Time Table: Dec. 8, 1930

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National Affairs

Dec. 11, 18 (respectively)—President & Mrs. Hoover's reception for the Judiciary, and dinner in honor of Vice President Charles Curtis; at the White House.

Dec. 13—President Hoover's annual attendance at the dinner of the Gridiron Club of Washington newspaper correspondents (preventing his appearance at the Army-Navy Game—see p. 69).

Foreign News

Dec. 10—Awarding of the Nobel Prizes; at Stockholm, Sweden. Annual occasion: anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish founder of the $9,000,000 fund for international awards. 1930 recipients: Dr. Hans Fischer, in Chemistry; Sinclair (Babbitt) Lewis, in Literature; Dr. Karl Landsteiner, in Medicine ; Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, in Physics.

Dec. 10—Embarkation of first tourist trip ($2,500 & up) to the Antarctic; from London. Tour: to the Bay of Whales via Galapagos, Auckland & Tahiti, on the 6,000-ton Stella Polaris, with sight-seeing inland by airplane. Famed tourist: Lady Shackleton, widow of the late polar explorer (see SCIENCE).

Dec. 17, 24—Centenary of the death of Simon Bolivar; chiefly at Caracas, Bolivar's birthplace, Venezuela's capital.

Business

Dec. 9—Launching of Dollar Co.'s $8,000,000 liner President Hoover; at Newport News, Va. Christener: Mrs. Herbert Hoover, with a bottle of water taken from the high seas routes of Dollar ships.

Aeronautics

Dec. 10-23—International Congress on Aerial Safety; at Paris.

Religion

Dec. 7 — Universal Bible Sunday; throughout the U. S. Sponsor: American Bible Society in conjunction with Protestant churches. Theme: "One Book for All People." Dec. 25—Christmas Day.

Music

Dec. 1-13—Freiburg Passion Play, with the authentic German company and 200 trained singers; at the Opera House, Boston.

Science

Dec. ii—Arrival of Professor & Mrs. Albert Einstein; at New York. Destination : Pasadena, Calif, where Professor Einstein will lecture at Technical High School, research at California Institute of Technology & Mt. Wilson Observatory.

Art

Dec. 10-22—Exhibition of modern industrial art from the Reimann School of Berlin; at the Art Center, Manhattan.

Sport

FOOTBALL—FOR CHARITY Dec. 6—N. Y. U. v. Colgate, at Yankee Stadium, New York City. Dec. 13—Army v. Navy,— at Yankee Stadium, New York City. Dec. 14—Notre Dame All-Stars v. New York "Giants'" (professionals), at Polo Grounds. New York City. BILLIARDS Dec. 8-18—World's pocket billiard championship; at New York. BASKETBALL Dec. 10—Dartmouth v. Providence, at Hanover. Dec. 12—Yale v. Wesleyan, at New Haven. Dec. 13—Dartmouth v. Syracuse at Hanover; Navy v. William & Mary at Annapolis; Ohio State v. Pittsburgh, at Columbus; Wisconsin v. Carroll College, at Madison. Dec. 17—Navy v. Lafayette, at Annapolis. Dec. 18—Fordham v. Yale, at New York. Dec. 19—Nebraska v. Pittsburgh, at Lincoln. Dec. 20—C. C. N. Y. v. Dartmouth, at New York; Navy v. Western Maryland College, at Annapolis. GOLF Dec. 26-31—Annual midwinter tournament, at Pinehurst, N. C.

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