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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National League. After a season of chasing Charley Grimm's Chicago Cubs, who had managed to keep in first place from mid-June until the first of September, the Giants were last week trying to maintain a 27-game lead over the Cubs, with 17 games to play. Frank Frisch's St. Louis Cardinals, generally rated to finish first in pre-season prognostications, had managed to stay in the first division, not so much by the pitching of famed Dizzy Dean as by the performance of the season's outstanding batter, Outfielder Joe Medwick. whose average...
Unable to collect income taxes on the Mexican income of many U. S. firms which do business by direct mail or by traveling representatives (firms which maintain no offices in Mexico), the Mexican Government issued an order to its consuls all over the world: in addition to the previous 5% customs prepayment, let consuls collect a 3% income-tax prepayment, on the invoice value of every shipment granted a visa...
...Board Inc. got $10,000 for further digging in the now famed caves at Chou-Kou-Tien whence came the fossil remains of "Pekin Man," generally considered by anthropologists to be the oldest human type ever discovered. C. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, got $61,200 to start and maintain for five years Canada's first university training school for prospective civil servants...
...course unthinkable, but no more unthinkable than that the former would give up without a fight. From Shanghai, where she had been keeping herself ably in the limelight, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. last week arrived in Manila on the President Jefferson just in time to maintain her clan's record for attendance at oriental earthquakes. Said she, in an able radio broadcast: "I want to extend heartfelt thanks for the way in which we were received at Manila. All the church bells rang out for us. I suppose I must add that it was caused by the . . . earthquake...
...need is enough troops for effective action on five separate fronts that snake for nearly 1,200 miles down the midriff of Spain. For some months military observers on both sides have cynically propounded a convenient rule: they will concede definite military superiority to whichever side is able to maintain an offensive for three successive days...