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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Sir Charles Marston. 68. retired British bicycle manufacturer, archeologist and Bible scholar, backer of the Wellcome expedition which last month turned up twelve potsherds at Tel ad Duweir (TIME, March 25); and Mrs. Mary Battey Bonney, director of the American Women's Association; in Manhattan...
...ad interim head of NRA, to succeed S. Clay Williams, President Roosevelt appointed his man-of-all-work, Donald Richberg. At the same time he patched up a truce with organized Labor, William Green and John L. Lewis emerging from a White House conference all smiles...
...more than a year an expedition headed by Dr. J. L. Starkey of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London, has been working at Tel ad-Duwair, southwest of Jerusalem. Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar stormed it when he invaded Palestine. Earlier, King Sennacherib of Assyria stopped there before he swept down like the wolf on the fold and before the Lord, through Isaiah, said: "I will send a blast upon him" and killed his 185,000 troops (II Kings, 19: 7, 35). What Dr. Starkey found at Lachish last week were twelve...
...thin, á L'Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise an eyebrow at the very first slice: "In every English-speaking country Dickens is still the great popular writer." André ' whole case for Dickens is an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps Dickens had a streak of Pecksniff in his character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn't?" He is sorry for Mrs. Dickens, believes that "to be a novelist's wife is truly dreadful," but thinks much should be left unsaid on both sides. As to Dickens...
...encouraged to enter this forum by the promise that the Harvard Communist "is little influenced by advertisers." Intensive research indicated, at a late hour last night, that what at first sight seemed a rather superfluous statement was in fact, not out of place--there is a half-inch ad on page three...