Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sylvester Harris, Negro farmer of Columbus, Miss., aided by a representative of the New Orleans Land Bank, last week got payments of the first and second mortgages on his farm postponed until autumn. He explained that he had telephoned the White House...
...sister a $36 dress, urged producers to cast him as Othello. Annoyed by rumors that he was as lazy off the screen as on, he grew over-diligent, insisted on writing his own lines, directing his own scenes. In 1931, Stepin Fetchit ceased to be employed in Hollywood. Last autumn Winfield Sheehan of Fox was smart enough to rehire him. In Carolina he appeared as the stumbling, fumbling "cornfield nigger" dressed up as a butler. He will next appear in Fox Follies...
...daily press last week. Both were based on figures released by the Department of Commerce. Both compared January 1934 with January 1933. Together they offered a neat example of the fatuity of considering naked statistics. As everyone knows, production of most 1934 models was delayed by last autumn's tool & die makers' strike. With few exceptions, dealers did not have new models to deliver until late in January if at all. The decrease was calculated on the value of all automobiles delivered to consumers. The increase was calculated on the units sold to dealers. The fact that...
...huff last autumn. Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague resigned as money adviser to the Treasury. Since then he has returned to his chair at the Harvard Business School, has been retained as foreign exchange and trade adviser to General Motors Export Co. and has attempted to create "an aroused and organized public opinion," which he said was the only "defense from a drift into unrestrained inflation." Most conservative businessmen regarded him as their best friend and stoutest ally. Last week they were shocked and startled when Professor Sprague turned around and let fly at them because they "were not ready...
Forty-eight hours after Albert H. Wiggin admitted to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last autumn that he was receiving $100,000 per year "retirement pay" from Chase National Bank, President Roosevelt announced he had begun studying legislation to control high salaries by taxation. He had already approved Federal Rail Coordinator Eastman's "suggestion" that railroad presidents fix their income at $60,000 or less. Then, on orders from the Senate, the Federal Trade Commission sent a questionnaire to some 2,000 corporations whose stock is listed on the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges. Resultant information: executive salaries...