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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History of the Colonies for the North American Review, the autobiographical sketch discovered five years ago,* shed little new light on its author's life. But the letter, written when the Constitution was 40 years old voiced sentiments interesting on the Constitution's 150th birthday: "I begin to doubt whether it will be long practicable peaceably to elect a Chief Magistrate possessing the powers which the Constitution confers on the President of the United States. ... I begin to fear that our Constitution is not doomed to be so long lived as its real friends have hoped. What...
...less than estimated a month ago but a billion more than last year. At present prices of 63? a bushel for December corn in Chicago, the crop is worth about $1,606,000,000. Last week, with this huge harvest due to begin pouring on the market about Oct. 1, by a freak of commerce the corn futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade was threatened by the tightest "natural squeeze" or corn shortage in years. This was due to the fact that last year's short crop left the smallest carryover of this century. As a result...
Historically minded students may find the famous initial and decorative carving on the writing benches by lying on the floor and looking up, as care was taken to destroy nothing of historical interest when repairing the building. Sever, also, will be ready when classes begin on Wednesday...
...fish Professor Gray pointed out that monks in certain monasteries used to call up fish at feeding time by ringing a bell, that this has been duplicated in the laboratory: a bell is rung at fixed intervals before the food is presented; after a number of repetitions, the fish begin moving toward the customary feeding point as soon as the bell starts ringing...
EUROPE IN ARMS-Liddell Hart-Random House ($2.50). Captain Hart, British military expert who wrote The War in Outline, surveys Europe's armies, predicts the next war will "begin in confusion and end in chaos...