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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laymen the world's best-known stamp collectors are George V of Britain and Franklin D. Roosevelt of the U. S. Philatelists know that the world's greatest stamp collectors were Count Philippe la Renotiere von Ferrari of Austria and Arthur Hind of Utica, N. Y. who bought the cream of the Ferrari collection on the Count's death and who died last March at the age of 77 (TIME, March 13). Last week the most important philatelic event since the Ferrari sale of 1922 occurred in Manhattan when the first part of the great Hind collection...
...Bronx. N. Y., Arline Robertson, 10. bouncing on her bed. bounced through a window, fell live stories, fractured her skull...
With Mr. Junge the First Ladies' musical reputations have been safe. He prefers to talk about his farm in Newburgh, N. Y., where he grows grapes and makes wine; or about the House of Steinway for which he was working when the present Steinway heads wore knickerbockers and the factory sprawled over the corner of Manhattan...
...engine power. Long has he wanted to supercharge his boats, but Gold Cup rules forbade. Lately at a meeting of the Gold Cup Contest Board, by means of family proxies Mr. Dodge won a vote approving superchargers for next year's Gold Cup race at Lake George, N. Y., over the bitter protest of other contestants. Last week A. P. B. A. was sympathetic but firm. The Gold Cup's deed of gift forbids major changes in contest rules after a challenge has been filed. But A. P. B. A. voted to approve superchargers for 1935. Since...
...Charles Ferdinand Dowd, principal of a seminary in Saratoga Springs. N. Y.. first thought of a way to end the time nightmare. He presented his zone system to a railroad convention in 1869. Not until 14 years later did the roads divide the U. S. into four time zones-Eastern, Central, Mountain. Pacific-one hour apart and spaced by meridians 15° apart in longitude. By then the Dowd idea had been turned over to William F. Allen, secretary of the American Railway Association, and to him has gone most of the credit for Standard Time...