Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garrulous, bespectacled, aging Mr. Mitchell's grave charges was Mr. Mitchell. A small-town lawyer from Springfield, Mo., he became "the original Roosevelt man in Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister to Rumania. But Mr. Mitchell...
...only one Senator. Neither Senate nor State seemed to suffer appreciably under this arrangement. Nevertheless when Rush Drew Holt celebrated his 30th birthday last week, the Senate spent two full days arguing over whether he was constitutionally entitled to the Senate seat to which West Virginia elected him last autumn...
...being large, placid and affable. At M-G-M his most successful ventures were Viva Villa and David Copperfield, two of the most expensive pictures of last year. Of United Artists' 1935-36 schedule of 30 pictures, Producer Selznick will probably make six. The company which next autumn will revive the legend, obsolete for 13 years, "Selznick Presents" will be called David O. Selznick Productions, Inc. It will have no slogan...
Somewhat ambiguously, President Roosevelt may have pointed the way to Bob Hutchins' future last autumn. President Hutchins called at the White House and for a few days the Press was rife with rumors that he was slated for a front-rank New Deal job, probably as NRA enforcement officer (TIME, Oct. 29). Then silence...
Last week the "River of Doubt" surged up from two decades of obscurity. In the new Roosevelt Memorial hall which the Museum will open next autumn, was installed a towering mural painted by William Andrew Mackay. At the top a comely female figure in Grecian dress, representing the river, is pouring a torrent from a vase. In the background is a map with the river labeled "Rio Téo-doro." Below, kneeling at a portable table, Kermit Roosevelt keeps a record of the expedition. In the centre two expeditionists are pushing aside jungle growth so that a burly, square...