Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn day in 1933, shortly after she sued Harold Fowler McCormick for $1,500,000 for breach of promise, Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday was standing on the practice tee of the Valley Club at Santa Clara, Calif. Few feet away, she claims, Major Max Fleischmann, chairman of Standard Brands' finance committee, was booming out his opinion of her and her suit. Halting a No. 3 iron in midair, Mrs. Doubleday pricked up her ears, listened, flushed, stormed off the tee. Last week, with the McCormick suit settled for $65,000, she turned on Major Fleischmann. Suing in Manhattan...
...busy Broadway corner, one Walter King was picked up by a Manhattan detective who accused him vaguely of swindling "a professor who wrote a lot of books." The professor was Duke University's famed psychologist William McDougall.† Last time Professor McDougall saw King was one autumn day in 1933. That day he gave King and a companion $10,550 in the morning, $10,000 more in the afternoon, for "royalty rights'' to oil fields in Iowa...
...both of them. One is Emory University, which Oglethorpe's ebullient President Thornwell Jacobs once accused of running an "Al Capone racket" to keep Oglethorpe graduates out of teaching jobs in Atlanta schools. The other, thanks largely to Hearst beneficence, is Communism. Nathan Yagol, imprisoned ten days last autumn for attending a Communist meeting, was coming to lecture on Russia...
Capitalizing on the British craze for commodity speculation that started in 1932, a pool lofted the price of pepper from 18? per Ib. last autumn to 31?. That attracted the attention of Indian exporters, who promptly began to shake all their pepper on the pool. By last week London warehouses were bursting with no less than 42,000,000 Ib.-a three-year supply...
...Last autumn the American Institute of Food Distribution estimated that the 1934 tomato pack would be up some 20%, the corn pack 20%, the pea pack 15%, the string bean pack 9%. The Alaska salmon pack was the biggest on record. All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed. Last week Continental Can Co. announced that 1934 had been the best year in history, with profits of $10,707,000 against...