Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began last autumn at a Hallowe'en party in Pompey Hollow's snug little one-room schoolhouse, after the party rowdies stole a halyard from the school flagpole. Trustee Armstrong hung the flag in an alcove near a small oil stove where the pupils warmed their lunches. Worried lest the big flag catch fire, Miss De Lee took it down, pinned up a small one. Mr. Armstrong, infuriated, tore down the small flag, ordered the big one up again. Next day there was no flag at all and the small one was in the coal bin. "Hang...
...Trio," they were embarked last week on a Southern tour under the auspices of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, a body jointly chair-manned by Protestant Newton Diehl Baker, Jew Roger Williams Straus and Catholic Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes. The first Tolerance Trio went out in the autumn of 1933, traveled 9,000 miles, visited 38 cities. The current trio is composed...
Tucked away in the back advertising pages of Satevepost, Henry's adult humor attracted an enormous following. Fan mail deluged him. Advertisers demanded position next to him. Foreign papers reprinted him. Traveling in Germany last autumn Publisher William Randolph Hearst discovered Henry in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, promptly called for a secretary, a cablegram blank. Few hours later in Manhattan Hearst's syndicate chief, Joseph Vincent Connolly, received word: "Get Henry." He took the next train for Madison, Wis. There in a feverish half-hour between trains he signed Carl Anderson to a fat contract with King Features...
Dean Donham's Business School will henceforth be a "school of public and private business." Last week it enrolled its initial batch of public business students in a special session which begins at midyear. The first regular class enters next autumn. Public business students live, study, eat, go to many of their classes with future vice presidents of business houses. When they, get through they will be fitted for jobs with such governmental business ventures as the Tennessee Valley Authority, such financial agencies as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, such regulatory bodies as the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Author is a Jack of all professions -aviator, novelist, archeologist, biographer. His novels, written under the pseudonym of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, are in Scots dialect. His Earth Conquerors, a series of short biographies of famed explorers, was published by Simon & Schuster last autumn. The Conquest of the Maya has the official praise of Fellow of the Royal Society G. Elliot Smith, champion of the theory that all human culture was diffused from a common point in the Nile Valley...