Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President Roosevelt to reconsider Mr. Williams' promotion. A "Dear Bill" letter from the White House to A. F. of L.'s President William Green in December failed to mollify Labor...
Tycoon Bernstein lives in Hamburg with his wife and two children, plays golf often and well, visits the U. S. every spring and autumn for a month. Transatlantic competitors watched his maritime growth with envy, did not really begin to worry until three years ago when he decided to go into the passenger business. From his 14 ships, all named after Saxon castles, he chose three of the biggest and best, had them rebuilt as combined passenger & automobile transports in the New York-Antwerp trade, with stops at Southampton and Havre. The 16,000-ton Königstein was equipped...
This is just what the old Farm Board did in the autumn of 1929 when cotton prices began to fall. They poured out loans to permit the surplus to be held for an advance. In the spring of 1930 the price crashed through the artificial bottom established by the loans and the Government was left with all the bales on which it had advanced money...
...November Sunday no one gave flowers. Here was a problem. . . . It was met by bringing an armful of white pine branches from the country. In each vase of soft feathery green were inserted a few branches of brilliant autumn leaves. The effect was 'different,' and caused much favorable comment. The symbolism was rather nice...
...issue dropped eight points in a single session, and New York, New Haven & Hartford (mileage: 2,072) issues sank five points to new lows for the year, around 25? or 30? on the dollar. New Haven's new president Howard S. Palmer, who succeeded John Jeremiah Pelley last autumn, felt obliged to announce: "We are not contemplating any reorganization at this time...