Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like many another householder who was still immersed in autumn renovating, the President found that only three rooms of the White House were ready for occupancy. So he spent the weekend on the Sequoia dedicating a bridge near Cambridge, Md. and cruising the Chesapeake, planned to go this week to his mother's place at Hyde Park. There he hoped table discipline would help him take off a few extra pounds acquired on the Houston...
Such were the results of a poll of some 50,000 ballots conducted by the Literary Digest and tabulated last week. Indicated was a sensational shift in public opinion since the Digest's poll last Autumn, when 51% of the votes were pro-New Deal. The Digest did not publish these results last week because it will presently conduct a much larger poll of millions of ballots. But the preliminary returns were shown to many a businessman who grinned contentedly...
...Senate seat of Democrat Marcus Allen Coolidge. Barely 33, Grandson Lodge realized that a picket fence of "ifs" still separated him from the most distinguished gentlemen's club in the land. He must first win the Republican nomination next summer and then the regular election the autumn after...
...Kendall College, made a reputation at Texas Christian where he functioned from 1929 ;o 1934. At Ohio State, Schmidt's methods have been nothing if not thorough. He made his players practice six weeks in winter and all spring, brought them back to Columbus three weeks early this autumn, divided the squad into four groups, held workouts from 9 a. m. until sundown. Most Big Ten coaches abide by tacit agreement not to run up one-sided scores against each other. Not so, Schmidt. Superficial characteristics of his strategy are complex ground plays, frequent passes. His 18-year coaching...
...though nothing had happened, the Dictator sent his Ambassador to Great Britain, spade-bearded Dino Grandi. around to tell the British Foreign Office that, yes, the Royal Italian Government will be pleased to join at London this autumn in the great Naval Conference made necessary by the expiration in 1936 of the Washington Naval Treaty. Most Britons had forgotten last week that the Italians had been invited to this Conference, which may never be held, but urbane Italy's acceptance was politely if frostily received...