Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus as had happened in Nevada last autumn, in Louisiana last fortnight, a banking moratorium was proclaimed this week in Michigan. It shut tight for eight days 530 banks with some $1,500,000,000 in deposits, was the biggest moratorium since the Depression...
...added courts to keep up with the sudden growth of men's squash racquets, women took to using them. The Junior League in Manhattan built two courts, the Cosmopolitan Club another. There are now 17 clubs in the Metropolitan (Manhattan) Women's Squash Racquets League, formed last autumn. In Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, women use men's courts whenever they get a chance. Last week the sixth women's squash racquets championship had a special importance: a team of seven Englishwomen had come over to play...
...study of present day conditions there and the results of the recent Spanish Revolution, which he stated today, are at present much confused, in general not understood at all, and but poorly appreciated at best. He is expected to return to Harvard in the late summer of the early autumn...
...give two weeks of opera with singers imported from New York and Chicago, San Francisco last autumn opened the first municipal opera house in the U. S., one of the world's finest music theatres (TIME, Oct. 17). The chorus was composed of local amateurs. Orchestramen were borrowed from the San Francisco Symphony. The whole enterprise was characteristic of the audacity with which Impresario Gaetano Merola rounded up a San Francisco Opera Association ten years ago, collected membership dues running from $50 to $100 a head and proceeded to put on ambitious performances with rehearsals so sketchy...
Last week, with most U. S. cities regarding opera as a luxury to be forsworn and even New York worried about its Metropolitan, Impresario Merola announced still bigger things for San Francisco. Next autumn he will have a ten-week season. To prepare for it he opened an opera chorus school, the only one in the U. S. outside New York. He appointed Adolph Bolm who used to dance with the Diaghilev Ballet to start ballet classes. Said Signor Merola: "We are going to teach in our school everything that has to do with the lyric stage. . . . We have...