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Last week, near the farmer's home, lumbermen brought down a tall pine tree. High in the branches they spied an eagle's nest. They came close to examine it. What they found made them cross themselves. There, surrounded by tatters of baby clothing, lay the skeleton of a 2-year-old child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Eagle's Meat | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...rampant Progressive, is regular today. Oil made him rich. All in one week last year he won the party nomination for governor, became the father of a daughter and brought in a 500-bbl.-per-day oil well. As a boy he once held an old hen on her nest until she delivered the egg necessary to complete a dozen he had promised to deliver that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crop of Governors | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...geisha girl has been hungrily awaiting his return for three years-seems a little forlorn with no one to sing Puccini's music. For cinemaddicts who enjoy librettos without song it should provide acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Gary Grant heartily promising to return to Japan when the robins nest again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...granddaughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post; in Manhattan. The 1930 marriage was declared invalid by Referee John M. Tierney because Mr. Sturges' first wife, Estelle Mudge Godfrey Sturges Daugherty, had gotten a Mexican divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed to pay Mr. Wayne $1,000 a month to quit the cinema and live with her; in Manhattan. Mrs. Wayne's countersuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 14, 1932 | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...Return to New York. "Nest Egg," By radio from his Albany officeGovernor Roosevelt last week laid down "certain great basic principles'' of his relief program. Said he: "The primary duty rests on the community through local government and private agencies to take care of the relief of unemployment. . . . Where there are so many people out of work that local funds are insufficient, the state comes into the picture. . . . Where the state itself is unable successfully to fulfill this obligation it then becomes the positive duty of the Federal Government to step in to help. . . . It took the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Second Swing | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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