Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exactly 10 o'clock members of the Grand Council of Fascism, followed by the Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...
Last March President George L. Berry of the Printing Pressmen's Union, whom President Roosevelt made official caretaker of the Blue Eagle's benes, announced the organization of a "NonPartisan League," whose partisan object was to swing Labor's votes to Roosevelt next autumn. Co-organizers of the League were two potent proponents of industrial unionism: John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers had already pledged themselves to Roosevelt, and President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Their immediate aim was to keep Postmaster General Farley from naming President Daniel Tobin...
Historical fabric of We Are From Kronstadt is woven from the unsuccessful opera tions of White General Yudenich around Petrograd in the embattled autumn of 1919, when the sailors from Kronstadt in time's nick reinforced workers' battalions and Red Army detachments defending the old capital. That the workers and Army men were compelled to turn around two years later and butcher the fickle and truculent Kronstadt sailors for counter revolution is obviously a sequel which this Bolshevist propaganda film chooses to leave unpictured. In We Are From Kron stadt, the sailors are determinedly glorified as immortal heroes...
...last autumn after leaving the Securities & Exchange Commission, Joseph Patrick Kennedy went to Europe to rest. Shortly after his return he sat down to write a recapitalization plan for Radio Corp. of America, receiving a fee of $150,000 for his pains (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week Joe Kennedy got another repair job on another cranky bit of corporate machinery...
...late Knute Rockne as the "ideal quarterback," Stuhldreher became head football coach at Villanova after graduation in 1925, turned out hard-playing, fast-moving teams which in eleven years won 66 games, lost 25, tied nine. Two of the teams which his new charges have to face next autumn are Notre Dame, piloted by Elmer Layden, another of the Four Horsemen, and Purdue, coached by Noble Kizer, who played guard on that same famed eleven...