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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Major Haverfield doubtless meant was 68.9 illegitimate births per 1,000 live births per year...
Fifty-eight years ago he was born in Brooklyn to desperately poor parents, a puny, sickly babe, given small chance to survive. When he was five his father died. Soon his mother took him to Charleston, S. C. to live with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Byrnes. There young Frank had his cousin Jim for playmate and foster brother. Today Cousin Jim Byrnes is junior U. S. Senator from South Carolina and a great & good friend of President Roosevelt. But in that hard-pressed family of women and children there was small time for play. At 12 Frank went to work...
Typical was the case which brought the Harlem Messiah into Children's Court. A school principal had complained that a 14-year-old Negro girl had been taken by her mother to live in a Divine "Heaven" in Harlem. Justice Panken sent the child to live with a sister, sent the mother to Bellevue Hospital after she put on a typical Divinery. Writhing, gesticulating, the woman fell to the courtroom floor screaming: "Father Divine...
...begin your life over again, live it up to the present exactly as it was lived before, without profiting by any experience of the first life...
...That Pitcairn Island (a British possession) has come to be one of the most famed dots on the world map is largely due to two writers, Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, who live in Tahiti with their native wives and dusky children. In Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island, U. S. Authors Nordhoff and Hall effectively told the whole story of the Bounty and its tangled sequel (TIME, Aug. 20 et ante...