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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an ordinance passed by the City Council last autumn (TIME, Nov. 18), Chicago's clocks were officially advanced one hour March 1, thus putting the second city of the land on Eastern Standard Time. Pleased were La Salle Street financiers at their synchronization with Wall Street a thousand miles away. More pleased was Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose morning Tribune thus gained an additional 60 minutes to gather news and readers. Thoroughly displeased was Publisher William Franklin Knox, whose afternoon Daily News had to postpone its huge market edition one hour...
...West (TIME. Feb. 24). The prostrate Chinese as they scanned the news from Tokyo this week remained particularly prostrate, a comfortable posture in which they await Japanese bankruptcy, Japanese proletarian revolution, Japanese defeat by Russia or the decay of Japanese from temperamental instability in a few hundred or thousand years...
...gross exaggeration is the current business credo, reiterated at a thousand banquet tables, that fear of Administration policies has held up capital expansion. With the possible exception of utilities, any U. S. industry would expand if there were discernible markets for additional products...
...nude statues of the typical American boy and girl are to be seen in the mummy section of Peabody Museum, fifth floor back. Measurements of several thousand students of 20 American colleges and secondary schools are the basis of these two composite statues made in 1893 by Dr. D. A. Sargent...
...signatures favoring repeal, the lawmakers will sit up and take notice. Politicians are more sensitive to potential votes than to the high-minded doctrines of a dozen college presidents, for it is only the perfect organization of the paper dollar patriots that gives them their control. But when several thousand students add their weight to President Conant's plea on behalf of the faculty, the legislators may feel more inclined to take the abortive Oath Law off the statute books. Every student in the college should make an effort to get his name on the petition before nightfall...