass meeting of all service help in Cypress Hall...
...that he had stolen eight million dollars from the company (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Embezzler Beesemyer went to San Quentin Prison for 44 years. Since then no less than 2,500 Guaranty depositors have gone to the poorhouse or the insane asylum, some 30 have committed suicide. With the help of Depression, Guaranty's original assets of $20,000,000 had shrunk to $5,000,000 (mostly in land) by 1932, enabling the liquidating company to buy off some creditors for 5.9? on the dollar, issue stock with a par value of 25? on the dollar to others...
...when Franklin Roosevelt began promising the country light wines & beer, California wine-men formed a Grape-Growers League (now the Wine Institute) and hired a tiny, hard-working Scotsman, Harry Arthur Caddow, as secretary-manager to help repair the damage of the Prohibition years. Today California makes 97% of U. S. wine and the Wine Institute represents the producers of 75% of California's wine. Little Harry Caddow, still the Wine Institute's secretary-manager, has a hard job getting his temperamental French, Italian, German, Swiss, Hungarian, Armenian and Scottish members to hang together. Biggest Institute wineries...
...until 1852-occupies half of Mother Callan's book. It is full of homely detail: the French nuns' first encounter with corn bread; Mother Duchesne's purchase of a slave, Rachel, from her bishop "as a favor" when he left for France, later reselling her to help pay for a dormitory...