WORK FOR THE BLIND
£IOOO FOE HELEN KELLER NEW YORK, Oct. 27. Miss Helen Keller, who has been blind and denf throughout the f>o roars of h u 1 life. Ims been awarded the £IOOO ‘achievement award" given annually by the Pictorial Review Company. Miss Keller has just returned to America from spending the past few months .in England and Scotland, where she was received by the Kang and. Queen. . . . . The Achievement Prize is given to the American woman_ who has made the greatest contribution to American life during the last 10 years. Hunng those years, it was announced, Miss Keller has raised £200,000 to help people afflicted with blindness and deafness.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17956, 7 December 1932, Page 12
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112WORK FOR THE BLIND Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17956, 7 December 1932, Page 12
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