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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Societies concluded an airplane inspection of the many blue geese that winter in southern Louisiana. Near the mouth of the Mississippi he encountered a flock three miles long, half a mile wide. The geese were flying in three strata. Dr. Pearson estimated there were between 600,000 and a million of them. Because they migrate so quickly hunters get less than 1,000 of the two millions that winter in Louisiana. Audubon experts are satisfied that the blue goose is one American wildfowl that has not decreased in numbers in recent years...
Appointed. Major General William Durward Connor, 57; to be superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy; succeeding Major General William Ruthven Smith, who will retire. General Connor sold 1,400 million dollars worth of war supplies to the French Government for 400 millions after the Armistice...
...dinner followed the opening of the Bermuda Biological Station, which was established by a quarter of a million dollar grant by the government of Bermuda, and by an annual contribution by the Rockefeller Foundation...
Twice a year, at New Year's and on his birthday, King George is graciously pleased to honor his subjects with medals, ribands and titles. Last week half a million Britons hastily unfolded their morning papers to see who got what...
...Church Assembly in England will be necessary before the Anglican and Orthodox churches are officially wed. When that time comes, standing at the side of the Archbishop of Canterbury, two against Rome, will be the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople. This high office, spiritual headship of some 120 million souls throughout the world, is held by the ascetic, bearded, polylingual Greek Priest Demetrios Maniatis who was elected by a majority of his brother metropolitans and invested as Photios II three autumns ago (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929). Born on Prinkipo Island near Constantinople (where now is exiled Red Leon Trotsky), Photios...