Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemy of Hoover for years and since last autumn an ardent booster for Governor Landon, Mr. Hearst was interested in how much sympathy there was for Landon in this uninstructed delegation. George Gilray Young, general manager of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, quietly mailed a questionnaire, "Who is your favorite choice for Presidential candidate?" to the 44 members of the uninstructed slate and the 21 members of the steering committee. Mistaking the questionnaire for a general straw vote, all but one of the 65 replied. The score: Hoover, 47; Landon...
...William Rickett, the British promoter who wangled a huge concession from Haile Selassie for Standard Vacuum Oil and then, to an international chorus of "Shame! Shame!" was paid off and repudiated by the U. S. concern (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.). Dressy Mr. Rickett's importance survived last autumn's misadventure because his safe continued to be the repository for the concession for the subsoil rights to precisely the two-thirds of Ethiopia that Benito Mussolini wants. The contract gives Rickett five years in which to implement the deal with capital...
Meantime burly, aggressive "Doc" Eaton was loudly calling The American Home's soaring circulation to the enthusiastic attention of advertisers. While this encouraging state of affairs was in the making, Publisher Eaton and Editor Austin gradually took over the Country Life organization, squeezed out Editor Townsend. Last autumn they purchased the two magazines outright from Doubleday, Doran for $750,000, now rule Country Life-American Home Corp. jointly, both as business partners and as man & wife...
...When Hersholt left to join Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the picture was postponed. In 1934 Director Howard Hawks worked on the story with Screenwriter Gene Fowler. In 1935 Universal made overtures to Charles Laughton to play the lead, but Laughton went to MGM for Mutiny on the Bounty. By last autumn Edward Arnold was signed to play the lead, but by that time there was a shortage of cash. Cheever Cowdin's option on the Universal studio supplied the funds. Production finally got under way in November...
...Doric") Emrick Lee. Even a sleeper sleeps so soundly that he looks dead, and a woman threading a sewing machine is obviously incapable of fatigue. When young Mrs. Lee's bustling kitchen scene, Thanksgiving, was awarded the Chicago Art Institute's $500 Logan prize last autumn, Mrs. Frank Logan pointed her finger in scorn, called it an "awful thing'' (TIME, Nov. 18). Shortly thereafter the Art Institute, of which Mrs. Logan's husband is honorary president, acquired Thanksgiving for its permanent collection...