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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine long years passed. The spirit of Norwegian nationalism was spontaneously stirring. On June 7, 1905 the Norwegian Prime Minister informed his royal master the King of Sweden & Norway that he was only King of Sweden. On Aug. 13 the Norwegian people confirmed this rash act by a national plebiscite, only 184 voting to preserve the Union of Sweden & Norway, while 368,211 were for independence. But that did not settle who was to be King of Norway. There was much talk of choosing the late Explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, in his less famed role of Norwegian statesman, had ceaselessly...
...Monmouth, N. J. last week. The evening before it had been released with another bird from S. S. Leviathan, 100 mi. at sea. It had flown for nine hours to make the first long-distance pigeon flight over water. Its trainer, Thomas Ross, U. S. Army pigeon expert (TIME, Aug. 16), was so proud when he heard of its successful return that he christened it DO-X. The other pigeon was missing. DO-X lost six and one-half ounces on its journey-one-third of its normal weight. Pigeon-Man Ross believes pigeons can be released 200 mi. offshore...
...cake on Glacier Island. The animal was 42 ft. long, was covered with fur in perfect condition. Scientists, knowing that no lizard has fur, thought at first that the creature might be another ogopogo, the mysterious beast sometimes seen on the Pacific coast by imaginative people (TIME, Aug. 4). Dr. Barnum Brown, lizard expert of the American Museum (Manhattan) took the news more seriously, sent a telegram to Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of Alaska Agricultural College & School of Mines, asking him to investigate. Two days after the first reports, W. J. McDonald, supervisor of the Chugach National Forest, confirmed...
...most colorful and wealthiest alleged racketeer-long, loose-jointed, big-mouthed Larry Fay, indicted a year ago for collecting "dues" from milk dealers (TIME, Oct. 29, 1929)-came into renewed prominence. He was not at either session in person. The Appellate Division, investigating corrupt city magistrates (TIME, Aug. 25), heard tell of a little black notebook in which Fay once kept useful telephone numbers. Hearings on milk rackets more recent than that for which Fay was indicted chanced upon evidence that he may be still the milk gangs' overlord. But observers thought it unlikely that he, in the face...
...Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff. Recipient of the order was General Charles Pelot Summerall, who promptly obeyed himself, set out for his native Florida. He will not reach retirement age until March 4, but his term as Chief expired Nov. 20. His successor. Maj.-General Douglas MacArthur (TIME, Aug. 18), last week assumed the staff chieftainship and the accompanying full general's rank by swearing: "I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter." Then, wearing four bright new stars, he called formally upon the President...