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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thurston has, to date, received two letters, one of which is from Chicago, asking for the custody of the kitten. The Chicago correspondent has written that her daughter has already selected a name for the animal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APTED SWAMPED WITH CALLS AS PUBLIC CLAMORS FOR CAT | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...naval treaties, and since the program already underway was designed merely to catch up with the treaties, what the President asked for last week was a Navy 20% bigger than allowed by the expired treaties, a Navy second to none of the big navies now building. (Most up-to-date naval figures, compiled by FORTUNE for its March issue, are shown in the table below, left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Second to None | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...design of any U. S. coin may be changed after 25 years. Because the buffalo-Indian head nickel will be 25 years old on February 21, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau last week announced that the Mint would coin no more after that date. A jury composed of Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross and three sculptors-Sidney Waugh, Albert Stewart and Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: New Nickel | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...walked into the garage, and with him an agent of the society, Foye Thompson. Three weeks before, Director Amundsen had received an anonymous telephone call, telling him that in this garage a caged cat was daily put before a bulldog to irritate it. Director Amundsen had investigated, learned the date of the dog fight. He and Agent Thompson, under false names, were fraternally received in the garage. The promoters then passed a hat "to heal the winner." About $9 was gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dog Fight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...brain, spinal cord and ductless glands, was ahead of his time in nearly every scientific field. He believed he talked with angels and spirits, made excursions through Heaven and Hell, received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church. The Church of the New Jerusalem grew up after his death. Today it has some 20,000 members throughout the world, of whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Swedenborg | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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