Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Albizu Campos walked into the office of the Federal District Attorney, said that he heard he was to be arrested, offered to surrender. His offer was declined. Next day the U. S. struck. Senor Albizu Campos was at court preparing to defend the sole survivor of last autumn's bombing expedition to the University, when he was asked to go over and be arrested. Six of his followers, including his personal secretary, the party secretary and two poets, were also arrested. While the Puerto Rican National Guard was held under arms in its armories, ready...
...refusal to comment on the Republican candidate was typical of Mr. Farley's breezy confidence concerning the reelection of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States. "Oh, that's all right--don't you worry about that!" he replied to a discreet query about the election this autumn. Not a shadow of doubt about the issue was betrayed in the Farley smile and the suave Farley manner as he joked with "the boys...
Impatient Dr. Ambedkar summoned 10,000 raggle-taggle Untouchables to Nasik near Bombay last autumn, said de liberately: "I had the misfortune of being born with the stigma of Untouchability. But it is not my fault. I will not die a Hindu, for this is in my power. I say to you, abandon Hinduism and adopt any other religion which gives you equality of status and treatment...
...Fellowship of Reconciliation, with 10,000 U. S. members, became involved in doctrinaire controversy two years ago when a minority of its members favored fighting in the Class War. The National Council for Prevention of War has an able Washington lobbyist in Frederick Joseph Libby. Last autumn it sought contributions by means of a $1,000,000 "issue" of "peace bonds." The issue did not go well, although one anonymous woman bought $69,000 worth. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches seeks to promote world harmony by international exchanges of pastors. It recently heckled the Pope...
From Indiana high schools, the cream of the U. S. basketball crop is skimmed every year by the Western Conference, still the major league of U. S. college basketball. First pick goes to Indiana's Big Ten representatives-Purdue and Indiana University. Last autumn when the Conference season started, it looked as if these two and five others-Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio State -were all about evenly matched. By last week, when the season drew to a close, it was once more manifest that "Hoosier" basketballers play their best for "Hoosier" schools. Indiana finished after winning eleven...