Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Governor Charles F. Hurley, since he succeeded Mr. Curley in the State House two years ago, had been exercising an unusual talent for repelling people and making enemies. His downfall was forecast when he failed to put over a $23,625,000 fund for his Highway Department last June. The Republican Legislature, fuming because he kept it in session most of the summer, finally voted only $5,000,000 and placed it beyond his control. Meanwhile, sly Mr. Curley had been smiling his devious smile, filling his campaign chest, promising jobs to Massachusetts' 400,000 unemployed. When more...
...Spanish town of Castellon de la Plana, reports Professor Haldane, the clay consistency of the soil is such that a refuge could quickly be dug 40 feet beneath nearly every house, and these refuges were connected by tunnels. In the end, Castellon was captured by the Rightists (TIME, June 20), but meanwhile Leftist inhabitants made perhaps the best civilian score to date in avoiding death from...
...plump, semibald Andre Kostelanetz was No. 1 U. S. air traveler. He made weekly round-trip flights between New York and Los Angeles, in New York conducted his Chesterfield broadcasts, in Hollywood directed cinemusic for and wooed Coloratura Lily Pons. In 1937 he repeated the schedule, and last June the pair were married. As might be expected they quickly tired of a groundling honeymoon...
Married. George Robert ("Bob") Crosby, 26, swing bandmaster, younger brother of Crooner Bing Crosby; and June Audrey Kuhn, 19-year-old Chicagoan; in Spokane, Wash. Swingmaster Crosby divorced his first wife last spring...
...Total tax-exempt securities in the hands of non-Governmental owners aggregated $50,522,000,000 on June 30, 1937, paid interest of $1,554,000,000. (Another $15,126,000,000 with interest of $397,000,000 was held by Government bureaus, sinking funds, Reserve banks...