Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained for mild-seeming Paul Yates, as assistant to Governor Pearson, to make the biggest noise of all. Turning, against his superior, he posted his resignation to Washington by airmail last autumn. While it was en route, Secretary Ickes discharged him, denounced him as a "trouble-maker." With Senate and House Committees on Territories & Insular Affairs, Mr. Yates filed charges of extravagance, inefficiency and corruption against Governor Pearson, demanded an investigation. Senator Tydings took up the cause, persuaded the Senate to let him head an investigating committee. By that time the Islands had become such a snarling, spitting, riotous cage...
...load trains with seeds, cinemas, drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. christened an eleven...
...otherwise, are retired after about two years, frequently forgotten, sometimes destroyed. To preserve for students and posterity important moving pictures of the past will be the function of the film library which Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week announced that it planned to start next autumn, with Rockefeller Foundation funds. The officers included John Hay Whitney as president, John E. Abbott, vice president & general manager, and Edward M. M. Warburg, treasurer...
...court contest over the legal character of ASCAP, with a long summer adjournment, will doubtless run well into the autumn. Whatever the result, chances are that there will be two more rounds, one in the Circuit Court of Appeals, another before the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Last autumn J. Edward Jones publicly implored President Roosevelt to remove Secretary of Interior Ickes from the Oil Administration. President Roosevelt ignored the petition. But J. Edward Jones considered it more than a coincidence that SEC soon began to investigate his business. Upshot was a temporary injunction, which SEC hopes to make permanent as soon as it can prepare its case...