Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dripping Fingers, One day last autumn some 20 Kansas City lawyers paid a call on Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves. They asked for a Federal investigation of Kansas City elections. Judge Reeves, tall, bony, with sagging cheeks, stone grey hair and 14 years on the Federal bench, told them to get evidence of fraud at the election on Nov. 3, promised to investigate fully after election...
...Elected amid voicing of universal opinion that the Clubs this year reached a low ebb, these officers are entrusted with the task of reviving enthusiasm. Specific plans are as yet unsettled, but the purposeful attitude of the members who voted down a motion to disband contrasts favorably with last autumn's lethargic rehearsals...
Celebrated for arresting and jailing Communist Presidential Nominee Earl Browder when he attempted to campaign last autumn in Terre Haute, Ind. (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936), Mayor Sam Beecher and his wife, Terre Haute's controller, were indicted on charges of misfeasance, re-leased on $2,500 bond each...
...study at Princeton, Stanford, the University of Montana, returned in 1916 to his native land where he worked on the development of sodium vapor lamps in the Philips laboratories and devised a way of sealing chrome steel to glass in X-ray apparatus. Last autumn he again bobbed up at Stanford as a research assistant. "Europe," he said, "iss no blace to bring up fife children." Stanford is financing his present work, expects some share in the profits...
When Californians suffer a fruit-killing frost, as last week, Floridians quietly gloat. When Floridians suffer a tree-destroying hurricane, as a year ago last autumn, Californians gloat. But until this winter growers of California navel oranges and growers of Florida Valencia oranges have discreetly avoided talking down the other fellows' fruit in northern cities where the chief customers of both live. The California Fruit Growers Exchange broke this discreet merchandising convention this winter by advertising flatly in newspapers and magazines, on streetcar cards and billboards: "Sunkist navel oranges are 22% richer in vitamin C [anti-scurvy, anti-colds...