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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken at Life Camps-the 51-year-old charitable enterprise founded by the comic weekly Life, taken over and carried on by TIME Inc. when it acquired the name LIFE for its new picture magazine. Under the direction of Lloyd Burgess Sharp are two boys' camps, at Pottersville, N. J. and Matamoras, Pa.; one girls' camp at Branchville, Conn. Life Camps have been supported by nationwide private contributions. This year the entire overhead is being paid by TIME Inc., thus ensuring that every contributed dollar will go direct to the child, not one for office expense. For further...
...Still drawing Government pensions from the War of 1812 are Mrs. Caroline King, 88, East Aurora, N. Y. widow, and Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 80, of Independence, Ore. who was. pensioned as a helpless child because of blindness...
...worth of soap wrappers were a group of pressure salesmen who got a 50% commission on campaign book sales. Senator Wheeler read a letter from Manhattan Lawyer Watson Washburn who said he had been notified that one of the salesmen who had approached Broker Young was one N. M. Lichtblau. Wrote Lawyer Washburn...
...Harry's, most cosmopolitan bar and gossip-parlor in Venice, word was going round that "Prince" David, the last of the marrying Mdi-Vani's, had just become engaged to blonde Muriel ("Honey") Johnson of Bronxville, N. Y. The Countess Haugwitz Reventlow was once the wife of his brother "Prince" Alexis...
Cheering peons, in their dirty overalls, folded serapes over their shoulders, sailed their huge white sombreros into the air last week in Merida as President Lazaro Cárdenas, taking another step in the Agrarian reforms under his Six-Year Plan, announced he would break up Yucatán's great henequen* estates, giving the land to the peasants...