Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ousted from Sister Aimee's pulpit last autumn, Sister Rheba has filed a slander suit for $1,080,000 against her onetime colleague. Last week Rheba Crawford was battling Satan on her own hook, speaking over the radio, packing 1,600 people at a time in her new, small International Interdenominational Church, sermonizing on such subjects as "I Turn My Back" and "Tomorrow's Headlines" while her aged mother, a Salvation Army Lassie, strummed the guitar...
President Frederick Harold Stinehfield of Minneapolis when the full A. B. A. convenes in Kansas City in September was Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark, N. J.. whose sponsors told the House they had boomed him for U. S. Attorney General to Alf M. Landon last autumn. Now 48, Lawyer Vanderbilt has been teaching law at New York University for 23 years, been Essex County Counsel for 16 years, chairman of the Judicial Council of New Jersey since...
Germinating in Mr. Ernst's mind the past three years has been another idea: a guild for lawyers that would give them a freedom for liberal thought and action not provided by the A. B. A. and its House of Delegates. Last autumn Mr. Ernst and some friends wrote a terse 500-word "Appeal to American Lawyers" which pulled no punches, sent it far & wide to U. S. legalists over the name of Frank Patrick Walsh, onetime member of the War Labor Conference Board, now a Manhattan attorney, who agreed to act as Guild president in its organizational stages...
...primary. Under such circumstances there is seldom any difficulty for George Norris to convince himself and the voters that every election is a crisis in which sinister interests are striving to do him in. For George Norris on the stump does not shilly-shally about getting himself elected. Last autumn after fumbling for months with the idea of standing for re-election he went to the hustings, made as many as three to five speeches a day, filled about five-sixths of them with praise of Roosevelt as a practical Messiah, one-sixth with a personal appeal on the theme...
...Last autumn Carib Syndicate, Ltd. informed its stockholders it had received a $2,000,000 offer from an undisclosed group for its 21% interest in the fabulous Barco oil concession. Since little Carib did not have the money to play along with its big partners, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. and Texas Corp., in development of the jungle oil properties in Colombia, the stockholders authorized their directors to accept the offer (TIME...