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Albany, N. Y., Jan. 14--Purchase by New York State of all idle and submarginal farm land within its borders, was recommended in a report of the state planning board, which was submitted, to the legislature tonight by Governor Herbert IL. Lehman...
Little Costa Rica is unique in having the biggest proportion of pure-blooded Spaniards, the most peaceful history, the smallest army budget, one of the oldest constitutions and biggest school budgets in Latin America. No less remarkable is Costa Rica's President, Ricardo ("Don Ricardo") Jiménez y Oreamuno, 75, son & grandson of Costa Rican Presidents, three times President himself and year in & year out the most popular man in the country. Once he bailed out a man who had defamed him, saying: "Let no one be imprisoned for anything he may say about...
...University of Rochester had the tremendous luck to be located in the city of Rochester, N. Y., home of George Eastman and Kodaks. The generous Kodak-maker showered Rochester with gifts of $35,500,000 during his lifetime, $20,000,000 more at his death in 1932. Rochester built a School of Music, a School of Medicine & Dentistry, a whole new campus for its College of Arts & Sciences, and still has an endowment of $54,000,000, fifth largest in the land...
...Boston Emergency Relief Administration rode out to the Belmont home of Mrs. Cordelia Howard MacDonald. Mrs. MacDonald, now 86 was the original "Little Eva." At the age 14 in her father's theatrical troupe, she scrambled across the ice floes on a stage at Troy, N. Y., ascended to heaven on a telegraph wire. All her life Mrs. MacDonald has been sitting sweetly through performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin. When the play has been given in Boston, Mrs. MacDonald has always had the best box, been reported crying softly during the death scene. Last week she listened...