Word: files
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verified with your usual care. In particular, being seriously interested in the homing instincts of birds and animals, I did not miss in the issue of TIME dated Aug. 14, the items labeled "Mother" (fleet Italian swallow) and "Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California-his master would just take him to some outlandish place again.) Please. R. T. GRIFFITH Pittsburgh...
...Athenia, with 300-odd American war refugees aboard, had been torpedoed off the coast of Scotland. In the dead of night, as the news reached London, correspondents, scenting the biggest German "atrocity" story since the sinking of the Lusitania, had descended on cable companies, roused up nodding operators to file their dispatches. It was now late afternoon, and the message in Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall's hand (from his home office) read...
...British Isles was suspended. Since formerly news from Europe to the U. S. cleared through London, this meant the imposition of British censorship over nearly all war news. As the censorship began to delay dispatches, the Associated Press and United Press ordered their correspondents on the Continent to file their stories directly to New York, but even then they were hours late. By the fourth day of the war virtually nothing was known of its military progress, and it looked as if this might be not only the worst but the worst-covered war in recent history...
...file case in a Nashville, Tenn. building was found the insurance policy of Confederacy President Jefferson Davis. It stipulated that he could not travel west of the Rocky Mountains...
...study card which he received in his registration envelope. This card properly filled out and signed by the Advisor should be handed in as soon as ready at University Hall 4. A fine of $5 is charged after 5 p.m. on Monday, September 25. Provisionally classified students may file their cards not later than 5 p.m. on Tuesday, September...