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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more ceremonious than the inauguration of a President of the U. S. was the arrival in Bombay last week of the new Viceroy of India, the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), young (49), scholarly Scottish lord, Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow. Ahead of him had arrived his New Deal, the renovated and liberalized Indian Constitution based on Lord Linlithgow's own exhaustive 350-page investigation and recommendations (TIME, Aug. 12). What made 350,000,000 Indians so anxious last week for a sight of the half-dreamy, half-cranky face of their new Viceroy was that...
...Rebel. Each Temple picture-the totals vary less than those of any other star-grosses between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. They cost between $200,000 and $300,000. Story, cast and background are relatively unimportant. Temple pictures are rarely held up in production and often finished ahead of shooting schedule. She makes four a year for which she gets approximately $75,000 each. The rest of her income is derived from outside royalties with 15 commercial firms that sell underwear, coats, hats, shoes, dolls, books, toys, dresses, soap, hair-ribbons and table wear...
Yesterday the Yearlings ran their string of victories to nine straight when they trimmed an inexperienced Thayer Academy team 16-4. Running wild on the bases and helped by Thayer's nine errors, the Freshmen were ahead from the start and never in any danger. Frank Foley pitched a fine game allowing only six hits and striking out 13 while winning his third victory. Heckel took the batting honors for the day by garnering four hits out of six tries...
After running away with the first two games, 3-to-1 and 9-to-4, on their home rink, the Red Wings went to play the Toronto Maple Leafs on theirs. With seven minutes left the Red Wings, ahead by 3-to-0, loafed. The Maple Leafs promptly scored three goals, the third 42 seconds before the series would otherwise have ended, won the game, 4-to-3, in overtime. Chastened, Detroit's Red Wings settled down to work in the fourth game, won it 3-to-2 for the series and their first world's championship...
Captain Milt Green came through as expected by winning his heats in the high and low hurdles without being extended. In the 100-meter event he was five yards ahead on the first hurdles and widened his lead at every other jump. In the 200-meter race he also won easily and finished at a trot. All the hurdles events were run from scratch...