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Word: kemper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Works Progress Administration last month, West Virginia's blatant young Senator Rush Dew Holt pointed with special scorn at WPA's privy program in his State, intimating that WPAdministrator Hopkins was more interested in that than in feeding hungry children (TIME, March 23). As Dr. A. J. Kemper. county public health officer, uprose to dedicate the 100,000th privy last week, four bumpkin students from nearby Salem College, Senator Holt's alma mater, whizzed by in an automobile, tossed corncobs at his feet. Unperturbed, the tall, grave physician proceeded to point out that up to 1932 some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST VIRGINIA: 100,000th | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Richardson & Kemper Attorneys at Law Bluefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Henry Ward Beecher went to Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. His father, Lyman Beecher, was the first president of this little Presbyterian institution which was chartered in 1829 with a gift of money from Ebenezer Lane, New Orleans Baptist, and 60 acres of hilly land from Elnathan Kemper, Cincinnati Presbyterian. Harriet Beecher Stowe, wife of Lane's Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe, wrote part of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Lane Seminary. A gentle decline set in 30 years ago. Last week Lane had left only 23 students, ten acres of campus, one professor, one part-time lecturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lane's End | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Will Rogers' education: Willie Hassell School, Neosho.,Mo.; Kemper Military Academy, Boonville, Mo. for "a short time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1931 | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...seen (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Chicago sent a earful of detectives to apprehend him for the Moran massacre, because guns found in Burke's elaborate arsenal at St. Joseph, Mich, were identified as those used in the St. Valentine's day killings. Alias Brook, alias Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, he is wanted in New York for the slaying of Gang King Frankie Uale in 1928, in Detroit for murdering three "Red" McLaughlin hoodlums in 1927, in Columbus City, Ind. for killing a woman. Since his graduation from the Egan Rats of St. Louis, Killer Burke is credited with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Worst Man | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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