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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When an organization called the Southern Grasslands Hunt & Racing Foundation bought 15,000 acres of bluegrass land in Tennessee for its members to hunt and race over, it was announced that this was the biggest tract made safe for private chasing since William the Conqueror set aside New Forest (TIME, Jan. 29). Prime mover of the Grasslands project was Joseph Brown ("Joe") Thomas, 51, a hunting gentleman of great determination and self-expression. A major in the War, a mining man by profession, Mr. Thomas has not been happy hunting at Middleburg, Va. and on Long Island. His brusque manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grasslands Downs | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...ponderous vulgarity of Lynn Riggs is unrelieved by any really good acting, and the dialogue is drab and interminable. Anyone who goes to the movies knows the plot. After a painfully long time the villian lies dead by his own uncalculating hands and the hero and heroine are safe in a bedroom. Something of the same idea has been used before...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1930 | See Source »

Once Washington drove down the field to the 20-yd. line, and once to the 1-yd. line, but Southern California kept safe the score piled up by Quarterback Duffield's plunging and Mohler's flashy runs. Southern California 32, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...seems safe to conclude that Mr. Marden did not attend the business sessions, and the committee meetings of the Boston convention. There he could have found matured thought, dignity and respectability, but hardly intense respectability. When respectability becomes ''intense" it labors and creaks at the joints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...Wayne, Ind., Mrs. Dorothy Johnson was told that her four-year-old son had fallen into a cistern. She dived in. Neighbors rescued her, took her home to find her son there safe & sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Taffy | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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