Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They were aghast when Socialist City Attorney Max Raskin refused last year to prosecute a group of Communists arrested for creating a disturbance at a reception for German Ambassador Hans Luther. They profess vast alarm over an anti-strike-violence ordinance passed by the Common Council last autumn. This ordinance provides that if an employer refuses to bargain with his striking employes, thereby causing 200 or more resentful citizens to demonstrate around his plant for one hour on two successive days, the Mayor or chief of police may, if they and a citizens' committee agree that the peace...
Married. Natalie E. Carr, 22, socialite who disappeared from Vassar College in 1933, turned up in a Canadian convent five months later, then left it last autumn a week before her final-vows ; and Walter Burke Coll, engineer; in Manhattan...
From the Blue Eagle's death last May to the peak of the autumn upswing, the Annalist index of business activity' rose from 79.3 to 94.8, highest point since the spring of 1930. In the first two months of this year the Annalist index lost about 40% of that 1935 gain, partly because of bad weather, partly because of a sharp drop in automobile production after the year-end. Having passed its winter low, U. S. business was once again on the rise last week, and, though flood conditions will undoubtedly distort the standard business indices...
...huge March operations reduced excess bank reserves no less than $620,000,000 in one week. For the past few months the Treasury has been deliberately manipulating its balances to hold down excess reserves, the total last week being nearly $1,000,000,000 below the record reached last autumn. While excess reserves and their invitation to inflation have currently faded as a fighting banking topic, they have not faded for good & all. As the Government spends its new money, reserves will gradually rise again...
...hunt made up in enthusiasm and skill what it lacked in fanciness. Socially a cut above the night foxhunters, who went to their midnight meets in cars, brought their hounds in scattered couples, it was still democratic enough to include a pickaninny on a mule. But that autumn the Cap'n sold enough of his remaining heirlooms to spruce up the place, put out regal hospitality for the rich neighboring Sandhill Hunt. That day might have ended our fox's career had not Author Harriss, no friend to sentimental reprieves, pronounced for once a stay of sentence...