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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least seven books each week. He married twice on Christmas Day. He left one invention, the gourdcumber, "a cucumber as drought-resistant as the Spanish gourd"; and many lengthy treatises, the last of which was The New Deal vs. The New World. His ambition, unfulfilled at death, was to find a formula for a race of supermen...
...World of Tomorrow, Mr. Whalen explained, the Fair would be devoted to functional art, "woven into the very warp and woof" of avenues and buildings. "Instead of a few hundred thousand people seeing the old masters isolated in one building," he proclaimed, "50,000,000 visitors will find art all around them-to the right, to the left and even underfoot...
...will. Last fortnight in Salt Lake City, Professor Benjamin Roland Lewis displayed a small piece of paper cut or torn from an old document, with a common contemporary spelling of the bard's name-William Shakspere-plainly written across it. For 19 months Professor Lewis pored over his find. Chemical analysis proved to his satisfaction that the ink was Elizabethan. Microscopic study put, the paper in the same period. Photographic enlargements permitted minute comparisons with known Shakespearian signatures. Ultraviolet photographs established the type of pen used; infra-red photographs showed no tracings beneath the ink. Shakespeare himself, said Professor...
...hard-driving figures in U. S. journalism, the demoniac James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was the most reckless, the most imaginative. Before he was 30 he had sent H. M. Stanley to Africa with blunt orders to find Livingstone. For circulation's sake he sent out scientific expeditions, wangled government support for his journalistic adventures and launched balloon races that started as many as 50 gas bags blowing wildly over the U. S. Nobody knows what wires Bennett pulled in Rutherford Hayes's Administration to persuade the U. S. Navy to back the terrible attempt...
...Spain the city of Cartagena lies against the base of great treeless hills, facing its superb harbor, its two great forts and the Mediterranean. There in July 1873, in the fifth month of the first Spanish Republic, a group of revolutionaries hoisted the red flag. Because they could not find a pure red one they used the flag of Turkey, with its crescent stained out in blood. The frigates lying in port joined the revolt. From Madrid the central Republican Government, run by high-minded incompetents, badgered by conspiracies Right & Left, sent troops against the city. Six months later Cartagena...