Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand epidemic freedom!" By last week even fuddled urchins helping their big brothers & sisters picket New York City's Board of Education building had thus taken up the academic battle cry of 1935. Since autumn, patrioteers led by the Hearst Press and the American Legion had hounded the nation's schools with unprecedented vehemence. Last week as commencement season let loose torrents of oratory on college campuses, the pedagogs' reply was echoing throughout the land. Within a fortnight commencement speeches by the following university heads had made the following headlines: Johns Hopkins' Ames...
Almost seven score and seven years ago the U. S. with patriarchal dignity named its foremost citizens to the Electoral College, allowed them in their wisdom to choose their leading patriot and biggest landowner, General George Washington, as first President of a new and independent nation. Next autumn the U. S. will launch the Philippine Commonwealth as a new and independent nation in its own image. Last week Filipinos got down to the serious business of electing their first President. The affair promised to be no patriarchal rite...
...Last autumn word went round among old-line Cook County Democrats that "there was danger of an explosion unless they raised a substantial amount to rescue Sweitzer." Forty thousand dollars was actually subscribed to bring the county's daily cash drawer up to par just before Clerk Sweitzer left office. But a real explosion took place when Sweitzer's successor asked for an audit of county funds. Biggest and most immediate deficiency was found in the fund into which delinquent taxes are paid. In the 24 years which Bob Sweitzer had been custodian of the fund, the audit...
...production chief but where Jesse L. Lasky and others have been making independent pictures for Fox release for the last two years. Twentieth Century will function much as it has in the past. With a better score of hits than any other comparable organization in the industry, its autumn schedule. to attend to which Producer Zanuck was last week returning from a bear-hunting jaunt in Alaska, includes Ivanhoe, Sing Governor, Sing, The Diamond Horseshoe...
...Rainbow Room wanted Ray Noble for its opening last autumn (TIME, Oct. 8). His phonograph record vogue was tremendous. He had written more sure tunes: "Love is the Sweetest Thing," "Love Locked Out," "The Very Thought of You." But when he arrived in September he found the Musicians' Union wary of "foreigners." Not until February was he allowed to assemble an orchestra. Two weeks later he was broadcasting for Coty Perfume...