Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accordance with an ordinance passed by the City Council last autumn (TIME, Nov. 18), Chicago's clocks were officially advanced one hour March 1, thus putting the second city of the land on Eastern Standard Time. Pleased were La Salle Street financiers at their synchronization with Wall Street a thousand miles away. More pleased was Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose morning Tribune thus gained an additional 60 minutes to gather news and readers. Thoroughly displeased was Publisher William Franklin Knox, whose afternoon Daily News had to postpone its huge market edition one hour...
...drinks at the bar during the annual school superintendents' convention. Instead Manager Darst added two extra bartenders. Last week the convention ended and Manager Darst could preen himself on his acumen. The 8,000 superintendents had consumed more liquor at his bar than did the American Legion last autumn...
...retraction was printed, and on the eve of last autumn's elections, the Inquirer's President Charles A. Tyler and Editor John T. Custis were haled before a Jefferson County grand jury in Mr. Margiotti's home grounds. "A desperate attempt to muzzle [the Inquirer] in the midst of a political campaign!" wrote Editor Custis. The Inquirer got a change of venue to Washington County and a postponement...
...Philadelphia Inquirer is known as the ''Bible of Pennsylvania Republicanism." In the heat of last autumn's state campaign, the Inquirer declared that "law partners and associates of Charles J. Margiotti, Attorney General and political bludgeon of the Earle Democratic Administration, are out to grab a tax collection authority which may net them millions in the next four years...
...next election-a power which they have freely threatened to use against Congressmen who refuse to endorse the Townsend Plan. Representative Clarence McLeod of Michigan added to the panic of his colleagues by predicting that the Townsend vote would upset election results in at least 100 districts next autumn. Representative Chester C. Bolton of Cleveland, richest House member, publicly admitted his apprehension. Senator McNary, who is up for re-election in Oregon, may have difficulty in winning this year because of Townsendite opposition. Representatives Isabella Greenway of Arizona and Earl C. Michener of Michigan have both sought political safety...