Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World Wide Broadcasting Foundation ("radio programs of cultural and educational value") operating through Boston's short wave station WINAL, got $40,000 for two years. C. Last autumn there was published in London, with Foundation help, a list of 1,639 scholars (''Scholars in Exile") who had been ousted from academic posts in Germany by the Nazis. Most of them were Jews, partly Jewish, or married to Jewesses; some were pure "Aryans" who could not stomach the Nazi ideology. By the end of 1936 the Rockefeller Foundation had given a total of $532,000 to universities...
...Freshmen they aren't, there are a host of other sports. Leading the list in publicity, if not in popularity, is football. After that comes cross country, soccer, singles sculling, tennis, swimming, squash, crew, with fall track, fall baseball, and impromptu touch football filling in the remaining spots for autumn recreation...
...brand of radicalism was not radical enough, and several years later its young Director Lucien Koch resigned to take a job with the NRA as assistant economic analyst in the consumers' division. He was succeeded by a New Orleans Socialist named Richard Whitten, who left last autumn to work for his party. Commonwealth's most energetic official remained Charlotte ("Chucky") Moskowitz, executive secretary and wife of Lucien Koch's brother Raymond. Redhaired, 29, and freckled, "Chucky" Moskowitz raised money for the College, saw it through its legal and extra-legal baitings, got it electrical and water systems...
...Tennessee hastily enacted a law prohibiting the marriage of persons under 14. Last week Eunice Johns caused Tennessee to change another law, when in Nashville State Educational Commissioner William Arthur Bass ruled that neither Eunice nor any other "married children" would have to go back to school in the autumn...
...Harvard Law Review, and except for Dr. Leon A. Ransom of Washington, D. C., the only Negroes to earn Harvard Law's degree of Doctor of Juridical Science. Born in Mound City, Ill. "over 60 years ago," President Houston drives a Lincoln Zephyr, gloried in his last autumn's title, "Chairman of the Speakers Bureau, National Democratic Committee, Eastern Division of Colored Voters, by appointment of Mr. James A. Farley...