Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispute. United Air Lines said he had taken a leave of absence last autumn to attend NRA hearings in Washington, that he had neither returned to work nor communicated with the company, thereby automatically ousting himself. Pilot Behncke said he reported for work at Chicago Dec. 22, when he was called into the office of Vice President D. B. Colyer and discharged for four reasons: 1) he had not secured proper permission to attend NRA hearings; 2) the company assumed he had severed connections; 3) his activities and utterances in Washington made it awkward to have him on the payroll...
...because he gave it $1,000,000 cash in 1928, George Blumenthal, retired senior partner of the firm of Lazard Frères, was last week elected seventh president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He succeeds the late Furniture Tycoon William Sloane Coffin (TIME, Dec...
...worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME, Dec. 11), it looked as if for once Ronald Finney was to be outdone...
Among its disciplinary measures of the year the Society reported arrests of two people for throwing live cats into furnaces, one for strapping a turkey to roller skates (TIME, Dec. 18), two for biting the heads off live rats...
...Garden City, L. I., Missionary Eli Stanley Jones addressed the 41st annual Foreign Missions Conference of North America (84 boards), which sent him and others touring the U. S. last autumn (TIME, Dec. 11). Said Dr. Jones: "I will go back to India heartened and convinced that the soul of the church is sound. . . . There is an undertone of craving for Christian unity. . . . We must get rid of the cleavage between denominations. No Christianity can compete with Marxian Communism and Islam that has race exclusiveness at heart...