Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richmond, and the one who takes the most parts, is taking his wife and children to Alaska. Correll, one-time bricklayer in Peoria, is going to take his wife to Europe. Frank (''Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck will pinch hit on the Pepsodent hour until autumn...
Helen Wills Moody, in retirement since defaulting to Helen Jacobs in the final of the U. S. championship at Forest Hills last autumn, was last week reporting the Wimbledon tournament for Hearst papers. To have her longtime rival describe her first victory at Wimbledon was the pleasant prospect which presented itself to Helen Jacobs when she entered the centre court last week to play the final against England's demure Dorothy Round...
World's first aerial sleeper service was launched by Eastern Air Transport last autumn (TIME, Oct. 16) when an 18-passenger Curtiss Condor with two berths (upper & lower) was assigned to the night run between Newark and Atlanta. When airmail contracts were cancelled in February, Eastern Air discontinued the night run to Atlanta and, with it, air sleeper service. When the company began flying mail again three months later, the sleeper service was not resumed...
Nonetheless, convening educators last week resolved on mass demonstrations throughout the land next autumn "to impress the entrenched interests now attacking the schools." Hopefully they decided to ask the next Congress for half a billion dollars, with no strings of Federal control attached. In this resolution they were going to call attention to $2,000,000,000 Federal appropriations for Army & Navy, but War Veteran Virgil Sturgill of Ashland, Ky. objected and the comparison was struck...
...offer of a good teaching job was all that gave Henry Lester Smith to Education instead of to the clothing business when he finished college. Last month Mrs. Smith received a Ph.D. at Indiana and next autumn his daughter Martha, eldest of the Smith children, will enter the university at 16. Affable and joke-loving, N. E. A. President Smith plays an occasional round of golf but spends most of his spare time on his single hobby: World Peace through Education...