Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your great story of "Duke's Design" and good old "Buck" Duke (TIME, June 26, p. 55), brings up some of the Duke stories which cover the Carolinas like Buck Duke's Southern hydroelectric power lines and are almost as numerous throughout the South as 5? bags of Duke's Mixture and Bull Durham smoking tobacco...
...TIME, June 26, p. 2 -Canada's Atlantic pride, the Empress of Britain, is indeed roomy but emphatically not old. In her classification of express liner (the top classification), only four Atlantic liners are newer-built and two of them are newer by only one year. She is newer than the Bremen, Europa, Ile de France. The Empress of Britain has such ultra-new luxuries as snip-to-shore telephones in her roomy apartments, full-sized tennis and squash courts, private baths with 70% of cabin-class rooms. She holds the record for the fastest land-to-land crossing...
...following observations by the recently knighted Max Beerbohm [TIME, June 19] . . . although written at least a quarter of a century ago, are so surprisingly pertinent to the present moment that I am sure many of your readers would delight in them. The quotation is from an essay on the Republic of Switzerland in the volume Yet Again...
Last week grey-haired C. C. Cook, first and only cashier of the Booneville bank, got sore. He announced that the bank would pay no interest after June 30. If they still refused to come for their money, he threatened to mail it to them by check...
...traditional components of the French literary life. Dean of French literary stirrer-uppers is scrawny, deaf, 71-year-old Charles Maurras, libeling editor for 41 years of the Royalist-Catholic Action Francaise. Last Maurras scandal occurred a year ago when he was elected to the French Academy (TIME, June 27, 1938), following close on the finish of his eight-month prison sentence for urging assassination of Leon Blum...