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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britannica prize was added last month. First winner, on Oct. 24, was Prisoner 12,973, Connecticut State Prison. 12,973's poser: "This man was an Assemblyman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor, President of the United States." The man: Theodore Roosevelt. Guest Louis Untermeyer and the others said Franklin Roosevelt...
...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, now Convict No. 34,234 in Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson, still has considerable time to serve. He got life for the murder, 45 to 90 years for the kidnapping. The judge said the sentences were to run concurrently. If he keeps out of trouble, and if, somehow, the life sentence should be commuted, Louis Whitsitt might be let out by 1950, or anyway...
...columnist on the Manchester Guardian asked old George Bernard Shaw if he had sent Hitler a congratulatory telegram on his escape from the Bürgerbraü bombing. Shaw said he had not, but that Chamberlain should have wired Hitler: "Greatly as the British nation regrets your escape, decency obliges the British Government to congratulate...
British Author Stanley Richardson, landing in Manhattan for a lecture tour, was asked for news of Naziphile Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, marooned in Germany and at last reports desperately ill (TIME, Nov. 13). Said he: "Unity is just crazy in love with Hitler. But, boys, don't make the mistake of thinking she is a pathetic figure...
University of California's Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence was "proud and happy" to win the Nobel Prize for Physics (TIME, Nov. 20), but said he would not go to Stockholm to get it, because of the dangers of a transatlantic crossing. Said he: "My wife and I have talked it over very carefully and it is perfectly clear to us that it would be unwise...