Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anthropological belief, all the races of mankind. They were the work of able, grey-haired Malvina Hoffman of New York (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Aided by her husband, and by a series of bequests from rich Chicagoans, Sculptress Hoffman had spent six years on her job, circumnavigated the globe, coaxed Igorot headhunters out of trees with strings of beads, done West African types in the solid comfort of the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931. Whatever their value to science and the Field Museum, the 101 Hoffman statues are works of art that the Chicago Art Institute, one mile away...
Earthquakes must obviously be of frequent occurrence since the stresses causing them never cease. Scattered over the globe are some 200 seismological stations which, if the poorest were equipped as well as the best, would record about 8,000 quakes every year-nearly one an hour. Of these some 70 are major quakes. Catastrophic shocks involving heavy loss of life average a little over one a year. Despite the safety of the U. S. east of the Rockies, this country had 62 quakes of moderate intensity in 1933. Safest place in the U. S. is New York City whose ancient...
...December issue of the "News Letter," official publication of the National Labor Committee of England, Prime Minister MacDonald, apropos of the present situation of upheaval and suspense regarding disarmament, spoke with a tone that sounded thunderously and majestically around the globe. It was the proclamation of wisdom and greatness from the quick, clear brain of a mighty...
...special focus is on the use made of the press. The average man forms his impressions of world affairs largely from the columns of his daily newspaper. What assurance is there that these columns portray the truth? In fully half the countries of the globe, the news was probably gathered by local news agencies (governmentally-controlled) and turned over to the American press representative. He also has access, in some cases, to an official press bureau of the government, and to a government-inspired or-controlled local press. What material he assembles perhaps then must run the gauntlet...
...military officer of the U. S. since the late, tempestuous George Custer has succeeded in publicly floundering in so much hot water as Smedley Darlington Butler. After a gallant career in all quarters of the globe with the Marines, General Butler was ''borrowed" by Philadelphia in 1924 to clean up that city's bootlegging. The hot-headed general resigned the following year, declaring that he had been made the respectable "front" for a gang of political racketeers. In 1927 he made front pages again by preferring charges of drunkenness against a Marine colonel in San Diego, Calif...