Word: dec
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will return the cards to Washington, to be sorted by census bureau clerks. Mr. Biggers' only paid aids will be a staff of six clerks in his Department of Commerce office. Last date for mailing back cards will be Nov. 20. Preliminary results will be ready Dec. 1, will be checked by door-to-door counts in sample-cities to establish the average percentage of error. Complete tabulation should be available on or before March 1, when many workers unemployed in November may be getting spring jobs...
...class friends have been influentially murmuring in London ever since, but an old imperial precedent is in favor of the foreign nation which is to blame always paying the indemnity. For example the assassination in Egypt of Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack cost Egyptians exactly $2,300,000 (TIME. Dec. 1, 1924). In the painful dilemma of 1937, Britain's Cabinet last week announced that the House of Commons will be asked to vote ?5,000 ($25,000) to "Snatch." Fully convalescent. Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen left Shanghai for a holiday to be spent in such South...
...galleries along broad 57th Street and teeming Madison Avenue for the return from Salzburg, Paris, Vienna, London of the patrons by whose trade they live. Old and young art dealers were perking up despite the torpor of the stock market. Julien Levy, the introducer of Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), pioneer in many a modern artist of fashion, announced the removal of his gallery into more spacious quarters on 57th Street. Meanwhile private and public galleries carried on with the last few weeks of their summer shows, adding here and there a room of new stuff...
...quintillion, and when all the scores are taken together the figures are so fantastic that chance is ruled out altogether. Dr. Rhine tried out a well-known British "medium,'' found that she scored well but not better than his best subjects, who were ordinary students (TIME, Dec...
...Year ago when Universal Pictures Corp. was on bankruptcy's brink, "Uncle Carl" Laemmle sold it to a group of Manhattan bankers headed by John Cheever Cowdin, who knew as much about the cinema as "Uncle Carl" knew about banking. But their first production, Three Smart Girls (TIME, Dec. 21), was a box-ofifice hit, introducing Deanna Durbin, most promising cinema songstress in years. Last week in her second picture, her first starring role, Songstress Durbin underlined the fact that in her Universal had found its most valuable property and an A-1 box-office attraction...