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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time involved-beg for the opportunity to return and make good the debts and errors of a youthful stage in the life of an otherwise clean-cut & lovable boy of 27. Since our being together, he has never gambled or drunk-because I never have done either. ... I personally was born & bred in the West-and my reputation is flawless. I desire to know why I am wanted in California -if I am. I beg one chance to prove I can & have changed this boy's habits-and that he is entirely cognizant of the seriousness...
Maya. Most Mexicans are of Indian descent; either pure-blooded or mixed (mestizo). As Indians, their artists have never felt adequately fathered by the Old Masters of Europe. Between 1910 and 1920, when Rivera and fellow Mexicans quit trying to paint like third-rate Spaniards, they claimed as a vital part of their tradition the Maya Indian culture which flourished before the Spanish conquest. But if Maya sculpture and design became art to modern Mexicans, they remained archeology to most of the rest of the world. Last week the first big U.S. exhibition of Maya relics as objects...
...slumps have followed "in the wake" of sunspot maxima. He mentions two sunspot investigators who failed to find any connection between unusual sunspot activity and abundant crops, but reflected that bumper crops do not always accompany industrial prosperity. Their prosperity curves did not fit well with ordinary sunspot graphs, either, but when they made a graph showing the up-and-down deviations from average activity, between 1876 and 1930. it matched a curve showing the volume of manufactures very nicely...
...Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists (27 churches, 300 members) believe that Adam & Eve were infused with a "good seed" from God; that Eve received a "bad seed" from Satan. Since everyone today is born of either a good seed or a bad seed, and nothing can be done about it, this church does no gospel preaching or missionary work...
Truck drivers are spoken of as knowing a lot about the threat and hazard of fatigue, but "college students, who ought to have intelligence comparable to that of a truck driver, even if they lack his experience, appear to pay little attention either to fatigue or speed when completing a long journey at night...