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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free throws missed: Legg one, Humes one, Peabody one, Heckel two, Hersog one, Samuels one, Schneider one, Wilson one, and Creamer...
...Roman Catholic Church has long made it an earthly policy to tolerate any form of government under which it is free to pursue its mission. Toleration does not, of course, constitute endorsement or support. Last October, however, Pope Pius XI, taking into account the recent course of world events came near to praising democracy. In a message to the U. S. hierarchy for the golden jubilee of the Catholic University in Washington he wrote...
...Philadelphia's Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, the U. S. bishops declared: "His Holiness calls us to the defense of our democratic government, framed in a Constitution that safeguards the inalienable rights of man. . . . This charge solemnly approves the American hierarchy's traditional position of unswerving allegiance to our free American institutions." The pastoral announced that Catholic University will at once compile Catholic textbooks to teach democracy at "all educational levels"-to 3,000,000 pupils in 10,000 Catholic schools, high schools and colleges...
Fourteen miles east of Puerto Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony." Purpose: research on primate behavior, glands, reproduction and tropical diseases. As from Alcatraz, the only mode of escape from Santiago is by swimming...
Newest gift of Viscount Nuffield, greatest nonroyal giver in British history, is to be an iron lung, free of charge, for each and every medical institution in the Empire. Part of his tremendous motor car plant, England's biggest (which made the millions he gave to Oxford University), the bullnecked Viscount last week put in commission to make the first 5,000 lungs. Estimated cost: $2,500,000. His inspiration: a movie made by Oxford's anesthetics department which he founded...