Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the Federal Reserve Board; and Mr. Farley himself. Obviously Mr. Farley could not resign as head of the National Committee until he had finished rearranging the Democratic pack. Last week the shuffle began. First card dealt was a new Treasurer to dig up funds for next autumn's Congressional campaign, to pay the party's $500,000 debt, to mend financial fences in anticipation of 1936. The post was decorously offered to John Sanford Cohen, the job-hungry publisher of the Atlanta Journal. He declined it, presumably because it was short on prestige and profits. Within...
...work. In recent years as official greater at the Great Northern hotel in Glacier Park, he was housed, fed and given two or three dollars a day. He also did very well by selling to visitors his auto-graph-a crude drawing of two guns and a calf. Last autumn, however, aged 62. he fell from his horse and broke a leg. Last week Death-as it must to all men. red, white, black, brown or yellow-came to Two Guns White Calf. Press releases told of the death of the "Nickel" Indian, told how medicine men had offered...
...days later Bernard F. Gimbel announced: "There now being practically no demand for German merchandise Gimbel Brothers, Inc. have discontinued buying German goods." Other big Manhattan department stores which have closed their Berlin offices or otherwise stopped buying German goods include Lord & Taylor, which led off the boycott last autumn, Bloomingdale Brothers, Best & Co. and Hearn...
...cinema industry the small gold- washed statuets which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually awards for meritorious productions and performances are called "Oscars.'' Usually Oscars are awarded in November. Last autumn, defection of half the Academy's membership in the dissension over paycuts caused a shortage of cash, made it appear that there might be no Oscars at all. Last month. 30 members of the Academy put up $50 each for statuets and the Academy's annual banquet. The winners...
...Iowa's Fish & Game Commission, became president of its Conservation Commission. Three years ago he helped launch a 25-year plan for restoring Iowa's game, gave Iowa State College $9,000 from his own pocket to develop it. At a rough & tumble hearing in Washington last autumn "Ding's" tongue, agile and stinging as his pen, nearly carried the day for duck protectionists against an overwhelming number of non-protectionists led by hard-driving President Thomas Hambly Beck of P. F. Collier & Son Co. Few months later "Ding," no grudge-bearer, joined Publisher Beck and Professor...