Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold mists of Autumn are beginning to float over Cambridge from the fens in the evenings. On the University farm the sugar beet is being lifted and the sugar beet is being lifted and the harvest stubble is all ploughed up, while the October exams, finished this week, show their results in a few days, and show how many candidates reap the harvest of degrees and how many are ploughed...
That was enough politics for Frank Knox until last autumn, when, in the absence of famed Adman Albert Davis Lasker, he was called upon to make a speech to raise Republican funds at an Old Elm dinner. Frank Knox, ineloquent but convincing, raised $75,000. He was called upon to repeat the trick in Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Some of his listeners began telling each other that Frank Knox would make a good nominee in 1936, and that made a good story for reporters covering the affairs. In a national poll of young Republicans and old Republican county chairmen and city...
...reason calls the "Millionaires Club." Founded after the 1926 hurricane as a civic body to revive Miami morale, the Committee is now primarily a social organization with about 400 members, meeting occasionally at a member's mansion in the winter and, for the past few years, once each autumn in the North. Three years ago Joseph Early Widener entertained his fellow Miamians at Lynnewood Hall, his estate near Philadelphia. Host last year was Publisher Frank Gannett in Rochester...
Have you seen the Autumn foliage? The Vagabond just returned from a short jaunt to the New Hampshire country. It is thus with joy that he leaves his Tower this morning at 12 for the Fogg Museum and a lecture by the kindly Professor Lake. At 11 in the X-Ray room Mr. Burroughts will talk informally on 17th century painting in New England. On second thought it does seem that the Vagabond is a victim of what is popularly known as the system. Other lectures follow...
...McConnochie, a highly good-humored Irishman whom Mr. Meehan discovered in the New York Customs House. Its vice president and head of the all-important sales department is Carl Freshwater, a onetime Ford salesman in London, Ohio. With Good Humor, he has a long winter vacation. For each autumn the plants are closed, the white trucks garaged, the sunny salesmen dismissed...