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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Kellogg conceived the experiment when he was at Columbia University, six years ago. After he secured his Indiana post and other psychologists applauded the idea, the Kelloggs agreed to have a baby to companion an ape. Their boy, Donald, was born Aug. 31, 1930. His parents at first wanted to take him to Sumatra to find a foster brother or sister among the orangutans. But they lacked the money. No U. S. zoo would loan them an infant ape. The Kelloggs felt frustrated until Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, Yale's ape expert, offered to loan them...
...band of scholars roaming the rural U. S. to note and map its regional dialects before they become obsolete. In about ten years the U. S. will have a complete Linguistic Atlas. Workers are still occupied with New England, where the Atlas was begun two years ago (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Professor Hanley got his cowthumpiana by personal interview, from 262 sources. Naturally cowthumping is more prevalent in rural districts than in urban centres. Yet sophisticated residents of Danbury, Conn. might be surprised to hear that a Danbury woman said: "They started to have one for us, but my husband...
...brief period a female Porra was set up among husky prostitutes who attacked the wives and daughters of anti-Machadoans on the streets, ripping their clothes off with razor blades. Violence begets violence. In 1931 after the collapse of ex-President Menocal's abortive revolution (TIME. Aug. 17. 1931 et seq.) the A. B. C. was established to murder and bomb the Porra and other Machado henchmen. Strange as it seems careful observers believe that the A. B. C. may be the savior of Cuba. It, of all the opposition groups, has a program that consists of more than...
...Telegram last year: an exposé of discreditable phases of veterans' relief by Reporter Talcott Powell; a series on the real estate bond racket by Reporters Joseph Lilly & Fred Woltman; an expose of the lottery schemes of the Eagles and Moose lodges which led to Federal prosecution (TIME. Aug. 29 et seq.) by Reporter Winston Murrill; urging New York City voters to write-in the name of upstanding Joseph V. McKee for Mayor, after Tammany had rejected his candidacy. The McKee campaign resulted in 242,026 write-in votes. It was directed personally by Publisher Howard and Editor...
...capital punishment, co-developer (with two other physicians and Thomas Alva Edison) of the electric chair; of old age; in Flushing, L. I. Dr. Rockwell & colleagues electrocuted 19 animals before their device was tried out, amid nation-wide protest; on one William Kemmler, murderer, at Auburn, N. Y. on Aug...