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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Astor was indignant: "Before my time! I'm not a daughter of Ramses...
...first time that Liberal M. P.s had complained that one-sixth of Scotland, or about 3,400,000 acres, was devoted to deer. Once, in 1913, when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer, there was a project afoot to force the deer-park-owning peers to sell the land to the Government, which would then settle farmers on it. The peers were more than willing. They flooded the Government with offers. The Duke of Sutherland, who then owned 19 deer forests comprising 396,175 acres, offered half his lands at $10 an acre. Catch is that Scottish deer...
Greatest U. S. Protestant layman is Dr. John Raleigh Mott. For more than 50 years Dr. Mott, a serene-faced man of disciplined energy, has traveled the world for the Y. M. C. A. and the International Missionary Council. The I. M. C., coordinator of Protestant foreign missions, re-elected Dr. Mott its chairman at its meeting in Madras last winter. Dr. Mott, now 74, requested that his term be limited to three years. Last week he addressed the Foreign Missions Conference of North America at Swarthmore College...
...Duke fortune has not bought intellectual distinction for the University. Its best known product: Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine's experiments on ESP ("extra-sensory perception"-clairvoyance and telepathy). Of his faith in these, President Few says: "I'm backin' him, ain't I?" Dr. Few believes Duke needs much more money, wishes it were as rich as Harvard. Old Dr. Few just now is irked by New Deal public power projects and taxes, which threaten the income from the Duke endowment, largely invested in the Duke North Carolina power companies. To critics like Abraham Flexner...
Auto Sales: Only 30% ahead of 1938's subnormal level, auto sales clearly justified no production revival to the not so high 1939 peak. General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., long bullish, complained last week that the spring recovery had fizzled: G. M.'s May sales fell 3,559 from April, the industry sold about 10,000 units more than in April, but not so many as in March...