Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senatorial sponsor of the Legion program was Pennsylvania's David Aiken Reed, who last week before the Pennsylvania Threshermens & Farmers Protective Association announced his candidacy for reelection next autumn. More important, 20 Republican Senators in caucus had plumped for the Legion program. More important still, counters of political noses were sure that enough Democratic Senators would vote with the Republicans to pass the Reed measure. Most important of all, the House, which had passed the Independent Offices Bill under a gag rule, was virtually certain to side with the Senate when the measure was returned...
...further increase of the starvation is just around the corner. The comparatively good harvest of the autumn (1933) will alleviate the situation only temporarily. If further mass starvation is to be prevented a large scale relief action must be put into effect...
Just why he was out of a job was in dispute. United Air Lines said he had taken a leave of absence last autumn to attend NRA hearings in Washington, that he had neither returned to work nor communicated with the company, thereby automatically ousting himself. Pilot Behncke said he reported for work at Chicago Dec. 22, when he was called into the office of Vice President D. B. Colyer and discharged for four reasons: 1) he had not secured proper permission to attend NRA hearings; 2) the company assumed he had severed connections; 3) his activities and utterances...
...Garden City, L. I., Missionary Eli Stanley Jones addressed the 41st annual Foreign Missions Conference of North America (84 boards), which sent him and others touring the U. S. last autumn (TIME, Dec. 11). Said Dr. Jones: "I will go back to India heartened and convinced that the soul of the church is sound. . . . There is an undertone of craving for Christian unity. . . . We must get rid of the cleavage between denominations. No Christianity can compete with Marxian Communism and Islam that has race exclusiveness at heart...
...first part of the tale. Men against the Sea is a straightforward but circumstantial account of what happened to Captain Bligh and his men when the mutineers cast them off in an open boat in the mid-Pacific. (The final part, Pitcairn's Island, will be published this autumn.) Though Daniel Defoe still has a long lead, Authors Nordhoff & Hall are worthy followers of his tradition...