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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rochelle, N. Y., brought to light after the discovery of Detroit's "twin" red-haired Pauline Taylors (TIME, March 1) were Brunette Elizabeth ("Betsy") Anderson, 17, and Elizabeth ("Betty") Anderson, 17. Born the same day, both weigh the same, went to school together, stand the same height, swim, ride horseback, play tennis and badminton. Rated the same I. Q., they are unrelated. Betsy plans to write, Betty to paint...
...Close second in the big-city group was Philadelphia. Chicago and San Francisco won honorable mention. Other traffic safety winners in their population groups: Kansas City (250,000 to 500,000); Omaha (100,000 to 250,000); Jackson, Mich. (50,000 to 100,000); West New York, N. J. (25,000 to 50,000); Wilmette...
...During the Depression, many a school board slashed salaries which teachers believed were guaranteed by contract. The West New York, N. J. Board of Education in 1933 ordered reductions ranging from 10% to 15%. Principal J. E. Dransfield of Hudson Heights Grammar School has since been conducting a "friendly" legal campaign for 95 of his fellow West New York teachers to determine whether their contracts were binding under the State's Tenure Law of 1909. The cuts were last week finally upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled: "The Act of 1909 . . . was but a regulation...
...November 1934, Mrs. Catharine Ulrich Kabatt was told to take a two-year leave from her duties as an Elmira, N. Y., high-school mathematics teacher because she was expecting a baby. Two months after her blue-eyed son was born, she unsuccessfully demanded to be put back to work. Although she is now teaching in a grade school, her lawyer husband Anthony has carried through the New York courts a suit for the pay she would have earned during her compulsory leave. Last week he carried it for the second time to the U. S. Supreme Court, which again...
Possessor of one of the greatest records in dog show history is a sleek, snow-white Borzoi (Russian wolfhound) named Vigow of Romanoff, owned by Louis J. Murr of Spring Valley, N. Y. In his first appearance, at the 1934 Washington show, Vigow took best in his breed's novice class, went straight up through best of breed and best in the hound group to be chosen best in show. Since then he has been entered in 56 shows, been judged best of breed 56 times, best hound 50 times, best in show 14 times. A cocker spaniel, Torohill...