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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy Department bases its predictions of success for the ARD-3, which will cost about twice as much as a stationary drydock, on its experience with the ARD-1, a small experimental craft of some similar design, which it has been trying out for two years on small destroyers and submarines. When bids are opened this week for the construction of the ARD-3, shipbuilders will be preparing bids for the building of the ARD-2, a sister dock of the experimental ARD-1, which is 446 ft. long. The ARD3 is intended for use in the Pacific and will...
...Archbishop of Canterbury and other Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal were reported to have conferred in a private room of the House of Lords last week as to whether, in case King Edward attempts to marry twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson, premises of the Church of England and one of its pastors should be provided or withheld. To this United Press report, the Associated Press added that suggestions of abdication by His Majesty to marry Mrs. Simpson were welcomed by some of Their Lordships with the comment, "Then let him abdicate, by all means, and let's get on with...
...South Bend, in its last game against a Notre Dame team whose mistakes were all behind it, Northwestern last week made all the mistakes it had saved up through an unbeaten season. Heap, hero against Wisconsin, fumbled twice. Toth, titan against Minnesota, failing to get off a punt, was tackled deep in his own territory. Capitalizing blunders like these, punching holes in Northwestern's tired line, Notre Dame put over one touchdown in each quarter, wrecked Northwestern's hopes of a national championship...
Probably the ablest, certainly the best known living fresco painter is paunchy Diego Rivera, twice a member of the Communist Party, once expelled for disobedience. Because the owner of the Hotel Reforma, Alberto J. Pani, onetime Mexico's Secretary of Finance, was a friend, Artist Rivera agreed to decorate his hotel for 4,000 pesos, just enough to pay his expenses...
With a German-born population of 11,366 and twice as many German-speaking homes, Chicago has long been one of the world's first German cities. The pride of Chicago's Germans is nourished not only by the statues of Goethe, Schiller and von Humboldt that gleam in the city parks but by their living countrymen prominent in the city's affairs. Chicago last week honored one of these, blue-eyed, baldish Carl Bismarck Roden, for 50 years an employe of the great Chicago Public Library and for 18 years its Chief Librarian...