Word: june
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Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist party in America and member of the Third International, addressed a group of Harvard undergraduates Wednesday night. The flag before University Hall, however, remains crimson, not red. On June 18 John L. Lewis will be the principal speaker at the Harvard Business School Alumni Association's annual meeting. This is a "scoop" of the first order, for, next to President Roosevelt, Mr. Lewis is unquestionably the most formidable figure on today's American scene. But we hardly expect that Dean Donham will immediately organize a branch of the CIO on the industrial side...
...This Thing" whose home is the square mile radiating from Broadway and 45th street and whose seasonal output (June 1 to May 31) constitutes for all practical purposes the nation's drama, has not, by standards established in the past, made an impressive showing...
Louis Alexandre Taschereau, 70, for 16 years Premier of Quebec, ousted last year (TIME, June 22). narrowly escaped drowning when his boat tipped over during a fishing trip in Northern Quebec. Clinging to his upsidedown craft until he had removed his mackinaw and high boots, he swam ashore...
Last week, the hoary hoax raised its head once more, in highly respectable surroundings, when readers of the June Atlantic Monthly spied the yarn as the leading article in the "Contributors' Club" department. The anonymous Atlantic contributor, borrowing many a phrase from the 40-year-old original, credited the spider farm to "my grandfather." Like all effective hoaxes, the spider story survived its creator. Ralph D. Paine died in 1925. His son and namesake is Business Editor of TIME...
...favorite nephew The paper's President & Editor Harry Johnston Grant, who already owned 20% of the Journal, thereupon announced that he and Niece McBeath wanted to have the Nieman stock made available for a plan whereby the Journal's employes could buy in on the ownership (TIME, June...