Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in Berlin when revenue reports revealed that since the advent of Chancellor Hitler in 1933 the tax has brought in a total of 313,000,000marks ($125,200,000). Swelled by payments from Jews who fled from Austria after the Anschluss, the flight levy for the months of April through July reached a record high of 61,000,000 marks...
When eight men were burned to death in a cheap West Side Chicago hotel last April 6, firemen and a coroner's jury said it was an unfortunate accident. But around the city room of the Hearst Herald & Examiner, reporters told each other there was something funny about that fire.* When they had nothing more pressing to do, they hung around the neighborhood, asked questions. Last week the Herex, which has hung many a ring-around-the-rosy scoop on its dignified morning competitor, the Tribune, blazed forth with exclusive "confessions" from two poolroom loungers, Frank Kolesiak and Emil...
...Began a study of banker control of industry by means of corporate proxies. As anticipated during last spring's bitter battle between Financier Robert Young and the Guaranty Trust Co. for control of the C. & O. Ry. (TIME, April 25), the antimonopoly committee subpoenaed records of that scrap from various firms including Manhattan's Guaranty Trust, J. P. Morgan & Co., Bankers Trust...
Already the Club has made plans to appear several times this year in Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony. Toward the end of November a repetition of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis," one of the last year's big successes, is scheduled. April 28 has been set as the date for the Bach "Mass." Dr. Koussevitsky will conduct both works...
Announcement of Hicks's appointment in April caused a furore in Boston papers and in the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard was denounced for hiring a "Red" and encouraging "subversive influences." According to Hicks, he has belonged to the Communist party for over two years. He considers Earl Browder, its leader, "a great deal more intelligent and competent than any other political leader that I can think...