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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Convention's 21 proteges, many are amazing oddities, few are of great natural distinction or usefulness to man. On the Convention's list...
...frightened natives and photographers who have irritated bull gorillas to the point of charging. The gorilla was given absolute protection because it is naturally amiable, while the chimpanzee, which has acquired the habit of kidnapping native children and dropping them from trees, was relegated to the partially protected list...
Tennessee and Missouri have been added to the list of eight states from which Conant Prize Scholars may be drawn, President Conant announced yesterday...
...into disfavor with Secretary Morgenthau, was stripped of most of his duties, took the hint and resigned. Unable to tolerate the New Deal's lavish spending policy any longer, Budget Director Lewis Douglas finally retired. Last week two more names were added to the Treasury's casualty list and Franklin Roosevelt scrawled his signature to two more informal farewell notes...
...them (for different reasons) is that he says he believes in God. Last week, in a little (140 page) book he told anyone who cared to listen all about the "practical religion" he has created to meet his own everyday needs. "It is book number 54 in my list; and that is a long time to have let God wait." Unsympathetic readers closed No. 54 with the feeling that Author Sinclair had once more had his say but that God was still waiting...