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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squire Spencer's quarrel with his neighbor dates from the 1932 campaign, when Squire Roosevelt began publicly calling his mother's house "Krum Elbow." After election the U. S. Geodetic Survey hastily named it so on official maps. Mr. Spencer insisted that his family place had always borne that name, a claim which the President's mother supported. The real name of the Roosevelt estate, says Mr. Spencer grimly, is "Crooks' Delight," after a British merchant who once owned...
...Twelve years ago when Capitalist James Henry Causey, his conscience stricken by the violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Hoover: "What would you do?" Consensus was to tackle international problems, and Dr. Cherrington did, with endless lectures, seminars, model League of Nations assemblies, dinners and luncheons which...
...twelve judges (whose superiors could have quashed the charges before the trial began) evidently concluded that Colonel Giffin was a drinker but not a drunkard, set him back from No. 611 to 711 in the current list of 962 lieutenant colonels, left him in the army, eligible for his pension next year. Said Colonel Giffin: "It is a distinct moral victory. . . . I do not feel any animosity toward Lieut. Smith. He just followed his natural instincts." Shortly afterward, another reservist in Manhattan exercised the privileges of any citizen, filed a report asking whether Lieut. Smith should be dismissed...
...northeast corner of Utah, on a bare ridge of the desolate Uinta Mountains, diggers discovered the fossil remains of several dinosaurs ("terrible lizards"). The U. S. Government set apart 80 acres at the site, named it Dinosaur National Monument, recently began building a museum. Last week the Department of the Interior announced that, by proclamation of the President, the monument had been enlarged: to its present 80 acres were added 318 square miles of Utah and northwestern Colorado, making Dinosaur National Monument practically a national park. In it, tourists will not for some time see dinosaurs. The only complete specimens...
Last year C.I.O. began to organize Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Along with great Metropolitan, the union also took on the others of the Big Three in industrial insurance. Prudential and John Hancock, set out to enroll the companies' 53,000 industrial agents, whose principal duty is to trudge from house to house, peddling small policies and collecting 10? 25?, or 50? a week from a clientele too poor or too feckless to pay by the year...