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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wyoming's Anti-Court Plan Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (TIME, Oct. 4), did not race to board the Presidential special. Instead, from California, he telegraphed his regret that he could not be on hand to welcome the President to his State. At Fort Peck, largest earth dam in the world as Grand Coulee is the largest concrete-the President amiably gave credit to Senator James E. Murray and Representative James F. O'Connor and Jerry J. O'Connell for helping to develop Montana's water-resources, but Senator Wheeler was not mentioned...
Simultaneously, last week Lloyd's and all other consequential British underwriters stopped writing "war risk" policies not only for China and Spain but for anywhere on earth. In a joint manifesto the British insurers said they think they have made "a substantial contribution to the cause of world peace," explained that property owners unable to take out war risk policies will be forced to start "working for peace," concluded: "The wide radius of action of modern aircraft has made the area of destruction almost illimitable. Incendiary bombs have increased enormously the potential damage to property. Writing of war risk...
These reports were welcomed by plant physiologists as two more interesting contributions to the important and already broadly extended research into what makes vegetation grow. It is estimated that one ounce of active plant hormone would stimulate enough vegetation to girdle the earth at the equator. Researchers can now detect the effect on one plant of one ten-billionth of a gram of hormone. No subject has excited plant physiologists more than this in the past decade, and it has seen its major development in the last five years. Yet it was foreshadowed a half century ago by Julius...
What. Mr. Justice Black did not seem to realize was that in the 20th Century there is simply no corner of the earth to which the press will not go-and in force -to get what it wants. Significantly, it was on Chesapeake Bay ten years ago that a group of U. S. newspapermen, tossing in a small boat, made the first contact with another diffident news character, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, homeward bound on the cruiser U.S.S. Memphis after his flight to Paris. Just as in 1927, a boatload of reporters had been out all night in a motor launch...
Father Mullen sprinted into a cornfield, kneeled, plunked another balloon. That was all the exhausted, dripping Mingalone needed to bring him to earth. "Maybe I couldn't have kissed Father Mullen!" Mingalone wheezed. "All I could think of was 'the curtains...