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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dead") Deal. It was with the earthy calm of his matter-of-fact peasant origin that millionaire Lawyer Pierre Laval opened his remarks upon The Deal...
...Britain and Northern Ireland were in a confused state of mind under a Prime Minister who publicly deplored last week the telegraph and methods "speedy" or "modern" (see p. 14), infuriated and aroused Il Duce with his rapid-fire brain, his passion for driving fast cars and his penniless origin. In white-hot anger Benito Mussolini, addressing colonists on the Pontine Marshes, which he has drained and in which last week he opened on schedule another new little city, roared: "This is a day of Italian faith in this people's rights-a day of strong, inflexible faith...
...Breasted, 70, famed Orientalist, founder and head of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute; of a hemolytic streptococcic infection; in Manhattan. Finds and ever more finds all over the Near East persuaded him that Egypt was the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of human conscience, whose origin and development he traced. When he was carried ill from the Conte di Savoia last week the Press revived the mythical "Curse of the Pharaohs" (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), recalled that Oldster Breasted last year snorted: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. For two weeks I slept in the tomb...
...balloon can ever take scientists above the stratosphere, Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, Harvard University Research Associate in Geophysics in his lecture on "Exploring Beyond the Stratosphere" at the Institute of Geographical Exploration last night stressed the importance of investigating this ionosphere, the most sensitive district for effects of cosmic origin...
...Curley and Hearst dominated State Legislature that enacted the law, not the University. Let the Attorney General prove the dangers to Massachusett's republican form of government inherent in teaching theories of earth origin...