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...sharecropper cabin I found the woman chained to a bed with a trace chain locked around her neck. She had been there several days. She had been fed well and other than being chained apparently had not been harmed. I ordered the woman unchained and took her and Wiggin off the farm...
Pending arraignment on a charge of peonage. Farmer Decker was last week released on a $1,500 bond. Sharecroppers Davis and Wiggin stayed in a Clarksdale jail voluntarily as material witnesses...
...young teacher in San Francisco's dismal Tar Flat section named Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) made the kindergarten popular in one of her first tales, The Story of Patsy. When the Atlantic Monthly damned the kindergarten as "a joy saloon," spunky Miss Wiggin flashed: "I like the name. Anyone who has seen, as I have, the dreary tenement rooms in which many children live would be glad to give them little tipples of joy." [Another generous early patron was Boston's Mrs. Quincy Shaw, who at one time kept 30 kindergartens going. Once a youngster...
...Wiggin's current offer was made in connection with two other offers of $250,000 each from the estates of Charles Hayden and Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr., both of whom were Chase directors and defendants in the stockholders' action. The suit, said Mr. Wiggin, was hampering proper administration of the two estates, and their offers were not to be construed as a posthumous confession of remissness. While flatly denying the validity of the charges, Mr. Wiggin declared: "In view of the fact that I was the senior executive officer charged with the management of the affairs of both...
...sooner had Mr. Wiggin molded the Doherty formula to his personal problem than Standard Gas & Electric Corp. reported an offer of $1,000,000 in settlement of suits against it which had never been filed, only threatened. Charging waste, misapplication and misappropriation of assets, a group of minority stockholders in Standard Gas were ready to ask $100,000,000 from the directors and various controlling interests, including H. M. Byllesby & Co. and U. S. Electric Power Corp. Reason advanced for quick settlement was that it would speed the reorganization of Standard Gas & Electric, now in famed Section...