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...Wilbur Glenn Voliva, frock-coated overlord of Zion, Ill. and vociferous High Priest of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, the world is shaped like a soup-plate. In 1931 he proved this by taking a trip around the world's periphery. When he returned he bragged to newsmen that he was "worth $10,000,000" (TIME, March 16, 1931). He owned everything in Zion, which included candy bar, cookie and lace factories, bank, department store, publishing house, cement plant, bakery. Last week Mr. Voliva was an involuntary bankrupt and his Zion industries were in receivership. Liabilities were listed...
...talking to us as some of the so-called bigwigs did." Next day Leader Fewkes and his committee were to have had lunch with the "bigwigs" at the swank Union League Club. But they changed their minds and let the bankers (including Messrs. Dawes & Traylor) cool their soup for 20 minutes before announcing that they did not wish to appear under obligation to the bankers...
Down to table at the Executive Mansion in Harrisburg, Pa. one evening last week sat Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and 49 other persons unaccustomed to dining on black bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger steak. With many a polite smile and exclamation they proceeded to eat not only black bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger but also cornbread, spinach, apple & orange salad, ice cream. Not because Governor Gifford Pinchot was serving them the menu did his guests exclaim, but because he had paid for each one's food (except the ice cream, which came extra) only...
...away from welfare houses. A Michigan boy finished barber college after his parents died in 1929, found Michigan had loo many barbers already, took to the road. Too proud to beg, he made $3 carry him 2,000 mi. and eleven days. He explained: "I ate a lot of soup...
...Washington Street, Manhattan, early last month opened the Midday Soup Kitchen, serving 300 lunches of soup, bread & milk to the indigent. Observing the walls decorated with pictures of Cunard Liners, reporters last week discovered that the kitchen's manager is Lady Sparks, wife of Cunard's New York manager, Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks. "Really, " smiled she, "I'm only the cook here...