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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regardless of Dr. Hooton's scientific approach, the public will find the implications clear: that criminals and prisoners are a debased lot; they were born that way; there is little hope for them. Advocates of the Mad-Dog school of penology finally have contemporary textbook backing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Biggest dog-show in the world is Cruft's of Great Britain. The first show was given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 53rd Cruft's | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week the 53rd annual Cruft's was leld in Islington without mild little Show man Cruft, who died last fall at the age of 86. Uninvited but prominently present was a group of unemployed, who paraded car rying banners which read: "The dogs are O. K. - judge our condition." Also on hand, "to carry on the show on the lines he want ed," was 66-year-old Widow Cruft, who like her late husband, keeps no dog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 53rd Cruft's | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Best dog in the show, for the second year in succession: Exquisite Model of Ware, a four-year-old black, white and tan cocker spaniel bitch. Most popular exhibit of merchandise : a gasproof kennel brought out in ''Crisis Week," in which any movement of the dog operates a bel lows under the floor, forces fresh air through respirators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 53rd Cruft's | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Random etiquette: Don't snarl at waiters and taxi drivers. CLEAN YOUR SIDEWALK, CURB YOUR DOG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Manners | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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