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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister and new Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax swung into a series of local addresses by which they hope to educate British public opinion in their real points of view. Of Anthony Eden, Lord Halifax said: "I look forward to the time when the country will again enjoy the benefit of his service and guidance in its administration! . . . It is no fault of the League of Nations and still less of His Majesty's Government, but . . . if we were to act as some suggest and try to organize a new pattern of collective security against Germany by the present...
...that, money began to pour in. Actors Katharine Hepburn, Richard Dix, Stuart Erwin, oldtime silent-film Adventuress Kathlyn Williams, others donated checks from $10 to $100. Some 700 animals in the Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus were put on limited rations, the savings given Zoopark. The first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought the cheering prospect that for the first time Zoopark would have not only horsemeat and hay for its animals but leftover...
Saturday's University Handicap Meet in the Stadium was a day for the underdog, for only four men without the benefit of handicaps gained first places. With the advantage of handicaps the unfavored dominated the fifteen events...
Justice Reed remarked on the advantageous setting of this student conference, carried forward by the daily publications of three of the nation's leading universities. These colleges make possible what the Justice termed "a broad, general knowledge of economic and political developments, which enables one to gain the greatest benefit from this mingling of national figures and college undergraduates...
...importance. But the present series of lectures sponsored by the Committee, making available the wisdom of noted and cloistered speakers to students and the general public can only be of the greatest practical value and significance to the American History Plan and to those whom it is intended to benefit...