Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consisted of a burlesque news reel, showing the President as a "Doctor of Doctrines" singing a song to monopolistic big business interests, cracking a whip over Congress, and greeting small businessmen. The high point was a tableau exhibiting the discovery of the tooth which the President had extracted last autumn strung on the watch chain of a visiting Elk. The entertainment also included a glimpse of Vice President Garner shooting a cow instead of a deer...
...proposed Revenue Act of 1938, reported by the House Ways & Means Committee last fortnight, the undistributed profits tax was retained more in principle than in fact. But the principle is about as popular with businessmen as was the Stamp Act of 1765. Franklin Roosevelt in a strategic retreat last autumn intimated that the obnoxious levy might be modified-provided Congress could find a substitute method to make up for lost revenues...
...consider pardoning Convict Mooney until his efforts to prove his innocence legally had been finally ruled on in Court. Last year, the Supreme Court refused to review the case on the ground that Convict Mooney had not yet "exhausted every resource'' in the lower courts. Last autumn, the California Supreme Court handed down a verdict against Convict Mooney which enabled him to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court a second time on the grounds that he was denied his constitutional rights. Final Supreme Court decision on Convict Mooney is likely to be handed down this spring...
...luck. When two plain-clothes men were assigned to follow them, Messrs. Campbell & McGee donned frock coats and silk hats, hired an accordion player, a saxophonist and two cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through the streets trailed by the humiliated detectives. Last autumn the tide turned. About the time Mr. McGee was being literally thrown out of his union job, Cleveland's Safety Director Eliot Ness, after a four-month investigation, got the cronies indicted on a charge of extorting $1,200 from a Cleveland restaurant owner by holding up the installation...
...observer wondered how soon Mr. Hearst would begin to sell the rest of his hoard. The total Hearst collection of art and art objects has never been catalogued except in its owner's capacious memory, but its monstrous character has been a popular legend for years. Last autumn the New Yorker tried to investigate one of the five Hearst warehouses, a square block building in The Bronx, and reported rumors that besides a dim array of armor and some mummies it contained two palaces and a church, in pieces...