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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Re TIME, May 31, Miscellany, on diamond ring. Here's one better...
...conduct, with colleagues from the House, the great fishing expedition called for by President Roosevelt in his message about millionaire tax-evaders (TIME, June 14). That this expedition, beginning this week, would not greatly enliven Washington's hottest weeks and not give the newspapers something very much better to talk about than strikes and the President's defeat on the Court Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head of a crew among whom only Wisconsin's La Follette really thirsts for millionaire blood. The others were Massachusetts...
Looking toward the time when Earth's supply of coal & oil gives out, imaginative scientists have long tinkered with ponderous reflectors and batteries of photoelectric cells to harness the sun's outpouring of energy. Lately they have realized that plants are better converters of this energy than any man has ever devised. Ordinary cornstalks, ground to powder, can be used as a furnace fuel, like powdered coal. The Cabot researchers will try to develop bigger, more vigorous and faster-growing trees by artificial pollination and juggling of chromosomes (heredity elements in the germ cells). After 50 years...
...potentially huge and comparatively untapped source of cinema revenue is 16-mm. and 8-mm. film. There are currently estimated to be some 2,000,000 small projectors in the U. S. There would be many more if there were films better worth projecting on them than badly manufactured, pirated "toy" reproductions of antique features or travel films, amateur productions made with miniature cameras, "educational" releases. Recently U. S. owners of miniature projection machines have encountered the first move to bring coherence to the minimovies by developing them as an outlet for newsreels. It was News Parade, a group...
...Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand-modeled such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino, Gilda Gray, Portraitist William Chase (who told him to "keep it up"). He specializes in monumental masterpieces like "The Empty Chair," "Lion of Lucerne," "Old Skipper's Tale...