Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson, kingpin of Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party, months ago laid his plans to get into the U. S. Senate when Minnesota's Republican Thomas D. Schall should come up for re-election next autumn. Suddenly, last fortnight, a Senate seat was dropped into Governor Olson's lap when Senator Schall died after an automobile accident (TIME, Dec. 30). Farmer-Laborite Olson had only to resign as Governor and let his Lieutenant Governor appoint him to the Senate. Being a shrewd politician he knew that such a maneuver would look...
...Senator pro tern, someone who would take the job for a. year, then quit willingly and help elect Floyd Olson to the U. S. Senate. Who would be so likely to fill this bill as the man whom Mr. Olson had picked to be Governor after him? Next autumn they could politely change places on the ticket and support each other for office...
...battling fertilizer men of Virginia Carolina Chemical Corp. last week staged a new and surprising session of their long extended civil war. Last autumn Director George S. Kemp of Richmond brough about a complete management turnover with a new president, a new vice president and a new directorate, of which he was himself a member (TIME, Oct. 21 et seq.) In Richmond last week, while two polio sergeants saw to it that nothing more potent than personalities were exchanged, the anti-Kemp factor won a completely decisive victory. Headed by Alphonso Lyn Ivey, ousted from the presidency in October, they...
...Last autumn Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler surveyed the intricacies of modern education, thought of his own simple school days in Elizabeth, N. J., emitted a nostalgic lament: "It has become customary to abuse and sneer at the little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality ... it was an almost ideal educational instrumentality...
Helen Hayes' father was a man named Brown who did a number of things, none of them very profitably. For a brief time he worked as a clerk in the Washington Patent Office. His daughter was born the first autumn of the 20th Century on Washington's P Street, Northwest. Her education was at parochial schools. Abetted by a mother with theatrical ambitions, Helen Brown made her Broadway debut in 1909 in Old Dutch. Elders like Lew Fields, Vernon Castle and John Bunny crowded her out of the press notices. Not until five years later...