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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom...
Died. Matthew Quay Glaser, 54, cofounder (1920) with Publisher John S. Lewis, and onetime editor of the Masonic Review, organizer (1928) of the Curtis-for-President Club; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Though he never held public office, many a Washington politician knew well his booming voice, his ten-gallon hat. Major Maurice Campbell, onetime New York Prohibition administrator, stated last fall in the New York World that Curtis-booster Glaser had tried to get him to approve dubious whiskey permits, that the name of Vice President Curtis had been used (TIME, Sept. 22). Last month he was indicted...
Mormon exhibited its new 16-cylinder creation, of which Marmon Chairman Colonel Howard Marmon is specially proud. It has 210 h.p., will attain 100 m.p.h. Salesmen say it goes ten miles per gallon of gasoline. Production will start early next year, might have been delayed longer had not the 16-cylincer Cadillac come out. The car will sell at around $5,500. Spark and throttle are not on the steering wheel but on the dash. Radiator and gas tank cap are hidden. On the hubcaps the buyer may have either the name of the car or a dash of lightning...
...problem is solved at last. Yours again . . . always legal . . . (by the distinct provisions of Section 29 of the Prohibition Act*). . . . Absolute satisfaction or your money back. . . . Eight varieties: PORT, MUSCATEL. TOKAY. VIRGINIA DARE, CLARET. SAUTERNE, BURGUNDY, RIESLING. Five gallon keg: $14.75-Ten gallon...
Togged out in varicolored uniforms (gold, scarlet, yellow, blue, green), in vari-shaped headgear (silvered helmets, bear-skins, overseas caps, berets, "ten-gallon" sombreros), 70,000 members of the American Legion last week went to Boston for their annual convention. There they paraded, many with their wives, over a 10-mi. course. From end to end the town blared with martial music, fluttered with flags. Down Tremont Street where in a reviewing stand stood the Secretaries of War and Navy, General John Joseph Pershing, General Henri Joseph Étienne Gouraud (governor of Paris), National Commander O. Lee Bodenhamer...