Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the grand jury hearings were secret, little was revealed as to the quality of evidence to be offered when the accused are brought to trial this autumn. One Bert Hollinger of Le Mars, ex-bootlegger and smalltime "fixer" now serving five years for extortion, testified that in 1933 he paid cash in return for the bootlegging and slot-machine privileges in Plymouth and Woodbury Counties to Attorney General O'Connor. "O'Connor said it was very strange that I would insist on wanting to make the first payment to him direct, and I told him that I didn...
...Gerling's insistence on economy has had one less happy result this autumn. Finding that pupils who fail of promotion were costing the city $300,000, he ordered the tempo of teaching slowed down. Primary pupils will have less reading: algebra will be taught later in high school; Latin will be spoon...
...works to the advantage of small institutions most of whose deposits are in small accounts, and to the disadvantage of big banks, only a fraction of whose large corporate and business deposits are covered by the $5,000 limit. But having signed & sealed a truce with President Roosevelt last autumn, the bankers have discreetly bowed to a New Deal measure which many of them detest...
...decision must be made--whether to regard youth (which means university career) as a gift which must be enjoyed, or as a fateful threshold to life. Only the very lucky ones can have it both ways, can dance in the Spring and reap a catch crop harvest in the Autumn...
...capacity. Demand from the automobile industry was slackening as motor-makers retooled for new models. But like most businessmen, steelmasters were less interested in current figures than in speculating upon the aftermath of Labor Day, traditional turning point in the trend of trade. This year forecasts of an autumn upswing are almost unanimous, and corporations large & small are being groomed for better business...