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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DESERTS ON THE MARCH-Paul B. Sears-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Originally published by the University of Oklahoma Press last November, now republished by Simon & Schuster, this book gives a fascinating factual account of how deserts drift and spread, what can and is being done to stop them...
...reference to the column Milestones, TIME, Feb. 24, I was indeed surprised to find your account so brief as to omit all mention of one of Hiram Percy Maxim's greatest interests: Amateur Radio. Himself the holder of an amateur "ticket" [license], he was the esteemed president of the Amateur's foremost protective interest, the American Radio Relay League. In the hearts of Hams [operators] will he be remembered longest and best...
...Congressional Record, its aim is to publicize the orders and utterances of all executive officers of the Government, which thereupon become official. Cost: $250,000 per year. Price: 5? a copy, $10 a year. First article in the 16 pages of No. 1, Vol. 1 was an account of the plans of the Department of Agriculture to make Bull Island, S. C. into a migratory bird refuge. Author of the article was Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Attitudes, Dr. Allport says, have no cultural origins. But the cultural milieu exerts influences which account for wide variations. Thus defense of country was ranked at the top by some subjects, at the bottom by others, reflecting the conflict of nationalist and internationalist ideologies. When the Allport questionnaire was given to 106 Southerners at Duke University, it was observed that they differed from the Northern subjects in putting defense of family honor ahead of defense of country...
...Year ago, toward the close of the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in Flemington, N.J., Preacher Vincent Burns leaped-up in the courtroom, babbled something about a man having confessed the Lindbergh kidnapping to him. Rushed out of court, Mr. Burns tried unsuccessfully to sell a 10,000-word account of the "confession" to the Press. Said he: '"I am not a seeker of publicity." Two days later he turned up successively in three theatres in Queens, N. Y., performed a marriage on the stage of each, made a speech about the Hauptmann case...