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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These diplomats' months of work have been to save as much as possible of the flag of naval Peace. It was blown to tatters in their hands by the shot Japan discharged in withdrawing from the conference because her "honor" would not permit her to abide by the 5-5-3 ratio any longer (TIME, Jan. 27). The Naval Conference was seen this week to have saved for signing a scrap of a treaty...
...Defense. The New Deal did not pick up the blunt and battered weapons with which it had failed to save NRA. Donald Richberg and Solicitor General Stanley Reed were not heard again in the courtroom nor were their arguments. This time the Government's counsel was John Dickinson, onetime professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, later Assistant Secretary of Commerce, now Assistant Attorney General. He had worked up new arguments with the aid of his old friend. Professor Edward S. Corwin of Princeton. Their prime point was that if the Government has power to regulate interstate commerce...
Because they believe that one-third as many ducks die from being poisoned as from being shot by bullets, Professors Robert Gladding Green and Ralph Dowdell of the University of Minnesota set out to save ducks by devising a healthy bullet. Last week they had perfected one. Their bullet: lead magnesium alloy, which dissolves less than 48 hours after it is eaten, before the lead causes anything worse than indigestion...
...lending. Because his only love was a first cousin, he never married. He became president of a bank, a leader in insurance, shipping and warehousing, the largest individual stockholder of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. But to the end of his life he never wore an overcoat, walked whenever he could save money by it, thought long before replacing a threadbare carpet in his home. When he died at the end of 1873, he left some $7,000,000, nearly his whole fortune, half to found a university and half for a hospital which would be free to all of Baltimore...
Carl Laemmle arrived in the U. S. from Laupheim, Germany when he was 17. For the next 22 years he struggled manfully in the clothing business at Oshkosh, Wis., managed to save up $2,500, In 1906, when he was 39, encouraged by an advertising man named Robert Cochrane, he opened a Chicago nickelodeon called The White Front. Six months later, he had a string of them and his own film exchange. From 1909 to 1914, Laemmle and his famed Independent Motion Pictures Co. ("IMP") fought the patents company which then threatened to get control of the industry...