Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only Alabama ($1,284) is poorer in per capita wealth than Mississippi ($1,376). Only South Carolina (55%) has a denser Negro population than Mississippi (52%). Only Louisiana and South Carolina are more illiterate. Mississippi has the highest birth rate, lowest death rate in the South. It was the first state of the Union to ratify the 18th Amendment. It is cursed with the most virulent form of partisan Democratic politics. Its last great man: John Sharp Williams...
...days after Dr. Judd's inauguration as 1931 president, the medical power of the southwest, Edward Henry Gary, 59, was chosen president for 1932. Dr. Canis a rich man. He started his wealth with medicine, increased it by marriage, multiplied it by business. An Alabaman who worked his way through Manhattan night schools and through Bellevue Hospital Medical School, he became first dean of the medical school of Baylor University and its professor of ophthalmology & otolaryngology (1902). His private eye, ear & throat practice became large. Twenty years ago he married Georgia Fonda Schneider, of an old, wealthy Texas family...
...true to its New England traditions, Exeter welcomed to its 150th anniversary not primarily men of wealth or family but men of learning. At the commemorative exercises, the platform was crowded with the deans and presidents of the great Eastern colleges and schools. Speech of the day was that of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard, who asked for less coddling and babying in modern education, declared that a child should read "fluently" at five and "certainly at six" and went on to say: "This retardation runs through the whole process. In the secondary school we study what should have...
...more rapidly than any other prep school. For last November Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, no Exeter man, gave $7,000,000 for a House plan, salary increases, and new dormitories (TIME, Dec. 1). Also active was the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, who spent much of his great mining wealth in giving Exeter a big modern gymnasium, athletic, science and administration buildings and, last year, $1,000,000 more (TIME, April 14, 1930). At present the school has, in addition to these, some 650 students from far & wide, 65 teachers, many handsome Georgian buildings, a Gothic church designed by Ralph...
...southern California changes from contempt to hostility whenever there is a State appointment to be made. Last week Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph had to choose a State Director of Social Welfare, a position which carries considerable prestige among the women† of California. Harried by ladies of wealth and prominence in both ends of his commonwealth, unsmiling Governor Rolph had for some time considered appointing two social welfare directors to placate both sections. In the end, however, he took the bull by the horns, gave Mrs. Rheba Crawford Splivalo of San Francisco (his own end of the State...