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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Depression struck the second blow. Unable to borrow money for the Dominion, Premier Squires proposed to sell its greatest possession, Labrador, to Canada for only $100.000,000. Canada turned down the bargain (TIME, Feb. 29). Inevitably Newfoundland's "dole" then had to be reduced. This produced riots. Twice during the past six months Sir Richard Squires has been mobbed and roughly handled (TIME, Feb. 22 & April 18). In alarm the British Admiralty sent a warboat to St. John's, but Newfound landers, again on their best behavior, entertained His Majesty's blue-jackets so hospitably and quietly that they soon...
Said Clarence ("Piggly Wiggly") Saunders, twice bankrupt chainstore tycoon, as he saw his $500,000 Memphis estate auctioned off for $92,000: "I've lived in cottages before and can again...
Snug as bugs in the matted jungle of Brazil's Matto Grosso, a state twice as big as Texas with a population little more than that of Houston, lives an Indian tribe called the Yawalapiti. Last summer the Yawalapiti had a colossal surprise, concerning which Vincent M. Petrullo of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, anthropologist of last year's Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante) last week issued a monograph...
...Twice as many criminals are now in detention for violation of Federal statutes than were in jails and penal institutions five years...
Died. Dr. William Williams Keen, 95, famed brain & nerve surgeon, wit, professor emeritus of surgery at Jefferson Medical College; of old age; in Philadelphia. Twice captured and exchanged during the Civil War, he was an Army surgeon during the Spanish War, was largely responsible for paratyphoid inoculation of U. S. troops in the World War. Surgeon Keen assisted in the secret removal of a sarcoma from the mouth of Stephen Grover Cleveland in 1893. Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht...