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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just how can a porpoise suffer from scurvy, or did a translator, looking up "Meerschweinchen" (guinea pig) stop at "Meerschweinchen" (porpoise) and let it go at that? The error is so ancient (if this surmise is correct) that I am surprised TIME should have been caught...
...reports from Washington are correct, it would seem that any hopes entertained that Congress would forget sectional jealousies in the face of depression, are to be frustrated. The extra-ordinary apropriationn needed at this time have apparently only whetted the appetite for perk. Senator La Follette's bill providing federal relief for local communities has been drawn up with this convicition in mind. Forty percent of the money appropriate will accordingly be divided on the basis of population. The actual needs of the communities will not be considered in regard to this forty percent...
Assuming you wish to be correct in all your statements, I beg to state that the picture of the Blessed Virgin painted by Saint Luke is not in Rome, but in St. Mark's in Venice (TIME, Dec. 28). It is shown to the people for a few days at certain periods of the year. We were fortunate enough to see it in November, 1930. MARY A. F. BRENNAN...
Sirs: Under the depressing caption "Cruises Cancelled" in TIME, Jan. 11, you mention among other items of travel news that Cie Internationale des Wagons Li ts et des Grands Express Européens abandoned the Manhattan office (No. 701 Filth Avenue). This statement, technically correct, is nevertheless misleading. It would have been better to explain that the building was abandoned, and not the office. This office staff, furniture, etc., was moved from its one-story premises at No. 701 Fifth Avenue to the recently enlarged Thos. Cook & Son offices at No. 587 Fifth Avenue, comprising six working floors. (Thos. Cook...
Last week to a group of Chicago zoologists Professor Wright urged that his hypothesis was correct. He had nursed a thread-like toe on a freak guinea pig into regular, tweakable toes on its descendants. Members of that race now regularly have 19 toes...