Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many unpleasant tasks that he has had since he succeeded the late Joseph Taylor Robinson as Majority Leader of the Senate. Leader Barkley was paying for a serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill...
...Council of the League of Nations which had been about to open was suddenly postponed. In London Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hastily conferred with Anthony Eden, called home from Monte Carlo to duty : . the Foreign Office. For European statesmen felt that it was not just another French Cabinet which fell last week, that a crisis was at hand not only for France but for Europe...
...Oakland, Calif, and Portland, Ore., for shows of two of the Pacific Coast's three important Roller associations, breeders last week hopefully expressed their prize birds. The complicated work of judging Oakland's 250 showbirds fell to Frank Bires and William Ragon (for their services, $300 each). They gave the show's master team championship to a quartet owned by San Diego's Olsen Schummer. It was the team's twelfth successive first prize...
...bombardment, probably saved thousands of civilian lives. To this zone went thousands of frantic Chinese soldiers, eager to exchange their uniforms for civilian garb, or even to strip themselves to their underclothing lest the Japanese execute them as soldiers. Upon Rev. John Magee, able Episcopal missionary, lately of Shanghai, fell the job of organizing medical care in Nanking, Chinese army hospitals being completely inadequate. With two missionary doctors and two American nurses-whose dormitories were looted when the Japanese entered the city, as were faculty houses at Ginling College for women-the U. S.- supported University of Nanking Hospital remained...
...lend money on any "reasonable" railroad request and though it agreed to lend $8.000,000 to the Baltimore & Ohio after only a week's thought (TIME, Jan. 10)- it refused to aid the Erie. While some Erie bonds broke as much as 16 points and its common stock fell from $6.25 to $3.25, the Erie thereupon defaulted on $1,849.000 interest due on six bond issues. Unless some drastic remedy could be found in the six-month period of grace provided for in the bonds, * the Erie seemed headed for reorganization under section 77 of the Bankruptcy...