Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corporation does not submit a name for the new president of Harvard University at the meeting of the Board of Overseers this afternoon, it is extremely unlikely that a president will be elected before next autumn. The reason for this is that the general policy of the Overseers requires a lapse of several weeks between the submission of the name by the Corporation the next two meetings of the Overseers come on May 8, and June 22, but the latter date would be probably unsatisfactory for any announcement...
...option on 30 bales of Government cotton at 6? per lb., the current market price. When hundreds of thousands of John Planters repeat this process, cotton demand starts to exceed cotton supply and prices (in theory) spurt up to 8? or 10? or 12? per lb. Next autumn John Planter orders Secretary Wallace to sell his option cotton, makes a tidy profit to compensate him for the 30 bales he never raised. If the cotton market fails to rise, John Planter stands to lose nothing on his free option...
...last autumn's elections, Democrat Clarence D. Martin adroitly seized upon Education in his platform. He promised to throw the University open to every accredited Washington high-school graduate. Last November he was elected Governor. Once more the University's presidency grew precarious...
...brewery and started to make malt syrup in a bigger and more profitable way than the ex-brewers. "Blue Ribbon" was Pabst's beer and Perlstein took '"Blue Ribbon'' for his syrup. Pabst sued and lost, but long enmity was not engendered. Last autumn efficient Mr. Perlstein bought control of Pabst (TIME, Nov. 14), became president of Premier-Pabst. Fred Pabst and four of his six sons are still in the business...
...Autumn Crocus" -- Morosco, 45th Street W.--Another romance in the Tyrol relieved by the magnetic, dancing Francis Lederer who has already attracted Hollywood. Bracing as mountain...