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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to correct your assumption that I am generally considered an impostor [TIME, March 16]. My polar attainment was recognized by such leading explorers and scientists as Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, Otto Sverdrup, Director Lecointe of the Brussels Observatory, Captain Bernier of the Northwest Mounted Police, and Anthony Fiala. . . . The Danes have never withdrawn the medal and degree they conferred upon me for their belief in the fidelity of my work. Stielers Atlas, a work of such authority that it is found on the tables of all important mapmakers, recognizes my success. Recent writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Such reasoning is transparent, but it is not correct. Prominent educators and others do not mean merely individual votes. They represent a powerful and highly indignant block of votes. Even if the repeal bill is guillotined soon, the fight is not another lost cause. Proponents of repeal will talk language that politicians understand-about votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROUND ONE | 3/27/1936 | See Source »

...Chicago Tribune, first cousin of the News, has long made it a point to beleaguer venereal quacks. The News decided to try to make it as easy for the masses to get correct information about venereal diseases as about tuberculosis. Newsman Carl Warren was told to turn out a series of articles on social diseases, how to cure them, where free treatment might be obtained. Last week the Warren articles were bound in a pamphlet, titled Venereal Diseases & Prophylaxis, priced at 5?, put on sale in the News Information Bureau, where the helpful journal also peddles at nominal rates sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Prophylaxis Publicity | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...protest or hard feeling has arisen on either side as a result of this dispute; it is simply a question of which method is the correct one. Only a high tribunal can settle issues involving a direct difference of opinion as to the interpretation of existing laws. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is the supreme court of boxing, and must therefore be consulted in this matter. Harvard and Yale must agree to accept the opinion of this body and allow it to stand as a precedent for future boxing decisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RULE SEVEN | 3/12/1936 | See Source »

...statement issued last night Farmer reviews the whole situation, and confirms the former decision. According to athletic officials, sports writers, and other close followers of boxing, if Farmer is correct then bouts at Harvard have been decided for years contrary to the rules, the Eastern Intercollegiates have been run illegally, many other big matches have been against the rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARMER MAINTAINS DECISION ON BOXING PERFECTLY LEGAL | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

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