Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immemorial custom each autumn when the U. S. Supreme Court assembles, for the Justices, as part of their first day's work to pay a formal call on the President. This year the Court convened on Oct. 7 but the call had to be postponed because Franklin Roosevelt, aboard the U. S. S. Houston, was then somewhere near the Cocos Islands. Month ago, when the President returned to the Capital, he was very busy and since the call had been postponed the Justices had no objection to letting it go to a time that suited the President...
...like the facts and we like the name of the new "National Scholarships" with which Harvard University is planning to celebrate its 300th birthday next autumn. Here is an institution which, though wholly free of governmental control, is truly national in the American use of the word. Its rededication to the country, under the vigorous leadership of the distinguished scholar who has become its president, is a fine and welcome gesture...
Japan last week sparred cautiously for a new body-hold on China. The Japanese high command were with their Emperor Hirohito watching autumn maneuvers at Kyushu. The Chinese high command were, with the greatest unanimity ever seen in China, at the Kuomintang Party Conference in Nanking. The Nanking Government plumed themselves on their brilliance in having called in all silver coin and bullion (TIME, Nov. 11), thus forcing the Japanese-dominated banks of North China to declare for either Japan or China. Last week Japanese Army men warned the North China banks not to deliver the silver to Nanking. Slowly...
...tunes of Ed Murphy's Orchestra and the croons of Miriam Miller, Eliot House men and their guests will join in the general melce after the Yale game at the Elephants' annual autumn winter dance...
...controller. This summer both of these old friends reached simultaneously for the Republican nomination for mayor. Davis Wilson beat Hadley in the primaries, but split the local G. 0. P. so badly that Democrats from Postmaster General Farley down dared to hope that the City of Friends would this autumn be thoroughly friendly to Democracy for the first time in 50 years. John Bernard ("Jack") Kelly, an enterprising Irish oarsman and contractor who registered as a Democrat only in 1933, was picked by Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and other ardent Pennsylvania New Dealers...