Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright with anniversary celebrations. Having lately joined with other churches in celebrating the centenary of the birth of Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (TIME, Aug. 17), U. S. Presbyterians next laid plans to recall the fact that Presbyterian foreign missions were instituted a century ago. From this spring to next autumn the centenary will be celebrated with a pageant, a play, many a speech and a broadcast dinner. To the Centennial Council it seemed that a special hymn was needed for their occasion and for one they offered $50. Last week three Presbyterian judges announced the winner from among 200 entries...
...bombs. Then five months later Colonel Francis Riggs, Insular Chief of Police, was assassinated by two young Nationalists as he drove home from Sunday morning mass. The two assassins were seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...
...took a turn for the worse when the Eccles warning was seconded a few days later by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Roper. Pointing out that the South was now planting cotton under the "dangerous delusion" that the staple would fetch 20? per Ib. by next autumn (price last week: 14?), Secretary Wallace declared: "I think very definitely that the Government does not have sufficient powers now to effectively mitigate the wide swings of the business cycle." Bumbled Secretary Roper: "We must not let our optimism cloud vision and obscure danger signals." At once shares...
...Last autumn, to comply with the law which required that the Commission be appointed within 90 days after its passage, President Roosevelt "temporarily" named three men : Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, Rear Admiral Harry Gabriel Hamlet and Treasury Official George Landick...
...Building materials and iron and steel products have been in new high ground for some time. To these conspicuous markers on the highway to inflation were added non-ferrous metals (lead, zinc, copper, tin, etc.), which as a group have risen 46% since the commodity boom got underway last autumn...