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The thorny issue of disarmament is now asking the trains of one of the most intelligent and sympathetic conferences that have ever assembled. That it will make some important contributions to the attainment of its purpose may be confidently expected, but they can hardly be conclusive.
Groenhoff, G, killed in glider crash
ESTABLISHMENT of the American University Club at the northeast corner of Park Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street, as indicated by the purchase of that property by the club interests last week, marks an important change in that section of the avenue on the border of the Grand Central zone and also strengthens the stability of the locality as a club centre.
If Bolivia and Paraguay cannot agree about their boundaries in the Gran Chaco, it is not surprising that others know little of the topography of the region and whether it invites development. To parts of it Argentina and Brazil have title. The Gran Chaco is sometimes spoken of as west of the Paraguay River and east of the Andes.
Seldom can a Presidential campaign have started off with such a rush as the present one appeared to intend. It was like the rapid speeding up of an electrically driven car compared with steam propulsion. For this early drive toward the election, Governor ROOSEVELT'S flight to Chicago with his speech of acceptance in his hand was largely responsible.
1932Gustav Andreas Tammann, German astronomer and academic (died 2019)[†]
Gustav Andreas Tammann was a Swiss astronomer and academic. He served as director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Basel; as a member of the European Space Agency Space Telescope Advisory Team, and as Member of Council of the European Southern Observatory. His research interests included supernovae and the extragalactic distance scale. Tammann was a former President of the International Astronomical Union Commission on Galaxies.