Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend Plan had not acquired the cachet of Big Names as did Technocracy in the sad autumn of 1932. No Frank Vanderlip had drunk wine with it. It lacked the White House prestige which Anna Eleanor Roosevelt last year bestowed on the somewhat similar plan of Florida's 71-year-old Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin whose book Prohibiting Poverty, of which Mrs. Roosevelt ordered six copies, advocated that all essential work be done free by Commons aged 18 to 26, who would thereafter engage at will in capitalistic luxury industries as public-supported Capitals* (TIME, Oct. 23). Best that...
...grave ceremony is the opening of the autumn term of France's law courts. Since time out of mind, France's Supreme Court, the Judges of the Cow de cassation, have solemnly paraded in their porkpie hats and fur-trimmed gowns through respectful lines of black-gowned lawyers to the Palais de Justice. The Minister of Justice, formally called Keeper of the Seals, has always been there to make a speech...
...Autumn term began last week. For the first time anyone could remember, perhaps for the first time in history, the Minister of Justice was not there. Gone too was the academic calm. Young lawyers waved their long black sleeves and roared: "Justice! Justice! Justice! Pfui Chéron'. A has les Assassins!" To the base of a memorial to all French judges who have died for their country the young lawyers dragged a huge wreath. It was marked: IN MEMORY OF JUDGE PRINCE?MURDERED...
...Hurja first bet Mr. Huntley a hat that Democratic Nominee Joseph Guffey would beat Senator Reed this autumn in Pennsylvania. Next time they met, Republican Huntley raised the bet a pair of shoes. Later Mr. Hurja bumped the stakes a couple of shirts and Mr. Huntley came back with some neckties. By last week the bet covered nearly a full wardrobe, which Mr. Hurja stood in imminent danger of losing to Mr. Huntley...
...Jafsie") Condon, the aged and eccentric Bronx school master who as an intermediary handed $50,000 in ransom cash to someone whom he cannot yet positively identify. Bruno Hauptmann did not confine his outdoor life to city parks. His neighbors remember that he used to go hunting in the autumn, bring home a full bag of game, none of which he ever gave away. Once he went as far north as Canada. With Carl Henkel, six months after the ran som payment, he went to Maine...