Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt who, in one of his inspired moments, launched the Florida Ship Canal with $5,000,000 of relief money last autumn, day after the S. S. Dixie went aground in the treacherous Florida Keys. But it was Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate...
...Nicaragua's capital of Managua, Deceiver Somoza had Congress elect to the Provisional Presidency a man of his choosing, Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin, 52, had himself nominated by the Liberal Party to run in the regular autumn election...
...Syracuse but Syracuse went to him in Ilion in the form of a businessmen's committee. The committee understood that if workers returned to work, they could have what jobs were left in the Syracuse plant, held out hopes of a big increase in the Syracuse payroll by autumn. Great was the Syracusans' surprise, therefore, when Remington-Rand issued a statement which explained a great deal about the strike...
...example from the present collection deals with the four seasons of New York, Notes to Be Left in a Cornerstone. To the questioning spirit of the future the poet says that maps, photographs and statistics cannot describe the "different beast" of New York, the city that awakened in the autumn, when "the shops were slices of honeycomb full of honey" and when "the boys came from far places with cardboard suitcases." He describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor...
...Hitchcock, wanted to learn his methods at first hand. After each day's shooting at Gaumont's suburban studio, he scurried back to London to appear on the stage as Romeo. U. S. theatregoers will get a chance to inspect Actor Gielgud (pronounced Gillgood) in person next autumn when, under Producer Guthrie McClintic, he brings his Hamlet to the Manhattan stage...