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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five million kulaks were uprooted, their property confiscated, an unknown number exiled...
...Mother's Day in the Texas House of Representatives Governor W. Lee O'Daniel yelled into a microphone: "Hello there, mother, you little sweetheart. How in the world are you, you little bunch of sweetness?" Then he read "The Unknown Mother," a filial poem of his own composition...
...pigeon got in is unknown, but rumors were circulating that someone was planning to outdo the goldfish and white mice gulpers...
...estate, $8,000,000, to four female cousins, all over 70; that, although he was no college man, he had provided that after his cousins' deaths the $8,000,000 should be divided equally among Yale, Harvard and Princeton, which had never heard of him. Once more an unknown financial breeze had brought U. S. education one of its always-to-be-expected, unexpected windfalls...
Last week University of Chicago also received a big gift, from no unknown but an ardent alumnus who still lives in a fraternity house (Psi Upsilon) on Chicago's campus. The donor: broad-shouldered Daniel Hedges Brown, '16, onetime Hearst circulation manager, now president of Morris Mills, Inc., inventors and manufacturers of "Germ" flour (TIMEX Aug. 15). The gift: 20% of the annual royalties on Morris Mills' flour making process. If, as Mr. Brown is confident, all U. S. mills adopt his process, Chicago's income from it will be $1,-000,000 a year...