Word: cols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behn's Whereabouts Sirs: In your issue of Jan. 18, p. 21, col. i, under the subcaption ''Spain's War," you state: "At latest reports U. S. Telephone Tycoon Colonel Sosthenes Behn was still with his battered building . . ." As a matter of fact. Colonel Behn and most of his staff left Madrid on Thanksgiving Day and the Colonel has not been back since...
Another baptism took place at one of the rainiest inaugurations in history (see col. 3). Afterward the new President told his press conference that the possibility of building a national auditorium to shelter future inaugurations should be looked into. But when the chairman of the inaugural committee, Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, next called at the White House, there was another matter to consider: the catastrophic baptism of the Ohio Valley and part of the Mississippi by an unparalleled flood (see p. 12). Admiral Grayson, as chairman of the Red Cross, Admiral Leahy, as chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral...
...environment (TIME, July 13). Treading close to the line of downright condemnation, Colonel Clarence Osborne Sherrill, head of the potent American Retail Federation and onetime city manager of Cincinnati, told the convention last week that the only thing the merchant had to fear was Government-subsidized cooperatives. Subsidies, cried Col...
...messages to Congress to prepare. On the evening of the official Cabinet dinner at the White House-after midnight when the guests had departed- his wife and his secretaries joined him in his study to hear the final rehearsal of his message on the State of the Union (see col...
...first he discussed the case of Mr. Cuse who forced the State Department willynilly to grant him a license to export airplanes to Spain (see col. 3). The President declared that 90% of U. S. business was willing to give up profits for the sake of preserving absolute neutrality and only a 10% minority was out for selfish profit regardless of its effect upon the country. He referred approvingly to the Supreme Court's decision expounding the President's power in the "vast external realm" of international affairs (TIME, Jan. 4), and made it clear that the stupid...