Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that measure had served the President well as a threat to bring balky employes to quick terms. But with Congress soon out of Washington the Administration felt the need of something stronger than a threat to deal with the strikes which were bound to develop during the summer and autumn. Therefore the President had drafted a substitute measure, general enough to get through Congress quickly, specific enough to be of some real value. The substitute took the form of an amendment to the Recovery Act and by no coincidence closely paralleled the Green settlement in Pittsburgh. The President was authorized...
...windmill tilter, William McNair punctuated 30 unprosperous years at the bar with a monotonous series of espousals of lost causes. A Bryan stumpster, he ran for everything unsuccessfully until Pittsburgh, as normally Republican as Mecca is Mohammedan, threw out its corrupt and long-lived G. O. P. machine last autumn (TIME, Nov. 20, 1933). Lawyer McNair happened to be the Demo cratic candidate. Pittsburgh Democrats say of their Mayor: "We voted for a machinegun but got a phonograph record...
Last week Dean Robert Kilburn Root announced that, beginning next autumn, Princeton will have a "hospital for the illiterate," listed in the catalog as "Corrective English." There the freshman whose back is stronger than his syntax will spend eight weeks. If still unable to write a "decent English sentence," he will repeat the course in second term. There will be two more chances in sophomore year. If he persists in failure, the halls of Princeton will see him no more...
Universal, like other Hollywood companies, is suffering a painful shortage of good story material. Cinema producer have bought production rights to almost every successful play produced in Manhattan since last autumn. Next year's schedules are, more than ever, topheavy with oldtime "classics." Not to be outclassed by MGM, Universal was last week planning to produce Dickens' unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, with an ending supplied by some writer under Universal contract. Charles Dickens' face appeared in Universal's list of "Box Office Authors,' along with those of Edith Wharton (Strange Wives) and Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). Frankenstein...
Chicago last week took a step toward preventing tuberculosis in that community when Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly ordered B. C. G. vaccine prepared in order to be administered to school children next autumn. Children born in Cook County Hospital will also get the vaccine which is composed of weak but live descendants of tubercle bacilli. When the bacilli are carefully prepared according to the precise method of Leon Charles Albert Calmette and Charles Guerin, B. C. G. vaccine apparently does prevent tuberculosis. But many a slip is possible and disaster may ensue, as Lubeck, Germany discovered four years ago when...