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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., where he went to receive an honorary D.C.L. before dedicating a new international bridge across the St. Lawrence River and its Thousand Islands (see p. 34), Franklin Roosevelt declared...
...Detroit has lately climbed to Baa but it used to rate Aaa. Best municipal bonds are those in Massachusetts, where the State has power to reorganize the finances of weak municipalities and no city rates less than A. Among the worst are those of Florida, where Fort Myers and St. Augustine both rate Caa (poor) and the town of Frostproof rates Ca (one notch above worthless). Last week 500 delegates to the annual Conference of the Municipal Finance Officers' Association sat down in St. Paul's Hotel Lowry to investigate the whys & wherefores of such sorry ratings, learn...
Keynoter was the association's retiring president, Budget Director Arthur C. Meyers of St. Louis (Aa), who said: "The main factor that makes the problem of Relief, unemployment, taxation and debt so difficult is the lack of cooperation between the different levels of government." On behalf of the lowest governmental level, Budgeteer Meyers complained that city Relief bills are uncertain because WPA does not distinguish consistently between employables and unemployables. For Depression II he suggested a long-range program "by all levels of government, business, labor and industry." Main proposal: higher share to cities on State taxes on liquor...
Accompanied by Mme Zay, 14 porters, 15 guides, 20 photographers, Mountain-climber Zay set out from St. Gervais, at the foot of Mt. Blanc, in midmorning. He arrived at the Tete Rousse shelter, 10,390 feet high, at 3 p. m. After a night's sleep he rose at 3 a. m., started up the last 4,000 feet of sheer, snow-clad rocks to the Vallot shelter. Then rain and fog set in. Guides declared further climbing dangerous. So Minister Zay, from 3,000 feet below, dedicated a glistening hospice constructed of duraluminum* erected at 14,312 feet...
Miiller revised the Sermon on the Mount, Bishop Weidemann the Gospel according to St. John. Though both jobs were done more than 18 months ago (TIME, Jan. 25, 1937), the Friends of Europe pamphlet is the first extensive English study of them...