Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Porter first won fame by catching a Harvard kickoff behind his own goal line, running it back 107 yards for a touchdown. Athletic and youngish at 52, he is an active Y. M. C. A. worker, author of several religious books. First and most popular thing he did last autumn, after Mr. Speer called him to Mount Hermon as head of the Bible Department, was to enter the student-faculty tennis tournament, win every match. His educational creed: "Much of our secondary and college education has become efficient without being sufficient. The refreshingly new techniques of our day are never...
...York State and City administrative jobs is Jones Beach State Park on the south shore of Long Island. He would seem to be the ideal public servant from the standpoint of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. But the campaign which dark, dynamic Mr. Moses waged last autumn as Republican nominee for Governor of New York was not calculated to win him friends in Washington. Not content with the stock Republican charge that Federal relief and PWA funds were generally being used for patronage purposes, he named names, cited cases. Hard and sharp were his jabs at President Roosevelt...
...Last autumn a conference of Wisconsin Methodists vexed and alarmed laymen by calling capitalism "unChristian, unethical and anti-social," plumping for "social ownership and democratic management of the principal means of production and distribution...
...England. After 25 concerts Bronislaw Hubermann sailed to play in London but he will return in February for a General Motors' broadcast and an engagement with the Philadelphia orchestra. Yehudi Menuhin's dates cram sheets of paper. He played 18 times in Europe this autumn. He now has 25 concerts in the U. S., to be followed by some 50 in Australia, 28 in South Africa. At the end of his world tour in February 1936, his parents will make him retire for a year...
...Negro Congressman from Illinois. The judge asked whether he could pay a $38 judgment in favor of a stationer, got this reply: "I am penniless and looking for a job." All but $1,500 of his money Oscar De Priest sank in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election last autumn. The last $1,500 went for income taxes...