Word: mecklenburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author is minister of the Wesley Methodist Church in Minneapolis. A widely circulated questionnaire, which has just been tabulated, discloses the fact that of some 25,000 American clergy only five per-cent are content with the capitalistic system. Mr. Mecklenburg belongs to the other ninety-five per-cent. He went to Russia willing to learn. Whether he was let see what he might have liked to see we do not know. He seems to think that he moved about freely; and now, certainly, he speaks out his mind...
...Mecklenburg deflates a good many of the supposed horrors and terrors of Russian life. Under Stalin religious persecution has cased. Free love is ancient history and divorce is becoming increasingly difficult:--at present the figures are not appreciably in advance of those in America. He notes the inefficiency of the Russian industrial plants--only two out of three automobiles will run out of the shop under their own power. But he thinks this inefficiency no worse than the unemployment of millions of men in the rest of the world...
...purchase by Peabody Museum of an extremely valuable collection of ornaments and instruments known as the Mecklenburg Collection was announced yesterday by Hugh O. Hencken, curator of the Museum. The price paid for the collection although not divulged by the authorities, is estimated...
...instruments, which represent one-third of that the Duchess of Mecklenburg had found, is important archaeologically because it is the only scientifically excavated material ever taken out of the region of the Northern end of the Adriatic Sea. This area was wrecked archaeologically in the last century by unscientific excavations...
Notes on the excavation work which were written by Her Highness, the Duchess Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg have also been bought by the museum. The collection itself consists of the contents of 350 graves from the cemetery of Magdalenaberg, which is in modern Jugoslavia and is now called Magdalenska Gora. It consists of four metal helmets showing various influences which affected the Illyrians, a bronze vase with animal friezes, pottery, swords, spears, knives and small bronze ornaments including many fibulae...