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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become one of the idle rich. . . . I'll have to go somewhere to get away. . . . I believe I won because of my faith in God. . . . Shucks, $145.000 isn't a fortune. . . . Money isn't everything. . . ." The Boston Daily Globe described him as "completely bewildered": the N. Y. Herald Tribune as "a trembling Negro . . . tears streaming down his cheeks...
...Spain's Ambassador to the Holy See asked Pope Pius XI last week to recall Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Primate of Spain, from Spain...
...Holiness refused to recall His Eminence. Promptly the Spanish Government expelled Primate Segura y Saenz in a motor...
Died, Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings, 76, pioneer U. S. sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at Columbia University; after a long illness; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing...
Died. Anna Adams Gordon, 78, nine years world president of the W. C. T. U.; in a sanitorium at Castle, N. Y.; of a general breakdown. She served the Dry cause for 54 years, was 21 years secretary to Founder Frances Willard...