Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good deal grimmer that night down near the Texas border when a fusillade of bullets raked the Traxler car. As officers came up they found Nell sitting in it, fainted dead away with Sweetpea and June in her lap. All night 500 officers with bloodhounds searched the Washita River bottoms. Sometime near dawn Traxler and Tindol routed out James E. Denton, a frail middle-aged oil pumper and took him and his car. Later in the morning after driving through Caddo, they seized a farmer, Fred Trimmer, and changed cars. They had several close calls driving through towns, and going...
Palestine, slipped back into the House of Commons last week to shotgun it as effectively as he had the Government bill on British armament profiteering, which had to be entirely scrapped and redrafted (TIME, June 28 et ante). In his hunting Mr. Churchill was aided last week by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and former Colonial Secretary Lieut. Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery. Deftly they put His Majesty's Government on the spot by crying that it was "un-British" to present a bill the effect of which would be for the House of Commons...
...British and the French Governments who recently asked Premier Paul van Zeeland of friendly Belgium to help them find an international formula to extract Europe from its present economic bog. Van Zeeland began by parleying with President Roosevelt (TIME, June 14). Last week as the Premier busied himself in Brussels, shaping up material he has gathered for presentation to European leaders, the King's letter came, as it was obviously intended to come, as a dramatic stroke to arrest world opinion, help pave the way for action. Next day in London the Laborite Daily Herald enthusiastically told His Majesty...
...Post-Intelligencer, whose publisher is President Roosevelt's son-in-law, John Boettiger, also balked at paying dues. The Columbus, Ohio unit called for a Guild referendum on affiliation with the C. I. O. and five other points in the program adopted at St. Louis (TIME, June...
...charge of building the Missouri capitol. He married a Missouri girl named Loyce Enloe, and branched out as an educator in 1914 by joining the administrative staff of Stephens, which young President James Madison ("Daddy") Wood was just beginning to develop into a horsey mid-western finishing school (TIME, June 7). Seven years later Roy Davis' Republican friends made him U. S. Minister to Guatemala, an event he celebrated by adopting spats, cane and black-ribboned pince-nez. High point of Roy Davis' diplomatic career was the revolution that overtook him as U. S. Minister to Panama...