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...maintain some parts of their school system, teachers labor with greatly augmented classes, due to unemployment conditions. Although their efficiency is impaired in every way, including overwork and cuts in meagre salaries, the teachers of the country have shown a courageous and public-spirited attitude, even providing lunches for penniless children as well as assuming many burdens co-existent with their school activities...
...while he tossed off trills and double harmonics, looking 11ke a picture-book musician with his blazing eyes, his waving mane. Kubelik's hands were once insured for $100,000. He was rich enough in 1918 to buy a million-dollar castle in Hungary. Because Depression left him penniless, Kubelik is again fiddling in the U. S. this season. Last week he played with the Cincinnati Symphony, which had for the occasion a guest conductor-none other than Son Raffael Kubelik...
...Chicago debtors' court stood sad, portly, white-wooled Oscar De Priest, onetime (1929-34) Negro Congressman from Illinois. The judge asked whether he could pay a $38 judgment in favor of a stationer, got this reply: "I am penniless and looking for a job." All but $1,500 of his money Oscar De Priest sank in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election last autumn. The last $1,500 went for income taxes...
...deck of the Queen of Bermuda, three hours out of Hamilton bound" for Manhattan, a husky youngster in knee breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked...
Last fortnight the Deans received diamond rings from their St. Louis admirers. Penniless five years ago, they expected to make $50,000 from vaudeville and baseball next year. When Vice President Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Cardinals congratulated Dizzy Dean on winning the first game last week, Dizzy Dean wired a characteristic reply: "Many, many thanks. . . . Breezed through today with nothing but my glove. . . . Tell everybody hello. Henry Ford will be my guest in St. Louis. . . . Cook a good meal for all of us. Sandwiches and everything." Sportswriters, who gave the Deans their nicknames, were proud of their erratic...