Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rallied round him. Instead, their overtures rejected, the moderates became irreconcilables. When finally the President yielded, gave Leader Robinson a free hand to work out any compromise possible, the chance of doing so had grown slender. When Congress convened, Leader Robinson predicted that it would have successfully adjourned by June...
When Russia first told an incredulous world of its plan to establish a transpolar airline to the U. S., it announced that its No. 1 flyer, Sigismund Levanevsky, would make the first trip (TIME, June 14 et seq.). Instead, this bootblack's son who is often called "the Soviet Lindbergh" was left behind at the last minute and Valeri Chkalov took his place. When the second successful junket was made month later by three other Soviet airmen, Flyer Levanevsky began to be mentioned in dispatches as in jail and scheduled for execution in one of J. Stalin...
...celestial bodies is impeded by the distorting effect of earth's atmosphere. An observer at an altitude of 25,000 ft., however, has two-thirds of the effective atmosphere beneath him. To that altitude a Pan-American Grace Airliner mounted over Peru during the total eclipse of last June (TIME, June 14) and from it Major Albert W. Stevens, stratosphere balloonist, made unusual photographs of the eclipsed sun which he showed last week at Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium, after they had been given a scientific bill of health by a conference of 50 astronomers at Harvard. The pictures...
...course of signing a $132,732,000 supply bill for the Department of the Interior, the President took note of a provision allotting the maximum $14,483,000 appropriation authorized for Federal aid to vocational education under the George-Deen Act passed in June 1936. This was 10,000,000 more than the President recommended in his budget message. It was also contrary to the recommendations of a special advisory committee headed by University of Chicago's Floyd Wesley Reeves, which the President appointed in September to sift pending educational legislation...
...There Dutch Director Joris Ivens and Author Hemingway, who followed him, spent several months on various fronts, two weeks in the village of Fuentidueña, 60 kilometers from Madrid. This week the film they made, previously seen by a number of sympathetic groups in its formative stages (TIME, June 21), will be generally released for the first time in Manhattan. Long awaited, it was conceded by preview audiences to be well worth waiting...