Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the country against them, the Cabinet began to accuse Premier Hayashi of bungling what they had hoped would be a coup d'etat to entrench them more firmly. Last week he knew the game was up, resigned (TIME, June...
...simply want the shot-in-the-arm of financial confidence which the Rose technique provides. Last year when the Texas Centennial fair got under way at Dallas, Doctor Rose was called in by Fort Worth and encouraged, with a contract paying $1,000 a day for 100 days (TIME, June 8, 1936), to unleash his imagination upon a rival fair. Mr. Rose carted his musical circus Jumbo down to Fort Worth and set up four or five other super-spectacles, including Sally Rand and her fans. So well satisfied were the city fathers of Fort Worth that they signed...
...that a scheduled radio talk in which he was to tell the public his side of the story had to be canceled as too violent, Pugilist Schmeling promptly sailed back to Germany. Boxing critics predicted the outcome: a bout between Schmeling and the winner of the Louis-Braddock fight (June 22), either this September or next spring...
...Cardinals is attracting attention to himself. Last spring Pitcher Dean's exhibitionism took the form of demanding a higher salary, punching a sportswriter, threatening to retire. Since the season started, Pitcher Dean has got into sports headlines by complaining about umpires' decisions, fighting, pitching "bean balls" (TIME, June 7). Last fortnight, Pitcher Dean's readiness to cause a sensation took the new and unpredictable form of a visit to Belleville, Ill. where he addressed the Presbyterian Men's Club. Next day the Belleville Daily Advocate reported that in the course of his speech Pitcher Dean...
...seconds of a total solar eclipse, during which they must make their photographs and observations. It is theoretically possible for an occultation of the sun by the moon to last as long as 7 min. 30 sec., but most are several minutes shorter than that. Last year's June eclipse, for example, whose shadow path across Asia was studded with astronomers' observation camps (TIME, June 22), lasted only 2 min. 31½ sec. at maximum. There was a tragic irony about the eclipse which on Tuesday of this week passed for thousands of miles across the tropical wastes...