Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be made before Europe's stock exchanges were closed for the day, Sir John announced a budget 40% higher than last year's record-breaker, said that the 45,000,000 citizens of the United Kingdom would spend $6,610,000,000 on their Government between April 1, 1939 and April 1, 1940.* Moreover, he warned, the Government might very well find it necessary to up expenditures from time to time as the situation warranted...
...days of the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. of America Incorpulated, through this winter's Harlem World's Fair, unfailing inventiveness has maintained radio's Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) 'n' Andy (Charles J. Correll) as the U. S.'s favorite blackface pair. For their April 3 broadcast, the day they moved over to CBS after eleven years with NBC, Amos 'n' Andy cooked up a superspecial episode. Andy, long a wary bachelor, let himself and an $800 bankroll be lured to a Harlem altar by a schemestress named Puddin' Face. But just...
...FORTUNE'S April findings: 33.2% said yes; 45.7% said no; 21.1% did not know. *Professor Hooton has a pug nose...
Died. Dr. Anne Walter Fearn, 71, longtime (44 years) healer and medical educator in China; in Berkeley, Calif.; two weeks after publication of her autobiography, My Days of Strength (TIME, April 24). Called "the best-known and best-loved woman between Suez and the China Coast," Dr. Fearn was born on a Mississippi plantation, went to China at 25, founded a coeducational medical school, a school for American children, the Fearn Sanitarium in Shanghai, retired last year to write her book...
This exhibition, besides being rich in almost every department of art (TIME, March 6), surprised the authorities by drawing 169,260 visitors at 25? each up to April 15 (the Sally Rand Dnude Ranch drew 228,356). Sharp-eyed Guard Seymour nevertheless found plenty to criticize from the standpoint of the common man, whom he denominated Joe Bloake and furnished with a wife and four children. Main points...