Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stormy autumn day in Worcester, Mass. last year little Catherine Murphy met a famous man. She was told that he was running for political office, but what impressed her most about him was the fact that he, too, suffered from infantile paralysis. He took crippled, nine-year-old Catherine Murphy by the hand, promised that she would some day receive the treatment which had enabled him to take his place among the nation's great in spite of his affliction...
...debated last week, Sir Henry's bill will come up for action after Parliament adjourns this week and at once reassembles to be "opened" by George V on Nov. 21 with his Cabinet's autumn declaration of policy, the Speech from the Throne...
...range program to make Ireland self-sufficient, they called for ?600,000 worth of machinery for beet-sugar factories at Mallow, Thurles and Tuam. German and Czechoslovak companies got the contracts in exchange for promises to buy more Irish farm products. When the three new plants are operating next autumn, the Free State need import no more sugar. Next problems: grain, clothing, paper, machinery, chemical products. Insoluble...
When the new Malkiri Conservatory in Boston wanted a big name to plume its faculty list this autumn, it sent an invitation to Arnold Schönberg who, being a Jew, was leaving his job at the Prussian Academy of Music in Berlin. Great was the interest aroused by Schönberg's acceptance. He has upset conservative concertgoers more than any other modern composer. Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago. The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...
High point of the trial was Mrs. Busby's account of her dealings with President Traylor and the bank. Handsome, smartly dressed in black, sometimes smiling, sometimes weeping, she told how she called on Mr. Traylor in the autumn of 1930 and said, "Mel, I can't stand the suspense. I have to know about Leonard's affairs. The children are in expensive schools and I have other obligations to meet...