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...because he was still burning with anger and purpose. From March 1934 until November 1935 he had sat in Washington as chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, pleading for funds to save U. S. wildlife, meeting with bland indifference or red tape on every side (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et seq.). Politicians from the top down told him that nobody could get Government money for wildlife or anything else unless a good strong group of voters put the screws on their Congressmen. Tossing up his job, "Ding" set out to organize such a pressure group, determined...
...Constitution, given to India mainly by Sir Samuel Hoare when he was Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935, et ante), was tested in its first trial-by-ballot last week. The voting was in what an ignoramus might call "only provincial elections" but several of the Indian provinces involved are each as large as Italy. Out of 350,000,000 people who inhabit India, some 35,000,000 cast the votes counted last week and of these about 6,000,000 were women. It was the claim of Mother Britain, voiced in her London Times, that...
...King Makers"). The King was born Dec. 14, 1895, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin has ordered "Celebration of the King's Birthday on June 9," * and this may be said to close the Coronation Season. The London Season continues for swanksters until the Cowes Regatta which ends Aug...
...explanation of the remarkable endurance displayed by German and Japanese runners in the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Aug. 17) was offered last week. Some observers at the Games guessed that the contestants took cocaine. Better informed observers guessed at benzedrine, a non-narcotic stimulant (TIME, Sept. 14) which reputable Dr. Morris Henry Nathanson of Los Angeles last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested would be an excellent aid to crammers, sprinters and others who need a sudden burst of energy. Last week's news from Berlin showed that the Olympic phenomena, at least...
Left practically nothing by her famed flying husband who crashed with Will Rogers in Alaska 18 months ago (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935), but paid $25,000 by Congress for his world-girdling airplane Winnie Mae, Mrs. Wiley Post enrolled in an Oklahoma City secretarial school...