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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., who married Backwoods Girl Lena Wilson at his mother's famed camp at Grande Anse, Que. (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), is studying medicine at Harvard Medical School. Last week his wife told the press this story: ''Bud rescued a poor crippled boy who was being tormented by a crowd of other boys. He took an interest in the boy and tried to rehabilitate him by psychoanalysis. He was half starved. Bud fed him and was kind to him. At first he was suspicious, for nobody ever had been kind to him really...
...Land for the Poor!" A second major event of the week was announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture that Morelos is the first Mexican state in which the ''agricultural aspirations" of the Grand Revolutionary Party may be considered as virtually realized. Some 68% of the state's land area of 1,300,000 acres has been expropriated from the former capitalist owners and distributed to 26,381 campesinos or "small farmers" in accordance with party slogan: "Land for the poor!" These recipients of the Government's bounty comprise 69% of the state's inhabitants. They...
...home to carve the Christmas goose, were confronted by a starving beggar. Said he: "My wife is ill and I've got children who are absolutely certain Santa Claus is coming tomorrow morning." The businessmen took up a collection and decided thereafter always to take care of their poor neighbors for two weeks at Christmastime. They called themselves the Joshers Club and now, instead of community chestmen, beaming Joshers buttonhole the townsfolk to help Butte's 600 needy families. Chief Josher is J. T. Finlen, proprietor of the Finlen Hotel...
...friendly" receivers were appointed as the result of a petition by Bethlehem Steel Corp., said to be a $400,000 creditor. In this receivership there was not evident the aftermath of the market's break, as had been true in the Fox trusteeship (TIME, Dec. 16), nor of poor trade conditions as in the American Piano receivership (see p. 30). There was little reason to believe that Combustion's total assets, which exceeded $60,000,000 at the end of 1928, have depreciated. Causes of the company's troubles are supposed to have arisen from heavy expenditures...
Masons, printed an almanac (Poor Richard's), was a colonel in the French & Indian War, founded a hospital. He became the biggest printer in the Colonies and was made deputy postmaster-general. His electrical experiments (demonstration of the identity of lightning and electricity) won him a Fellowship in the Royal Society. He was sent to London to get Pennsylvania freed of the Penns and made a crown colony...