Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole year Senator Elmer Thomas has been thumping the drum for inflation. He thumped last autumn for dollar devaluation and he got it. He thumped last spring for monetization of silver and he got what, from a distance, looked like it. Having learned how easy it is to get what he wants by thumping his drum in the ears of Treasury officials, he thumped it once again last week. Said...
...three months will the, horse chestnut trees on Paris' Champs-Elysees begin to turn yellow. Yet last week on the brief and severe Rue de la Paix autumn had already come. And on hand for its coming was an excited little army of U. S. dress buyers who crowded through closely-guarded doorways into the salons of the great Parisian couturiers. Inside the warm air was heavy with perfume and the smell of new silk. Buyers who usually paid $100 to get in (refunded on the first order) cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled...
Starting democratically by motor-coach and ending by being driven in his own car, last autumn Author Priestley fetched a wide circuit through industrial England, busily noting what he saw and felt. At Southampton the great liners made him proud but a talk with a steward made him wonder. The Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia...
...prominent onlooker in his court room, he is apt to halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing the execution of Negro Charley Dumas, convicted of raping and mutilating white girls. When some citizens protested his gushy enjoyment, Judge Gassaway reviewed the case from the bench, cited the heinous nature of the crime, the fact that...
...francs ($65,900) a year for 30 years, bought a $25,000 estate at Ardsley-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. In 1913 the youngest son of old Jay Gould sailed for France because he said the U. S. Government meddled too much in business. This autumn he will return to the U. S. for the first time in 21 years, live in his new home at Ardsley...