Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Textile Workers' Vice President Francis J. Gorman had been growling for weeks over the failure of some millowners to live up to the agreements on rehiring strikers and mitigating the "stretch-out" which ended last autumn's textile strike. When NLRB last week authorized certain mills to reduce machine and man hours by 25%, Leader Gorman cried. ''The stage is set for another strike...
Last week Mr. Buchan's choice for the job was a huge success. The Canadian Commons cheered the news with a will. Britain hoped George V would make his man a peer before John Buchan goes to Canada in the early autumn; Canadians fervently prayed he would not. Canadian politicians promptly tried to impress one another with the fact that they had read Buchan's books and Canadian bookstores advertised the volumes they had in stock. Only the loyal Toronto Daily Star bridled: "It may be a little unseemly to be discussing so approvingly the selection...
...career shows that he generally chooses for profit rather than notoriety or glory. If he chooses for profit, his threat of entering the campaign will be something on which he can set a high price. Republicans have already calculated that the 13,000,000 votes which they polled last autumn must be the absolute minimum conservative vote in the U. S. If Huey Long can poll 10,000,000 votes as third-party candidate, those votes subtracted from the 22,000,000 votes which Franklin Roosevelt polled in 1932, will give the Republican candidate victory...
...Byron was a symbol, are notable in this work. Mr. Calvert's criticism is limited to Byron as he portrayed himself in his published writings and in his letters. Humble, serious, much of a realist despite his exhibitionistic tendencies, Mr. Calvert finds Byron complex, yet tangible. "Where Keats is autumn haze and Shelley pure ether," he says, "Byron is rock--and the hard outcroppings may indicate geologic epochs or hot underflows of lava that are worth nothing and understanding...
...fall of the pound has helped intensify the gloom but no single cause can be spotted. Business has tapered off very little from the peak of the upswing that began last autumn, yet the stockmarket last week rounded out a long month's decline...