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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canadian sportsmen do not agree with your contributor, Dr. Thomas Gilbert Pearson,* that the principal reason for the shortage of ducks is the continued drought in the southern part of the three prairie Provinces, as there are large bodies of water in the northern portion of these provinces that annually contribute to the duck supply, sufficient grounds for all the ducks in the world to breed in. Visitors to the northern lakes report more ducks than ever before due to the migration to those parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1931 | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...first big issue contained an article by Editor Peter Vischer of Polo (which Publisher Quigley used to own) on Chicago's exciting fortnight of international polo at Onwentsia (TIME, July 20). Other contributors were talent mustered from around the town. Arthur Meeker Jr., arty son of one of the best families, wrote rather harshly about having to stay in Illinois in the summertime. William C. Boyden, Harvardman, literary lawyer, did a comic piece about actors and actresses he had known. He used to be theatre critic for the earlier Chicagoan. Another old contributor-Durand Smith, Oxonian, Lake Forest socialite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bigger Chicagoan | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...upon it, but now Baha'i has no more money, and will ask for none. All contributions must be voluntary, from people to whom it represents an actual sacrifice. But Chicago rumor says that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who does not need to scrimp and sacrifice, was a large contributor to the building fund last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baha'i | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...roundly applauded speaker Charles Franklin Kettering, long, jointed head of General Motors Corp. Obscure to the general public, Re searcher Kettering deserves fame as inventor of the self-starter (first used Cadillac), as an important contributor the perfection of Duco, Ethyl Frigidaire. Surrounded at home and work by strange mechanical devices simplify life.* Mr. Kettering has that the chief block to progress is the stag nancy of human minds. Less diabolic it first sounds is his theory that and dissatisfaction are the best forces for improvement and progress. week he reiterated his credo that is "a method of keeping everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advertising v. Adversity | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...rich and eccentric, abandoned European society to found a simian kingdom-the Villa Palatino-on the outskirts of Havana. There, with 120 monkeys, she dwelt in seclusion, except for occasional jaunts to Europe, when she would engage an entire deck of a transatlantic liner for herself & I monkeys. Learned contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director 0. Emerson Brown of Philadelphia's Zoological Gardens, an ape enthusiast, as an experimental breeding place. The Republic of Cuba doubtless remembered this offer when, short of funds with which to maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Apes to Philadelphia | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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