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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Jacobs, housepainter of The Bronx, N. Y. and his wife Sallie named their baby Norma Depression Jacobs...
...lands, gains 1,600,000 members, its structure may well become as complex as that of any Big Business. So may its executives tend to be dynamic, important personages-in contrast to the London draper who founded the Young Men's Christian Association in 1844. Nothing demonstrates the Y. M. C. A.'s world position today more than the calibre of Dr. John Raleigh Mott, identified with it ever since he became a student secretary in 1888 when he was graduated from Cornell. Dr. Mott resigned last November as "general secretary" of the International Committee (TIME...
...white pine in California. The $108,000,000 assets further include thousands of acres of farm land, nine sawmills, 104 lumberyards, 292 miles of railroad, and the entire town of Longview, Wash. at the junction of the Columbia & Cowlitz rivers. With its bank, hotel, motion picture house, fire department, "Y," docks, tennis courts, schools, it is a model, moral settlement. Paternal & religious, Robert Alexander Long delights in the title of Founder. "Men in business today need many friends," is one of his maxims. By his side for 53 years Robert Long had someone who filled that need...
...North American Y. M. C. A.'s began sending out, in response to repeated calls from all over Christendom and Pagany, secretaries to initiate, guide and counsel local movements. Principle was to build them up, then turn them over to local secretaries. Today 600 native leaders and 100 Americans carry on the work. Particularly proud of its Chinese record is Y. M. C. A. In the Cabinet of ex-President Chiang Kai-shek two years ago, six of the members were former Y-secretaries. Said Secretary Harmon last year: ''We regard this work as an invention...
...Estate Financing ... We Are Just Beginning to Grow ... Opportunities in Realty Held Best in Century ... Bargain Time in Realty Buying, Davies Believes ... Good Bargains in Real Estate Held Plentiful .. Realty Declared Standing Test Best of Any Forms of Wealth ... Realty Entering New City Cycle, Declares Potter ... Edwards Lands N. Y. Real Estate as an Investment ... One Will Not Make Mistake Buying Now ... Good Buying Year is Seen ... Rental Market Panicky Phase Declared Ended ... Predicts Busy Year for Men in Space Field ... Revival in Home Ownership Near, Harmon Thinks...