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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoboes. There were hundreds of celebrities, like the Brazilian Ambassador, Post master General Farley, Marshall Field, Cinemactress Constance Bennett, who emerged from 250 private railroad cars and made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs. At the track Owner Widener shared his box with bright-eyed Sir Bede Clifford, Governor-General of the Bahamas, believing he had never before had so good a chance to win a Derby...
Modern anthropology overlaps a number of sciences-anatomy, pediatrics, sociology, psychology, ethnology, paleontology. Few living men in this vast field have plowed over all of it. The venerable Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) surveyed the realm of savage culture. Sir Arthur Keith is an authority on the forerunners of Homo sapiens, Malinowski on primitive sex customs, Levy-Bruhl on primitive mentality. Harvard's Hooton, a thorough student of African archeology and a brilliant commentator of human evolution, is first and foremost an anthropometrist-a man with a pair of calipers and a battery of tabulating machines. The Smithsonian...
Magna Charta. Currently in England a group of scientists including Sir Arthur Smith Woodward and Julian Huxley are engaged in knocking the flimsy props from under Nazi ideas of race purity and race superiority. A quarter-century ago Franz Boas was attacking the same sort of ideas. At that time the view was popular that different races had their characteristic mentalities which determined their culture. Boas had piled up enough data to convince him that such was not the case. His Mind of Primitive Man was published in 1911. When he was elected president of the American Association...
Five years ago Britain's Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith declared that Nature keeps her human orchard healthy by pruning, that war is her pruning hook...
...Said Sir Arthur: "Race antipathy and race prejudice are implanted by Nature for her own end, the improvement of mankind through racial differentiation...