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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Zane Grey, wild west novelist, owns a large ranch on the rim of Arizona's Tonto Basin. On his ranch he had fat pigs. Last year Novelist Grey discovered that roving bears were hugging many of his delectable pigs to death. Since it was two weeks before the regular bear season opened, he wired the State game warden for special permission to do a little shooting. The warden refused. Later, although Novelist Grey pays taxes on two pieces of Arizona property, the warden would not issue to him a resident hunting license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Angry Author | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...sign a treaty agreeing to build the dam" is also incorrect. The treaty negotiated by Mr. Hoover, the Colorado River compact signed November, 1922, not 1921, contains no agreement whatever to build Boulder Dam or any other dam. It merely divides Colorado River water between the upper and lower basin states. Boulder Dam is an important happening for the Southwest. I know you are desirous of having facts correctly stated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

Germans Warned. To Berlin a group of 14 German miners, returned from working in Russia's Don Basin, manifestoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reds & the World | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...programs to which exception is taken are not broadcast from Moscow for purposes of propaganda among the German people. They are broadcast in German for the benefit of German colonists in our own Volga basin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Bertha | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Eldridge Reeves Johnson, wife of the founder of Victor Talking Machine Co., on board a yacht anchored in the Johnson yacht basin at Bridgeboro, N. J., dropped a $2,000 bracelet overboard in 20 ft. of water, hired a diver to hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 21, 1930 | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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