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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Correction TIME, May 17, p. 24, col. 2: Denmark plans to open this summer the Storstrøm bridge, even longer than that across the Little Belt, which will link Sjaelland (not Zealand) to the east coast of Fyen (not Fünen), viz.: the Storstrøm bridge connects Sjaelland to the north with a small island lying north of Falster on the direct line to Berlin over Gedser-Warnem...
...Just how we are to get back to self-reliance and quit demanding so much of the Government will test the wits and ingenuity of all of us. Habits are not easily broken, and we have gotten into the habit of expecting everything of the Federal Government. The longer we put off correcting this, the more dangerous it will get and the more difficult to meet...
...Geneva. There, representing President Roosevelt and U. S. Labor, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady sounded off: "I predict that the world's working men and women will not forever be content to stand by while civilized living is being sacrificed on the altar of armaments, nor longer be willing to forge a means of their own destruction...
...Bremond argued that the dogs of St. Bernard no longer serve a useful purpose since traveling conditions in the mountains have improved. The monks breed them only to sell and as objects of curiosity, he claimed. He found a few sympathizers in the district who said the St. Bernard breed has degenerated, that Swiss gendarmes have been forced to kill several dogs grown vicious because the monks keep them tied up for long periods, allowing them off leashes only twice a day at most...
...This is slightly faster than Harvard's first time, but the Ellis rowed higher during most of the course. On Saturday Spike Chace, Crimson stroke, kept the count at 32 most of the way, while Johnson, Yale pace-setter, stayed around 33 or 34. Yale is longer at the reach and lays back further, with slight sousing of the bow as a result...