Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bands have become crowded with Italy, Germany, Russia and, of late, Britain all trying to influence other nations with short-wave political broadcasts. Europe would like some of the U. S. space but is little likely to get it at the Cairo meeting for the Pan-American nations last autumn agreed to back the U. S. in a bloc. Representing the U. S. was a commission of four, a staff of 25, headed by veteran U. S. delegate to international radio parleys, Maine's heavy-jowled Senator Wallace H. White Jr. It will be Senator White...
...Last autumn, before moving his 18 children, 13 grandchildren and divers in-laws from their drought-blighted farmstead in North Dakota to a 19-room house at Columbia Falls, Mont., Antone Hoerner killed & cured enough hogs to make sausages and ham to carry them through the winter. Shortly before Christmas nine well-fed Hoerners simultaneously took sick at their stomachs, vomited, developed fever. Doctors thought that they had eaten apples from which poisonous insecticide had not been thoroughly washed. As more Hoerners took sick with the same symptoms, doctors suspected typhoid fever. But by the time ten-year-old Daniel...
Marquess of Londonderry, who last autumn persuaded the Prime Minister to send another of their group, Lord Halifax, to talk Rapprochement directly with Adolf Hitler (TIME, Nov. 29, et seq.). How far this attitude of the Times had gone was pointed up last week when London's liberal New Statesman and Nation intimated that it had caught the Times off base...
...years ago last autumn, De Paul University (Roman Catholic) in Chicago promised a job, at $2,000 for a school year, to Dr. John B. Fuller, Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, for eight years a German teacher with a good record at Amherst College. De Paul shortly changed its mind, told Dr. Fuller that he "would not fit into the picture." Dr. Fuller brought suit for $2,000. Though the jury's verdict was in his favor, the trial judge set it aside. Last week the Appellate Court upheld the trial judge. Reason: According to De Paul...
...last autumn round-domed, genial Artist Curry and his English wife were comfortably settled and accepted in Madison. Year ago, in his first public speech, he had pleasantly stirred up the town by pointing out how silly the State Capitol murals looked, a criticism to which the State Assembly stiffly replied: "It is deemed that such mural paintings truly depict and symbolize the history of the State. . . ." He gave a show at the College Union, lectured on art to farm boys in agriculture courses, went on field trips with Dean Chris Christensen of the College. His face-cracking, cherubic grin...