Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hunt, 33, "John the Revelator" to his fellow Divine cultists, was on trial charged with violating the Mann Act with a Denver 17-year-old named Delight Jewett (TIME, April 12). Defendant Hunt, eloquently seconded by his Negro Attorney Hugh MacBeth, explained that his "relations" with Delight Jewett were religious in nature. He wanted a "Virgin Mary" to produce a "New Redeemer." Could Judge Leon Yankwich understand that...
...declared war April 6, 1917 and as the rumbling of the guns rolled across the Atlantic, marriage records began to tumble nationwide as U. S. males jumped to escape the draft or to marry their best girls before going out to die. Chicago's municipal marriage license bureau set an all-time high on April 9, 1917, issuing 1,124 licenses. Last week saw that Wartime record tremble on Monday when 1,119 licenses were issued, tumble on Tuesday with 1,153, be trampled underfoot on Wednesday by a mob of 1,407 engaged couples who kept the overworked...
...after Christmas, 1936, they went to Phoenix, Ariz, and were married. She had borne him a son two months before. Last April they had another of their fierce quarrels and again she went to the district attorney. On July 12 a jury of the people of California will start considering what next to do with dark Marjorie and Anstruther MacDonald...
...market for securities which Mr. Hearst was planning to sell. Delayed in passage for weeks by successive amendments had been his registrations with the Securities & Exchange Commission of $35,500,000 of debentures- $22,500,000 for Hearst Publications, Inc., $13,000,000 for Hearst Magazines, Inc. (TIME, April...
...corporate earnings might have grieved Business less had it come a year later than it did, because it so happens that working capital is the particular need of industry in 1937. This was made abundantly clear in the first statistical study of the subject published by Business Week last April at the suggestion of Vice President Fenton B. Turck of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. By the end of last year booming sales had necessitated enormously bigger inventories and inventory costs had jumped with the prices of raw materials. Industrial payrolls, furthermore, had swollen 30% since 1934. Needing cash...