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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend $55,000,000 buying up 5,000,000 hogs (4,000,000 young animals, 1,000,000 sows about to litter.) The 5,000,000 hogs will be used to feed the unemployed...
Beatrice ("Bea") Gottlieb, trim Manhattan blonde from Tuckahoe, N.Y., arrived home and told the newspapers how she played golf with the Prince of Wales, beat him (TIME, Aug. 14). She "just happened" to be playing the same courses he was playing, several days in a row. One day he asked his private professional, towering Archie Compston, to arrange a match. Mrs. Alastair Mackintosh made it a foursome and they played three rounds on as many courses, Miss Gottlieb and Wales playing for a ball a hole. After halving two matches, she finally won with...
...guests-of-honor had lots to say to each other when they met. Week before, the four best players that swanky Eastern polo could produce had been ridden groggy by a hard-hitting, hell-for-leather Western four, beaten in the first of three games, 15 to 11 (TIME, Aug. 21). Since he became a 10-goal player in 1922 the East's Captain Thomas Hitchcock had never been challenged on a field as the West's Cecil Smith had challenged him last fortnight...
...Kansas where a startling bond forgery was uncovered fortnight ago (TIME. Aug. 21), State Treasurer Tom Boyd was last week arrested. Fred Harris, special investigator for Governor Landon. declared that Treasury records had been juggled, that Ronald Finney, accused of "uttering" $1,000,000 in forged bonds, had supplied Boyd with $3,000 so that interest could be paid (to prevent discovery when forged coupons were presented...
Detroit has waited a long time to hear Michigan's Senior Senator tell his story of the banking fiasco which Judge Harry B. Keidan has been probing off & on all summer (TIME, Aug. 7). For in all the reckless charges and counter-charges that have been hurled since Detroit's banks were closed last St. Valentine's Day, there has been one unifying theme: that in some mysterious way Senator James Couzens was the man who threw the monkey-wrench into the creaking machine...