Word: junes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where the original company gave it the lift that a fine orchestra can give to a fairly good piece of music, the present company gives it the drubbing of a high-school band. Pathetic gags meant to reveal the simple natures of the characters are played for comedy lines. June Walker is a likable if unimpressive heroine, but Giuseppe Sterni's only virtue is his authentic Italian accent, and the Napa Valley is not the part of California where Cinemactor Douglass Montgomery is most at home...
Last spring Harvard's faculty hoped for reform in Dr. Conant's hiring & firing policies when he adopted a "Magna Charta" drafted by a faculty committee (TIME, June 5). But their hopes were quickly dashed, for at term's end the University fired ten popular assistant professors, including Ernest Simmons, President of Harvard's Teachers Union, and Critic Theodore Spencer. (Professor Spencer thereupon landed a lifetime appointment at Cambridge University, was hired back by Harvard as visiting lecturer for a year...
...Scrap. Fourth quarter steel earnings will not be as lush as production because sheets will be going at June's cut prices until Jan. 1. And there is a menacing squeeze in raw materials. September pig iron production rose only 12% because blast furnaces for making pig iron are in worse shape than furnaces for smelting steel ingots. Quick to profit from the scarcity of pig (price $22.50) have been the railroads and other sellers of its rival raw material, scrap, who have put the price up to $26 a ton (Aug. 31 price: $15.25). At $26, sheet mills...
...Ithaca, N. Y., death from malnutrition came to Caesar, baby porcupine, born by Caesarean operation performed last June by a State Conservation Department official after his automobile had killed the pregnant mother...
...Railroad Brotherhoods said their threatened strike would be called off in event of war. Nicholas Murray Butler's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had for several months been whooping up war spirit. Creel's hand was seen, however, in the speedy passage of the Espionage Act of June 15, the Sedition...