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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Jews (said to number 150,000 of Germany's 550,000 Jews) would be permitted to emigrate at once on condition that they later arranged to send for their parents...
...resettlement plan hinges upon the finding of homes abroad for the Jews. Last week the Committee heard the most encouraging news since its creation: 1) President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth offered to take 1,000 refugees annually, plus an unstated number of doctors, engineers and technicians; 2) a delegate of the Dominican Republic announced that his Government could admit 100,000 refugees, provided they had funds; 3) Australia offered to admit 15,000; 4) Paraguay a "limited number," while The Netherlands and British Governments announced investigations examining resettlement possibilities in their colonies...
...full as it was last week (62 members out of a possible 70), and even its two ailing members planned to attend, with their physicians. Preparations for the gathering involved redding-up 62 modest bedchambers for Cardinals, as well as quarters for 62 ecclesiastical secretaries, 62 valets, a number of ceremonialists, doctors, carpenters, a druggist, waiters, and Sisters of St. Martha to cook the conclave meals on electric stoves...
...Other pressing problems: some of the most desirable species of fish (sturgeon, Lake Erie cisco, bloater, black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters (448,000 in 1935, 1,000,000 in 1938) may require tighter limitations on duck hunting...
...complete cycle withdrawing and returning a carbon atom to circulation requires more than 52,000,000 years. But such an enormous number of cycles are going on all the time that they keep the sun stuff...