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...Havoc in Yard is slowly repaired as trees are raised. Harvard forest reports extensive damage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upperclassmen Register Today; Two Thirds to Freshmen Here as Hurricane Aftermath, Floods Isolate New England | 9/24/1938 | See Source »

Everywhere along the drives and through the Gardens, the havoc wreaked by Wednesday's hurricane is in evidence. Directly behind the Administration building at the entrance, the fine pine grove has been largely destroyed, and damage is also severe on the exposed part of Hemlock hill, in the conifer collection and among the populars and oaks in the Peters Hill area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arnold Arboretum Loses Priceless Possessions as Storm Lashes Trees | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

These deals have ranged over the globe from Iran to Venezuela. Henceforth, there is likely to be an increasing volume in South America, for there the export credit bureaus of Germany and Italy have lately raised havoc with U. S. trade by government-sponsored credit leniency. Thwarting these two dictatorships is close to Franklin Roosevelt's heart (see p. 8) and in this instance it fits perfectly with the bank's purpose. Last-week, therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Open Door | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Before her first appearance in Jones Beach operetta, pretty June Havoc (real name: Evangeline June Hovick), sister of Louise Hovick (Gypsy Rose Lee), announced: "My sister always was the beauty of the family. All of a sudden people tell me I'm beautiful. Maybe the pills I've been taking have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Pittsfield, Mass, was the first to cry havoc. Police authorities in Boston and many another New England city jumped into line. New Orleans, one of the three cities west of the Mississippi which banned LIFE, used an 1884 statute to pull the magazines off the newsstands. In Tucson, only far-Western city to object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Facts of LIFE | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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