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Dates: during 1930-1930
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A man who knows how to make a good saw and who was Wartime purchaser of helmets and armor for the U. S. Government, watched the construction of one of the world's strangest buildings last week in Fitchburg, Mass. He was Alvan Tracy Simonds, president since 1913 of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Windowless Factory | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

The Author. Henry Baerlein was born in Manchester, England, on April Fool's Day 55 years ago. A traveler by inclination, he knows especially well the Near East, Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. Credited with knowing more about Czechoslovakia than any other living Englishman, he has written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Journey* | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

CRIME AND DESTINY-Johannes Lange -Paper Books (50?). Which is more important, heredity or environment? Johannes Lange is a German and therefore methodical. He is a criminologist and therefore curious about human behavior. Lange had heard many an argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Journey* | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

One evening last fortnight some 200 University of Mississippi students stood about watching a dummy burning high on their campus flagpole. It was an effigy of Mississippi's stormy, scarfaced (from a pistol-butt) little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. No riotous impulse but a well-organized gesture was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bouncer Bilbo | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

In the smoking room of the S.S. President Hayes, steaming westward across the warm Pacific last week a stocky, owlish man with horn-rimmed spectacles regaled his fellow male passengers with the sort of stories told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whiz-Banger | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

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