Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another "pawn." To dumbfounded newshawks in Albany Governor Lehman had just handed a mimeographed statement: "I feel that the time has come when I may ask release from the cares and responsibilities of the Governorship. Accordingly I shall not be a candidate for re-election this autumn." A shock to all but Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had known it "for some time," Herbert Lehman's firmly-worded refusal to run for the third time sprouted a crop of rumors. Some said it was due to Mrs. Lehman's dislike of Albany as a residence. Others reported that...
Having backed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence's Arab revolt in the desert, Allenby ran off his climactic campaign in the autumn of 1918. On the actual field of Armageddon, dread coastal plain where St. John the Divine predicted "thunders and lightnings . . . a great earthquake . . . a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent," Allenby fought his greatest battle, won his title, feinting at the Turks' centre with cavalry, rolling up their right with infantry. With the fall of Aleppo and Damascus, the Central Powers were cut off from their allies in the Near...
...decided to get married last September. They got a clean, one-room studio apartment on East 18th Street, sold a little work, saved their empty milk bottles to take back to the delicatessen. Last February Rob Godfrey went on re lief, was put to teaching WPA art classes. Last autumn Rob Godfrey painted a bright portrait of his wife looking attractive and intense in a sport coat and plaid scarf. She thought it was good enough to submit for the National Academy of Design show. He did not. Hadn't they turned down his portrait...
Married- Prince Aly Khan, 24. son& heir of the Rt. Hon. Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah ("The Aga Khan"); and the Hon. Joan Yarde-Buller. 28. divorced last autumn by Thomas Loel E. B. Guinness, brewing scion and swank Conservative member of Parliament, who named Prince Aly as corespondent; in Paris...
...They sounded out the old dealers who had held Berkey & Gay franchises, found 124 of them ready to give estimates of a year's requirements. Collecting old-time Berkey & Gay officers for the new company, they hired 300 men to open up one plant last autumn, floated $1,600,000 in new stock, started commercial production last April...