Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Governor, Richard C. Dillon. Following year Governor Dillon named him to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. As a Republican Senator he fought the Hoover policies in Washington and the Republican machine in New Mexico. Having helped to elect Roosevelt, he broke with Democrats and last autumn fought the Democratic ma-chine of Postmaster Farley...
Whether or not EPIC was a going or gone concern, last week's election served to turn the nation's eyes back to the Golden State. What had happened since those hectic days last autumn when fey-eyed Gubernatorial Candidate Sinclair had half the people in his State, and not a few outside, scared to death of his political Utopia (TIME, Oct. 22)? More specifically, what had happened to Republican Frank Finley Merriam, the champion who defeated...
...Argonaut simultaneously performed a miraculous journalistic somersault. The paper which had hailed Governor Merriam last autumn as "a symbol of strength, progress and stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...
...final dig at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the President warmly welcomed a group of his oldtime bad boys, the bankers. At its annual convention last autumn the American Bankers Association kept its rebellious members under iron control, with the result that an official peace treaty was signed with the President. Last week, although the ABA officials served notice that they intended to fight the Banking Bill, endorsed in his fireside broadcast only last fortnight, President Roosevelt cheerfully told them that his mind was still open...
Determined to squeeze some dividends from its expanding business,. Chrysler kept its retooling expenses at a minimum last autumn. Independent front wheel springing was taken off the Plymouth, saving perhaps as much as $10 per car. A simpler ventilating system saved another $2 or $3 per unit. With none of the plant upheaval or unbudgeted expenses that always accompany the introduction of a radical new model, Chrysler got off to a flying start...